Welcome to this mini-series on balanced business.
If you are a soulful being but also full of ambition for constructive change,
This mini-series is meant to help you find balance and stay true to your soul while also creating offerings and being consistent and disciplined in your work.
I hope to deliver 7 chapters on aspects of being one with your business but also not being enmeshed with it,
Being true but not really being overcome by the business.
The first topic I'd like to cover is the work-life balance,
Or rather the myth of it.
And in following episodes we are going to cover the carving of the purpose,
The managing of energy levels throughout your creative cycle,
And also human-centric leadership and how to show up in the world with your work.
So back to the topic of today,
The work-life balance.
There is no such thing as the work-life balance and this is the essence,
The essence of you being balanced in your business.
Because when you understand that the business,
The work,
Is part of your life,
You will apply practices and wisdom that you have accumulated for your own being to the business.
And this is the source of balance.
Because sometimes this phenomenon arises that we separate ourselves in two personalities.
We have one for our business,
For our work,
And another one for our self-healing,
For our journey of consciousness and soulful creation.
And when you receive new inspiration,
You kind of put it in a box,
One or the other,
Work or life.
But life is everything and work is just a part of it,
As much as the relationships,
Self-healing,
Physical activity,
Everything.
So work or business is just one piece of the puzzle of being you,
Being human and mastering your existence in this world.
This is the key to work-life balance.
Just eliminate the word work and focus on life balance.
What role does the work play in your life?
This is the question to ask yourself.
You can use it as a journal prompt.
You can use it as an intention for a meditation to get the revelation.
Because you are showing up,
Hopefully,
Through your sincere inspiration.
And we are going to talk about inspiration in the next episode.
But when you are showing up for your inspiration and creating a filter between your soul and your work,
You are ruining all purpose.
Because you have received an idea and then you are trying to implement it in life.
And when you are stepping into this position of the business person,
You suddenly find yourself in the new reality with all the new rules and practices like time management,
Task management,
Accountability to your clients,
Shaping your offerings,
Contractual work,
Anything that you may be facing in the world of business.
This tends to scare you away or push you out of your grounding,
Out of your power of the root and of the inspiration that you have.
This is what we would like to overcome as the first step towards balanced business.
When you come to the place of business,
Bring all your self-awareness and all your true values with you.
And it doesn't matter if you are working for someone else or you are working for yourself.
Of course,
Every time there may be need for translation to the language that people around you can understand.
And maybe talking about vibrations and energies and soul purpose is not really going to do it for your boss or your colleagues or your employees if you are a leader and you already have a team that doesn't quite understand your true purpose and nature.
But talking about inspiration,
Talking about values,
Just using the words that they will understand while still being true to yourself,
This is going to help in your narratives,
In your attitude.
And if you need to feel connected with your energy,
With your being,
Don't just reserve it to two or three times a week when you do some yoga practice.
Be connected to yourself throughout the day and find your rhythm.
It should be starting into your first breath in the morning and following,
Continuing through your arrival to your workspace,
Through your coffee breaks,
Through your chats with colleagues,
To how you disconnect from work messengers at the end of the day and how you then give gratitude and do your personal practice.
This is all one,
This is part of who you are.
It doesn't matter if you do the work that is aligned with you or not at this moment.
You are showing up,
You are connecting with a community of people that may be very much unhealed and very much misaligned with your energy and maybe even harmful to you.
But there is a part of you that is above all of it.
And if you see yourself as a leader,
As a creator in this world,
Then you have this position of a higher awareness and love that you are expected to offer people.
So when you connect with people who feel misaligned,
You can do it out of the place of compassion,
With the smile of love,
And then they will not disturb your energy so much.
You need to protect yourself.
But by protecting yourself,
Do not split yourself into halves.
Do not split yourself into life and work.
Take your practices to your workplace.
And this is maybe the most revolutionary act that you can ever do.
As of last year,
I've started offering meditations at my workspace in a consulting company.
And it's been perspective-changing.
And I haven't received a lot of attendance and some mind-blowing feedback,
But I definitely feel much better at my workspace.
And some of my colleagues are enjoying the benefits of this as well.
And this is just one example.
You can also put on meditations while you are taking your coffee break or tea break or cacao break.
And you can stop hiding from your colleagues because they are people.
Each of them is a person.
And when they come home,
They probably also discuss topics and philosophies and thoughts and ambitions that are higher and that go beyond the normal narrative of the workspace.
When you manage to transcend these boundaries and get rid of the myth of the work-life balance and come to your integrity as a one true being,
This is when your journey into balanced business starts.
Because creating an offering must come from your true self,
Not from one chunk of you or the other,
But from everything that you are.
I hope I was able to highlight some of the practices during this talk that you can use to come to this integrity.
Feel free to connect to me in the comments on the Instagram or in whatever channel you find appropriate and continue this discussion because this is really the foundation of what will bring you to the state of balance in your business,
Creativity and leadership work.
Thank you and until next time.
