Feel like you’re losing yourself in your business?
I feel like I just wrote final exams in university. I’m bloated, my skin’s broken out and my hair has been in a pony tail for a week straight. That’s because on top of having a full client roster, I delivered two speaking engagements and built a brand new website in the past 3 weeks. I’m exhausted from too many late nights.
I feel like I’ve lost a bit of myself to my business.
And I’m ready to re-group.
I’ve figured out that when it comes to building a successful solopreneur business there’s a delicate balance between being and doing.
But for most of us, we tip the scale when it comes to doing. There’s always an email to return, a blog post to write, a session to show up for, a talk to prepare, a website update to make—am I describing your week day? Our anticipatory antennae are on hyper alert. Adrenaline courses through our veins. We can begin to lose ourselves in our business.
We’re in a state of what’s next and what am I forgetting? Our focus and attention pours outward, away from us. Away from our internal needs for rest, connection, stillness, even self-care. We can start to feel disconnected. Off our center.
The thing is, we often excel at the doing. And we’re proud of our huge capacity for getting things done.
But at what cost?
When we avoid slowing down and reflecting, what are we missing? What’s the impact on our business and on our level of fulfillment?
The answers to our biggest challenges often lie in stillness. In those beautiful moments when we hit pause. Breathe deeply. Listen closely. That’s when we can actually hear our intuition and our inner wisdom. That’s when we feel connected to something greater than ourselves.
Everyone has a different approach to spirituality—and lots of people have no approach. Which is totally fine. But, as a woman solopreneur, I believe that having a daily practice, a ritual or a nourishing routine is a critical component to building our business on solid ground.
Over the past several weeks, I have been in a whirl wind of doing, I ignored my daily practice. And I’m paying the price.
Starting tomorrow, I am recommitting to my own daily practice of connection.
I’m inviting you to do the same.
I encourage you to think about how you start your work day. What would it mean for you to have a daily connection practice? A way for you to hear yourself think, listen to your intuition—I mean really listen? What would be different? What would a nourishing routine give you as you access your creativity, make decisions about what’s next, prepare you for your clients, address difficult situations?
I’m inviting you to explore a daily connection practice. You get to choose exactly what you’ll be doing and, how you’ll be doing it—and for how long each day.
Want some ideas? It can be anything under the sun. Here are a few examples, you may even choose to combine a few:
- Go for a walk in nature
- Sit in nature—under a tree, by a lake
- Meditate on a yoga mat
- Play music while you stretch
- Journal
- Draw
- Dance
- Paint, color
- Sing
- Pray
- Visualize
- Spend time with your vision board
While you’re connecting with yourself . . .
You may want to ask yourself a specific question at the beginning of the session. Or, you may just want to open you mind to whatever insights want to come on their own. Sometimes I like to create a visualization in my mind’s eye, where I can have a conversation with my wisest self, I like to ask her the tough questions.
Take the time to listen deeply, to notice how your body feels during the practice and for the rest of the day.
I invite you to do this every work day for the next two weeks and then report in on what you noticed in the comments below.
Feel like you’ve already mastered the chill factor in your biz? I’d love to hear about what you do to stay connected with yourself.
For you:
“Live your life in a way that you never lose yourself. When you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger and desire, you run away from yourself. The practice is always to go back to oneself.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh {Vietnamese monk, b. 1926} Namaste. :O)
Jac
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