Riffing On Realness™

The 4th Quarter Grind

Episode Summary

IMPORTANT UPDATE HAPPY HOLIDAYS! Jen and I wish for you to have a wonderful holiday season. Please take good care of yourself and get support if these are difficult days for you. We will be taking December off from podcasting but we’ll meet you right back here in January! The 4th quarter of the year can be a real push for entrepreneurs. It’s the time where there can be pressure to make the most of this year, but also the push to look ahead and be priming the pump for the coming year. It is easy to fall prey to the demands of busy holidays and family commitments alongside the responsibilities in our business. We often see people just crash into the end of the year from all the hustle and spend the beginning of the next needing recovery time instead of pursuing their goals. It can happen week to week and layer by layer and before you know it we are buried in busy and everything is a chore and it's hard to find the joy. In today’s episode, we explore this experience and share our own stories and tools for recovering if you are in it, and offer suggestions on how to avoid it altogether.

Episode Notes

Featured points to listen for and ponder:

• Why it is important to reflect on the year that was and plan for what is to come
• The fear associated with making changes in how we ‘have always done it’…and doing it anyway
• Why it is paramount to find ways to take good care of yourself
• The tension point between making changes and living the changes
• The toxicity of always trying to be ‘producing’ in your business
• The value of slowing our roll and creating balance and rest points.
• How leadership plays a role
• The practice of exploring our edges and learning from them and growing through them and passing it on
• Why experimenting is OK…practice makes better.  It’s not about perfection
• The myth of quarters….time and the stories we have created and why they aren’t real
• Why being aligned and in coherence with the Universe to BE-come our best selves starts with BE…then we can DO and Have
• Ways to be in your truth
• Looking at our stories and our perception of reality being skewed when we are the only one to dialogue with our own mind
• The value of looking at our internal landscape
• Tools for us to explore that internal landscape and BE-come the greatest version of ourselves
• What we can let go of to avoid the grind and stay in the joy while creating change