You're not "behind" 🙏🏼🧡

Most of us feel behind. Behind in numbers of followers... or income... or simply clarity about our business strategy and what we should be doing on a typical Tuesday afternoon when you're staring at your to-do list and nothing feels like the right priority. If that resonates, you're not alone. It's a common feeling among soulpreneurs! But let's reframe this—because feeling behind isn't helpful. It keeps us stuck in comparison and self-judgment, which drains the very energy we need to move forward. The reframe: You're right where you need to be. I know that might sound like a platitude, but I mean it practically. Wherever you are in your business journey, that's your starting point. And a clear starting point is exactly what you need to move forward with focus instead of overwhelm. The problem isn't that you're behind. The problem is that most business advice doesn't account for where you actually are. It throws strategies at you without helping you understand which ones fit your current situation. That's what we're going to fix. What's next: In the next lesson, I'll introduce the 5 Levels of Soulpreneur Business Development—a simple map that shows you the full landscape of building an authentic business. Once you can see the map and locate yourself on it, everything changes. You stop trying to do everything at once. You stop borrowing strategies meant for someone three levels ahead of you. And you finally know what to focus on—and what to let go of—right now.  Let's take a look at that map...  Feel free to comment below: Have you been feeling "behind"? What does that look like for you—comparison to a specific person? Pressure about a particular metric? Sometimes just naming it loosens its grip. 🙏🏼🧡

Notice and help name each others' energy signatures...

The most valuable part of this course is the natural filtering process that gathered us here: we each resonated with the energy of this course, then cared enough about working on becoming keen observers and expressers of energy signature, to be here! Let's utilize this precious opportunity 💛 Step 1 -- Find a piece of content that you believe strongly reflects your energy signature. It could be a video, piece of writing, an image you created, a podcast episode, a webpage, or a social media post. Step 2 -- Add a comment below and give us the link to that piece of content. (First make sure it is publicly accessible, so we can see/experience it.) Don't tell us what part of your energy signature it expresses. Let us discover it for ourselves. If you don't yet have a piece to share with us, just go to Step 3 for now and reply to others' pieces. In the (near) future come back when you have a piece to share with us and take the above steps. Step 3 -- Reply to 2 other people's comments, especially if they haven't received any replies yet, to let them know: What aspect of their energy signature is very apparent for you... try to name something that other repliers haven't yet named... ...and also, what potential do you see with their energy signature that you'd love to see them strengthen? Enjoy this exercise! Besides the comments below (scroll down), also check out the live chats from zoom for this segment here. (If you don't see any comments below, it means you're not logged into the course, or perhaps not enrolled. If you haven't enrolled, you can do so here.)

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Principles of Authentic Business

The products/services are deeply meaningful to you, whether you are creating your own, or selling others’ products. How you do marketing feels like a genuine exploration of your potential as well as an act of service towards your audience. For example you create content for mental fitness and as a ministry to your audience. Read more. Your business is consistently meeting reasonable financial goals (rather than hype and fantasy). A “lower” near-term financial target doesn’t mean you’ll attract less – consistently surpass your goals and you’ll increase self-efficacy. Rather than hustle and stress, you operate your business from a joyfully productive mode of working. Read more. If you cannot read the comments below nor add yours, make sure you're logged into this course (see the upper right) or enroll in the course here.

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