“Transitions,” “next step,” “two step” and “pivot” can sound more like a dance routine than actions to successfully grow your business. But they’re appropriate, and knowing when to pivot with a business plan is essential to success.
Knowing when to take such steps in your career — and having the confidence to take them — is equally essential to your personal success and satisfaction. It’s been true for me, whether those steps were planned for or forced upon me by circumstance (and then planned for).
I’m president of YAS Fitness Centers, a growing chain of yoga and indoor cycling studios. I founded YAS in 2001 in what was for me a major career transition. I also headYAS Yoga & Sportswear, YAS Productions and YAS Franchises Inc., all of which are outgrowths of YAS. They qualify as next steps. And in what is the biggest career change of all for me, I’ve become recognized as a leading yoga and fitness expert.
Talk about transitions — I started my professional life as a lawyer.