From a transition perspective it cannot be easy to build a new career while you are occupied with another one. A lot of people, especially in this country, i.e. USA, have a network marketing involvement alongside a traditional job. That is all good, but very few succeed, and too many right out struggle.
In transition theory you have to let go of the old before you can start something new, and you have to pass through the neutral zone between the ending and the new beginning. Bad enough that we do not take time to stop by the neutral zone, even worse when we do not let go of the old. The fact is that for most of us it is hard if not impossible to succeed with something new when we still live in the old. That is a major reason why mergers fail, that is a major reason why most people feel they do not move anywhere in life. This does not mean that you cannot have parallel transitions. You can. You can go through a transition in your private life and you can go through one at work for instance. They are on two different levels of existence. Starting a new career while you are in the old is on the same plane, however different they might be. That’s the challenge.
Well, some people seem to have the ability to play on various fields at the same time. I am not among them.
Some would boil this down to focus, but that is too simple. It is something deeper inside us, as transitions always are. Change is external and fairly easy to handle. Transition is internal and much more complicated.
