Do You Have Vampires in Your Life Or Business?
I remember when I first started my business online - I was SO excited and ON FYRE to reach and serve as many people as possible. I was GUSHING with inspiration and called strongly to simply give, give, give. One of my early mentors posited a question at one of the first personal/professional development events I ever attended:
How Generous Can You Be?
That question certainly triggered a response in me that led to a very bad case of overgiving and underearning. What it also ultimately did was set me up for burn out and almost becoming bankrupt - fiscally as well as physically.
See I was inculcated, trained, programmed and conditioned to believe that my "goodness" was being guaranteed by the level of generosity that I could demonstrate in the world. AND the kicker was that I was never ever trained or conditioned in any way to pay attention to myself FIRST and to be in a state of health and well being, a state of OVERFLOW where I could serve from my ''saucer' so to speak instead of emptying my cup.
Sometimes you don't know you are being drained until you are almost on empty and that's very dangerous. I set myself up in my business to not only overgive and underearn but I also as a result ATTRACTED the VAMPIRES. The lookie-loos, the tire-kickers, the freebie seekers, and ultimately I discovered that no matter how much I gave out to the "community" that I had attracted the return was never enough to be long term sustainable financially, spiritually, emotionally or physically.
I did learn a lot and for that I'm grateful. One thing I learned is that VAMPIRES go BATSHIT crazy when you find your voice and finally say NOPE - I'm not giving my life force to you any more. Here are some of the things I’ve learned to do to take care of myself when I start weeding people and commitments out that no longer serve
[Navigating BatShit Crazy 101]
1) TONS OF TIME in Nature
2) Deep Breathing
3) Deep Presence Practices - calling my Spirit into My Body
4) Deep Listening - both to myself and to others
5) Willingness to be Patient and not "interfere" or add my own personal power to the BatShit Crazy without first discerning what I CAN do and then asking permission to offer that.
6) Acceptance that others are navigating BatShit Crazy Right Along with me
7) Compassion and Forgiveness for any perceived 'misbehavior' either on my part or the part of others.
8) Openness to Understanding and Seeing Other Points of View while Staying True to my own intuition and knowing
9) Releasing Judgement and Deep Looking
10) Deep Connecting with what supports ME in this moment in terms of SUPERIOR Self Care
11) BONUS: Gratitude that I have the capacity, tools, technologies, trust in myself and team (both "upstairs team and Earth Angels team - that's YOU) to be able to share openly, request support, and shine a light on the Batshit Crazy without getting sucked in and spit out like a wet rag.
Thank you for being there - you all know who you are and the many forms of presence and blessings that you provide to me.
Please let me know if you are interested in working with me to support to you in WEEDING OUT what no longer serves - this is one of the 5 Ways To Welcome Wealth! I have limited opportunities to work with me and we discover if it’s a fit via a consultation that you can apply for HERE.
Deep Love......Anjel
PS: Please note BAT is the symbol of REBIRTH - birthing can be a bit messy.....