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Dear Maria,

Firstly, you have to understand your strengths. Building on that you will gain a better understanding what you can offer and how you can go about it.

Your strongest virtue is courage. Let me say it again, for otherwise you won’t believe me. Your strongest virtue is courage. Courage to say, what others do not want you to say. To express, what the team does not want to express. To follow feelings that do not want to be felt. And to understand that these feelings are important and need to be expressed to understand the team situation. Your strongest virtue is your ability to intuitively feel you and your surroundings in a situation and give voice to it. This also leads to the greatest fear: The fear to be wrong, to be in the wrong, to feel wrong, to say the wrong things. Your fear does not gravitate around wether you are doing the right thing but wether you are doing the wrong thing. Your mind is attached to and stuck in feeling of wrongness. Intuition is never wrong, it is always just in the moment. It expresses what is. Your fear of being wrong pushes you away from your innate ability to feel and express the right thing.

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You simply love the work you are doing right now. You love your business. You love growing your business. You love coaching and finding solutions together with other people. You find solutions by intuitively finding your way through the quagmire of feelings and thoughts and relationships others present to you, simply by being true to yourself. You will only ever make money, by being true to yourself. Now that you have tasted the sweet nectar of growing yourself in your own business going back to a pure money job is not an option for you. You are in a situation, where you are able to grow your business beyond yourself, by being true to yourself. Being true to yourself is the one special asset, you have to offer to your clients. It is the one asset you need to grow, in order to grow your business.

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You do not believe in yourself as much as you could and should. That makes it hard for you to advertise. But advertisement is crucial in the business world. Businesses have a different kind of respect for advertisement than individuals do, for it is the bread and butter of their trade and everyone knows how hard it is to advertise yourself. Trust in advertisement. Trust in putting yourself, where you can be seen. Print is a good way to give people a point they can return to, in allowing them to grow into the decision to contact you. When advertising yourself, express sincerity. While sincerity is something that is often lacking in advertisement, it is greatly valued by people who want to make an earnest effort in growing themselves and their businesses. It is those you wish to address.

Financial situation is difficult

Your financial situation is not difficult, but precarious. The decision you have to face is, wether you are ready to trust yourself or not. You really are your business. You do not face a choice of wether you want to sell apples or oranges. Your financial/business situation reflects your own power to sell yourself because you and your business are one. You are in a situation where you are still afraid of being criticised because you might be wrong, instead of knowing and being able to express your intuitive knowledge, which is right.

I feel present and connected

You are a person who understands that love is knowing who you are. You invest a great amount of time and energy in being connected to yourself, in understanding who you are and how to grow yourself as a person. You feel present because you invest time in being present. All this immensely works for you. You have achieved an amazing sense of self awareness in for example a group coaching environment.

There is a step in understanding, that, when we feel we are not present and not connected, we are present and connected in connecting to the unconnectedness, the dreams, the worries. The step is to not let these things carry us away but to understand that they are experiences that happen to us at that very moment. In accepting that you feel down and hopeless you understand that you have potential of growth here and can use it to your advantage.

I feel down and hopeless.

I need more information here. Is this a general feeling, that you have over a long period of time, or is a feeling you have right now? Please expand, how does down and hopeless feel like, when was the last time you wasn’t down and hopeless and when did it change from one feeling to the other?

You are definitely also picking up feeling down and hopeless from the outside world. Who is feeding these feelings in your environment and what can you do to nurture them in order to be able to nurture yourself?.

Do I actually have what it takes to work with teams
do i have the resilience, the presence and emotional intelligence to work with teams

You have chosen an extremely challenging line of work. Think of a manager as a team coach for a single team. You take on teams head on and dive into their ins and outs from one moment to the next. You connect, you express, you embrace and find solutions others are stumped to find. There is always backlash from being present and intuitively open in competitive environments. As there is always self doubt in other people, there will be self doubt in yourself, otherwise you won’t be able to connect to it. That you have come this far, proves, that you have what it takes to be a team coach. The items on your list (resilience, presence, emotional intelligence) each warrant a closer look, either by my guided meditations or doing The Work by Byron Katie or a thinking partnership.

Your growth potential lies in moving your point of view away from your idea of being wrong to an intuitive knowledge of being right. To move in circles, where being wrong is not an option, because criticism is not voiced for reverence of free expression. You can achieve this best by doing art with a group of people. Maybe you find somebody to paint with or a choir to sing in, or a band to play music with or a poetry club to speak your heart. Or any other environment that allows self expression without criticism. From there build an exhibition/event that can stand on its own. Art is so hard, because its criticism can hit our core being. That is also why it has such an amazing growth potential for the artist.