Be a Free Range Human: Escape the 9-5, Create a Life You Love and Still Pay the Bills

How do these answers make you feel? For example, when I hit the right answers, I feel elated, with this joy rising up to the top of my head. Others feel a comfortable warmth in their chest, and their body relaxes. Write down

you shine, the parts you find natural, those are put to one side. You are ‘good enough’ at that already, the logic goes. I call this the ‘all-rounder’ myth. As a Free Range Human you’re going to have to flip that right around. By focusing on your strengths, you tap into your shortcut to loving what you do and standing out in the process.

‘prototype project’,

The final indicator of a strength is that you are doing it already (even if you don’t notice). Although Alex assumed he had risen through the ranks because of his technical skills, he soon realized all his most satisfying successes came back to the way he pulled a team together and made lasting connections.

you won’t be able to do that sort of thing when you grow up and get a proper job.’

When I coach clients on finding their idea, we can spend a whole session talking through options but I can almost guarantee that what they will end up doing is that little throwaway idea they mention in the last five minutes of the session. It’s uncanny. The person will say that they have a ‘little idea’ but that it is too obvious, or maybe too cro

Your strengths don’t necessarily tell you what to do. They enable you to do whatever you want to do better than anyone else, because you’ll do it your way. On your own terms.

Ask anyone who does well as a solopreneur, and they will say that growing their business is a core part of how they spend their days. Some people (conventional business types) find this part boring. Free Range Humans see it as an excuse for getting playful.

When I work with clients I can almost guarantee that the very thing they say is ‘not that valuable’ is the biggest thing they have to offer.