Don’t fall for that best year ever stuff

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In the last couple weeks, my inbox has been inundated with emails entreating me to have my Best. Year. Ever!!

​Instead of inspiring me, these emails stress me out. As one of my clients said, “Why does 2022 have to compete with 2021?”

The year I turned 21 was pretty great. That’s the year that I traveled all around the world as a photographer. The year I got married, and the years when I had each of my two children, were pretty awesome too.

There was the year that I started my business, and the year my husband Jon quit his job to join me. There was the year that I hit 6 figures in my business, and the year that I changed my business model to become a coach for entrepreneurs.

I’m not saying I haven’t had my struggles. A person can’t be in business with their spouse for 25 years without some significant ups and downs. There was the year I was diagnosed with lymphoma, and the year of 9/11 when the economy had a huge slowdown. There was the year my biggest corporate client was also my biggest pain in the butt.

Yet all those years were also rich with learning and experiences that ended with gratitude.

When we fall into the trap of anticipating that this year will be the “one,” we both denigrate our past successes and set ourselves up for future disappointment if things don’t turn out exactly as we’ve dreamed.

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Author: Liz Wolfe

Liz Wolfe is a business coach, author, and speaker who coaches entrepreneurs to get unstuck so that they can launch and grow an abundant business. For more than 20 years she has empowered people with her three-part coaching system starting with a clear vision coupled with purposeful Action, and removing hidden barriers to get breakthrough results for her clients. Liz got her entrepreneurial start growing up on a sheep farm in Western Pennsylvania with her mother and two sisters. They built a cottage industry making and selling woolen items, which helped Liz develop her public speaking and selling skills. Later she moved to NYC, where she used those skills to create a successful computer consulting business with her husband, Jon. Eventually she transitioned out of the technology business to apply her experience in a more interpersonal context, helping business owners to develop an abundance mindset. Liz says that one of her greatest accomplishments is staying married to her husband for 25 years while running a business with him. They have two wonderful children. Always eager to get in front of a crowd, Liz also plays the ukulele and is half of the singing duo Ukulicious.

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