TVC083 Tegan Martin Creating Space
Talking the importance of space, your dream team and listening to your own intuition with Model, wellness advocate and former Miss Universe Australia, Tegan Martin.
Working together with Tegan last week on her “what’s  next” we ran through some of the core criteria for effortless success and the steps needed to navigate busy worlds and a fresh perspective on what success really looks like.
What happens when you are transitioning in careers. How do you deal with and avoid overwhelm. Who to trust, how to re-group and so much more even before you start working through a business and personal strategy for sustainable growth.
Early in 2018 Tegan will have a chance to share her personal story from young model to budding influencer and advocate for wellbeing. In the mean time we got together for a quick express session on the importance of cocooning to get focused and find out what is vital for your next steps in business and life.

Here’s some of the quick tips on why you need to take time to cocoon and define how to:

* Have the right people around you
* Create your decision making criteria
* Use the create not chase approach

1. Having the right people around you
No matter where you are in your career, and surrounding yourself with good people to work with that lift you up.
Tegan felt like it’s something that she was only aware of probably about six months ago. 

“When I started weeding out the people around me that weren’t necessarily serving me anymore. and started manifesting the type of people that I wanted in my life, and the type of people that would inspire me on a daily basis, and what do you know? All of a sudden they start showing up, literally at your doorstep in some cases”.

2. Be clear on your decision making criteria – defining what great looks life
In this first kick-off, we did Tegans’ decision making criteria around what type of jobs she wanted to do, who to work with and what values were important to align with. So, really actually taking the time to define what great looked like for you.
Tegan: Exactly. I think it’s really easy to just start taking on any opportunity rather than what is super aligned with who you are, especially if there’s money involved. So, that’s one thing that I wanted to work on with Nik.
Facing challenges of saying no and being decisive can be scary as it reflects a feeling of scarcity in case other work does not come to fruition. Especially if you’re in an industry where it’s about selling you, and your face and you’re now stepping into that new broader role, which really requires running yourself as a business.
Tegan: Yeah, definitely. I think that most models, people in the entertainment industries, journalists, people on television have, at some point, experienced that scarcity mindset. It is the type of industry where you can be replaced overnight by a younger, more vibrant, energetic version of you, so you do always have that in the back of your head, and it’s also really hard to get through the rollercoaster of emotions that you go through when you have without work.
So, 2018 for me is all about creating my own work and never feeling like I’m relying on external people for my … what’s a good word? For my …
3. Create not Chase
It’s crucial to feel like you are in the drivers seat so once you have defined who you need around you and what type of work you love to do it’s time to create the game plan, content, opportunities and genuine connections that align with those elements.
Making time out that you could actually create the content that you wanted to do, that you could look at your contracts properly.