BOB MULLIGAN « IN THE BEGINNING »
Three Components of Business
After feeling some degree of technical competence I turned my attention to the issue of earning a living and being self employed. This is an insurmountable obstacle for some people. It was quite dif obstacle for some people. It was quite difficult for me personally.
Part of running a business successfully is good old customer satisfaction. Ultimately, for us as astrologers, satisfying customers means being able to communicate useful information that the client recognizes and acknowledges as valuable. Certainly, learning astrology is quite a feat. Learning to run your business is a major life task. But even more than these lessons, learning how to communicate astrologically to my clients has had a directive effect on my consciousness. Now I think of these achievements as three components of an astrology business: technical competency, earning a living, and helping people. It ' s not just an astrologers work, that can fit these three categories. Any business has a learning curve, the running of the business, and establishing a purpose or social need for its existence. In astrology as in any other business, these categories intermingle and reinforce each other a good deal so that it ' s really only in the abstract that we can talk about them separately.
When I was in high school my first job was working for McDonald ' s. I was told, " Customers are not an interruption to your work, they are your reason for it." Sometimes we can forget that our clients are our reason for doing astrology.
This happens because astrology is so darn interesting that we would probably do it( meaning study it) if we never saw any clients. But, inevitably when we only study it, and don ' t see clients at all,, it really means that we have only one client, ourselves. Astrology ' s highest use is self understanding. Time spent studying, by ourselves, is to concentrate on the core of our being. Time spent assisting a client is to understand parts of our own nature better. Both are necessary in order to grow.
Astrologers who only spend time alone, not helping clients, will miss the opportunity to elevate aspects of their own nature. Astrologers who spend all of their time with clients, lose their core and stop progressing, then their work either becomes trivial or they burn out, sometimes both.
Clients are the astrologer ' s customers. Without customer satisfaction the business fails. Many points in this book are aimed at helping astrologers achieve balance so they neither " burn out " seeing clients, nor do they retreat into complete self absorption. Instead of these extremes, we look to find a deep path of ever exciting and enriching selfdevelopment in the process of seeing clients.•
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