The Art, Science, and Grace of Attracting Prosperity
by Molly Gordon, MCC
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 success at 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. Include both the ups and downs in your vision
of prosperity.
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, and prosperity flows to us through our networks.
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 so that
you can notice opportunities in the midst of chaos. Propserity ccomes
to those who are able to see it coming!
4. Learn to notice when things are expanding
and when they are contracting, and choose your strategies accordingly.
Cooperate with reality to attract prosperity instead of conflict.
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. Prosperity is attracted
to humility and persistence.
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. When you do business from that sweet spot, you attract
prosperity.
7. Rigorously address personal issues that inhibit
success. This could mean seeing a therapist, paying off old debts, or
starting an exercise program. Taking responsibility for your own well
being opens the conduit so prosperity can come in.
8. Learn to listen. Listen for guidance from
Spirit, from your heart, from your environment, from colleagues, from
clients. Again, this is a practice that will open you to the prosperity
that wants to come to you.
9. Regularly raise your standards for your own
performance and for the clients or customers with whom you woirk. Your
commitment to ongoing growth will attract prosperity.
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 have a simple way to stay on the path to prosperity.
When we work for ourselves, we are both the garden and the 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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on small business marketing Molly Gordon at:
Shaboom Inc. Life could be a dream…
PO Box 195
Suquamish, WA 98392-0195
mgordon@authenticpromotion.com
As a business coach and small
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Seattle Area and internationally |
