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Part 2 of a four part series by Janet M. Harvey, PCC and Jan Berg, PCC of inviteCHANGE

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SUSTAIN A PROFITABLE BUSINESS:
Use Flow to Inform Your Ebb


PART TWO: Use Flow to Inform Your Ebb

Moment to moment and over time coaches partner with clients to discover and explore cycles, generate awareness through metaphors of what's reflected in nature, embrace breakdown as a precursor to breakthrough and facilitate access to capacity, acceptance and allowing. It's so easy to notice these cycles and resources in our clients' relationships, emotional lives and patterns of growth!

How do we apply the same noticing in our business building? What is our relationship with a flow tide and how can it support us during an ebb tide? What do we believe about flow and ebb tides that generates habits full of dread and struggle? What new belief generates ease and joy?

When we're in flow, we're connected to our essential self, our core, center and inner awareness, sometimes called our personal vision. Riding the flow tide wave is joyous, exciting and fills us with enthusiasm. From this perspective we see the world we are committed to create with an attitude of unlimited possibility, creativity and resourcefulness. We are whole and unstoppable.

What do we know when we're full and in the flow, that is available to us when we're more challenged? When we get quiet enough to listen what emerges? What are the stories we listen to and the meaning we create from them about ourselves, our business, our security, our well-being when the ebb tide recedes? How do we use this?

When business ebbs it's a call to be out in the world! What helps us to remember it's up to us? How do we embody the inspired experience we desire, the intention that aligns us with the dynamic tide? What enlivens us? What role does imagination play in manifesting what enlivens us? What feelings and sensations alert us that the chemistry with another person is oh- so-fine?

Envisioning our inspired experience is a moment-to-moment happening. The view into the world from our essential self helps us open, anticipate and recognize what we desire as we move about our lives. To be resilient in our capacity, we allow spaciousness in our choices and experiment with discovering the experience we desire in new environments.

What helps us embrace a different story that restores our sense of joy, excitement and enthusiasm regardless of the tide dynamic? What activates our clarity and alignment with personal vision in the face of old stories that threaten to swamp our surf board? How do we choose to break our old patterns of dread of struggle and choose instead to embody our natural rhythm?

Essence

Breathe essence alive daily!

Express essence in every moment awareness notices:
  1. Make opportunities for essence.
    1. Be essence; speak it, write it, sing it, chant it, dance it, draw it.
  2. Develop or strengthen the habit to LIVE from the inside of personal vision!
    1. Practice pausing to ask, is this choice aligned with our personal vision? Are we showing up from essence? Strengthen our pause muscle so that we listen more attentively to our personal vision.
    2. Strengthen habits in the same way we do muscles, with exercise and consistent activation. How do we build our habit for activating our essence muscle?
  3. Express, choose and act from our core, our center, our essence.
    1. From this place there's nothing to rehearse or remember.
    2. Now that's ease! . . . Be an early adopter!
And, the best benefit of all, we tap into an artesian well of joy, excitement and enthusiasm that is generative, in both flow and ebb tides simultaneously.

How do you sustain authentic relationships that are central to sustaining your business in the ebb and flow tides of life?

Janet M. Harvey, PCC & Jan Berg, PCC are Partners and Senior Faculty for inviteCHANGE, www.invitechange.com a company created for those in search of meaningful processes that help catalyze learning and integrate a process for lasting change in one's personal and professional life. Janet embraces transformative coaching as a discovery process that ignites and empowers clients to choose beliefs and behaviors that generate a magnificent life experience aligned with one's core being. Jan is an advocate for human potential, tirelessly committing herself to the personal growth of others, masterful at helping her clients navigate through the tidal waves of transition with compassion, insightfulness and graceful confidence.

contact: Janet.harvey@invitechange.com jan.berg@invitechange.com

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