“I am very fortunate to do what I love for a living,” began Tracy Fuller in our recent ASPIRE Success Club Adventures In Boldness interview. “I love having the goal of thrilling my clients every day!”
After experiencing a significant tragedy in her family in the late 1980s, Tracy needed an outlet to help ease the pain of loss. “I wanted to help others celebrate happy occasions until we started having more of our own,” she shared. Combining this desire with her passion for art, Tracy began what is now known as InnovativEvents.
She started 27 years ago by building stork signs to place in yards to announce the birth of a baby. “It was kind of like TP’ing as an adult,” Tracy recalled, while sharing some funny stories of incorrect addresses leading to big surprises for some residents! 🙂 InnovativEvents now focuses on full event production, taking care of details for conferences, galas, and weddings so the hosts can focus on entertaining and enjoying themselves.
Nearly 3 decades in business has taught Tracy many lessons which she generously shared in our interview. Among them:
1. Fail forward fast. “Any regrets I have in my business,” offered Tracy, “typically revolve around the thought, ‘I wish I’d made this decision quicker.'” Don’t put your ideas and plans on hold, waiting for the perfect moment. Don’t let fear hold you back from what you know in your heart you need to do.
2. Connect with brilliant minds. From involvement in a global Mastermind group with a well-known business expert to a local monthly get-together with a couple of entrepreneurial friends, Tracy consistently invests time, money, and energy into developing herself and her business. She knows from experience that any investment of this sort will reward her in significant, and often unexpected, ways.
3. Take complete responsibility for your actions. The ASPIRE Success Club knows this mantra well, and Tracy summarized it beautifully: “This is something I’ve stressed all along in my business, with my kids, in life. It’s the only way you can change.” Successful business people are usually big risk-takers. Sometimes you need to step off the cliff, with the willingness to accept responsibility for the outcome, too.
Tracy also balances her successful, often travel-intensive business with intentional self-care, advising others to “take time to do what puts you in the zone.” Her business and way of being make her an incredible role model for holistic growth, taking healthy risks, and doing what you love!
Learn more about Tracy Fuller and her business at www.InnovativEvents.com.
Dr. Christi Hegstad helps you successfully do what you love! As President of MAP Professional Development Inc., she coaches executives and leaders who feel stuck – whether in their leadership abilities, at a certain income level, or “spinning their wheels” in the day-to-day – to flourish towards their vision with clarity, confidence, and meaningful action.
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