I ask myself a question each day before I start my work: Grace, or Grind?
Which one will I choose today?
It is a reminder to me that being a grace-full entrepreneur is a deliberate choice. When I forget to deliberately choose it, I invariably lose it.
It’s so easy to get caught up in The Grind. To get stuck in what I call, “The Entrepreneur’s Sand Trap” (and no, I am not a golfer, but I live with several of them.)
Deepak Chopra says enlightenment comes when you get as much joy out of a shank as a hole-in-one. When I told my husband this, he smiled. He said, “I guess I’ve got a long way to go then.”
We all have a long way to go, but the question is, how do we want to get there? Gracefully? Or grinding it out?
Setting a goal, to make six figures, let’s say, and then grinding it out to get there, accomplishes what, exactly? You may make all that money, but without grace, that money isn’t worth a whole lot. It’s value is diminished by The Grind.
But making money, whether it’s 10K, 100K, or 10x that, is worth so much more when it is earned with Grace.
What does it mean to run a business with Grace?
It means constantly remembering that even though the outcome (the money goal) is in the future, your Grace happens right now, if you choose it.
This doesn’t mean that The Grind ceases to exist. It means The Grind feels a whole lot different when experienced with Grace.
The Grind is inevitable.
Grace is optional. And it is always available to you.
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