Does it fly to be a Butterfly in Business?

There is a rule in the superconsciousness that you should only focus on one thing at a time, especially in business.

But does this rule actually hinder business from taking off?

It’s been a wild couple of weeks. I haven’t been blogging that much because the three businesses that I have started are actually getting some traction.

Yup, you read right ... Three!

This is a total contradiction to what I’ve been conditioned to think about pursuing anything worthwhile.

I went to a private elementary school in Kingston, Jamaica. In our morning assembly, we would line up in our blue tunics and brown shoes and recite mantras about good behaviour. This is one of our regular rhymes.

"To do two things at once is to do neither.

One thing at a time, and that done well,

is a very good rule as many can tell."

God bless Vaz Prep, my school was well-intentioned. But that conditioning is turning out to be contrary to what life has taught me. In fact, this can even be a harmful mantra to live by, depending on your unique spiritual and psychological make-up.

Two years ago, I was working as a Salesperson for a property investment company. I had a good run of sales for about six months and then things went down hill. A big part of that was because at my core, I'm not a salesperson. I'm a creative and I didn’t enjoy the work.

I was failing but I kept at it.

I pushed and pushed, banging out hundreds of sales call a week, hoping that sheer will was going to make it happen. I focused on this business solely for two years. But it never took of for me - It kept feeling like I was pushing shit up a hill. Eventually, I choose the health of my soul over, feeling like I needed to prove something and I left.

Learning from the pain of those years. I've set about doing the complete opposite. Giving myself permission to let go of things that don't feel good and experiment with my bright ideas.

Since I walked away from the contraction of being an employee, I’ve been swimming in the freedom of experimenting with leveraging my likes and interests into businesses. To my surprise, it's actually working.

At this moment, I am running three businesses:

1.) A video, copy and content creation service that helps business owners leverage their persona to connect with potential customers in their online marketing: https://www.contentedbylisacamille.com/contentservices

2.) A Dreadlocks service where I start or maintain dreadlocks: https://www.contentedbylisacamille.com/jamaican-dreadlocks

3.) A local tour through AirBnB that lets people experience "The Jamaican Side of Sydney" with me. Guests come with me to a Dancehall class and then we grab a bite to eat at a Jamaican restaurant in a trendy nearby suburb. Search://www.airbnb.com.au/experiences/sydney

On top of that, I’m still moonlighting as a superyacht Stewardess, working on charters in Sydney Harbour and have also been teaching dance.

A butterfly indeed, happier than I've ever been.

Each of these opportunities came from a light bulb moment. My intuition gave me the spark of an idea. I got excited about it and followed through with inspired action to put it out into the world.

What light bulbs are sitting in your vault? What ideas do you have, that you are not following through on? What are you afraid of? To hide your intuitive sparks, only prevents your unique genius from being shared with the world and your profiting from it.

In his book, "Code of the Extraordinary Mind", the founder of the personal growth giant Mindvalley Academy Vishen Lakhiani, talks about rules you are conditioned to through your upbringing and culture. He shares the stories of the greatest entrepreneurs of our time like Elon Musk, of Paypal and Tesla, and Dean Kamen, the inventor of the Segway, who followed the bright spark of an idea, contrary to the dominant conditioned thought, and not only made millions but changed the world.

What might surprise you is how easy the success of these businesses can be. Organic ideas, attract clients organically. There is none of the pushing I experienced in my sales job, of what now seems like a previous lifetime. People have been coming to me. It's almost as if I'm in a partnership with the Universe: It was my job to bring the idea from the etherial to the physical plane and it's the Universe's job to support it and me financially.

When I made the decision to not go back to a full-time job and took the leap to work for myself, my biggest fear was of course, money. Although I found having a job to be painful, I was soothed my the regular deposits in my bank account. But my life experience has surprisingly been the contrary to my fear, which was really the acronym it's known by the personal development world: "False Evidence Appearing Real."

I am being supported by the Universe. The biggest block to my abundance is my persistent belief that it should not be easy to make money being myself and the idea that I I have to work through pain to make money.

Isn't that interesting? Look at how we become our biggest barriers to manifesting exactly what we've asked for.

We say we want it but hold on to beliefs about it not being possible.

We cling to ways of being that are not true to our soul's design and wonder what's wrong. Where these tendencies are showing up in your life? What are you believing to be true, that might not be? How can you give life a chance to show you otherwise?

I am slowly realising and acknowledging what works for me in life and business. Not surprisingly, it is a reflection of how I have always been: a butterfly. A light-hearted entrepreneur of many talents, skills and interests who can serve the world using all of them simultaneously.

I can be the fullest expression of myself and be loved and supported by the Universe. I am a magnet for abundance based on my colourful self-expression. It is all possible and that's the new belief I am installing to replace the old one. The same is true for you too.

Remember that prep school mantra I mentioned earlier, I decided to make up a new one, say it with me.

"It's ok to experiment and that's actually the goal.

It's ok to let go of things that hurt your soul

and reach for those that make you feel whole."

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