highly sensitive power

The highly sensitive people I know who are thriving are all self-employed. Is this a coincidence? Maybe. But maybe not.

Self-employment has a lot to offer HSPs, and many of our innate tendencies make us suited for taking up the reins of our own business. Self-employment doesn’t need to be a gigantic, red-tape-festooned, complicated step. A small beginning is still a beginning.

One way to take an exploratory step toward self-employment is to tap into the joy factor, to let your joys lead. Even the tiniest experiments to explore ways your joys could generate income will provide information. Which can point the way to a next single step. And a next.

Having encouraging guidance helps. The books shown here are a sampling of the books at the top of my heap when I want guidance about doing what I love for a living (and what I love is always based on being self-employed). The first book is about the deeper levels of thoughts and beliefs that affect prosperity, rather than self-employment specifically. I include it here because forays into self-employment can sometimes challenge our bedrock beliefs about money and prosperity, and this book may help with getting over the hump of that growth curve, if needed.

Money, and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Wealth, Health, and Happiness, by Esther and Jerry Hicks (of particular interest is Part V, “Careers, as Profitable Sources of Pleasure”)

Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways For Creating Work That You Love, by Barbara Winter

The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, by Timothy Ferriss (as a practical manual for automating income, this book has a lot to offer; not everything will appeal to HSPs in general, but it’s well worth reading for the conceptual adjustment about what is possible regarding income and work style)

Consider exploring possibilities for self-employment by delving into what you most want, not what you think is possible. With your imagination and your skills in deep thinking, following your own joys may lead you, step by step, to the creation of something only you can bring into the world. Let’s see it.