Riding the waves of Entrepreneurship by having a Spiritual Practice
The more time I spend in the entrepreneurial space the more I realize the importance of having a spiritual practice.
And when I say this I believe it is completely individual for each person.
Finding your own spiritual path is a practice and a process and once we are on it we require continual practice and self discipline.
I had some time over the past few months to reflect on my business and to reflect on the work I do.
For me this year has brought about immense personal change and as a result I have not put as much energy or focus into my business. At first of course I went through the process of beating myself up. Not feeling good enough or asking myself why I was not capable of handling both. And with more continued reflection I came to my own awareness that change is constant.
Continually exploring my own understanding of Impermanence.
This is the wave of life that I consciously ride.
Having my own experiences along the way and allowing my experiences to be my greatest teachers.
As I reflect on my own experiences I feel more and more confident in what I choose and I am learning what it really means to trust myself.
In choosing to be present and available to my decisions and life changes in my personal life I was not as present to my business.
It is a wave I am choosing to ride each and every day.
Does it mean I am failing or that things may not shift again at some point?
I don’t think so. It means that I choose to embrace the shift that is my life. To be present to what is before me and to continue to be in observation of my choices.
This is such an important practice and one that I would not have discovered without my spiritual practice. My daily practice of stillness and observation has given me the gift of feeling impermanence and having more comfortability with it.
It has given me the gift of being able to ride the wave and experience all its different forms.
I know many years ago when I was in my corporate career I was first discovering what a spiritual practice was. I started with trying to be like other people I respected. To do the things they did and to read the books they read. It gave me perspective and it also allowed me to experiment. I had to learn what worked for me along the way.
My spiritual practice began with a lot more questions than answers. I wanted to know the right way to do life. The right path to take to figure it all out. And so I tried many different things and each time I explored I learned something new about the practice and about myself.
When we begin the journey of a spiritual practice we are experimenting. We are learning and we are figuring out what feels right.
The gift of developing and having a spiritual practice is the waves become a little more mild. it doesn’t mean they disappear, it means we are able to ride them with a little more grace and ease.
A spiritual practice can look like so many different things and it is less about how it looks and more about how it feels.
What does it feel like to connect deeper with your own soul? What does it feel like to be in constant reflection of your thoughts, feelings and actions?
To me it feels like ultimate freedom. When we start to really know ourselves and trust ourselves we have less suffering.
As an entrepreneur the waves of uncertainty are always there and our spiritual practice provides us with less resistance and more compassion.
What I have come to realize for myself is that my spiritual practice requires me to have faith, trust and hope. It requires me to believe in something greater. It requires me to slow down and observe. And to admit fully and completely to myself that I am not going anywhere and that I am not getting anything.
And I believe the same can be said about being an entrepreneur. It requires the same faith, trust and hope and it requires self discipline and self awareness.
It requires a place of stepping out of outcomes and results and into a place of trust and surrender.
Taking the journey of entrepreneurship can be challenging and it can be overwhelming and that is why a spiritual practice is essential.
It is the connection back to self. It is the journey we talk in each and every moment with our own heart.
Leaving you with a few tips that may be helping for creating a spiritual practice:
Find your intention. Be clear about why you are choosing to develop a spiritual practice. Check in each and every moment.
Have your own experiences. Play around with different tools and techniques and see how they feel in your body and in your heart.
Have consistency and discipline. Incorporate it each and every day so you can start to get clear on what is working for you and then have compassion for yourself when you miss a day.
Have a dedicated space for yourself to come back to. This does not have to be a big thing. It could be having an intentional object in an area of your space. A way for you to connect back in with you and with your intention.
Trust yourself. You will figure it out in your own way in your time. Believe in you!
How do you integrate spirituality as an entrepreneur?