“Transition From Employee To Entrepreneur”

If you are a regular reader of my blog/Ezine, I am sure you know about my strong passion for  learning, implementing and coaching employees transitioning to an Entrepreneur. I always look for clues about handling negative emotions, strategies and tactics on how you can turn around from feeling like a Victim to a Victor, in an entrepreneurial game.
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“Eliminating your regular paycheck barrier with Lalitha Brahma”

In this blog post, I will be sharing an article from yahoo that reminded me of my transition from Employee to Entrepreneur..

More on that later…

“Three Tips To An Entrepreneur”

Based upon the success story mentioned in the said article, here are the 3 tips that have helped me and my clients:

Tip 1. Work on your internal communication with yourself (self-talk). Do whatever it takes, may be meditation/Yoga/EFT/Exercise to LET GO of fear, doubt and panic and ALLOW trust, courage and compassion for yourself and others. (more…)

“Questions That Stop A Brand New Entrepreneur”

As a brand new Entrepreneur, have you ever got excited about doing something and got stuck? It could be, offering your expertise and charging for the same or selling your own product or someone Else’s product as an affiliate. The first question that comes up is What is the guarantee that my expertise/services/product will produce revenue? Will someone pay for my service?

As soon as we ask ourselves this question, we get hung up from moving forward. I have been there several times. In fact as an entrepreneurs, you must be experiencing this moment almost every day.

Having worked for an employer for several years, I never had to go through the pain of making such a decision, because my employer would take care of them. However, when I became self employed, I had to learn certain facts in a hard way. (more…)

Entrepreneur and Emotional Conflicts

When I transitioned from an employee to an Entrepreneur, I had variety of emotional conflicts that prevented me from taking consistent action to operate my business. I am sure you can relate to this feeling. From my coaching experience I learned that the emotional conflicts arose due to fear.Apart from having several fears, the following three types of fears made a huge impact on an Entrepreneur

Three Major Fears That Affect An Entrepreneur

Fear of loss: As an employee, we were bound by certain rules and regulations of the employer. As long as we followed these rules and performed well, we got paid. Our regular paycheck motivated us to work consistently. However as an Entrepreneur, you are your own boss. Even though initially you may feel very good to be your own boss, you must be prepared to pay for your mistakes and poor judgments with your own money with a possibility of incurring a loss.
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Fear of failure: We are mentally programmed to think that having a job is secure (which is not completely true). Hence when we lose our job, we tend to feel helpless. When you operate your business, fear of failure is stronger because you put your reputation not just with one employer, but with each new customer.

Fear of Rejection: In a job you, as an employee normally work with your boss, peers and subordinates. As you get to know them gradually, there is hardly any fear of rejection. However when you operate your business, you must find ways to market effectively. You will have to contact several prospects/ potential customers/Service Providers. Not all of them will say yes to your services or product. Hence you must be prepared to face the fear of rejection.

Action Points For A Frightened Entrepreneur

It is very important to become AWARE that these three fears can affect you as an Entrepreneur and eventually, the growth of your business. Once you are aware, you can make a decision right now to take consistent action to conquer these fears. It could be by way of reading an empowering book or listening to an audio or doing activities that can help you become a courageous and empowered Entrepreneur

Question: In your previous audio, you had explained, why it is important to process our negative emotions.  What prompted you to learn techniques to process your negative emotions?

Lalitha’s Answer

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Techniques To Process Your Negative Emotions

After I completed my Masters degree in Chemistry, I held Management position with a combined experience in Indian Nationalized Bank and Corporate America for 21 years. In 2002, when my company downsized, I chose to transition to an Entrepreneur/Home based business owner, as my children needed my attention. Initially I thought, with my management experience, operating a business from home would be a breeze. To my surprise, I was using excuses to make a sales call, blaming clients, feeling not good enough, not charging what I was worth, feared success, took everything personally.

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Instead of using my knowledge and expertise gained in 21 years, to my advantage, I ended up draining my energy with negative emotions caused by above mentioned thoughts and actions. I learned several techniques  to process my negative emotions. One of my mentors pointed out that  whatever I was experiencing, were EMOTIONAL BLOCKERS and  advised me to try Emotional Freedom Technique. I learned about EFT, got my Basic Certification EFT-CC and never looked back. I use it daily on myself and on my clients to solve their  problems.

Examples Of Problems faced by Entrepreneurs That Lead To Negative Emotions

• Family issues ranging from, as trivial as being ignored/bothered by our children TO serious problems like illness, death in the family.
• Nervousness/stress associated with starting any new project like writing a simple email OR creating a detailed marketing plan.
• Fear of flying that affects business owners whose business thrives on travel to various cities/countries.
• Health issues like as  simple as  having a headache TO being nervous to go for a surgery

How Do You Process Your Negative emotions?

In invite you to read what my clients have to say in our Testimonial section.

You see, a Home business owner is affected by day to day events at home like these. Learning and using techniques to process your negative emotions can help you stay in the entrepreneurial game .

Now I invite you to share the tools you use to process your negative emotions, by writing your comments in the comments section.