Signal 🦩 LEAVE ME ALONE to work On your Business!
Today, we are learning from 🦩 FLAMINGOS 🦩
In the most polite way, we often need to be asked for space or just some downtime, because our soul is craving to be fulfilled by rest.
In honor of one of my favorite topics is sharing tips about sustainability in our businesses, let's discuss how these brilliant birds often lose their vibrancy.
Flamingos get their “pink” vibrancy from their food. And, while feeding others with their resources, such as when they become new parents and provide for their chicks, they can lose this pigment due to their nutrients depleting.
Parent flamingos often lose their pink because of the amount of intensity & and care that go into raising their chicks. The loss of vibrancy of their pink color signal to others, “I’m a bit exhausted- please leave me alone for a while,” and it’s a lesson we can take away to share with others.
Sometimes, we need to tell others to leave us alone- we are tending to other things at the moment.
Setting boundaries is a fantastic means of self-care. It doesn’t mean you don’t love everyone- it simply means that your energy is currently spent taking care of something that is a priority to you, oftentimes, for survival.
Could you imagine if just for 30 days, or some period of time, you could let your business “not be bothered” by anything new or taxing in order to do these three things:
Rest. Simply recoup the energy from constantly being in producing / production and DOING
Re-Organize. Getting a bit more focused on the big picture as you venture into a brand new year often means de-cluttering, moving things around, and taking time to simply be alone to sort out things.
Re-Inspire yourself & and your business. Getting new perspectives by taking this time to renew your energy & and resources helps you to think clearer, and create more uniquely.
Self-care and being able to sustain your business oftentimes means telling others, “Phew, I need a little bit of a break, please give me some space to figure this out.”
After becoming a parent of 2 this summer, MORE for me meant more flexibility, not necessarily more hours or more dollars. I needed to be smarter with the time I spent doing things for my business, but this still takes a LOT out of a person to try to navigate anything MORE.
So, my resources often get spent in other places and my “chicks” need me a lot for their own survival.
What does this look like for you? What areas of your life have full hue, and what other areas are desaturated?
Nature never lets us down by providing countless lessons that we can relate to our businesses. After all, for millions of years, species have found a way to survive and thrive through all of the changing conditions.
From signals and songs, to quite literally changing one's appearance, we, as humans, can definitely take these examples as ways to survive and thrive into new seasons of life.
This is what November's CEO Days is all about!
I can help you through this each month with a way to reflect, grow, and be intentional about the actions you want to take to become more aligned and do this every 30 days at a time at CEO Days.
This upcoming month’s theme, “Sustainable Self-Care,” you will be creating the space for dormancy and taking care of the things you need to for the best version of you!
Hope to see you there!