I stood up Oprah this weekend.
About a month or so ago, my girl, Marie Forleo, shared that she'd be speaking at Oprah's Super Soul Sunday in LA and they were selling tickets to attend.
I thought it would be super cool and inspiring to be in the room with Oprah, Marie, and some other incredible humans.
So, I bought the ticket. Booked the flight {in and out within 36 hours to LA}.
Then I had the most incredibly inspiring {yet, exhausting} weekend in Vegas last weekend, a red-eye flight home and over 30 hours of just client calls and meetings, workshops, etc this week.
Plus...I hadn't had any real quality alone time with Tyler in two weeks because of travel.
I canceled.
I lost some money.
I decided that if I went, yes I would be inspired, but would it align with my goals? Move my business forward? Ehh, maybe. {But probably not - no offense Oprah!}
Not really aligned with what I'm working on...And I still have tons of stuff to implement from last weekend, so I don't need more of that if I'm being honest with myself.
The part of my business that needed me the most this weekend was the part that takes time away.
My fiancé needed more than my business needed me this weekend.
My fiancé and pups wanted to spend time with me more than Oprah did {the cold hard truth}.
And while saying no was really hard and sure I got FOMO probably 66 times today...I had an incredible, and much needed day with my man {and pups}.
Which I guarantee will allow me to pour into my business and into my clients next week way more than sitting in the same room as Oprah will. {maybe?}
I knew taking the red-eye home tonight -- I'd be on a plane at this very moment - would mean another week where I just tried to play catch up the entire time.
Not cute for me.
Sometimes the thing your business needs is not more inspiration, not more business, but rather MORE LIFE.
Your business needs you to have a life. That's where creativity lives. That's where ideas emerge. That's where you create the internal freedom.
When you're making decisions for YOUR business - ask if it's aligned with your goals, if it's not, it's a no ☺🙌🏻
So, today I stood up Oprah, but I don't think she missed me.
When thinking about my whole "permission to hustle" concept -- this is actually the EPITOME of hustling in my mind.
Yes, not going to this event was hustling.
How, you ask? Because it had nothing to do with my goals.
I don't want you to hustle for the sake of it, or work non-stop! I want you to get smart and strategic about what you need to be focused on and hustle on that! That's where permission to hustle comes in. This isn't about burning out, it's about taking ambition and turning it into action unapologetically, but only when it aligns with the results you want to create.
Oprah didn't align for me this weekend.
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