It's Coming Together

It is true.  When you stand in your authentic light, what's for you is drawn to you.  I have experienced that this week.  While happily posting blogs, to Pinterest, to Storylane and even a comment or two on Facebook (okay, maybe 3 or 4, but who's counting!), I am walking into people who are on the same life path.  It's not just that we're nodding politely as we pass each other, but I'm finding that they have a piece that will help complete my life picture. 

In an earlier post, I wrote something along the lines of Bathroom Confessions.  I tried to give it a title that was clever and provocative.  The cliff note version is I ran into a natural sister and author I had met some time ago but didn't recognize.  That's strange for me because I forget names all the time, but faces?  I rarely forget a face.  Well, long story short, our polite chat revealed a similar path and belief about what we were destined to do.  She suggested that I meet someone who could help me increase the profitability of my businesses.  Well, yesterday we had a telephone conversation.

You know those kinds of conversations that (1) feel like you've been knowing the person forever and (2) feel like it's not a coincidental occurrence--there is some purpose in it?  I felt all that and more as I talked with Katrina M. Harrell.  She's an author, an entrepreneur and coaches others to make their businesses more profitable.  As we talked about my dream of having my own coaching business, she talked about transitioning from pro bono to attracting clients who will not only seek me for my help but will gladly pay my fee.  I've been praying about how to build a lucrative practice and what she said resonated with me. 

CLICK!  A piece of the puzzle just moved into place. 

Then today, I had a telephone meeting with Dr. Towanna from Black Life Coaches.  If my recollection is correct, I was on LinkedIn responding to someone wanting to connect with me when I saw this group.  Up to this point, I had not seen any group that specifically focused on helping African American coaches become all they can be.  This group does.  It provides a space to learn, grow and thrive.  During my interactions, I found she and her support staff to be very thorough, very professional and it was as if she had a bug in my head because she said everything that I had thought, felt or dreamed about doing with my coaching business.  Their specialization is optimization, using the internet as a tool.  They have a hands-on approach though:  suggesting ways of improving your website, how to use articles to perk the interest of potential clients, even helping you to land television and radio spots if that's your thing. 

CLICK!  Another piece of the puzzle just clicked into position.

It feels like they are on either side of me, each holding something valuable to the next phase of my journey.  Profitability, that's what's next. And yes, I'm talking about money.  Being able to make money doing what you love, to me, is the greatest gift next to having good health.  I want to be able to say to God, I took every talent, skill, gift you gave me and I multiplied it.  Where there was no way, I used my voice, I prayed forward, I used what you gave me to create one.   

Well, it's time to end another workweek and get my weekend in full swing.  As I cut off the lights in my office and join the other cars on a hopefully not-so-crowded Highway 40, I feel things falling into place.  My picture is becoming more complete as the right pieces come together.