Do You Ever Feel so Tangled up That You Can’t Move Forward in Your Own Business?

Just over a year ago, my family and I experienced the serious illness of my Mom, and all my brothers and sisters had to deal with this situation together.

Everything was ambiguous and we didn’t know what was going to happen for sure.  We couldn’t even make plans.

What I needed to keep saying to all of the others was, “You know, we just have to take this one step at a time.  We don’t know what the end result is going to be.

“We don’t even know what’s going to happen from moment to moment because it’s all uncertain.  So what we need to do is soften this whole experience, right?

“Would you agree that no matter what happens we’re going to have to deal with it in the moment?  But we can soften it a little bit by acknowledging that right now, here is where we are.

“What we have to do is understand that we can’t fix this right now”.

I said this in front of all our family members.  “Can we all be Ok with the fact that we can’t fix this right now? Can we all agree that right now we can’t fix this?”

They were like, “Yeah.  OK, then what can we do?  Where can we find our place of power even now in what seems like a place of no power.”

This was the softening that we all needed to cope with the unknown and still be in the present to take action as needed.

You will often find yourself in situations in life or in your own business or career where you are in a point of what I call tangled energy. It’s like you’re in the middle of a big knot and you can’t get out and you can’t go farther because you’re just stuck!

When you feel that way, try the following steps for detangling your energy.  You won’t be able to move beyond a blockade in your own business, or even forward to managing your energy around it until you are able to first smooth out the knot! Read more

Do You See Paying the Bills as a Joyful Part of Running Your Own Business?

If you don’t, you should!

What are some steps you can take to make the bill-paying experience feel more joyful?

I like to put on red lipstick and kiss my checks, and imagine the love in that money going out to those people and more money coming back to me.

I actually have this statement printed on my own business checks:  “Prosperity in huge amounts flows to you and comes back to me”.

How would you feel about writing something like that on your checks?

It’s like playing a game that’s all about getting into a relationship with this idea of money that goes out and then comes back to you.

You can actually bless it as it goes out and expect that it comes back to you in even more amazing ways! Read more

How Important is it For You to Truly Believe in Serving the Clients of Your Own Business?

I’m somewhat later than usual in posting the blog today, but I must say that I have A LOT to share!

First, you have to read this story:

“A few years ago I sat down with a man named Ron Post.  Ron was about to retire from a ministry he had started 20 years before called Northwest Medical Teams.  Northwest Medical Teams is an aid organization that sends doctors to volatile regions in the world to help the sick and dying.

…I asked Ron questions about how he had built his eighty-million-dollars-per-year ministry, with 98% of the money going directly to the work being done in the field.  I asked him how he structured his time, how he delegated responsibility, and finally asked him what was the key to his success.

To answer the last question, Ron pulled from his pocket a tattered envelope filled with pictures.

For the rest of the meeting, the man laid down pictures of people he had met, the first of which was a young Cambodian woman who, at the age of 13, was being used as a sex slave to the Khmer Rouge.  He told me they had rescued her from captivity and given her a new life…

As he showed me picture after picture of blind people who, because of a simple surgery, could now see, crippled people who could walk, the starving who had been fed, he told me their names.  He knew their names, every one of them. I had asked the man what the key to his successful ministry was, and he told me through his stories the key to his multimillion dollar ministry was a love of people.”

[excerpted from Searching for God Knows What, by Douglas Miller, Thomas Nelson (c) 2005]

What if the way that you see the customers and clients of your own business could be similar to the way that minister saw the people that he was serving?

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