When you are a solopreneur there are often days that everything seems like it just isn’t working! Days when things are spinning out of control and you begin to question whether or not you were meant to do your business and live your life’s purpose.  So what should we do when that happens? How do we reconnect with our purpose and passion?

First off, I want to say that this happens to every solopreneur. If you find someone that says they have never “gone off the deep end”, they are either a superhero (mind you, from what I remember, even Superman had bad days!) or they are not challenging themselves to step up in their business and life.

Here are 4 steps to reconnect to the heart and SOUL of your business when things seem like they are spinning out of control.

1. Do something just for you. Taking a “time-out” to nurture and be gentle with yourself. Often times we try to work harder, faster or longer and it makes the mess a whole lot more emotionally draining, keeps us in that negative space we don’t want to be in longer and more often than not, you begin to repel the clients you are working so hard to attract.
2. Come back to nature and what you love. Take a look at what you love either in your business or your life and do something active where there is no winner, loser, or goal at the end. For some people, it could be meditation or yoga. For me, it is kayaking. Kayaking is the one activity that I do that I don’t compete, don’t “try”, I just am. Be present in the moment and grateful to be alive.
3. Rediscover the passion for your calling, not for the money. Often times we are so connected to “making the business work” or focused on bringing in the “money for our passion” that we forget about the connection to the passion. Take the time to go back to your soul. Your soul is and has always been ready to live your purpose. Our “humanness” (all the drama, the stories etc..) is just catching up to our soul.
4. Clear the clutter/take out the trash! From a movie I saw recently called the Peaceful Warrior, the teacher “Socrates” instructs his student to take out the trash in his head. There is so much self-talk (both good and bad) that is attached to the ego and the outcome of our lives. We need to de-clutter our minds from what we think we “should” do, and replace it with what we are meant and called to do.

I know these steps work because I am here to teach what I most need to learn. It is amazing how when we are in the heart of our “stuff” (questioning if we should be doing what we are doing and it that self doubt mode) how quickly we can forget these steps. So, keep them close by.

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