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Attracting prosperity is part art, part science, and part grace. A
prosperous business must not only accommodate but support life in all
its complexity. A thriving business requires and provides resilience
and continuity.
How do you go about building a thriving career or prosperous business?
Here are some of the things I've learned and that I credit with
supporting my own process of attracting prosperity.
1. Recognize that life happens. There will be ups and downs in your
personal life and ups and downs in business. When you can accept these
ebbs and flows of attention, energy, and focus, you will better be able
to adjust to changing conditions both in your heart and in your
environment.
2. Cultivate systems, practices, and networks that provide continuity.
For example, my newsletter, blog and websites are ongoing and reliable
means of staying in touch with a meaningful network in good times and
in bad.
3. Pay attention to transitions. When change is happening, it can be
easy to get caught up in reactionary thoughts and feelings that can
muddy your thinking and make complex situations chaotic. Learning to
detach and observe your reactions, thoughts, and fears will help you
keep a steadier course without being rigid.
4. Learn to notice when things are expanding and when they are contracting, and choose your strategies accordingly.
5. Learn to regard mistakes as stepping stones to mastery. Avoid
wasting time in needless guilt and defensiveness. Seize the opportunity
to correct your error and move on.
6. Listen to your clients and customers. Identify those who get the
most benefit from working with you with the least effort on your part.
This is not laziness. This is learning to operate from the sweet spot –
that place in which you add the most value by working from your
strengths.
7. Rigorously address personal issues that inhibit success. This could
mean seeing a therapist, paying off old debts, or starting an exercise
program.
8. Learn to listen. Listen for guidance from Spirit, from your heart, from your environment, from colleagues, from clients.
9. Raise your standards regularly both for your own performance and for the caliber of client or customer that you attract.
10. Periodically update and refocus your business plan, including
income, expense, and investment plans. Keep it simple. Distill your
plans into a sentence or two that summarizes your goals and strategies
so that you always know where you are going.
In our own lives, we are in many respects both flower and gardener. If
we are to attract prosperity, we must make wise choices, keeping the
source of our well being in clear view. While we cannot control all of
the conditions and challenges in and around our lives, we can keep our
own brightness aligned with its source. When we do so, we attract
prosperity, knowing our purpose and thriving in its pursuit.
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