When you set an intention to create a business, to self-employ, to live a life that goes with it, depending on your current level of being, you initiate a (life-) long journey of self discovery.
Maybe at that moment you don't have everything figured out (and it usually works like that), but taking step by step the path is revealed, the souls who make it happen appear, long or short term, life speeds up at all levels. And you are not even aware of how much you are loved and supported from the higher realms only because you decided to live a different life. Not better, not worse, not comparing or preaching, just your own.
It pretty much sounds like a fairytale, isn't it? It is (as much as you give it freedom to be!) And. There is also a process. Process of gradual breaking old structures that led you to the current state because more is opening, all kind of tests that help you making sure what is really for you and what's not, the process of unpacking even more gifts that enrich you own life, the process of growth!
It takes time, energy, breaking ups and breaking throughs, inside-out, horizontal and vertical.
It's a complex thing for sure.
It's a thing of vision and joy, but it needs to be sustainable too!
For me, starting an art based business was a thing of joy. I decided to go for a self-emplyment in a domain of something I started doing as a hobby few months prior, wrote a project and applied for funds. Only when I put everything in a pre-structured form of application it made me think that I had it all figured out (from that level of perspective, of course!). Before that, it was a strong pull, an inner feeling, a certain knowing that it was right for me.
And it is basically a story that I hear all the time from the people who did the same. You just know and you go for it. Yor heart is so open and you are too excited that you don't even think about such things as expenses, marketing strategy, customers, sustainability.
the power of vision
Past several months for me were a self-reflection months regarding my career. I asked for clarity and my story started to reveal itself in front of my eyes like an open book. I remembered that three years before all previously written happend, one night, while I was lying in my bed, in between two jobs, I had a vision of a shop (with a significant name) where everything was handmade by me (and the best thing was that it wasn't ceramic at all!!). So, the way visions happen, it was that night and I forgot about it. Until some recent time.
And it is a yet another story for some other time. For now, that quick vision was the seed of my current life.
Self-employment = self-learned business structures
When you say YES to VISION, CHANGE and LIFESTYLE that match what you preach, it's time for an energy EXCHANGE, for bringing your vision out to the open fields. This means, you are willing to be exposed, even when you are being misunderstood, even when you don't have support, even when you lose the direction, feel burnt-out and/or risking a solid ground. These are big words and really bring out what's called a process into a linear explanation, but of course they are never linear and timelined.
You know how it usually functions but you are here to learn how it works for you. Here come all kinds of scenarios that you create in your own purifying act. Nobody can tell you how it will go and you need to take responsibility for it. As long as you see it as something happening to you and not for you, it will have power over you, you'll repeat lessons and overgive, over explain yourself, waste energy to something irrelevant.
reflection
When you are offering a product and/or service that is genuinly yours, you are offering yourself. You set a standard for it and with that standard come values attached to it. Your self-love and care are being reflected into it too.
The right environment!
The most challenging paragraph to write about so far because it's the most challening for me in a real life. As a small community memeber, a-small-town mentality witness, sometimes is just a great effort to break through the past projections of myself without slipping into arms of already familiar. AND that's beauty of it all! Sometimes you slip in, sometimes not, you learn, you go on further and farther. On the other hand, it's a place that is most of the year filled with diversity which is the reason why am I writting in a foreign language too. And that's another beauty of it all. There is always balance, opportunities, always LIFE happening as much as you are willing to open yourself to it inside-out and vice versa.
When you outgrow your environment, you change it. It's another adventure on horizons. Another process to dive in.
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