You thought so when you were leaving rat race at the corporate headquarters, upset with your boss who did not give you a raise for the last three years and no one said thank you for all the overtime you invested in that company.
But now, after so many months on your own and one consulting project that was supposed to be a good start it’s time to think.

Yes, you are CEO of your own career. Yes, you don’t need to be stuck in traffic every morning, and yes, you finally see what your kids are doing. Is it enough though to make a living and feel successful?
Did you even define for yourself what success means?

Knowing where you’re headed and why, would be much easier to evaluate if you are on the right path to achieve your goals.
What motivates you? Is it money, work-life balance, industry recognition, the opportunity to learn, or a challenge like turning a crippled business around? Can you make a list of motivational factors in the order of their importance to you?
If you have a great business idea, but hate selling – what do you need to do to make your idea a success?

A lot of great ideas did not get off the ground, because the innovator/inventor did not have a simple social skill to explain it to anyone or was not able to go out there and ‘meet and greet’ potential customers. He/she knew exactly how it’s going to work technically and that there is significant demand for his/her invention. Lack of project management skills and any social ability made it a failure.

So what’s a girl gotta do? Well, know your strengths and what success means to you and use Other People Skills to make yourself successful. Remember Danny DeVito in “Other People’s Money”? Your business success goes somewhat similar to that. Life is not fair. Use it to your advantage. No, I don’t mean exploitation or unfair practices. If you make yourself a good Project Manager, all the parties involved have a good chance to be successful.

It is structured knowledge. Get a book and start reading. It will be explained from A to Z how to execute a project. No excuses, you can buy it from $1.86.
“Projects have been around since ancient times. Noah built the ark, Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa, Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine – all projects. Why then, is the topic of project management suddenly of such great interest today? The answer is simple. The audience has changed and the stakes are higher.
Successful businesses and organizations create projects that produce desired results in established timeframes with assigned resources. As a result, businesses are increasingly driven to find individuals who can excel in this project-oriented environment. And that’s where this guide comes into play. […]
By reading this guide, you’ll gain insight into beginning a project, supporting it throughout its life, and bringing it to a successful closure.”

How do you know if you can make it on your own? David Zahn — author, serial entrepreneur, and president of StartupBuilder.com – has identified various personal characteristics successful entrepreneurs share.

Some people are great leaders, organizers, workers, and followers, but the entrepreneur remains as one of the most elusive psychological profiles in the world. Everyone can point to an entrepreneur, but psychologists have had trouble profiling an entrepreneur.
If you want to re-affirm yourself that becoming an entrepreneur, at any age, makes sense, read this article.

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