Welcome, you!
I’m so glad you showed up in this cosy corner of the internet.
As you’re here I’m guessing… you don’t feel you always fit into the boxes others assume you do. Right?
Whether you are wanting a change to work (and life!) you love and that really fits you on your terms – or want what you’re doing to be working even better for you (without changing your personality) read on to get a taste of the free range approach!
THE Free Range PILLARS
(AKA a peek at the Free Range values that have led our work with many thousands of real people)
Your difference is your edge.
The things about you that are ‘too different’ or ‘not enough’ often end up being the secret to your success.
You don’t need to find your “ONE and only big passion” to create something you love & that brings you alive
In fact most people we know who love what they do and are thriving at it have multiple things they are into!
Instead it’s about thinking differently and tailor-making something that fits you down to the ground (and really works!)
We talk about this a bit in the Be A Free Range Human book.
The Head and the Heart.
So often there’s a tension between the heart (what you want) and the head (the practicals and money side)
The free range approach helps you combine the two. So you can have somethign that fits and that works for you.
And stand out from the crowd naturally on the way.
Free Range Humans (noun)
~ freE-ˌrAYnj hyOO-muhns
A Free Range Human is:
01. A person (human) who has created a work life that fits their unique personality
Free Range Humans have figured out what they want to do with their lives, and are doing it for real (without getting lost in one-size-fits all blueprints or ’10-step formulas for success’ that tell you you have to be a version of someone else to be good enough)
02. A person who has created a Free Range work-life that fits their situation (and the life they really want).
They choose when, where and how they spend their days.
03. A person who has decided to live their life every day, not just weekends.
Most free rangers have done what many think is impossible: figured out how to make a living without an office or a boss, on their own terms. (Others choose to edit their employed life in a way that brings them alive, and run projects on the side!).
Every free ranger’s solution looks different but what they have in common is they created it to suit who they really are and haven’t looked back.
A Free Range Story
Free Range Humans were once Career Cage humans. They were stuck in a metal tube, commuting to a concrete office-box… and (this is the important part) feeling had to fit themselves into someone else’s box to get paid.
(Some other free range fledglings had quit their job to run their own business… but found themselves stuck comparing themselves to those other people on the internet, feeling they had to be a version of someone else to make things work).
They felt a bit ‘different’ to others around them. Don’t get me wrong, they knew how to play the part… but still they knew there was something more.
They didn’t like it much, but thought ‘once I get to a higher perch I will be happier’. Everyone around them said that was the right thing to do.
Then one day they woke up. They poked their head into the sunlight, and this is what they found:
