Remember that it doesn’t matter how big your steps are or how many you take before you stop to rest. It only matters that you keep moving forward, one step at a time, toward what’s calling out to you. Toward what you’re meant to do.
Building Your Business
It took me a long time to realize how important joy is to creating something beautiful. It seems obvious, right? It's difficult to feel creative inspiration and be moved forward without joy. But the culture tends to focus (and bestow rewards on) discipline, push, hustle. It promises that if you do all these things, you can make it happen.
Creating your own business, one that is strong and sustainable, is one of the greatest creative acts I can think of. And trying to do that without joy may, in the short run, yield some results. But in the long run, what will you be left with?
Take a minute to look around you. See where in your business you have joy already, and where, maybe, you might need a little more and intend to allow more joy in.
I promise you if you do, you'll be amazed at what starts blooming.
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Feeling Behind Growing and Developing Your Business
“I feel so behind!”
It’s something I regularly hear from some coaches, healers, and other creative entrepreneurs. They feel a lot of pressure to get their businesses up and running or to get the basics in place, so their business run better.
Some of this feeling is born of a real desire to help and serve.
There are so many problems in the world today. So many people are hungry for help. It can be hard to wade through what can sometimes feel the slog of setting up your business fundamentals while people need you.
But there's often something else at play when I hear people say they’re feeling behind…
A 5-Step Roadmap to Marketing and Developing Your Business
Sometimes when you look at your business it can seem like everything needs attention at once.
Maybe you don’t have a social media plan or even a marketing strategy. Perhaps you aren’t creating content, or content that’s connecting with your ideal clients. Maybe your website is old, outdated, or doesn’t actually say much of anything at all.
Any or all these things, or more, might be true for you and your business and where it's at right now.
It can be easy to get overwhelmed by the number of things you have to do to help your business develop. I have some good news though. There is an order to doing things - one that can offer you a pathway forward…
Authentic Marketing for the New Year: Top 5 Articles
As we start fresh into the calendar year, I've been thinking a lot about what's needed to grow your business. Looking at the general marketing advice out there directed to coaches, healers or other creative entrepreneurs, you could be forgiven for thinking all you have to do is write a killer landing page or great ad copy for your new offers and people will be pulling out their credit cards.
The truth is it takes time and consistent attention to build an audience and to cultivate trust with your potential clients...