If you have followed this blog at all, you know that matters of the spirit are of core importance for me.  Call it spirituality, focusing on your deepest inner self, communing with your higher power- it doesn’t matter what you call it.

For me this energy, wisdom and mystery of spirit are what drive everything.  I have to do my best to pay close attention to my relationship with spirit, or, if I may, Spirit, multiple times a day.  When Karin of www.thekissbusiness.co.uk tagged me to list my personal factors for productivity, the first thing I noted is that every morning I have to make a connection with the Divine, as some good friends put it, and connect with my heart.

It is from that place of Spirit and heart that I know I get the “juice” to connect with others and to approach my business from a place of giving.  And this is the fundamental basis of what I do and what I want to do.

Mark Silver of www.heartofbusiness.com guides his class students through a deep look inside themselves at what unique gift they have to give to their clients, and through a deep look at what is the “pain” of their clients, what it is they truly need help with.  Mark guides his clients and students through their personal link with Spirit inside them.  He says that if you clearly answer these fundamental questions then you have started to open a door to both a more fulfilling and successful work experience for yourself, but also to providing unique gifts to your clients in a way that really answers what they need.  In truth, life-changing experiences can open up.

 

That is a serious win-win!

 

And it does not matter what religion you may follow, if you follow any at all.  My father didn’t even believe in God, but he connected with his business clients in a way that made them feel fully taken care of.  And he enjoyed his business life.  He valued his clients, and he knew what he could offer them.  I guess you could say that he loved his clients, and they loved him.

I was with him once when I was a little boy, and we ran into one of his clients.  I will never forget the joy and respect that this man spontaneously showed when he saw my father.  Fifty years later I can still picture the moment.  In his own way my father had found the truth of answering his clients’ “pain”, as Mark Silver says, and treating his clients with respect while he also respected himself.  A real good model for me that resonated inside me even at that early age.

Another key element of connecting with “Spirit” is that there is this endless source of guidance and inspiration!  It can be such a relief.  When I feel overwhelmed I know I am too much in my own mind and pictures of things.  Time to give it a rest and tap into the deeper well.  It is a fundamental truth for me that I simply have to repeatedly step away from my own looking glass to live a fuller life.  There is available at all times, if I tune in, an endless source of guidance, supply and surprise.

Such a refreshing dip into renewal and shifting may work on my own, or I may need to connect with a close friend or colleague to broaden my perspectives and link more closely to my heart again.

Then, there is also the remarkable phenomenon that in doing something for someone else, however small the gesture may be, your life and horizons expand.  Amen!  I get tired of too much of me.  And having the approach in business to be in service, while honoring yourself at the same time, feeds into this orientation of giving.  When I started to approach my business in this way it was like a steel band was loosened from around my chest.  I could breathe more deeply, enjoy what I was doing more.  The world actually got brighter, and I felt more present.  My relationships with my clients changed in a fundamental way.

Maybe you think of it as your personal inner guidance or “knowing”.  The terms don’t matter.  I believe we all have a deep inner voice that wants to help us to the extent that we can listen!

So, do you agree with my main messages here?  Disagree?  How do you relate to your inner spirit?  What do you do to feed your spirit and feed yourself with it?

I welcome any comments.