Over the last few weeks I have had a very unique opportunity to literally be still enough to evaluate various areas of my life. As you may recall, I had a minor accident that left me with a broken ankle.
Little did I realize the amount of adjusting it would take to do even the littlest things like prepare a simplest meal.
Additionally, I have not been able to work from my home based office, but rather from my living room couch and on a few occasions from bed. Doctors orders have been to be extremely still until the pain subsided.
This has forced me to shift my focus regardless of whether I wanted to or not. It’s amazing how many distractions there are in our day. When we are literally forced to “sit still” we see things from a completely different perspective. In many ways we have no choice but to take stock of various areas of our life.
One area I have been looking deeply at is my business. The following five questions came up:
- Am I congruent with my deepest convictions?
- Am I doing what I love?
- Does my business have deep meaning to me?
- Am I serving my customers to support their highest good?
- Am I set up for ongoing prof
itability while maintaining a high level of integrity?
Fortunately, I am able to answer yes to all of these essential questions. The main reason is that over the last 15 years of owning my business I have done much soul searching. I didn’t immediately begin my business in 1994 and have all the answers. I still don’t have all the answers, but I sure am closer to center than ever before.
Over the years I have structured my business in a way that I am able to be true to my calling and make money at the same time. I am able to be as creative as I choose and I am not running my business by the traditional business model that many of us boomers grew up be taught was the way to run a business. For so many people the “traditional” business model is broken and they want no part of it. They want something that expresses their spirit, heart and soul.
I believe it is essential to periodically take stock of what we are doing and determine if we are in alignment with all we claim is important to us. One way to do this is to answer the five questions:
- Am I congruent with my deepest convictions?
- Am I doing what I love?
- Does my business have deep meaning to me?
- Am I serving my customers to support their highest good?
- Am I set up for ongoing prof
itability while maintaining a high level of integrity?
If you desire to answer yes to each one of these questions, but you’re not quite there, I encourage you to join me and 5 other amazing entrepreneurs for a one time free event called Spirit in Your Business. In this life changing event we share New Thought/Ancient Wisdom On Developing a Business that Reflects the True You. You will have free access to a live teleseminar and a six part business course.
Spirit in Your Business will help you take that all important next step — from just dreaming about your business to actually living it.
Join us at 3PM Eastern on Tuesday, September 22nd, for a live teleseminar to kick off the Spirit in Your Business course, where the six entrepreneurs will share secrets to getting the maximum benefit from the course. The five modules of the course will become available to you immediately after the live call.
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It always helps to reflect on where you are and where you have come from. Evolution of spirit and business are most often tied together and the shifting of one tends to reflect upon the other. The fact that you are laid up is a drag but at least it gets you thinking about things…:) Hope you heal soon. Take care and all the best.
Lyle
Kathleen, I can relate to the forced re-evaluation of priorities that an injury like yours induces.
I had my own when I went over the handlebars of my bike in 2002 and fractured my wrist.
Experiences like these provide a good creation place for our upcoming multi-authored product and teleseminar.
Mynders