Mindfulness + Mindlessness in Business
Many of my courses and what I’ve done over the years for companies comes from streamlining, thinking through, and making complicated, many-step projects easier and in many ways, more mindless.
If you are mindful first, it is so easy to make so many tasks “mindless.”
Like navigating to a new destination: first, it quite useful to use directions and guided assistant to arrive efficiently.
The first few times you drive to your new destination, you will likely still need some guidance, and the repetition of navigating the path will be helpful.
Eventually, repeating the directions again and again with familiarity with allow you the ease of getting where you want to go with a potentially carefree nature: maybe even smiling, appreciating a blue sky or sunshine, listening to good music, allowing your thoughts to drift, your mind to relax while you navigate intuitively with ease.
You get where you need to go and learn to love the rides you take to get there.
So when I say that I love to help my clients and students take what is complicated and make it “mindless”, I really am encouraging patience, self-mastery, and mindfulness.
These are key attributes also in thoroughly executing brand, image, and marketing efforts as an entrepreneur or small business owner.
If you can understand the many processes leading to a universal goal, you can take what can be ultra mundane, boring, or frustrating steps and transform them from “bad” to “just being” what they are.
Facing the music and learning to dance to it, or at least: enjoy it for what it is, knowing this and all challenges shall pass.
(I love the meme: Even if it passes like a kidney stone, this too, shall pass.)
To me, enjoying many hours of mundane “doing”—checking off to-do boxes and completing many boring-ass tasks) is what it means to be in a flow state.
I can listen to music, get lost in the rhythm as I tune into my breath and create.
If you look at my Playlists Blog or Inspiration Blog or A Blog About Books—these have been massive projects that I have created in these states.
How can your many posts, blogs, essays, photos, and ideas feed each other?
If not essential, this is a key element of working smarter and utilizing all the potential of all the work you have already done!
So many of us are so close to realizing our solutions.
We may have intricately different goals and preferences, but our solutions often lie so close, often out in the open.
Opening our eyes and making sense of what was formerly complicated is a journey of dedication like many others: knowing something unfamiliar may be awkward, uncomfortable, embarrassing, a swift kick to the ego, hilarious/demoralizing—trying anything new requires the patience to trust the process and keep trying.
Your willingness to keep coming back is the admirable part.
And step by step we get there.
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