🧠Weekly Mind Sweep #110 | Mind Your Business | Curiosity
February 2024
Week 109: Curated Conversation; Curiosity
*Week 110: Mind Your Business; Curiosity
Week 111 Manage Your Mind; Curiosity
Week 112: What’s On My Mind; Curiosity
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An entrepreneur's insatiable curiosity.
It's the spark that ignites your passion, the compass that guides your journey, and the key to unlocking endless possibilities in the business world.
There is literally research on humans like us! A recent finding reported:
The entrepreneur's curiosity is important for their innovativeness, and this innovativeness is essential for business growth. [1]
While I agree curiosity brings many benefits to running your own business, it can also bring challenges. We'll cover some of them next week when we discuss the neuroscience of curiosity and our pesky brain.
This week, let's dive into the benefits of why curiosity is so important to entrepreneurs like us and why it supports success in business (and life!)
Innovative Thinking: We're known for being out-of-the-box thinkers. Heck, some of us didn't even know there was a box! (You're my peeps!) We're curious about:
We identify opportunities. It prompts questions that bring real answers: What is the market missing? How can I bring my gifts to the table to meet that need?
How things work! Sales, marketing, systems, and processes.
Our customer! What do they need, how can we support them, and what other services or products could benefit them?
Highly Adaptable & Resilient: We're no stranger to failure. We take risks daily.
Creating new ideas leads to our scientist role. Let's experiment! "Oooh, I wonder if this hypothesis will work? Let's try it and see!" Which leads to either success (YAY) or failure (Ooooh, and opportunity!). Either way, we learn and grow both in business and as humans.
Adaptable: We're open to trying new things, collaborating with others, and considering different perspectives!
We learn from our experiences and focus forward.
Curiosity Fosters Productivity: We're willing to pause, ask ourselves hard questions, and challenge the status quo:
Is this task worth the resources it might take to complete?
What purpose does this task serve?
What and why am I doing this?
Curiosity Keeps Us Passionate: We LOVE what we do!
Being passionate about what we offer contributes to our success
It brings fulfillment and purpose to our lives
We're not bored or complacent about what we offer
Curiosity will keep you passionate, which will ripple out to your colleagues, clients, and potential clients. All of these benefits lead us to business success and opportunity!
What strategies do you employ to maintain and nurture your entrepreneurial curiosity, especially in the face of challenges and setbacks?
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The answers you need for your business are already within you.
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What I’m reading
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A self-declared "light-skinned" woman evasive about her ethnicity, yet steadfast in her love for her twelve black children. James McBride, journalist, musician, and son, explores his mother's past, as well as his own upbringing and heritage, in a poignant and powerful debut, The Color Of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother.
What I’m listening to:
ADHD for Smart Ass Women: How to Fall in Love with Your Neurodivergent Brain
An unprecedented guide for any woman with ADHD looking to celebrate her unique brilliance and to embark on a journey of self-discovery.
ADHD is one of the most common neurological disorÂders in the United States—yet a staggering 75 percent of girls and women remain undiagnosed. Due to the genÂder gap in medical research, which does not account for symptoms manifesting differently in women—leading to increased problems with anxiety, depression, workÂing memory, sleep, energy, and concentration—many ADHD women are left to navigate a society that fails to understand their struggles and gifts. But what if every woman had the resources and support to uncover the hidden wonders of her neurodivergent brain?
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For 2024, we'd like to make a focused effort to support you and your business. In March, we'll discuss:
Guest Speaker: Liz Robinson of LRobInspires!
Join Shannon Dalton Giordano of Serendipity Social Media and me of Chickbook Creative for this two-hour interactive business community experience.
We’ll discuss ways to cultivate business through Sales, Marketing, and Communication methods that support relationship building, showing up authentically, and connecting deeper with colleagues and the people you serve.
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You likely have goals for 2024.
How are they going so far? It's easy to be motivated and go full steam ahead for a few weeks before things slow down a bit. Obstacles present themselves. You might suddenly need to clean your house top to bottom. (!)
Join Jamie and Christina of Innate Marketing Genius to move forward on your 2024 goals in an embodied, aligned way. This 90-minute workshop will include:
The role of self-compassion
Stories of our own struggles and discoveries
Time to re-calibrate and re-align with what you truly want for this year
Make a plan for what's next
There will be no high-intensity motivational advice. This is about you finding your own way to do things.
You will walk away ready to move forward on what matters to you in your own authentic way.
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