Meridian Coaching & Consulting Blog

Everyone recognizes the enormity of the challenges we collectively face today.  They are, at the same time, global in nature and extremely personal.  They are financial as well as environmental, affecting housing, banking, employment, land, water food, fuel and natural resources.  They are compounded by political and social challenges that we face on every continent.

Yet in the face of it all, there is an undercurrent of hope.  A message of “yes we can” and growing pockets of possibility coupled with action.  We know, intellectually, that even the worst of times are cyclical and that the lowest lows lead, eventually, to new eras of growth.

In his book Good To Great, Jim Collins said the first thing you have to do is to get the right people on the bus.  In these challenging times there are certainly many people who are hoping they get on the right bus – the one that offers security and protection from the rising storm.  Yes, some people are content to wait for the bus, hoping against hope that they get on a good bus.

However, there are others who are not content to wait they are not looking to be saved.  They want to be in the driver’s seat.  They want to pick the route and drive the bus.

There is an unprecedented shift taking place today towards a free-lance economy.  Where people have the opportunity to do whatever it is they long to do, become whatever they wish to be and do whatever they want to do.  It is a form of economic self-expression and freedom that is available to every person who has the will and the desire to do so.

Individuals now can create fully scalable and profitable businesses that do not involve bricks and mortar, nor does it have to include hoards of employees.  What you need is passion, directed energy and strategic alliances.  Don’t get caught waiting for the right bus to come along start your own route and have the faith that you will create the right vehicle for your journey in route.  And who knows it may not turn out to be a bus at all.