I always seem to be at the forefront of the next big thing.
When I first started talking about whole person business, taking aligned conscious action, beauty in business, and the spiritual, healing and emotional care of the person behind a business…
As a way to become more profitable and successful…I was laughed at…
Seriously. I was actually laughed at.
I was standing up at a gathering, speaking about what I do and my vision for the future and there were titters and dismissive sounds in several parts of the room…
I suddenly felt awkward.
I felt put on the spot.
I felt nervous.
Uncomfortable.
My shoulders slumped.
My stomach sank.
I went all hot.
I wanted to cry.
I shut my eyes for a moment. I took a deep breath. I adjusted my posture. And then something clicked.
How dare they treat me like that?
So I shifted gears and asked them directly…
What they thought was funny?
Paraphrasing…they said…
“Business is business and it can’t be beautiful, what a naive idea.”
“Hard work and systems will get you the results you want…”
“Emotions and Spirituality have no place in business.”
“What you are talking about is just unnecessary.”
That was very confronting to a very much younger me…
But I took another deep breath and instead of shrinking I smiled. I am not sure why. It just happened. Boy, was I shaking underneath, but still I smiled.
That seemed to confuse the “nay sayers.”
And suddenly I found myself feeling supported. Supported by a warmth and confidence from within, and outside myself it felt like someone was encouraging me. Standing with me.
I found my flow…
I went on to talk for my last 20 minutes about the power of beauty to attract clients and to keep yourself motivated.
About business being a noble calling.
About sovereignty as a gateway to greater productivity.
About courage and integrity and being sought after.
About easing back as a way to fuel progress.
About elevating consciousness as a way of realizing goals and aspirations.
About changing the world through business.
And about kindness and being open to new ideas as a way to boost innovation.
And I was done…
I took a deep breath and went to sit down…thinking…
What the heck have I done?
I can’t remember the details of everything I said, just the main points that fell from my lips with ease and grace and a strange confidence.
None of it really planned.
I went way off script.
But I said what I needed to say.
And I was done.
After the next speaker had finished I took myself to the bathroom, closed the door to the cubicle and shuddered trying to settle myself…and I wondered where the holy heck I got the courage to do that…
Old fear surfaced…
I was frightened there would be repercussions.
My upbringing screamed at me there would be.
But the earth did not swallow me up.
I wasn’t chastised.
I wasn’t belittled.
I had survived judgement.
I held it together.
I wasn’t dead.
I was okay.
And I realized (yep, sitting in a hotel toilet cubicle) that I had stood in my own sovereignty and power…and it was okay…more than okay.
This feeling washed through me…
I was safe and living the full expression of my sovereignty was achievable…it just happened after all…I felt liberated, courageous and determined.
I can find that lionhearted part of me and bring it into the world and I will be okay.
It was a realization and a revelation…
I can do this and I will be okay.
And I know you can to… I am living this, my clients are living this…it is possible.
The more sovereign you become in your own skin, the more you discover about yourself, the more safe experiments you can do, the more support you have for the brilliant, beautiful, unique and precious human being that you are…the more successful and unstoppable you will become.
You can spreading your wings, have the more you desire.
You can answer the call of your soul…to be all you can be in your life…and in your business…
And succeed in ways you never imagined.
This is where a glorious liberated life and great accomplishments are born.
This potentially awful event in my business life turned out to be one of the catalysts for all that was to come.
