#206: You have the choice + the responsibility to build in a meaningful way
Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall
Release Date: 05/02/2022
Changing The Story with Lana Dingwall
I believe that our education systems and how our society is structured traps us. We are taught to fit within a mold so that we are ‘employable’ and can hopefully find a job that allows us enough pay to live comfortably and gives us a few weeks off a year. Yet inflation is skyrocketing, the cost of living is outrageous and people feel disconnected from things that genuinely make them come alive. We need change. I know for many of you reading this, you feel that way too as entrepreneurship is about taking a step away from all of that. For...
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Have you ever found yourself anxiously anticipating something? Maybe it’s small like a task you need to complete or maybe it’s a large goal that requires you to push big-time out of your comfort zone. No matter the gap between where you are now and where you want to be, anxiety, fear, doubt, all exist primarily in the anticipation of something- not the act of it. Why is that? It’s mostly because when we’re in the act of doing something we’re present and in action mode - which leaves little cognitive space for fear and anxiety to show up. This means that when we’re doing hard things...
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If you’re on social media and work in the space of entrepreneurship and/or spirituality you’ve most likely heard the term self sovereign over the past few years. I wanted to dive a little deeper into what I feel it means and why it is directly connected to community care - because sometimes when I hear people use it, it just comes off as inherently selfish and not empowering at all. Self sovereignty and community care are highly interconnected. The more empowering and expansive a community is, the more sovereign you become. Why is this? It’s because they...
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I believe that our education systems and how our society is structured traps us. We are taught to fit within a mold so that we are ‘employable’ and can hopefully find a job that allows us enough pay to live comfortably and gives us a few weeks off a year. Yet inflation is skyrocketing, the cost of living is outrageous and people feel disconnected from things that genuinely make them come alive. We need change. I know for many of you reading this, you feel that way too as entrepreneurship is about taking a step away from all of that. For...
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I am getting a lot of people in my dms saying they are very interested in learning more about web3 - blockchain - nfts - crypto, but have no idea where to start. They are telling me they grasp that there is potential in this emerging space but truly do not understand most of it. If you fall into this category, that is totally okay and let me tell you why. You do not need to understand on a fundamental level how this technology works, you only need to know how to use it. Most of you are probably reading this email on your phone. If you listen to my podcast or follow me online,...
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A few weeks ago IG announced it was beta testing integrating NFTs onto its platform and so far things are going well. Youtube, Meta (aka facebook), Amazon, Shopify, Stripe and other content hosting platforms and commerce based businesses now officially all have web3 teams who are using, building, and integrating blockchain technology. What the heck does this mean?! It means that many of the platforms, applications and tools we use in our businesses are taking web3 seriously - which means that we should too. This doesn’t mean drop everything and...
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It is very common for us to view ourselves as 3 separate people. There is our past self, our current self, and our future self. The reality though is there is only one us. This isn’t to say we stay the same, we know we are constantly changing. What I mean though, is that without changing something today, nothing will change in the future - except that time itself has passed. Sometimes by thinking our future self will somehow be more equipped, more motivated, more responsible than our current, self tricks us into forgetting who we are right now has to make the shifts...
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Many of us can feel as though we’re in a race to reach ‘the finish line’ in our business and lives. We look to those around us to determine if we’re ahead or behind and this can create a sense of urgency. The reality is that we aren’t actually in a race, we will most likely never feel like we ‘crossed the finish line’ and we aren’t competing with anyone either. When this feeling is used in a healthy way to motivate us it can be motivating, however many of us use it to stress ourselves out. There are so many different ways to build out and get to where...
info_outlineHave you ever found yourself working countless hours on something only to realize that you want to throw it away?
Not because you don’t love the overarching thing you created, but because you feel so burnt out by the process and the idea of doing it again makes your heart sink. Sometimes how we build something affects our ability to do it long term.
One of the most important things we can do, that most people struggle with, is creating systems that align with who we are and how we thrive vs what we think we’re supposed to do.
How can one know what will work without first trying different things? The reality is we can’t fully know until we try. Which is why when you’re in those first few years of business you want to avoid putting all your eggs into one basket.
I have seen so many entrepreneurs burnt out, wanting to throw in the towel because they are spinning their wheels going nowhere. The reason they’re stuck is because they are in the wrong gear and need to adjust.
As an example I am someone who thrives with real time conversations, problem solving and coaching. Pre recorded coaching content (aside from my podcast because it's conversational) actually drains me because it is missing the key ingredient for me - interaction. I could spend a full week live working with people and feel I have more energy than if I spent that same week recording the exact same content solo. For some people it is the exact opposite. This is why we need to take ourselves into account when we build - we are the backbone of what we’re creating after all.
This week's podcast episode we dive into how we have the choice to build in meaningful ways. That also means we have a responsibility to ourselves, to figure out what systems make sense for who we are and what allows us to thrive. At the end of the day if we thrive, our businesses thrive as well.
You owe it to yourself to create something that makes sense for who you are.
Keep being awesome and chat with you next week!
Lana
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