Parenting Your Business: Building with Purpose for Long-Term Success

Maybe it’s because I lost my daughter when she was 4 months old, but this one really means a lot to me. 

It says, “If you parent your children, you can spoil your grandchildren. If you spoil your children, you will parent your grandchildren.”

There is a sacredness in building a business that I believe is often overlooked.

The sacredness is the responsibility we have FOR the business.

What would it look like for you to see your role as running a business, much like having a child?

Not waking up thinking- what do I feel like doing today, but rather assessing, what does my business need from me and how does that fit within my own needs, too?

So often I hear what people want from their business. 

They want it to GIVE them time and financial freedom, excitement, passion, joy.

But they aren’t really looking at how they create the environment for their business to grow and provide those things, over time.

I can’t tell you how many people I have talked to who pivot over and over, not from authentic service, but from making their business about them.

I truly see building a business like parenting.

In the beginning, it is going to need a lot more time and attention from you.

Sleepless nights, exhaustion, being pulled to new edges- are all part of it. 

Ignore anyone who pretends they “got rich” without that phase.

But when we look each day at what our business needs from us- 

Because it will tell us. 

Through data, KPI’s, feedback, to monitor the overall “health” of it.

TRUTH: if you ignore the needs of your business, you will CONSTANTLY feel like your business is running you, rather than you are running your business.

Why? It has unmet needs it will continue to “act out” until resolved.

When we  tend to the health and needs of our business, and see ourselves as the conduit to grow something bigger than ourselves, that is really not about us-

We set it up to grow.

We set it up to run without us.

Everytime you start a new business or make an adjustment, your business will be more vulnerable and need more support.

Over time, it will adapt and learn to function without you.

So- you can parent your children and spoil your grandchildren….

And you can parent your business and be spoiled by your own business…..

Instead of having your business feel like it is forever running you.

It’s always a choice.

Here to support you in building the life and biz of your dreams,

-M