A gentle manifesto for a simple, steady, & delightful business
Number 4: You don’t have to chase anyone else’s version of success
Before I dive in: Today is the last day to join us inside my group program, Your Simple & Spacious Business, if you’d love to never do business alone again and feel deeply supported to bring more ease, joy, and intentional growth into your work and life. I’d be so honoured to welcome you inside 💫
These are ten guideposts that resonate with me, feel free just to choose the ones that resonate for you too:
1: You’re allowed to want to live more than you work
To spend more of your life minutes resting, working on your creative projects, spending time with your loved ones, reading books that you love, going on adventures big and small.
It’s okay if you want your business to not be the most interesting thing about you, but instead just a delighful, joyful, and sustainable way that you do beautiful work in the world and sustain your life financially too.
2: You’re allowed to want to shape your business around your life and not the other way around
It’s okay to want to make decisions in your business that serve your needs as much as you’re devoted to doing your very best work for your clients and customers too, to be a human being first and a business owner second.
My free deep dive kit is also here to support you to explore what a business that orbits your life looks like for you.
3: You’re allowed to want to prioritise calm, ease, and spaciousness each day
To start your day with a gentle and nourishing morning routine, to go for a walk in the middle of the day, to be able to sign off every afternoon in time to pick your kids up from school with ease, to have space to work on your novel or creative projects throughout the week, to go to that midday yoga class that you love.
I’m not saying that every day will be perfect, that you’ll never navigate stress and roadblocks in your work again, but you’re allowed to want to prioritise as much calm, ease, and spaciousness as you can create for yourself in your working life.
4: You don’t have to chase anyone else’s version of success
Your version of success doesn’t have to look impressive to anyone else: your goals get to be as big or as small as whatever feels delightful and nourishing to you. You don’t always have to be growing and pursuing more, more, more if you already feel satisfied and fulfilled by what you’ve already built - because isn’t that the whole point of having a vision to be working towards? To actually enjoy it once we make it our reality?
5: You don’t have to prove your worthiness with big exciting milestones in your business
You don’t need 10K months, fancy book deals, bylines, or collaborations if that’s not what lights you up in your work. Success is an inside job, a milestone that can only truly be experienced when we define it for ourselves.
6: You’re allowed to define what enough money means to you
And you don’t have to compare it to anyone else’s enough number. A business that makes 30K a year is just as meaningful as a business that makes 150K a year - what matters most is defining our financial goals for ourselves and shaping our business in a way that makes our enough number possible in a way that feels aligned and sustainable to us too.
7: You’re allowed to have slower seasons, setbacks, and projects not turn out as you hoped that they would
There will always be highs and lows in our entrepreneurial journey, setbacks and slower seasons aren’t a sign that all hope is lost and that our failure is inevitable. Our ability to hold steady in the face of the lows is what matters most, how we hold ourselves through it and recover and recalibrate on the other side.
8: You’re allowed to want to pivot, evolve, and try something new whenever it feels aligned for you
You don’t have to stay stuck in any one version or decision in your business. You’re allowed to want to evolve whenever you feel inspired to do so, to try something new, to let go of what’s no longer working, to gently grow into the next chapter of your work.
9: You’re allowed to not have all of the answers and figure it out as you go
Spoiler alert: no one has all of the answers, every single one of us is just figuring it out as we go. We can have a clarity of vision, a deep alignment with our desires and goals, and an intentional plan for how we’re going to move forward in our work, but everything after that is just one big experiment and learning as we go.
10: You’re allowed to want what you want and to boldly (and gently) move in the direction of making it your reality
You get to define what a simple, steady, and delightful business looks and feels like for you. You’re allowed to want what you want, however big or small that may feel in comparison to what you see others choose for themselves in their work.
If you want to always take Friday’s off to work on your novel or go for a hike? You’re allowed to want that.
If you want to double your income without having to double your working hours so that you can save to buy a home, support your partner to quit a day job they hate, or save for the retirement you want to make possible for yourself? You’re allowed to want that too.
And if you want to be able to radically evolve your business model so that you can stop doing work that no longer lights you up and move towards more ease and fulfilment in your work? You’re allowed to want that too.
Here’s my question for you today: what would a simple, steady, and delightful business look like for you? Let your definition ground and guide you every step of the way in your work.
And if you want to:
✨ Find more joy, ease, and freedom in your work and life each day
✨ Build a more stable and sustainable business that truly works best for you
✨ Reach your financial and lifestyle goals in your business without burning out
I would be so honoured to welcome you inside Your Simple & Spacious Business before doors close for this enrolment today.
Here’s what another awesome human inside says about the magic of this program:
Here’s to finding more joy, delight, and simplicity in our work and our lives.
Until next time,
Jen
Really helpful reminders, as usual. Thank you Jen! I am curious, but are you a manifestor in human design?