New Ways To Go

You’ve got to love the titles business owners use to identify themselves these days.  There are queens, specialists, experts, leaders and goddesses to name a few.  We can call ourselves whatever we want.  It just helps if you can justify your title. 

Back in the day when I worked in the corporate world, there were definite career paths you took on your climb up the ladder from mailroom clerk to secretary to manager, director, v.p.  and so on.  There’s so much more freedom to being an entrepreneur.  We’re not locked into a specific role and no one defines our role or how to “arrive” except us.  We create our own rules for the game.  The words we use to describe ourselves can be as funny, witty or clever as we like so long as our potential clients and customers understand what it is we offer them and the value they’ll receive. 

So what fun words can I use to describe what it is I do?  I came up with the following:  passion pioneer, passionologist and passionista.  As a coachsultant I lead others to uncover their passion and purpose in life, while promoting a healthy and fit lifestyle. 

The first title, passion pioneer, aligns the best with what I do.  My business is all about helping clients to originate  new thoughts, use new activities or methods in the process of discovering their life’s purpose.  Like an explorer, I then lead them in search of information to identify their passions and similar to an engineer; together, we then devise or construct a plan to reach their goal(s). 

Being a passionologist also sounds like something I do.  A passionologist makes it her business to study passions, life purpose and related activities.

A passionista, on the other hand, designs, promotes or follows the latest passions.  That’s what I do when I seek or point out examples of all the creative and wonderful ways people are taking what they love to do and building, rich rewarding lives for themselves.

The result is I’m stuck on the right name to call myself.  My instinct is to use all three, since elements of all apply to my work.  There is I suppose a subtle difference between each idea.  However, a difference, to be a difference, must make a difference.

Isn’t that what I do afterall – make a difference in people’s lives by leading them to change and transformation?

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