How a Terrible Personal Breakdown Led to Incredible Business Breakthroughs

I did a business breakthrough strategy session today with a woman who has a lot of irons in the business fire, so to speak. 

She referred to herself as an “entrepreneurial schizophrenic.” 

After about 45 minutes into our coaching call, and admittedly after a few bouts of tears and crying (which can happen once in a while during these sessions), she told me that she was feeling much less clear and less certain about her path and her direction than she was right before our call when she had done a little bit of pre-work that I sent and felt pretty good about everything. 

This was actually a very good thing. 

It turns out that she was trying to hold a lot of different ideas, roles and businesses together that didn’t really go together, and in doing so, she was hoping that she could stave off feeling the fear, pain and frustration of facing big-time, huge growth challenges that frightened her. 

It reminded me of one of my favorite lessons, which is that: 

“Sometimes you have to break down before you can break through”

When I asked her what the most valuable part of our coaching session today was, she said it was the breakdown that she had and even though it clouded her vision in the short-term, it also gave her a lot of clarity on knowing and seeing how she has been hiding inside herself, not being true to herself and not taking a stand for herself to live the life and have the business and happiness that she really wants.

So when you think things might be really bad, you might just be an inch away from having a big breakdown… followed by a bigger breakthrough.

Allow yourself to go there and have the breakdown. 

Good things can happen! 

Your friend and coach,
Jason

P.S. If you’d like to skip the breakdown and have big breakthroughs right away, go here to schedule a 15 minute Business Success Meeting to get insight into what you and your business are truly capable of in the next 6 months; how to reduce your workload, overwhelm or stress; and how to grow your business by 50%-1200% while you spend more time on what matters most to you: http://waj.lqn.mybluehost.me/15min-business-success

“Helping service-based small business owners see 50%-1200% business growth, better productivity and performance for themselves or their employees, and more time with their loved ones” 

Jason Rosado