Your Business Seasons (Beyond the Calendar) {B'Day Fun D10 Ep 217}

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Hi everyone and welcome to this episode of Tuesday Talks where I'm talking about your business

seasons. Beyond the calendar. Yes, we're not talking about calendar seasons. Before we get

started, please like, share, comment and subscribe to my channel. I really appreciate it because it

helps to get the message out there to a wider audience. It means a lot. Now, we're taught to run

our business by the calendar. You've probably heard all of this. We got quarter one, quarter two,

we've got a launch in September or launching whenever we feel like it but slow down in December

or maybe slow down in the winter depending on where we are in the world. I had to take a breath

there. Remember, that's what we're taught. Even calendar seasons doesn't mean the same thing

everywhere. As I said, when it's summer in Australia, the rest of the world is in winter.

So why would your internal rhythm follow someone else's timeline?

There are seasons inside of you, inside of your business, expansion, visibility,

creation, retreat. And they don't always match the months that's on the wall or on your

fight or whatever, whatever month you're in, they may not actually match. And this is extremely

important to understand. Today, I'm going to talk about working with your personal rhythm instead

of fighting it because when you ignore your internal season, oh, excuse me, internal season,

business can start to feel forced and I needed to learn this myself because when I started,

I went by the 12 month calendar the year and I'm like, why are things not going so well for me?

Like at the moment I'm studying, which means my business, not all of it like the podcast is

still getting out there and there's still a few posts going out, but I've scaled that right back.

It has scaled right back because this feels right for me. I'm listening to my internal voice.

And you have internal seasons. Your energy is cycles, not linear. Some months feel like a

bright Australian summer, and yes, I'm an Australia, outward, expensive or even bold. Others feel

like a quiet winter, reflective, slower, focused inward. Both of these are really productive, just

different. Just have a think about that. Creativity, visibility, strategy and restoration don't

peak at the same time. Expecting yourself to perform at some level year round creates fiction.

Creates fiction, creates friction. Oh, I love it when words don't come out right. Ignoring your

internal rhythm leads to self-criticism. And have I done this? I still occasionally do it.

I'm honest. I'm not perfect. I mean, I'm perfect in every moment. I still have things happen

like this. You might label yourself as inconsistent when you're actually seasonal. And these seasons,

it's not a weakness. It's a design. Seeing as though most entrepreneurs only recognize one type of

season, the visible one. You've got to be there all the time. You've got to be posting 20

times a day. You've got to be doing this. You've got to be doing that. Blah blah blah. What if you

listen to yourself? So let's just have a look at two seasons. How do you recognize your personal

summer? This is when you feel extremely orientated. You're clear. You're bold. You're ready to be seen.

Launching, pitching, selling and leading feels energising instead of draining. Decisions feel

quicker. Visibility feels expansive rather than exposing. And there's momentum with our force.

This is the time to initiate, scale, collaborate and take strategic risks because your system has

capacity. Summer isn't about the temperature outside. It's about internal expansion. And just like

in Australia or wherever you are in the world, summer doesn't last forever and it isn't supposed to.

Now let's look at winter. Winter is not failure. It's consolidation. You may feel less visible,

more reflective, more administrative. This doesn't mean that you're regressing. This is where the

systems get refined. Finances get organised. Others get tightened and strategy becomes clear.

Creativity often goes underground here sometimes, not always. You know, like I'm just saying what

could happen. It looks quieter but it's integrating and strengthening beneath the surface.

Now sometimes my winter is stronger when I'm resting because I'm listening to the voices,

I'm allowing them to have them say and then suddenly things will come through. It doesn't mean

that I'm actually going to take action on it right now. The action I take is right things down

or I might draw or something. And then when it's when I start feeling more energized,

then that's when I can take action. And winter protects longevity. It restores instead of depletes.

Now the problem isn't having seasons. It's resisting the one you're in because the market says

you should be in summer. Now I just talked about two because of course you know there's spring and

autumn or fall I think they call it summer else. You can have a look into them. I didn't want this

podcast to go on forever. What is the cost of forcing the wrong season? Launching during personal

winter often feels heavy or reactive. You might have been told okay you know you've got this

six weeks to launch and then we're going to do this and okay it doesn't matter if it's winter

you've got to do it. You've got to do it. You've got to do it. Well guess what? Listen to your

own intuition. And you push because you think you're behind or your coach says you've got to do it

not because you're ready. Retreating during a personal summer creates frustration. Energy that

wants to move gets suppressed. And when you override your rhythm repeatedly exhaustion follows

not because you're incapable that's definitely not true at all. It's because you'll misalign

with your current capacity. You'll misalign with what is happening internally.

Structure matters. But structure without circle awareness becomes a strain.

How do we work with rhythm without becoming inconsistent? You might be asking. I heard you.

Let's have a look at leading your business through this beautiful rhythm. Track your energy patterns

over months, not days. Make sure you do track it during the day like I quite a few years ago.

Now, which is why I love talking about this, is I for a whole week tracked my energy every hour.

What had I eaten? What was I doing? What was I feeling?

Law is my business feeling. Did my energy feel extremely high? But at the same time I wasn't

just feeling it mentally or energetically. Like there can be people think that when your energy

is really high and of course everything else is really high. That doesn't always mean it can

be like that. It doesn't mean that. There are times where my energy was really high. But because

my thoughts and everything were running away with me, there was this energy and I'm like, but I know

I've got an energy but I don't want to really do anything. So that happens. People don't think it

does, but it does. So notice when you naturally crave visibility versus when you crave refinement

and you're going to then discover your own energy, your own seasons and everything.

And plan your big moves around your internal summer where possible, not just around that calendar

because this is you and this is your business. You're going to get coaches as I said that will

tell you what to do. Listen to yourself. Your intuition is so important and I've just done an

episode about listening to your intuition. So I'll make sure I link that in the links.

And I want you to normalise both states. Your quiet seasons are not a problem to fix.

They are part of the operating system whether you're a Windows or Apple doesn't matter.

There's so many debates around those two, isn't it? Now working with rhythm doesn't mean abandoning

discipline. It means aligning discipline with capacity. And yes, we do need discipline in business.

That's part of it. No matter. And I'm going to upset people here. I don't care. No matter what you

label yourself as and it is a label, discipline is still needed. If you want to run a business that

is profitable, you need structure. You need discipline. Now my discipline is different every day.

My structure is different every day. So every single day things look differently because I have

found what my energy is, what my seasons are. And that's why your business does not need to look

the same in every month of the year. There's going to be seasons where you're visible, magnetic

and expansive, like a bright Australian summer. And we do have a great summer here.

And there will be seasons where you're refining, restoring and building quietly like winter.

Neither is more productive. They serve different purposes. And when you stop fighting the

internal timing, you stop interpreting every dip as a failure. You begin to trust your rhythm.

And when you trust your rhythm, your business feels steadier because you're no longer working

against yourself. And how cool is that? Thank you so much for watching and listening. And I'll see

you on the next episode. Are you interested in learning how to receive trust and believe your

intuition so that you can use it within your business? Click the link in the description

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