The Joy of Bringing Newness into Existence
by Vanessa Finnigan
Have you ever wondered why some people create a business?
I can share a bit about what motivated me fifteen years ago to create a free holistic lifestyle magazine from scratch. Like many people who create a business from nothing, there is a feeling of wanting to contribute to others and make a difference in people’s lives. There is so much excitement and joy dreaming up a new creation and bringing it into existence! And that energy can in fact power a whole community (ha ha, you certainly do require that energy to bring something new into existence like a magazine!).
It’s an experience that is really beyond words. At the same time, it has many challenges, and I shed a few tears as I sit here and reflect on some of those both on a personal level and on a global level and wonder sometimes how I kept creating the magazine and kept being me.
That’s the entrepreneur’s journey though, acting on inspiration, making consistent steps to actualise the dream and keep the wheels moving. And what many people don’t realise, is it requires consistent digging deep to do the inner work so that the creation grows and expands and takes on a life of its own.
And what an experience to contribute energy to a collective creation, which also empowers others to share their uniqueness and wow when that collective energy gets shared into the world, it becomes a healing modality in and of itself!
Perhaps you are reading this and have always wanted to create a business, but you were very quickly faced with thoughts such as, “what if my idea doesn’t work, what if nobody responds and people laugh at my attempts.” Or you see someone else appearing to do a business project ‘better’ and get hit by ‘comparison-itis’. The entrepreneurial/pioneering journey in many ways is a spiritual journey, it requires you to access the gold within and share that new vision, even if at first, it’s not understood or fully embraced. There is no-one else on the planet like you, so your creations will also be unique!
If you can delve deep and find those old limiting belief systems underneath those thoughts, such as: “I’m not good enough”, “I’m too much”, “I’m a fraud”, “I’m not worthy” and then do the ‘inner work’ in whatever ways call you to shine the light on those beliefs and really honestly ask yourself, (as if you were your best friend), if they are in fact the truth. Over time, these old beliefs then lose their power to derail and sabotage your joyful dreams being brought into existence.
I am forever grateful for creating Holistic Bliss, which has now been downloaded in 59 countries and I am excited to say, Happy 15th Birthday, and we’ve only just begun…
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