When I think back to leaving my “Job” to create Appsolute Genius, I believe I finally reached a point of not wanting to settle anymore. I’d had a feeling for a long time that I could do more with my life, my career, and my passions and that I was settling. Everyone else told me how great I was doing so it was pretty easy to hide behind that.
However, I’d also felt for a long time that I was capable of building a company but the security of a steady income was hard to overcome. Once I started viewing myself as a service provider to my employer, I start to think about my “Job” differently. I realized that I was doing what they thought I was good at or putting me in the best positions for their company. Never once did they ever try to maximize my true strengths of being able to connect to people, being able to use my bigger-picture thinking, and being able to strategically effect the company. Now to be totally fair, I let those things happen, but the point is that I was just a service provider to them for certain services that they happened to currently need.
It was up to me to take control and look deeper into how I could play to my strengths. Leaving a steady job has been difficult at times, but starting Appsolute Genius has been more rewarding than I could have ever imagined. So are you settling for less? How can I help you change your life?
