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Happy New Year! And all that jazz 🙂

There’s been a bit going on behind the scenes that have contributed to my silence in the last week or two.

Yes, part of it was the holiday season and spending time with family.

The other part is that my father-in-law, Phillip, passed away the weekend before Christmas. His funeral is this weekend.

There is no Wednesday LIVE with Evie this week and while I’ll be working, there might not be one next week (we’ll see how things go).

There are two thoughts about what to do with your business when things like this happen (whether expected or unexpected).

One is to PUSH through it. Show up in your business despite what’s going on behind the scenes. Because the world won’t wait for you! Don’t feel like it? Pressed for time? TOO BAD! You have a business, so GET TO WORK!

The other is to take the time you need (within reason) and take care of yourself. Yes, you might lose some momentum. Yes, there are things to be done that aren’t getting done in your business. But taking care of yourself and your loved ones is also important.

Here’s quick story relating to this.

Many years ago I went to an all-day business training hosted by a successful relationship coach. She was teaching how she built her successful coaching business and how you too could have a successful business.

I don’t remember the question that someone asked about halfway through the day, but I STILL remember her response.

She started ranting about how everyone has to do things in their business even when they don’t feel like it. She went on to share, still ranting and angry, that her serious boyfriend (she had thought he was going to propose soon) just broke up with her and SHE didn’t FEEL like doing this training, but she was HERE ANYWAY.

She was very upset and angry and basically yelled at the woman who asked the question.

And running through my head was “maybe you should have taken care of yourself and rescheduled” and “successful at what cost?”

It also made a couple other…interesting…things from the day make more sense.

If she would have taken the time SHE needed, despite the inconvenience to everyone else, I think everyone’s experience that day would have been better.

The problem with PUSHING through it is we don’t give ourselves times to process the things that are happening.

And if you don’t give yourself time and space to process, those feelings will find other ways to be expressed (like the story above).

So, while you might lose some momentum and you might not complete the things you planned to get done–it’s okay. YOU are more important and those things can be done later.

Do you use Twitter?

I don’t post on it, but I do use it to follow some people and occasionally I’ll check it in the morning.

I saw this tweet this morning and rolled my eyes, hard:

This type of advice annoys me because it looks like it’s proven, but it’s not.

There is a correlation (like how people wear more short sleeves than sweaters when buying ice cream cones), but there isn’t causation (like how when the weather gets warmer ice cream cone sales increase).

Then I saw this response:

Yay! A successful person who thinks this advice isn’t helpful!

Here’s the thing: not everyone works the same way!

There is no ONE thing that will guarantee success.

Getting up at 4 am works for those successful people because they’ve found something that works for them and they stick to it.

THAT’s the important part–finding something that works for you and keep doing it.

In this week’s Wednesday LIVE with Evie we’ll talk about this.

WEDNESDAY LIVE WITH EVIE #93