The Power Of Intention To Fuel Your Work Day

Your business shouldn’t make you miserable, even if your to-do list sucks.

There will be times when you have to do a long list of things you’d much rather not do. It happens. However, if your business is straight up making you feel depressed, anxious, or stressed, it’s a sign that something’s misaligned.

I can’t speak for everyone’s personal situation, but I often find that your business is making you miserable if you are following someone else’s rulebook and not yours.

When you’re forcing yourself to do things that you completely detest, or you don’t see yourself getting any closer to the light at the end of the tunnel, you are going through the motions without any intention.

Motion without intention often leads to low-quality results that weren’t worth garnering in the first place.

We often follow what we’re told to do when we’re first-time business owners because we don’t want to get it wrong —

Did you ever ask yourself though, how you can make these tasks fit your preferences rather than the other way around? Where can you find joy in these tasks?

You can choose to make these tasks miserable or pair them with the intention it needs to come to life for you.

Rather than following someone else’s playbooks on how and why you should complete these tasks, why don’t you define this for yourself?

Why not define how to make these tasks fun for your business and tie them into the bigger purpose of why you’re doing business in the first place?

And when I say purpose, I mean the values and mission that fuels you to run your business, not money. If the main reason why you run your business is because of money, you’ll have to dig deeper because money alone will never make you happy.

Here are some examples of how you can tie your tasks into a bigger purpose —

Post on Instagram multiple times a week? Amazing, I can’t wait to connect with my audience and positively impact them on a weekly basis. I’m here to share and create community through my brand after all.

Contact 20 wholesalers every week? I can’t wait to hop on the phone and learn more about another small business owner and see if our visions align with each other. I love having deep conversations and finding opportunities for collaboration.

Create financial projections? I want to see what this business looks like a year or two from now so that I can properly feed it everything it needs to positively impact more people with my products or services. Can I hire a freelance assistant in the next year? What kind of investments can I swing in year two to make my life a little easier?

Running your business doesn’t have to feel like a slog and you can love every minute of what you do. No one arrives at a job they love by merely being placed in it.

There is someone out there who has your dream job and startup right now, but are completely miserable because of the lack of intention and purpose behind their day.

Happiness and purpose is a state of mind and a practice — if you’re currently building your dream startup but not feeling stoked about your day today, write out an intention/purpose next to every to-do list item you have to complete.

Do this over a course of a week, a month, a year and you’ll see your love for your business and your daily to-do list blossom.

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