Business is __________. Fill in the blank.
For the longest time, my answer was: “Business is strategic”
This created a lot of heaviness for me. It put a big burden on me to really think things through and make the most calculated move. To come up with the best solution. To make the most educated decision. To make the most smart and strategic choice. It served me. But boy was it exhausting.
This week, I have chosen to redefine my relationship with business.
After talking to a close friend, I decided to change how I see business.
Now, business is an exciting opportunity.
Being strategic is what allows me to take advantage of the exciting opportunities in front of me. Because I can see how to most effectively capitalize on the opportunities available to me. However, I am no longer being strategic for strategy sake. Or to get to some outcome that I need in order to be content. I am choosing to be excited by the opportunity of making the moves and what that will hold and unlock in my ability to navigate the business world with more grace.
In short: it boils down to the difference between outcome and process. Journey and destination. Strategic was a way of traveling down the journey. It served me. I also want to travel down the journey in a way that makes me excited about the opportunity.
What is your relationship to what is being shared?
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Michael Hrostoski One of my favorite games to play.
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Lauren Peters I’ll play grin emoticon
Right now, to me, business is service…mainly because my journey is imagining and feeling into what this looks like smile emoticon
It started out as the ‘strategy’ you first talked about and I went in a direction that didn’t align with me. So right now, soul. aligned. service. (And, I love what you said about navigating the business world with more grace, there’s SO much opportunity there!)
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Kathleen Evans Johnson Finding out being a business coach is exciting and fun….accepting I am really good. Not being caught in someone else’s boxes is so freeing. Knowing the importance of connection and transformation is so important and as a coach I see their blocks.
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Christopher McCann Magical
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Dev TheRev business
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Erinda S. Martin Listening to your gut, taking a deep breath, trusting yourself, your abilities and the circumstances, taking another deep breath, deciding with your heart, breathing in and out slowly and grounding wherever you are before speaking with confidence and your mind wide open. Then, have fun enjoying the fruits of your labor, and repeat to a higher ground and greater scale.
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Margie Pargie Love this! What an amazing insight to have, I’m sure it makes business much more fun for you now! 😎 business to me, is giving people the tools to live their wildest dreams! I am so thankful to be able to wake up and fulfill my purpose in life everyday🏼
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Dmitriy Kozlov Business is my greatest platform for impact.- Growing into this –>
- Business is my greatest expression of Love.
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James Mielnik Damn that is an EVOLVED answer. Can’t wait to see u!!! wink emoticon
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Kevin Kurgansky what is it for you james?
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