Practicing Patience in Business.
Patience can feel so at odds with business– until you realize how powerful you can be when you align the two.
After 7 years of breakneck growth running a fast-growth startup– 2020 mercifully provided me with some rest. And it was excruciating. At first.
I had no time for patience. I had to make a million decisions in a day.
I want to remind us all that my business was one that had a lot of people and details– the SCALE of it was huge. So, being a very small team with that amount of work didn’t really allow me to have enough time for patience.
But now, I run a more appropriately-scaled venture, even though there are times that there seems to be more work I want to do than hours in the day. But those are just my thoughts.
So, back to patience.
It’s one of the hardest parts of business for my clients.
They’re putting content out there consistently. Having sales calls. Announcing program launches.
And then……they have to wait. And they experience this as a negative.
But it’s not.
And if you’re struggling with patience, let’s reframe it for you here.
Having patience does not mean you settle.
Patience is believing a million percent in your goal, even when it’s not done yet.
Patience helps you have your own back even before you’ve seen the evidence.
Patience is confidence in you. In your goal. Before it’s done.
Having patience does not mean you’re not active.
Patience doesn’t mean you’re sitting around watching the pot boil and doing nothing else.
Once you get used to patience, you can be released to see all the other amazing ways you can support your goal.
When you’re experiencing resistance to patience, you’re in a battle losing energy that you could be putting toward your life and goals.
Having patience is a superpower.
What I love MOST about patience is that it subverts our desire for instant gratification. And THAT helps you create so much more value for the world, which then helps you get more value back because the more value you create the more value you will be give.
Instead of just selling on Instagram alone, create a program and then launch it instead of announcing it and then trying to build it.
Don’t trade value for your lack of patience.
Creating value will require patience. It will require you not being on instagram only. It’ll mean you’re writing. Developing. Thinking. Creating. BEFORE you share.
Imagine the value you’ll get back from that.
A 3-hour deep dive can be broken up into 2 parts– Coaching + Consulting.
I’d love to help you get the creative results you’re looking for. I offer 3-hour deep dives so we can dig into the problem and emerge with solutions.
I typically break them up into Coaching– “tell me what’s going on and what’s wrong and why you think it’s that way” and Consulting– “now let’s decide what we’re going to do about it.”
Sound intriguing?
If you’re a first-time client, schedule a clarity call with me here and I can answer any questions you might have.