'Practice presence -- embrace the place where life happens.'
Eckhart Tolle
After spending the best part of 6 weeks recovering from a bad bout of illness and asthma, I am now almost fully recovered with plenty of time out from being online and working hard on my business. One of the lessons I have learned and have reflected on during the latter part of this year is the message that’s been on my mind and in my heart for months now - Karen you need to KEEP IT SIMPLE.
I had heard the message, received it and passed it onto my connections but not acted fully on it myself! Isn’t it always the way in our businesses? It’s so easy to get caught up in trying to do everything at once and it’s one of the major reasons small businesses fail in the first five years.
If you’re always doing doing doing with no pausing for presence, you’re on the road to destruction, and that’s not the reason why you started your business. Keeping it simple means, connecting back with your heart, working from within and focussing on gratitude and the love for your work (why you started in the first place!).
I have realised deeply that don’t want to just keep my head above water, but actually soar in my life and work and that’s going to take commitment to keeping things simple not just in my business but in my whole life, my bigger picture.
So what does keeping things simple actually mean when it comes to your life and work and why does it matter?
It opens up space for ideas and inspired action to come through
It allows you to conserve and share your beautiful energy with the world
Keeping things simple brings that focus you need to be really amazing at what you do.
It helps you to communicate better with your connections, clients and collaborators about your vision and the value you can bring to the world.
So how can you do that and why start now at Christmas when everyone else is throwing caution to the wind and drowning their sorrows that second bottle of wine?
Keeping things simple this Christmas can mean putting the POWER back into your life and work ready to the New Year by:
Reflecting with pure honest gratitude for what has already passed and for what you have in this present moment.
Using your intuition, the present moment and your heart space to actively create your daily experience over the holidays.
Having some fun and laughter - let go! You’ll be amazed at how this opens up your energy!
Doing simple things that bring you joy - I’ve been enjoying being fully present by doing some baking, swimming, drawing and of course walking my Harry bear!
Setting a powerful and emotionally connected intention and theme for 2019
Practicing presence can have an incredible transformational effect on you and your work. It brings you back to a place where you can fully work from your uniqueness and help you stand out from the crowd!
If you’d like to get into the art of simple presence, practice these skills and begin your New Year working with intention and inspired action, so you can focus and be in your own flow, I’m sharing my best tips and exercises on how you can strip it right back and keep it simple this Christmas in my Radiant Leaders group for connected, heart centered women leaders. Join us here.
Let me know how you’re getting back to basics this season!
