When we talk about business health we typically think of measurement by numbers.
Bottom lines,
Conversions,
Sales pipelines,
Lead generation,
Return on investment,
Profit margins.
But business health is much more encompassing than this.
A healthy business is created because all aspects of health are supported.
Business health is reflected in how well positioned your business is to grow,
Adapt and respond to the changing environment.
As an entrepreneur you are part of this.
Looking after your own health and energy is essential to look after your business health.
There are four core areas of business health.
Energy,
Expression,
Connection and elevation.
Beginning with energy.
Energetic considerations are wide-ranging in business.
The energy we hold is one part of a matrix of energies at play.
How we hold energy,
How we move it,
How we share it is a factor for every decision and choice we make.
And we have to receive energy too because no business can be healthy if it can't receive energy.
Whether that's recognition and accolade or clients and money,
There is a lot of receiving in business.
And we often get stuck in patterns of energy because things have worked or because we've been advised that we need to implement X,
Y or Z.
And these patterns can block the essential energy that determines your business health.
If finding things that work or work consistently is an issue for you,
There is also highly likely that your business energetics are actually out of step with the collective energetics.
So when considering the energetic health of the business,
We need to consider a number of things.
The first thing is energy clearing.
We want to be removing old and stuck energies that have come from either within your business or they've been imposed upon it.
And they could be held in any of the five energetic layers of the business.
And those five layers are frequency,
DNA,
Energetic structures,
The energy body and the business entity.
Those energies that we want to remove could be in your beliefs,
They could be encoded in your service and systems,
They could be attached to your infrastructure or they could be held within the energies that are being absorbed by your business entity.
Energy recalibration is also very important.
How attuned is the energy that you're holding to the environment,
To the culture,
To the changing collective frequency of your audience and future audience?
How attuned are you to the energy of your business?
These are things that can get out of balance very easily.
When you find yourself in a battle with your desire to be in your business or frustrated because you can't get on the same page as everyone around you,
It is a cue to recalibrate your energy to your business and your business to the collective.
And receiving is a very important part of that energy.
Your business has to be able to receive to be healthy.
A healthy business needs opportunity to grow,
To expand and evolve.
And these come through connections,
The recognition of your work,
The recognition of you in your role as its leader.
So if receiving recognition,
Praise and accolades is difficult for you,
Your business is not going to be able to position itself to take advantage of that opportunity.
If receiving money is challenging for you,
Then your business will struggle to receive income and clients.
If your structures aren't set up properly,
You're also going to struggle to onboard new clients to process income.
Receiving is both energetic and practical.
It's a vital area of development for every business.
The next area of business health is expression.
Business is creative expression.
If you let it,
It's going to be a master class in its sole expression.
And at a sole level,
You are wired to grow,
To evolve and expand all the time.
Your business is the same.
So a critical aspect of business health is ensuring that what really matters to you,
What really matters to your business is given space to be felt and expressed.
That time spent innovating and creating and exploring is time spent nurturing your business.
It's so easy to dismiss that aspect of business health because it feels unproductive.
But it's actually where your future resilience and expansion are created.
Whether you set aside a regular time or give yourself permission to go with inspiration in the moment,
Ensuring you connect to the expression of your business consistently is going to mean you're ready to grow when the opportunity comes and it's actually going to create those opportunities whenever they're required.
The next aspect of health is connection.
Every business is dependent on so many relationships and it doesn't matter how simple your business is.
We have suppliers,
We have employees and team members,
We have partners,
Clients,
Customers,
Communities and audiences,
Logistics,
Technology,
Contractors,
Service providers,
Mentors.
There are a lot of relationships involved in business and wherever there is a tension or challenge in one of those relationships,
Your business is going to be impacted.
Sometimes relationships can be outgrown.
It's necessary for people to move on from your community or for you to move them on.
Maybe ending client relationships,
Changing suppliers,
Shaking up your teams.
Sometimes you just need new energy in the mix and sometimes you just need new rules of engagement.
Relationships are dynamic and ever- changing because you are ever-changing.
So is your business.
Sustaining business health means making relationships a key priority and within the mix of relationships,
Don't overlook the importance of your relationship with your business.
Business should be a work of love so you need to feel good about being in your business.
If you start to fall out of love with your business,
It's a priority to reconnect to the energy and the expression that's going to light you up again.
The final area is elevation.
Traditional measurements of business health are the numbers but they just tell you what has happened but not what could happen.
Fundamentally a healthy business is able to grow,
Expand and elevate itself without massive disturbance or disruption.
And a healthy bottom line is critical.
It can disappear in a moment but a healthy business has the ability to sustain a healthy bottom line.
It's expansive in its approach to growth.
It embraces the lessons of the journey and it nurtures those who are along for the ride.
So adopting a mindset and approach that encompasses up-leveling,
Improvement and prioritizes the well-being and happiness of those who are part of the business is going to support business health more effectively than the relentless focus on numbers that we are more accustomed to.
There are a number of tasks that you can undertake regularly as needed to keep your business healthy.
Number one is to clear the energy of your business regularly.
Whenever you feel stuck,
Whenever things aren't flowing as the way that you would like them to,
Make that the first place that you go.
Consider the health of your systems too.
What's working for you and what isn't.
Get really honest about what's beginning to feel hard to work with or just isn't getting the results that you hope it would.
Consider the health of relationships including your relationship with your business.
Review how open your business is to receiving regularly.
When we grow and when we evolve we can find it more difficult to receive because we're pushing our boundaries.
We're pushing at our edges so it can be the one area that begins to suffer.
So make sure that you're leaning into how easily you are able to receive in your business on every single level.
And finally take some time as well to explore the future direction that's calling you.
This is what's welling up within you that needs to be expressed.
Your future always begins right here,
Right now.
So everything that you can do to support the future of your business is going to support its long-term health.
So those are five tips that you can apply on a regular basis to keep your business in optimal health.
