Somapreneurs, your creativity matters

(A note: I have both a somanaut and a somapreneur audience, and just want to be clear that I’ll be writing one post per month for each. Hopefully, you all care enough about each other to benefit across the board.

Somapreneur posts are all about sharing wisdom from my mastermind group and 1:1 business coaching for somatic professionals. )

There comes a time, for every somapreneur I know, when your own learning and development calls you to deepen your personal practice.

But…do you struggle to make the space and time for creativity in your business development process? Many of us do. Often, the only time we get in touch with our creative side is when we are actually working with clients.

Without time for personal exploration, business tasks start to lose their luster – if they ever had any! Marketing becomes depleting. A low level fear creeps in to our attempts to network and do outreach.

You’re working really hard on your business, and starting to sense that there is a wide world to be explored through, or even outside, the framework you trained in. 

You may instinctively know it’s time to stop looking outwards. Working with and learning from others is certainly a part of personal development, but when that’s depleting your financial and energetic resources, it could be time to look within instead.

Maybe you don’t even think of personal development as part of business development anymore. Your training provided a container for this, but you may no longer be able to afford that community support.

Perhaps, because you are still paying off the cost of your training, money/time is scarce.

At this juncture, business coaches and marketing experts sometimes offer a quick fix or a system to bring in more clients, but they don’t really understand the core of what you do. They don’t understand the kind of deep, non-verbal processing that is the backbone your work.

A deeper stagnation sets in and you know something is wrong.

Now is on of those times for me. I’ve been through these cycles before, and I recognize I’ve reached the end of an outward looking era.

If you have a clear core audience, you can intentionally use the need to look inward: begin a creative project that will serve them and expand your reach even further.

I’m writing a book. I won’t tell you what it’s about, because it needs to stay protected in the dark wilds of my body-mind-heart until it’s ready to come forth. I’m super clear, though, that it will be of use, and that there is nothing like it out there right now. It has the potential to reach so many people I could never work with in person. 

I will confess that the writing part, for me, requires lots of physical practice. That means at least 2 hours per week, for now, without fail.

This kind of “embodied” writing takes longer than “writing writing.”

I’m so grateful for the clarity I have in my business structure that I can work on a creative project like this without losing momentum.

I’ve been waiting for a better time to do this and it never comes. Yet, the truth is, without this focus my time management skills would slip into the lazy zone anyway!

How did I carve out that time? I removed Substack, Instagram, and FB from my phone. You can also find a host of other social media management tools HERE.

Underneath the basics of time management, for me, there is a deep need for embodied motivation. I need a compelling, energized reason motivating me to make the daily time decisions required. Purpose first, time management second.

I know that my years as a dancer and choreographer taught me how to sustain that energetic thread through boredom, emptiness, fear, and even lack of time and money.

You too, can become the master of the 10 minute rehearsal.

So whatever it is that is pulling you deeper into your work – make a 10 minute space for that every day. Even 10 blank minutes creates a magic space in which, eventually, something new will arise. It has always worked for me, without fail.

Make clear boundaries around your social media and news intake. And get to work.

Lots of love to you all on your somapreneur journeys!