Posts by Meilena Hauslendale
Is your small business getting BIG?
Starting a small business can be quite a challenge. You take your initial idea and draft out your products or services and you bring your ideas to life. You input time, energy, and initial startup investments. You also find that in order to cut down on your overhead costs, you take control and have to wear many different hats in your business.
Not only are you the creator, but you are marketer, the customer service representative and support technician. Being a small business owner is a full-time job and can be a challenge due prioritizing your energy to meet the demands of your company. However, one person can do it all in the initial phases of focus, but what happens when you grow beyond that point?
Can you run your company and continue to survive on that “do-it all” mentality?
The saying “No man is an island” holds true when it comes to expanding your business and achieving growth. If you want to go forward and your demand is increasing for your product there is going to come a time when you need to expand and entrust others willing to help you succeed.
You can still be the person in charge of approvals and of making the over-all decisions, you just don’t have to spend time doing all of the needed footwork. You can measure your success through your team’s outcome and actually accomplish more in minimal time. Your business can grow forward more efficiently and become renewed with additional team inputs and ideas for expansions.
Freeing up your time and managing tasks more efficiently will allow you to go back to creating and focusing on further product development. It’s ok to continue coming up with ideas for expansion just work with your team and rely on them to help with executing the research and implementation. Your team is a reinvestment back into your product. With the right people your business can take on more sales and growth.
Relationships: Self-Renovation
Life altering changes in early stages of our lives can stay with us and have impact on our choices and decisions. After all our experiences are what makes us the people that we are today. We might have empathy for someone suffering abuse, being overweight, quitting an addiction, or overcoming an unhealthy relationship or family because of our own personal associations. Some of our life experiences were tragic or demeaning to our character and had impact on our view of ourselves.
Removing ourselves from the situation is always the first step, however it is not a permanent solution. Wherever we go we are sure to take ourselves with us and this means taking our history along with us too. Any weight or burden we feel does not just go away by removing ourselves from that which affected us.
How does your past set the stage of your future?
Do you have any unresolved business that you need to tend to? Do you have unresolved issues that you are continuing to avoid because you are afraid of the emotion associated with them? Taking a moral inventory of yourself is an honest step towards self-awareness. Think of it this way, we don’t heal up a wound on our arm by placing a band-aid on our knee. We have to know where it hurts at so we can clean ourselves off and begin the healing process.
Knowing who we are helps us understand the relationships we have with ourselves and with others. The foundation we establish with ourselves sets the stage for the types of relationships we seek out. So if we don’t address issues now, they will only dare to resurface later on. Chances are they will resurface at a time that we may not feel is appropriate.
How to stop replaying the old tapes?
Once we figure out who we are and where we came from, we have to correct some of the old correlations between unhealthy relationships and healthy ones. We have to address our own involvements and assess our roles in our relationships. We also need to look at what responsibilities we own and what responsibilities do not belong to us. Leaving your past behind you is one thing and taking along guilt that doesn’t belong to you is another. So it’s time to put away the boxing gloves and stop beating ourselves up.
We don’t have to replay the old scenarios that haunted us. We don’t have to live under old expectations that were never valid to begin with. We can move on. We can create a better space for ourselves and become the people we always wanted to be.
How to Be Spiritual in a Physical World: Inner Wisdom
The heart and soul can expose so much daily. We are receiving constant communication from our spiritual guides and are always being presented with life lessons that will help us acquire or aid our future path. Every lesson leads us to a greater plane of awareness and provides us with a better understanding of the purpose of our existence.
This inner guidance is no different than you showing up for “work” or for “school” as you need to take time to make the connection point with you and your guides. If you feel as though you are not connected, then you need to figure out what your obstruction is and then focus on how to remove the obstacles.
What stands in your way of achieving a higher level of communication with your guides?
We can alter our paths and we can alter our bodies. Our spirit and our physical body is deeply interconnected. What we perform or subject our body to the spirit feels the consequence. When we lack something our body needs, the spirit grieves or suffers. It is important that we digest the value of awareness. We are not just one dimensional individuals where we live and think on the physical planes of life alone. Instead we are of multi-dimensions and we are interacting with our guides that are here to help us achieve our life mission.
Numbing out our own path’s desires puts a spiritual burden on our bodies. We can feel as though we are “off” and not ourselves. We start running into obstacles. We start going against the current that we were intended to travel. Taking the time to listen to what your body is telling you is the first step to connecting the void. Listen to the wind. What messages do you hear? Taking the right direction can be the difference between success and downfalls.
How do we evolve ourselves?
Our physical world changes constantly. Our spiritual evolution is no different. What worked for one years ago may or may not be the path that was intended to be maintained. We have to pay attention to the changes in ourselves and see not just where we may feel comfortable as this state of being can lead us down to a complacent lifestyle. We need to ask where do we want to be versus where we are.
Surround yourself with positive examples and positive minded individuals. If you find yourself surrounded by other individuals in avoidance, you will begin to think this is acceptable and can steer from your own path. Know that there are no mistakes. Sometimes what we think is a mistake was actually a spiritual occurrence or a means of redirection.
How to Maintain Momentum in a Startup Business
Ok you have your product and you’re making sales, now what?
Just creating your product alone can be laborious and take a great deal of energy, but creating your product only accounts for 20% of your success as a startup business. The other 80% you can account for marketing and informative decisions to further the growth and longevity of your company.
Customers are talking, are you listening?
When a customer provides feedback on your products or developments make sure you are taking this serious. Not everyone likes a complainer, however be grateful that the customer cared enough about your product to want to help you strive and make improvements. This is time and effort donated for your benefit.
Evolve your product to meet your customer’s needs. Opinions do count and have relevance especially if you begin to see patterns in the feedback that you are receiving. Use customer feedback as a catalyst for new products, ideas, and developments.
Creating a business or creating a habit?
Do you want a one time sale? Or do you want return customers? When you design your product you also want to think about the staging of the customer experience. Can they count on you for answers? Have you established trust and credibility? Does your product meet their needs so that they will continue to use your services or products?
Establish a habit for your customers and be consistent so they know what they can expect from you and your products.
Are you maintaining your goals and vision?
It’s easy to get side tracked and to lose focus on the vision that created your product. If you feel you are off the beaten path that started your success, then take a moment to refocus. Remember that sometimes the most complex situations can have simple solutions. Once you have reestablished your vision communicate this to your team so that everyone is on the same page and headed in a direction that benefits the business as a whole.
Remember momentum isn’t always about how quickly we get from Point A to Point B, instead it is about a steady movement going forward.
Don’t Fight the Waves… Ride them
Life is about changes and the catalysts that lead up to those changes. One moment we are needed in one area only to find soon later another shift to present itself. We can deal with changes in two ways. We can either fight the waves or we can ride them.
If we fight the waves, we are trying to control something we essentially have no control over. We eventually have to succumb to the laws of motion and go towards the change. Fighting the waves and fluctuations in life only lead us to spiritual and mental exhaustion. Our energy can be used more efficiently for better purposes and be used to shape our own mental clarity versus destroying it.
Keep in mind that no knowledge or experience goes to waste. It only prepares us for the next journey, the next lesson. When we accept change and are willing to ride the waves, we allow the Universe to place us where we belong. We accept our own evolution to go forward.