Couples Counseling for You and Your Business

Couples therapy for business growth. What a novel idea!

The reality is - you are in a relationship with your business.

Just like you are in a relationship with your sister or partner or neighbor.

Have you ever thought about your business this way?

You interact with it.
You think about it.
You feel stuff about it.
You plan things for you and it to do together.
You keep up with how its doing.
You talk to your friends about it.
You spend money on it.

I mean, yeh…you are in a relationship with it.

Now here is a question for you – how do you feel about this relationship?

Do you want to break up with it or keep it going?
Do you want it to keep going the way it’s always been?

I don’t think we take the time to step back and ask ourselves what it’s like to be in this very intimate relationship with our work creation.

Some of us feel like its sunk cost at this point. We just *have* to keep going and make it work.

It’s like a 20-year marriage. We’ve learned to live with each other’s habits and aren’t that interested in putting up with someone else’s crap.

I guess that means you aren’t afraid of commitment so that’s a plus.

But HOW are you currently relating to your business?

HOW would you like to relate to your business?

Personally, I want something that is satisfying.

Something that I can sustain without pushing myself beyond an invisible breaking point and then watching the other parts of my life suffer because I “gave at the office”.

Something I realized a while back about my own relationship as a solopreneur – I wasn’t at the wheel.

Yep, after 10+ years of doing the work, I woke up to the fact I was winging it.

Relying on other people to let me know I was smart enough, good enough and worthy enough to be their therapist or coach.

I was expecting my partner – my business – to give me all the feel-goods I needed to believe I was an okay person.

That sucks.

And is a horrible, I repeat horrible, business strategy.

It made me reactive which meant I didn’t make decisions that benefited me as the owner or my profit.

So, I ask you, how is your relationship with your business?

Instead of breaking up or grinding through – what if you took you and your business to counseling and worked out the old unproductive habits and patterns?