What does achievement mean to you? Yesterday, I had the stunning and quite shocking realization that the only time I recognize my achievements is when I totally wrap up a project and feel that ‘oh so satisfying’ sense of completion! This insight came to me when I looked back on the day and thought out loud ‘didn’t get far today.’ Fortunately my beautiful wise mother overheard me and asked me to reconsider. This is what I found… In the course of the day I had:
- recorded and edited a podcast I’d been putting off for months
- unraveled the mystery of how to connect my podcast channel with my website and iTunes
- found the perfect lawyer for a matter that needs attention
- reinvented and expanded the business model for BlissTribe
- came up with at least three new bliss mentoring tools
- refreshed the BlissTribe branding on the website and Facebook page
- created a nuts and bolts launch plan for BlissEssence
- connected with a number of business mentoring clients and rearranged next week’s schedule
- had a mini-meltdown over a personal issue and came through potently choosing to create massive change
- helped my mother with some techie stuff and did a few home happiness tasks
- gifted a friend some healing
- gave a few peeps on Facebook a bit of a laughter love-up
- connected some people who need to collaborate
- and most thrilling of all… amongst all of this chaos, the name for my book landed clearly in my awareness…
So it wasn’t much of a day really. Do you think I ‘should’ try to do better today? Sometimes I really wonder about how insane us over-achievers are!! Does this all sound a little too familiar? Here’s what you need to understand: None of these things were on a ‘to-do’ list. The reason so much was created so easily was that I was in that divine space of creative flow. All I did was ask ‘What’s next?’ and give my full and present attention to the next thing that popped out at me. It is really healthy to recognize and appreciate all of our daily contributions, not just the ones that are finished. When we recognize only what is complete, there is no energy being created to generate powerful new possibilities! Throughout the day I kept asking: ‘And what else is possible here?’ which kept the creative energy flows running hot! We are trained to value completion above everything, but what if the true joy is in the journey? What if achieving business bliss is found in being and doing that which gives us the greatest ease and the greatest pleasure?
