Repot and grow!
Friday, March 23rd, 2007Over the past two weeks we’ve heard from hundreds of women (and men!) on both coasts at book signing events and on media tours. They all said the same thing: Repotting is the right book at the right time. Why? Because repotting has universal appeal. Everyone wants to cultivate their life, plant some seeds and grow new blossoms.
One woman in California is in the process of repotting from being a full-time lawyer into a part-time lawyer and part-time entrepreneur as the owner of a floral design business. She is changing her life-long love of flowers from a hobby to a full-time business pursuit. By starting this venture on a part-time basis, she is planting a sample bed to try this out and see if she can turn it into her life’ s work. Along the way, she is grappling with the same issues that face many women who want to move into a larger pot: resistance from family, financial concerns, and change of professional status. She hopes this partial repotting will allow her a trial and error period where she can experiment with bringing her true passion to the forefront of her life. In the meantime, she loves what she is doing in her life’s garden.
This is not just a coastal phenomenon. During our nationwide radio tour, women in Missouri, Nebraska, Illinois, Iowa and many other central states have called in to share their excitement with the idea of repotting, and asked us specifics about the steps we developed in our book. One woman in the communications field was feeling very overwhelmed by the time requirements of her job, but needed the paycheck to help with the family budget. At the same time, she had an inkling that she was missing out on things that were really important to her, like sailing. She asked us how she might work what she loved — sailing — into her daily life. We suggested that, as a first step, she start sowing some seeds by devoting her vacation time to sailing. This approach will allow her to investigate creating a career out of her passion: will doing this on a daily basis really satisfy her; does she have the skills required to manage a sailing company; and what are the financial implications of making this change?
Wherever we go, we meet women who are part of this grassroots repotting movement. Our book has become the guidebook for women who want to repot and grow! If you are a repotter, or are thinking of repotting, please go to the “share your story” section of our website and tell us about yourself!
Diana and Ginger
