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Breaking Into the Business of Your Life
I’m pretty comfortable responding to questions about yoga, health, lifestyle, food, etc., but lately I’ve been getting a lot of questions about career shifting.
With careers in wellness on the rise (how cool!), and the universal shift in moving away from working jobs to pay the bills and finding jobs to feed inspiration, creativity, and personal growth, there is a ton to navigate and I’m super grateful to share the little nuggets that I’ve learned along the way and staying open to learning and growing much more.
Don’t worry, I’m not going to get all preachy on you — I just thought I’d share some pretty cool stuff that has worked for me (so far…I’m just getting started).
Here are some tips that I would have found interesting when I was first starting out my path:
1. Follow Your Interests
There are some things you can plan, set goals, and hope and dream for. Those things you have no control over if and when they will ever happen. But following your interests keeps you honest about what you are doing and energetically opens doors that you are meant to walk through. Save yourself the time and the frustration of pushing an idea or situation that isn’t in your flow and keep following what truly interests you.
2. Be You, But Soak Up Inspiration
It’s become trendy to say “just be yourself.” Well, there is a pretty big problem with that one-size-fits-all nugget: Yes, you are great, but you have some work to do to refine, cultivate, expand, grow, and build yourself. Look to those you admire. Look up. Look way up. Surround yourself with people you admire. Read autobiographies of people you admire. Watch documentary films of subjects you are interested in. Don’t look down. Lessen your interactions with people who focus on negative behaviors. You are those who you surround yourself with.
3. Be Patient
Don’t quit your job to start that super-great blog idea you’ve been cookin’ up. Keep your job, do your blog, or whatever it is, and see where it takes you. If you do the work, things will happen. You can’t control the speed, and it’s more interesting to be okay with the speed at which things unfold according to the degree of what you are offering. Everything is as it should be, but, of course, you have to do the work.
4. Leave Space for Your Mind to Change
Once you have your idea, and even your plan, loosen up around the edges. If you are so focused you will miss out on the peripheral, which could shift you in an entirely new and exciting direction, or point you toward a perfect opportunity. Stay open for change; it comes in all shapes, sizes, and packages.
5. Work Hard
Everyone gives this one, but the way to know if you are really passionate about something is how hard you are working. The “how” isn’t to simply work hard, but to do what you are interested in so you are working hard without trying to work hard. If you don’t feel like working hard, you aren’t doing what you love. You might be trying to love something that you like, or trying to emulate someone else. All of that is fine, but it’s important to observe without judgment so you can evaluate your circumstance and move forward accordingly.
How are you “breaking into the business of your life” — doing what you love?
—Tara Stiles, Yoga & Wellness Expert
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