Wishcasting Wednesday: What Do I Wish to Let Go?

It's another Wishcasting Wednesday over at Jamie Ridler Studios,
and today Jamie asks the powerful question...

What Do You Wish to Let Go?

I wish to let go of my apprehension about
cutting back my massage schedule
in order to spend time developing other avenues of income.

I am blessed to have a successful massage therapy practice. There are therapists who dream of having what I've created. 

Please understand, I don't say this with braggadocio or arrogance, but rather with gratitude, humility and a healthy dose of self-respect.  I have worked very hard to get where I am.  To have a business where I no longer have to advertise because I have a month-long waitlist; where I can pick and choose my clientele and if they don't keep healthy boundaries or if they blow off their appointment,  I can simply say goodbye because someone else is waiting to get in.   A practice where my clients become my friends.  I feel so blessed to have the privilege of spending the day in a beautiful space with lovely music and my little pug next to me, right in the comfort of my own home.

I currently see between 20-25 clients a week,  many for 90 minute sessions.    The money is good, especially as I have low overhead, but there is also a ceiling to my earning potential.  More importantly, after 12 years in practice and with my 52nd birthday around the corner, I question how much longer I can continue to offer my physical energy hour after hour, week after week.   I am energetic, strong and healthy and I know that (God willing) I can continue to work on this path for many years.  But I really wish to reduce the number of sessions per week and begin to seriously develop another reliable source of income where I don't depend on my hands.

I don't wish to give up massage therapy because I genuinely enjoy it, but I do wish to cut back to 3 days/10 clients instead of my current schedule of 5 days/20-25 clients.   In the long-term I will benefit by creating new and exciting aromatherapy education programs both live and online, write the many how-to books that I hold in my head and build a better online vehicle for selling my essential oils.  But it means that in the short-term, I'll have  a reduced income.

I need to learn to let go of the fear of earning less, saying no to my clients and trust that the Universe will provide for me in other ways.