Officially Retired
Gosh! Bit of a landmark day this.
Tuesday is my official “working” day when I go to the co-working space I love to “work” in. Today I turned on my laptop and, for the first time for more than 15 years, the websites I use to check my business stats are no longer available. Last week I discontinued the web hosting for more than 200 sites and that’s it . . . business over.
This moment has been coming for the best part of a decade. I’ve thought about stopping it numerous times and have also done the opposite. I took on Ed Dale (highly sucessful internet marketer) as a coach and created my internet marketing coaching year website to tell the story. Looking back now I can see that I was trying to get someone to make me do something I didn’t really want to do. However, at the time, I couldn’t hear that I didn’t want to do this anymore.
One thing that kept me going for so long was because I didn’t have anything else I wanted to do and it felt too scary to just let go and see what happened. I was concerned that without any structure at all I would revert to my days of depression.
These days I have given up looking for a “project” or a “job” and more easily enjoy my life as it is. So, apart from when I am thinking otherwise, I don’t need an external label to cling on to. I just enjoy each day and let them unfold.
Funnily enough, since I decided to finally let the web business go, I find myself involved in a couple of projects that didn’t even exist a couple of weeks ago.
6 Comments
Janet
Good news!!
gillian
It is indeed! Thanks Jan. xx
Ian Dougherty
Hi Gillian
Life without a business card…. remember it well, arrriving in Spain after 4 hard years (work hard, play hard) in Moscow. Spent the first day in swimming pool, floating in circles looking at the sky…. realising I had only my own identity, not Asst. Deputy Thingummy or variants thereof….
Don’t stay unconnected for ever but as you say, enjoy while you have time. Best of Luck!
gillian
Thanks Ian. So far so good. Couple of errands, then paralympics viewing and coffee on the seafront yesterday. Today . . . 🙂
Jean Marc
Good for you mr!!!!
gillian
Thanks Jean-Marc. I appreciate you taking the time to respond!
Best Wishes
Gillian