I just had a Joyous Business epiphany, and I’m so excited I simply must take a chunk of my Sunday to write it down and share it with you! If you want to have a truly joyous business, you must learn the art of permission.
This could mean something as simple as allowing yourself to rest when you are feeling low energy, or something as powerful as completely re-working your schedule to give yourself optimum play-time for complete vibrancy in your life and work!
I will admit that today I am feeling quite low-energy. My business partner (in my other business, Abundant Heart) and I are coming down off an extremely busy week of completing the writing of our latest e-book, and while I am very happy to have it done, I have to admit the pressure of the deadline really got to me. I learned some valuable lessons about the need to work on a smart schedule to ease last minute pressure, and all in all it was a really great experience! But today it caught up with me and I am feeling it in my body. I am just about out of gas.
So, when I started thinking about the marketing and work I am to do this coming week, both for Abundant Heart and EMERGE, I experienced a shutting down of my brain. I thought to myself, OK, let’s get this thing figured out. I absolutely LOVE my businesses and am totally joyous in both. This mental shut-down is showing me there is an imbalance that needs addressing now!
So I tapped in to a great tool that I have been working with since the beginning of 2011 – I talked with my heart. I asked it what it needed. Or, more specifically, what I needed to be in my joy with my businesses. Here is what my heart said in reply: “ONLY WORK THREE DAYS A WEEK.” Whew! Up until now I have given myself just one day off each week! For a moment I started to argue back with all sorts of old mind-set/belief system arguments. “What? Only work three days a week? That’s impossible! What about seeing clients? What about all that marketing? What about social media? How will people remember who I am if I am not communicating with them every day several times a day?” And on and on it went.
My heart, luckily, put that all to a stop and said: “What makes you happy?”
I responded: “Sharing my message.”
“And how do you enjoy doing this?” Asked my wise heart.
“By writing,” I responded immediately, “And through client sessions.”
I saw that my primary Joyous Marketing style was sharing my message through writing! And I saw that, if I am in my joy while sharing my message, that is what attracts my clients in for amazing sessions. This has always been the case. Always! The times that my marketing has NOT been effective is when I have been employing strategies that feel like something I HAVE to do, rather than something I WANT to do. Oh my wise heart! How I love ya!
So, does this mean I will stop tweeting and posting and emailing and planning workshops and networking? Oh, no – I will continue to do these things! But, I will do them when and how it feels good in my heart – and I will do them generally on my three “working” days! And my primary marketing focus – Hallelujah! – will once again be writing!
So, coming back to my heart’s original message, “Only work three days a week,” I looked at it more deeply. Did it mean, literally, three days on and four days off, each week? The answer I received was “Yes.”
My innate wisdom tells me that my giving myself real permission to rest and play four days a week will open up my world to allow even more abundance – Love, Joy and Money – to come pouring in!
And now, a final check-in with my heart – does only working three days a week mean I can’t write or see clients on the other days? “No,” says my heart. For, writing and having amazing client sessions both open me to my joy, and therefore neither one is “Work.”
Hurrah!
What opens you to your joy in business? How can you start giving your Self permission? I’d love to hear your feelings!
Astra Spider
The Joyous Business Shaman
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“The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” -The Dalai Lama
“The purpose of our businesses is to be happy.” -Astra Spider
