Making a Comeback

If you’ve ever fallen off track with your business goals or been forced into hiatus (for whatever reason), then you know it’s not always easy to just pick things back up again. When you leave the rat race, and the rest of the world keeps going – it IS easy to lose confidence in yourself.

To watch everyone else make money and contacts while you deal with personal issues can be discouraging. But it can also be the fuel to your fire.

Making a comeback is possible and worth while –people do it all the time. And your break can actually work to make you stronger if you let it.

Easy Does It: Wait until you’re ready to step back into work mode before you make commitments to projects and people that you can’t fulfill. Sometimes, we think we know when we’re ready to get back to work because we’re starving for success and the motivation burns our brains. But, really listen to your gut. And start slowly. Think about why you needed a break in the first place, and learn a lesson from it.

Reconnect with Your Support Group: We say not to burn bridges. We say it’s just about the worst thing we can do to ourselves. Sometimes, I think the fear that a bridge is burnt prevents us from re-establishing relationships with people who can help us. Reach out to the people you need in your life, and try harder this time.

Don’t Re-Invent the Wheel: Exhaust all of your resources that helped in the past (marketing brochures, ad copy, and whatever helped you spread the word) before coming up with completely fresh concepts. You’ll be playing a bit of catch-up, and sometimes it helps to just slightly tweak and re-use older materials. You will want to market the heck out of yourself/your company – so it’s more important to start by connecting rather than inventing.

Whether you take a pause in your career for health reasons, school, or you’re between business ventures – you will most likely return with a fresh perspective. Use that to your advantage. Don’t lose hope if old partners cannot commit to you again (life goes on for them too).

If bridges were burned — build new ones!!

Just remember that when you return, you are returning as a slightly changed person with a new perspective.

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