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A couple weeks ago, I promised to take you along for the ride of running myself through my own new program, designed to support women entrepreneurs in leaving burnout, stress and a lack of inspiration behind to step into their biggest and boldest vision with ease. During the last two weeks, I unearthed some pretty big, limiting beliefs I was holding about where I wanted to go with my services. More on that below. First, an update on the focus of the Impact & Eas experiment over the last two weeks: Stress.
I've always been quite sensitive to stress. But if you had asked me about it five years ago, I would have told you the complete opposite.
In my old corporate job, I was always able to accomplish a lot during a short period of time and even with the most pressing deadline in my neck I still managed to keep track of priorities and to-dos without sinking into complete chaos.
In the old world of doing business this was a huge skill and my bosses always really appreciated that about me. And so did I.
Being self-employed, though, and having a vision of a different kind of doing business that honours our humanness instead of seeing it as a necessary downside, I realized what being stressed does to me as a business owner:
It drops me right into doing mode. I can still work through tasks and to-dos quite calmly an effortlessly. And I completely lose touch to my intuition and my vision. Two things that, as I learnt the hard way over the years, are imperative to success and fulfillment.
So these last two weeks for me were all about consciously choosing not to do.
Whenever there was a stressful situation arising, I tried to confront it with being instead of doing:
When my laptop's keyboard and touchpad broke down out of nowhere, I observed myself spiraling quite quickly, trying to figure out ways to pay for either a super expensive repair or a new one out of my business' rather empty pockets right now (always keeping it real with you ;)). And then I decided to stop. Right now, my tech set-up might not be ideal (I'm the weirdo walking into a co-working space with a large external keyboard and an age-old mouse) but it's doing its job. And it allows me to take intentional action instead of a mindless reaction.
When I was hit with a migraine and a dentist visit the day I planned to write this newsletter, I decided not to give into the niggly voice telling me to just get it done and over with. Instead, I rested, let work be work and ended up sitting down to write this newsletter a couple of hours after it was supposed to go out. I'd rather send you something meaningful late, than some pressure-cooked bs on time.
So yeah, don't let stress decide over the success and ease of your business.
One of the things I noticed myself unnecessarily stressing about lateley as well, was who I was targeting with my new mentoring and coaching program. This turned out to be a huge limiting belief to unravel and I finally gained some momentum in doing so this week. To keep this newsletter at a somewhat reasonable length, I've shared about this process quite vulnerably
here.
If you are keen to explore your vision and/or the way you can deal with stress so it no longer limits you, sign up for a free Mind & Vision call
here. During the 60 minutes we have together, we explore what your big, bold vision is beyond all the shoulds and couldn'ts and we look at ways to regulate your inner response towards stress so you're no longer reacting but acting.
