What I have the hardest time with

I find it exceptionally easy to curse at my dog these days, to the point of I wonder whether I should be turning in my Masters of Divinity for moral violations…

Rocky just basically hasn’t been listening, has been running off, and showing up behind the neighbor’s yard, where their chickens are, thankfully, fenced in.

I notice that my patience runs particularly low, my frustration runs particularly high when I have something to get to. “Come on! I’ve got an appointment to get to!” And then I spend an extra 30 minutes that I don’t think I have chasing the dog… hence, the cursing.

This plays right into where we can lose patience in business. The truth is our dog is just 20 months old, and is barely at the far end of puppy-hood. He’s had some training, but needs more.

Do I want to prioritize training him to listen over just walking in the snowy winter wonderland that is White Hawk Ecovillage? Not particularly… but that’s what’s going to give him, and me, freedom for years to come.

Impatience in business, to move it forward quickly, can make you try to reach for the enjoyable parts, and experience frustration over and over again in not attaining them.

It also causes people to take on many big projects at once, often bigger than is realized.

So here’s the boring word that is one of the gateways to really enjoying your business.

Prioritizing.

This often means that you’ll be letting important things sit there for some length of time, while you work on your priorities. It often means that you play a steely game of nerves with your ego, who will be yelling at you, “Oh no! We’re going to crash! You have to get it all done RIGHT NOW! Why aren’t you working on it all at once?”

This is one of the hardest games to play in life: paying attention to what really needs your care, while letting other, often important things, sit.

The truth is, you can’t ignore all of those other important things for weeks or months, so it’s a guessing game, a bit of artistic planning, if you will, that allows you to prioritize something really important, and then do a “good enough” job with other things in your business.

It’s the heart of the compassionate accountability structure we use in our Community, to support our members in focusing on what’s most important, and just doing the heart-felt minimum on what maintains the rest.

The Sufi teaching.

It’s said that the only power the ego has is the power to cover over the truth. That any action we take from our ego increases our reliance on illusion, and our ignorance of the deeper reality.

Not prioritizing is another form of letting the ego pump up the illusion. Using your will power to STOP the ego and instead start to Remember the presence of the Divine, is very much the same thing as wrestling your ego to the ground, and trusting your heart and mind to focus on what your business needs most.

So, this is what I’m doing: I’m prioritizing training my dog. I’m also prioritizing certain things in Heart of Business over other critical projects, because that’s what’s needed.

I’m encouraging you to do the same. Wrestle your ego to a standstill, bring your heart into Remembrance of the Divine and the heart of your business. And let yourself prioritize what’s most important.

With love,

Mark
Heart of Business, Inc.
Every act of business can be an act of love.

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