I feel so strongly that you need to love yourself to get anywhere in business and life that I’m going to mention a mini-retreat I’m co-hosting this Saturday, January 12th in Hopkinton from 9 am to 2 pm.
It’s called Eat, Pray, Love Yourself More! A twist on the best seller by Elizabeth Gilbert.
Eat, Pray, Love Yourself More! will provide opportunities to dig deeper into the nuances of your daily lives, to identify what creative and love-minded gifts you have to offer the world, and to highlight ways you might take more loving care of yourself.
Here is the link if you live in Greater Boston. Love Yourself More!
I’m convinced that a lot of the fear we experience in life comes from a lack of self-love, that we somehow think we don’t measure up to some strange standard someone put into our heads a long time ago. Why we’d want to take the genius each one of us possesses and crunch it into some generic sanitized lifeless version of us makes no sense to me. No wonder the economy can’t get its groove back.
Loving the unique you really comes to the fore when you open your own business. Self-doubt can creep in. Who am I to own a business? Who am I to charge money? Who am I to offer advice in a consulting role?
You’re just as good as anyone else. Each one of us brings a different perspective to the table. Take graphic design. Many designers out there, each with a different strength. Am I better? No, just different. I love branding and logo design. Others excel at web sites or illustrations.
Whatever your field, find and love your strength! Put it to work for you. Love will do that because it makes things blossom. The economy could use a more loving attitude. It’s mainly fear-based.
If any of you have survived a layoff, then you know the fear that starts rumbling through a company. On some level, I’m convinced its a mechanism to keep folks in line, to keep them jumping through fear hoops.
Both times I got laid off in my life, I found myself in a better place. It forced me to take a look at my strengths and what else I could do in life. I shutter to think where I’d be if I had never walked the job plank.
Understanding and loving my strengths helped me fear my own life less.
Anyway, I wish you to find the courage you need to love yourself. If you want to join us, please click on