It’s never easy being your own boss.
Still, there’s nothing I’d rather do than to wake up every morning, set an intention for the day, and watch it unfold.
If you’re an entrepreneur or are considering walking this path, you have doubtless made a study of your chosen field, taken courses in marketing and advertising, and adopted what is often referred to as a “beginner’s mind.”
These are necessary steps, and ones every entrepreneur should take if she wants to be good at what she does.
But here’s something you’re not going to learn in business school: If you want to enjoy true, lasting, and fulfilling success, you need to get out of your head and move into your heart.
Because after all is said and done, if all we’ve done is analyze and weigh and calculate and strategize, we’re cutting ourselves off from countless opportunities - opportunities that, when pursued, can take our business to places our naturally-limited thinking can’t even begin to imagine.
If you’re someone who’s interested in small business success, following are three things you need to know about why it’s a good idea to move out of your head and into your heart:
1) The heart space is stress-free.
Stress results from the thoughts we choose to think. Contemplate a worst-case scenario for your business and you’ll be generating stress on overtime.
Working from your heart, on the other hand, you find yourself in a peaceful state. And it’s from this place of calm that solutions to every challenge surface.
2) The heart space is creative.
Entrepreneurs don’t go to business school to learn how to be creative. And for good reason: Our brains are great at processing information and making calculations, but creativity comes from a different place altogether.
Letting your heart run the show instead creates a space for impulses, insights, and inspiration to bubble up in your awareness, and the subsequent actions we take can produce results that are nothing short of mind blowing.
3) The heart space is unlimited.
While it’s true that our brains are capable of incredible things, it’s also true that most of us only use about 10 percent of what’s available to us. What’s more, it is believed that we think an average of the same 8,000 thoughts every day.
But the heart isn’t defined by electrical impulses, synapses, and grey matter. In fact, when we tap into this space, we are tapping into a greater consciousness that metaphysicists are only just beginning to understand, where potential and possibility are literally unlimited.
As an entrepreneur, if you like the sound of building heart-based success, be sure to take time everyday to tap into this space. Prayer, meditation, or just the simple act of following your breath can get you there from here, and help you grow your business in ways you never thought possible.