Emotions & Your Business: How To Cultivate True Success

What if I told you that your emotional awareness directly impacts the health of your business?

Don’t believe me? Let’s try an example. 

You're starting your day and you feel a little anxious, but you’ve got places to be and things to do so you push on. You rush through your day feeling off, and you find that you’re short with nearly everyone you encounter. Because you feel off, you’re stumbling, literally, through your tasks, making things unnecessarily harder for yourself. When your day is done, you would classify it as a horrible day, and you still haven’t figured out what bothered you in the morning. 

This happens to all of us occasionally, but what if this has become your new normal? 

Now imagine this:

You’re starting your day and you feel a little anxious. You want to show up in the world as someone who is calm and balanced, so you take a pause to assess what’s going on in your mind. You do a short self-inventory, it takes you maybe less than 5 minutes, but you’re able to pinpoint that you’re really just anxious about a pitch you’re giving later in the afternoon.

With this knowledge in hand, you adjust your thoughts to affirm yourself of your abilities and your talents. You take conscious efforts to calm your breathing and you hold grace and tension hand in hand, knowing that you can only control your response to what’s happening around you. 

With this new mindset, you navigate your day totally differently. You’re aware of why you responded that way in the morning, and you were able to pinpoint it right away. Because you took the time to familiarize yourself with your body’s response to anxiety, the outcome of your whole day shifted. 

This is what I mean when I say your emotional awareness directly impacts the health of your business. 

Our inner monologue and the way we respond to things trickles into every aspect of our lives. Whether you own your own business or not, the same is true. It can be seen in the way we interact with our partners, our kids, our pets, or even strangers at the grocery store. 

When we can give ourselves the chance to pause and reflect, when we can freely give ourselves grace, we’re able to extend that same kindness to others. 

It’s said that the way we treat ourselves sets the tone for how others can treat us, but it’s deeper than that. The way we treat ourselves sets the tone for how our life plays out. 

We can choose to be optimistic and live with a growth mindset just as easily as we can settle into what may be our default setting of a scarcity mindset. 

It takes being conscious of what our body is trying to communicate to us and then choosing to respond. 

When you begin to tune in, it radiates out  to everything we do. 

The next time you wake up with a funk, try pausing for the first five minutes of your day. It could rechart your course before you even step out of bed.