One of the most significant things I’ve done for myself is in creating harmony with my work life and my personal life. When I was a business owner running a growing salon, spa, store and veggie cafe I could get really overwhelmed with all the details and responsibilities. I realized that it was not good for my body – mind – spirit and soul to take on too much work. I had to learn to let go of the small details and focus on the BIG picture. I learned to empower our team to make decisions, after all isn’t the person doing the job the most knowledgeable and made myself available for providing overall guiding direction. By letting go of all the details I co-created an organization actually run by a team. I was simply the guiding look out paying attention to the flow our team was creating and gently guiding our direction.
For me it has been a practice in learning to let go of responsibility and be in the creative flow. When I make decisions from a place of creativity flowing from heart, spirit and higher mind I can live and work in a place of harmony with myself and everything evolving around me. I am filled with life and creativity. The opportunity for meaningful multidimensional success in the long term relates to being present with the moment and doing from there.
I’ve been practicing not sweating the small stuff and focusing on resonance and connection with the flow of our ideas, projects and teams. Everything comes together and it flows in right timing. Ease and grace is very important in my work life.
Zen Habits has some great recommendations for creating a peaceful work day.
Here’s how I do it.
- Do less. Those of you who know me by now saw this one coming. It’s very difficult to have a relaxed workday if you have too much going on. Instead, learn to reduce what you do, but choose the most impactful tasks and projects — the ones that will mean the most over the long term. I choose three important things to achieve each day, as I’ve said before. Those are the three things I can do today that will have the most impact in my life.
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10. April 2008 at 2:47 pm
That is a great suggestion. I am also a business owner and find it very easy to want to take it all on myself (aka “the lone range syndrome”). By adding more people to my team to take care of certain items would allow me the freedom to take care of the most important business tasks.
We will see how it all works out.
Great post!