3 Tips to approach the next stage

If you're building a business, or even thinking about it, then its useful to realize such a creative endeavour will be part of your own growth process. That is to say, no matter which goals are set or milestones reached, the business will offer frequent new challenges. As you embark on the next stage of your business strategy, or seek new business investments, its meaningful to remind yourself of a few things:

1) Everyone you meet has lessons to teach you. Maybe you're looking for business partners, distributors or staff. Even if all you know so far are incompatible personalities or undesirable business practices, its all good. You see, you also discover what you truly want and need through encountering what you don't. Choose to see the glass is at least half full rather than half empty. Learning lessons is key.

2) Stability begins as a state of mind. Some people think that constant influx of money or profit is the key to stability. Not so. In business, the most predictable thing is impermanence.  How you react to what happens around you matters. You create your stability through making informed choices. Adapt to markets. Evolve to respond better to service clients. Develop diplomacy and practices which appeal.

3) Consider each step as a "test bed." Whatever your track record, you can always look forward and decide to retain valuable lessons. The last investment may not have had the highest return, but you can visualize how the next one will be better. The last business associate you had may not have been the most conscientious or dependable, but your insight means your next choice will be stellar. The last product you turned out may have had some flaws, but you can apply what you learned to make the new release take the market by storm. View this stage with confidence.

Comments

[Jenny]

Ooooo, these are great tips!

[Liara Covert]

Hi Jenny.
Glad to see you value benefits of "looking on the bright side." As you learn to stop focusing on any previous, undesirable experiences, you declutter your mind of negative energy. This actually removes the fear of failure and other obstacles you created which had prevented you from realizing your dreams. As you reframe your perspective to make it a consistently, uplifting one, you'll find you progress faster.

[Liane Schmidt]

Great post - I especially love that you wrote a philosophy I greatly believe in - that everyone you meet has lessons to teach you.

Blessings.
Sincerely,

-Liane Schmidt.

[Liara Covert]

Liane, to recognize value in everyone is meaningful. People are regularly imparting knowledge and wisdom to you. As you evolve to discern this, your perception expands. Evolution is not yet complete. If it was, creative processes would cease on every level.

[Divya Jain]

Very good website. I liked it very much.

[Jeanne Dininni]

Liara,

This is excellent advice, and all three principles are so true! It's very empowering to realize that even the people with whom we have the most difficulty developing a rapport have valuable lessons to teach us about life and about our own personalities, preferences, weaknesses, and strengths! The only wasted experience is the one from which we learn nothing!

Thanks for sharing these powerful insights!

Jeanne

[Liara Covert]

Divya, thanks for visiting. You are welcome back anytime.

[Liara Covert]

Jeanne, insights are as powerful as readers are receptive. As you evolve to love everything and everyone you can, then there is less chance you will decide to close yourself off from learning. To remain open and receptive is key.

[Shirin Goel]

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[gypsy-heart]

Excellent advice. I so struggle with the business end of art. I am trying to embrace it. I do believe the energies you put out there return to you. My problem is how to keep control and organized when what I really want to do is just paint! I think it goes back to "be careful what you ask for", and at times I feel overwhelmed! :O

Thank you for BEing. I hope to visit here more often..if I can get organized with my time. :)

[Liara Covert]

gypsy-heart, some people believe that they must moonlight in one job to afford to do what they truly love. While some people convince themselves this approach works, at a given moment, their mind is often somewhere other than where they are or distracted from what they are doing. This does not enable them to channel energy as effectively as they could. You may enjoy posts on the blog from selfmadechick.com. Stephen Hopson also interviewed Christine on his blog Adversity University.

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[AngelBaby]

Great post, lots of good information. This is good for any situation in life and can be used on a daily basis. Thank you for sharing this.

Love and Blessings,
AngelBaby

[Liara Covert]

Angelbaby, the next stage of your perceived existence is completely up to you. From the moment a human being rediscovers that taking responsibility changes everything, everything changes. Your views resonate infinite love.

[Alexander M Zoltai]

Here I am. Finally...

Thank you for urging me to comment over here!

I started in the Business section because I have an "old" business and a very related new business--nutrition: http://www.mynuriche.com/amzolt

This article was very bottom-line as well as top-down and inside-out; but then, the deepest bottom is the path to the highest peak, the top is the perspective from which to view the bottom, and the inside rules the outside, eh?

Adding your blog to the tabs at the top of my browser...

~ Alex

[bp]

I love this article - great information for anyone in business - startup or otherwise!

[Liara Covert]

Alex, human beings are programmed to think, to narrow thoughts and feelings down to goals based on conditioned ideas of what is necessary and desirable. Business offers a constantly changing environment where people come to realize they nurture unhappiness and dissatisfaction by choosing to keep such feelings alive. As one learns to remove the element of time, and negative emotion, one learns to appreciate the present. This means you consciously move to shift your sense of internal purpose to something unrelated to your external environment. You sense joy regardless of the markets.

[Liara Covert]

bp, if you did not choose your present conditions, then who did? The purpose in being where you are at this moment is awakening . You begin to notice all the blessings before you and within you. Inner knowing is accessible to you anytime, anywhere. It is not what you do or where, but how you notice what you feel that matters. Feel the joy and all the other wisdom at your fingertips. It flows through you to stimulate creative expression.

[Salman]

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[Liara Covert]

Salman, evolving to believe in yourself is a priceless experience. Regardless of endeavours that focus your attention, hidden levels of self-love and acceptance are evolving to re-create wholeness. Whenever you think you take charge, you are focused on a future. This confirms you feel you can cope. To take responsibility for the direction of your life begins and ends in the mind with perception.