10 Minutes to Being Boss
10 Minutes to Being Boss
Want Success? What it Means to Do the Work
What does it take to be fulfilled and achieve success as a creative, business owner, or entrepreneur? Success is an ongoing journey and continual exploration that involves many layers. There's no magic solution to success, but rather several interconnected habits and commitments you must be willing to learn and practice. In this episode, Emily shares the Being Boss philosophy of "doing the work" for success, with helpful tips on how to show up as the best boss you can be in both business and life.
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Six years ago when my business bestie, Kathleen and I recorded our first episode of the Being Boss podcast. We titled that episode, do the work and began our episode sign-off of do the work be boss. I didn't know it then, but that initiated a long exploration of what it means to do the work as a creative, as a business owner and as an entrepreneur. So in today's episode, I want to share with you more about what it means to do the work and in effort to help you show up and be the boss you want to be. Hello. And welcome back to 10 Minutes to Being Boss a bite-sized show, offering up tips, tools, and tactics for helping you do business. I'm Emily Thompson. And today I'm sharing the Being Boss philosophy behind the phrase, do the work so that you have a deeper understanding of what it takes to show up and be boss. But before I dive in, I do want to share more about our sponsor Podia. Being a creative business owner in the online world, it means a couple of things. One, you got to get friendly with tech. And too, you likely want to teach what you know, for many bosses at bringing those two things together can be a massive headache, unless you're one of the smart ones that decides to check out Podia. Podia is an all-in-one digital storefront that makes it easy for you to create and sell different kinds of digital content from digital downloads courses and memberships and even webinars all in one place. You may think that sounds too good to be true, but in the few years that we've been partnering with Podia, bosses, members of our audience, folks, just like you together have made millions of dollars selling what they know on Podia. And you can to give Podia a test drive by signing up for a free 14 day trial with no credit card required and get 15% off for life. By going to podia.com/beingboss. Now let's talk about doing the work over the years of preaching the being boss brand of do the work. I've uncovered four layers of meaning for this phrase, each adding it to the previous to create the holistic view of what we believe it means to be boss. Now I initially shared this breakdown in a recent email to our email subscribers, but I will be expanding a bit more on it here. If you're not already subscribed to our email list, you can do that and get boss' insights from us every single week. By going to beingboss.club/subscribe. Now let's dive into the first layer of doing the work. Number one is do the daily work. Most often when I say do the work, I do honestly mean the daily drudgery that's required to cultivate creativity and be a business owner, which is probably what most of you are expecting it to mean when you hear me say it. This is about putting the ideals of living a highlight reel aside and recognizing that building the dream requires a lot of not dreamy moments. You have to show up to answer the emails, to paint, write, draw design, launch the thing, hire, manage, create systems, pay your bills. If you want to be boss, you have to show up every day to work towards your dreams. Even if it's not fun or pretty. In fact, it usually won't be, but you got to show up and do it anyway. Number two is you have to also do the vision work. Speaking of what working towards your dreams, you can't work towards anything if you don't have your sight set on something, there is a requirement in our ethos to set goals to commit to that dream you're after both in life and in your business. Business vision is the place I personally like to play in. And it's not just dreaming and claiming it's lifting your head out of the daily grind to make sure your business has in place. Whatever is necessary to help you get there from the systems and the processes to the team. This is actually exactly why we've created our CEO day kit, a set of tools that will assist you and taking yourself out of the daily grind and getting in there with your vision work so that your daily grind is adding up to you, reaching the place where you most want to be. And it obviously includes claiming a vision for your life as well. And making sure that the work you're doing is helping you reach the life that you're here to create. Being boss is knowing what you want and making it happen. Do the big picture work to get where you want to go. This vision work is just as important a part of doing the work as doing all of those little daily task work items as well. Now let's move on to number three. You also have to do the inner work. This inner work is what sets, what we do here at Being Boss, apart from everyone else. It's what most of you love most about what it is that we do. And I would argue that it's the most important layer of doing the work because without the inner work, what's the point in everything else and everything else will likely be that much harder to accomplish. If you're not also doing the inner work. You cannot be productive. If you haven't accepted yourself worth. You can't build great things if you're way down by your fraudy feelings, you will not make a positive impact unless you recognize and work through your own shortcomings. Being boss requires in our work for you to really live up to the definition that we give it. Now, finally, number four. Do the life work. A boss never forgets that we do all of this to live the life that we want. We hustle and flow. We dream and work. We dig deep and make impact so we can live the life that we want to live. And in many cases extend those privileges to others as well. But there's an important aspect of this. We're not working now to live later. We're working now to live now and every day after which means we have to rest, we have to spend time doing things that brings us energy and we have to invest our time, our money and our energy in being full human beings. Life and work are symbiotic for everyone, but especially for us as wildly creative business owners who pour so much of ourselves into our work. Without life, there's no work. And without the work we lose some purpose and joy in our lives. So we have to do the life work too. We have to rest. We have to spend time with our families born or chosen. We need to fill our cups with travel and culture and nourishing food. This is the layer that makes us complex and truly impactful. So even though it's not the one that makes us money, it is the one that makes it all worth it. So with that, know that every time I say, do the work, it goes far beyond your task list for today. It is a call for you to gather the full picture and put your attention where you need it to go in your life. It's not a call to hustle unless you're in a season of hustle. It means whatever you need it to mean in this moment for you to be able to show up and do what it is that you need to do to accomplish what it is that you're here to accomplish. So until next time, do the work, be boss.
