• Honouring your business as a sacred energy system, with it’s own essence and divine purpose.

• Listening to your business and allowing it to guide you, relieving you of the pressure to ‘figure it all out.’

• Working with your own rhythm, maximising the natural ebbs and flows of your energy system and the rhythms of nature.

• Trusting the spontaneous creativity that arises from deep within, allowing things to unfold and evolve.

• Co-creating with your Business, operating ethically to make a meaningful contribution to the whole.

• Maintaining harmonious relationships within your business functions and with external parties, ensuring they are mutually supportive and flow with ease.

• Relaxing your fixation on financial goals and external markers of success, letting them become a by-product of focus, flow and ‘purposeful productivity’.  

I was ejected gracelessly from the business world.

I won’t lie, it hurt.

Physically definitely, but emotionally and spiritually even more so. As I recovered from chronic illness, detoxing from a hard-nosed corporate culture, I came to reconnect with my ‘Self,’ the version of me that existed outside of the academic and corporate institutions I had been in for nearly all my life:

• Who was I if I wasn’t working 9 to 5?

• Who was I if I didn’t have deliverables and deadlines? 

• Who was I if I wasn’t answering to a boss or leading a team?

• Who was I if I didn’t have to adhere to a corporate dress code?

Finding out who I was outside of the institutional construct has been nothing short of a wild ride. The stuff worthy of Glinda the Good Witch’s wise words: ‘Because she wouldn't have believed me. She had to learn it for herself.’

I came to disown my ‘old’ self. The business me. The corporate me. Dare I say it, the ‘evil’ me. I shut her out. Even though I’ve been running a business. A business that I feel called to and care very deeply for.

I want this business to succeed. Not because I want to make a shit-tonne of money, but because I truly believe that it can be of service to people who need it, giving clients clarity, compassion, healing, and permission to release their pain and live their purpose.

But I’ve come to realise that leaving my ‘evil business self’ trembling in a dark corner was never going to work. With every business intention I’ve battled inner conflict:

• How do I manifest without manipulating things and people?

• How do I communicate without cajoling?

• How do I ‘take charge’ without being controlling?

• How do I sell without selling out?

I had worked so hard to escape the old behavioural patterns associated with this business self – over-working, striving, pressuring, driving standards, and a fixation on external benchmarks. And yet in watching one simple marketing webinar I could be returned there in an instant.

It felt like I was constantly trying to re-enter the business world as my true ‘Self’ but time and again feeling the pressure to return to the ‘business self’ that I had abandoned.

This constant vicious cycle often left me frustrated and despondent.

How do you succeed in business being your true Self? While maintaining your spiritual integrity?

My realisation was this:

I had to stop seeing myself as wrong.

I had to stop seeing that the way I wanted to operate was not wrong.

Wanting to contribute, to co-create, to co-operate with the Universe, to untether myself from money as the ONLY driver of business strategy and purpose…was not wrong.

I just needed to STOP trying to fit in.

I needed to TRUST that the way I wanted to work, in accordance with Divine Law, with the FLOW of LIFE, was in fact, a very POWERFUL way to work. And far more sustainable and fulfilling than what the mainstream business world was offering.