Persistently and at Scale
How is your well being accounted for in your business?
I broke my foot back in January and after surgery and 12 weeks of non-weight bearing I’ve been learning to walk again. It’s amazing how much you have to figure out how to do it correctly after your muscles have basically had the first quarter of the year off! It’s honestly more difficult than the beginning of the injury. Then everything hurt and you really wanted to just sit still because that was where relief lived. But now it is spring! The gardens want attention. I want to be outside! I want to be able to do all the things I am used to doing. And I have to tell you I’m not the best at learning to accept limitation.
Most of my whole lovely life story has been about me not accepting it when people told me how unlikely what I wanted was. More times than I can count other people put their idea of the best it could be on me and I said ‘nope’ and went off on my next adventure anyway. In my industry I became renowned for my persistence and scale of what I could handle.
But these last few years have been really different or maybe its just the anyway that looks different. Once I took myself away to Scotland for three years, embraced the quite feral version of Susie, and then decided to come back home to Canada to be with my family for the first time in 20+ years, I came back more of a maker and a tender of things than a fighter. I mean poke the lion at your peril, but it’s not my front foot anymore.
I think the lesson of my injury this year has been to reinforce how much the tending of my health and well-being is a critical component of my success. I know this for my clients and am advocating for that care of self inside our time together constantly. And this winter and spring has brought that home to me to live that myself. Persistently and at scale!
I know it’s hard to do it.
I know it’s difficult to put your own well being first.
I know we’ve been conditioned that we can get to looking after ourselves someday.
But if we are actually going to help each other, build businesses that care for others and ourselves, we’ve got to start with making sure we build our own health and wellbeing into our time too. Persistently and at scale!
As a brilliant friend said to me last week—we are building abundance to support our physical selves, not the other way around.
So take this as a reminder to care for yourself first this week even if it’s just a little more than you did last week.
Susie
PS. I can be the one who reminds and inspires you to keep your wellbeing as part of your business development goals. Check out Resiliency Club or shoot me a message so we can discuss what might be right for you. If you want some quick help learning how to figure out what you want and take action check out my short audio course How to Give Yourself Permission.