Strategy for Running a Home Business, Part 2: Balance

Strategy for Running a Home Business, Part 2: Balance

Running my home business is one of the many things I’m grateful for in my life. At the same time, I’ve been feeling driven lately—not just to do the work itself, but to learn new tools, find new ways and places I can share my message. That’s all good and seems healthy. The only problem is sometimes I forget that it’s ALSO healthy to breathe and assimilate what I’ve just done, before dashing off to do the Next thing.

In an earlier blog, I talked about how times of contraction and rest are actually an essential part of a strategy for running a home business—that it’s crucial to remember to take a pause “in-between.” But if you’re like me, that can be hard to remember. See, I’m one of those lucky people who absolutely loves the work I do—teaching, healing, writing, performing, and public speaking. I just don’t wanna stop!

What I’ve been realizing lately is that I need to discern the difference between motivation that is vital and coming from Source from the kind of drive or pressure coming out of an underlying, unconscious anxiety and doubt—that no matter what I do, it’s won’t be Enough.

Still, if I drop deeper into the question behind that anxiety—am I doing everything I can for my business?—I realize it’s still of value because I’m passionate about nurturing and sustaining growth anyway I can.

In the end it all comes back to staying in balance. Hmm, time to practice what I teach! This is one of my favorite qi practices to keep me in balance, as I explore, expand, evaluate and play.

What are some of the things you do to create balance in your life?

Vicki Dello Joio, founder of The Way of Joy: A Spiritual Fitness program, is a teacher, speaker and performing artist. Integrating over 40 years of Chi Kung practice with other martial arts as well as her work in Yoga, Feldenkreis, physical fitness and theater, Vicki has developed a dynamic set of tools to increase awareness, transform obstacles into opportunities and enhance creative potential. Book: The Way of Joy: An Evolutionary Process to Awaken Inspiration, Focus Intention and Manifest Fulfillment, CD: Short Meditations for a Busy Life.

Embracing Resistance: A Natural Anti-Anxiety Remedy

Embracing Resistance: A Natural Anti-Anxiety Remedy

Despite encountering many of the mind power techniques out there in the market of self help and inner growth, I admit freely that there are still times I come face to face with my own anxiety, self-doubts, or inner resistance. To be blatantly honest. my first instinct is to open the refrigerator or look on-line for something (preferably shallow) to distract myself from painful feelings. Or maybe I’ll pop in a dvd or watch an online streaming movie to focus on other people’s problems for a change.

These are times I seem to forget how much I love qigong, meditation, stretching, hiking in Nature and other activities that pivot me from inertia to a zest for life. While I was writing my book, The Way of Joy, I realized that, in part, I was creating a manual I could go to when I felt stuck. I wanted a reminder of how to access some of those tried and true, “kitchen-tested” tools that really work to shift me out of an outlook and/or activity that actually drains my energy. One of my favorite themes in my work is I call the uses and misuses of resistance.

In other words how can we Drop Dread and Flow Instead?

What images or memories help you to shift out of feeling stuck or resistant? I’d love to know so comment below!

Vicki Dello Joio, founder of The Way of Joy: A Spiritual Fitness program, is a teacher, speaker and performing artist. Integrating over 40 years of Chi Kung practice with other martial arts as well as her work in Yoga, Feldenkreis, physical fitness and theater, Vicki has developed a dynamic set of tools to increase awareness, transform obstacles into opportunities and enhance creative potential. Book: The Way of Joy: An Evolutionary Process to Awaken Inspiration, Focus Intention and Manifest Fulfillment, CD: Short Meditations for a Busy Life.

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