June 2023

Week 75:  Curated Conversation; Intent

*Week 76:  Mind Your Business; Intent

Week 77:  Manage Your Mind; Intent

Week 78:  What’s On My Mind; Intent

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"Goals come from the mind and are often task-oriented, but "intent comes from our souls and represents our deepest desires." Mallika Chopra 

In Mallika's TEDx talk, she asks three meaningful questions that I'd like to share with you:

• Who am I?

• What do I want?

• How can I serve?

When we set intentions, we take responsibility for the outcome and are no longer a victim of circumstance. In entrepreneurship, we must understand why we've created a business from ground zero. (AKA our Intent). 

Intention fuels our goals and actions.

The pandemic created a pause to ask myself who I am, what I want, and how to serve. In 2020 I was working for a food manufacturing facility and working towards their intentions, aka their goals, their dreams, and their why. In reflection, I'd spent several jobs working to the ceiling only to find that lesson again. 

There was something more I was meant to do. And this time, I was ready.

Some answers to 'WHY" we start our own business that I often see entrepreneurs share are:

• To set my hours for myself and or my family's needs.

• To be the boss, being the decision maker, and taking the lead.

• To choose our income.

• To make a change.

What would you add to this list? Feel free to use some of mine listed above ;)

Now that we know our intention, we then decide what we want in our business according to our values and set goals for our next action.

Simple. Not Easy.

When I started Chickbook Creative, I thought I would "go back to bookkeeping.” It's where my experience brought me into a few family-owned retail businesses. But, as I began, something felt wrong. Being a bookkeeper didn't fulfill my reason for making a change. 

My purpose was greater.

I persevered until I realized that it was the gift of supporting Minds Of All Kinds and matching 25 years of business with 17 years of executive functioning experience. This unique combination allows me to help the brains I love working with to achieve their goals and support them in building a business they are proud of.

Where do I see entrepreneurs get stuck?  The gap between intention and action.

Intention without ______ is futile.

• Ambition

• Discipline 

• Goals

• Action

• Motivation

But Jamie, I have the intention! I need help with the space in between! WHY?!

• We like immediate gratification.

• We're humans wired for comfort and routine.

• We want to think we are in control of the outcome.

• We're ambitious and are constantly generating ideas.

• We intend to choose the "best" option, but something about the environment or action gets in the way.

(Next week, we’ll dig more into how our brains get in the way for Manage Your Mind; Intent)

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Where to find me

EVERY MONDAY: 8 am - Curated Conversation - Zoom

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What I’m reading

Lessons in Chemistry by Bonni Garmus

All’s fair in love and chemistry. It’s 1960s California and there are certain things that women just don’t do. When scientist Elizabeth Zott finds herself the host of a television cooking show, she kicks off a revolution that does more than just challenge the status quo. You will fall in love with the cast of characters in this debut novel that has already been picked up as an Apple

What I’m listening to:

Positively Living: Do Less, Live More... Breathe Easier.

Seasonal Planning for Neurodiverse Entrepreneurs with Erik Fisher

Seasonal planning is an incredibly efficient, though potentially underutilized approach to productivity. Using the seasons within our lives to choose what’s best for us not only helps us manage our energy, it gives us built-in permission to embrace variety and keep things interesting. This week, episode 160 of the Positively Living Podcast is about seasonal planning for neurodiverse entrepreneurs!

In this episode of the Positively Living Podcast, my guest Erik Fisher shares his productivity wisdom on why seasonal planning works for us, especially those of us who are multi-passionate and neurodiverse, and gives you actionable steps to take right now to accept change as it comes and embrace this seasonal planning approach.

Learn more about Positively Living and Lisa at https://positivelyproductive.com/podcast/

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