Aside from writing poetry and practicing yoga, I have a career I very much treasure and enjoy.
When I was younger in my career I believed everything was easily categorized and could neatly fit into a box. If I was going to work in business I needed to BE business in the narrow-minded way I saw it to be: this rigid, cold, rule-abiding clear-cut thing. After all, I was born in the 1980s where everything was marketed to me in a neat package since inception.
I spent years feeling conflicted because I am not clear cut. I am a mix of everything from the indigenous blood mixing with the Spanish blood in my veins to my attempts at perfecting eagle pose before a conference call to my ideas of a fun Friday night consisting of watching Shark Tank while working on a new drawing.
I wrote a rap song once (my alterego is simultaneously an MC folk singer) and one of the lines from it goes:
...but til then I'll face the struggle of living in square boxes
too many right angles don't fit my round face
but it's packaged and it's pretty and easy to place...
For too long I felt I'd have to sacrifice my creativity and all those marvelous things that make me me in order to become this great business leader that I wanted to be.
During this time I was the epitome of ambivalence: a bohemian creative type that wanted to take over the business world. Who did I think I was?
That's precisely the best question I could have ever asked myself. In reading a business article on leadership I came across this quote: How you do anything is how you do everything.
Business is coming of age. It is recognizing that we as humans, employees, consumers are not this one-sided square thing. Our motivations stem from a number of different factors: our relationships, societal norms and a sense of purpose.
My shifting consciousness on the state of business has guided me to this simple conclusion: find out who you are and be the best you you can be. As you are in other aspects in life, you are in business.
I lived in the middle of the New Mexican desert surrounded by wolves to learn to be comfortable with always being uncomfortable.
I traveled all over the world (and counting) to understand and embody diversity.
I practice yoga because I am the greatest resource and ally I will ever have.
I listen to others because I'm a perpetual student fortunate enough to view everyone as a teacher.
I write my life lessons down because I believe in sharing.
In business, I am all of this: the risk taker, a holistic thinker, transparent, the student, the teacher, the people person who strives for connectivity in all she does. I'm not only my title at my company. I am guided by purpose in all things because as I am in yoga I am in business and as I am in business I am as a friend. How you do anything is how you do everything.
When I was younger in my career I believed everything was easily categorized and could neatly fit into a box. If I was going to work in business I needed to BE business in the narrow-minded way I saw it to be: this rigid, cold, rule-abiding clear-cut thing. After all, I was born in the 1980s where everything was marketed to me in a neat package since inception.
I spent years feeling conflicted because I am not clear cut. I am a mix of everything from the indigenous blood mixing with the Spanish blood in my veins to my attempts at perfecting eagle pose before a conference call to my ideas of a fun Friday night consisting of watching Shark Tank while working on a new drawing.
I wrote a rap song once (my alterego is simultaneously an MC folk singer) and one of the lines from it goes:
...but til then I'll face the struggle of living in square boxes
too many right angles don't fit my round face
but it's packaged and it's pretty and easy to place...
For too long I felt I'd have to sacrifice my creativity and all those marvelous things that make me me in order to become this great business leader that I wanted to be.
During this time I was the epitome of ambivalence: a bohemian creative type that wanted to take over the business world. Who did I think I was?
That's precisely the best question I could have ever asked myself. In reading a business article on leadership I came across this quote: How you do anything is how you do everything.
Business is coming of age. It is recognizing that we as humans, employees, consumers are not this one-sided square thing. Our motivations stem from a number of different factors: our relationships, societal norms and a sense of purpose.
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I lived in the middle of the New Mexican desert surrounded by wolves to learn to be comfortable with always being uncomfortable.
I traveled all over the world (and counting) to understand and embody diversity.
I practice yoga because I am the greatest resource and ally I will ever have.
I listen to others because I'm a perpetual student fortunate enough to view everyone as a teacher.
I write my life lessons down because I believe in sharing.
In business, I am all of this: the risk taker, a holistic thinker, transparent, the student, the teacher, the people person who strives for connectivity in all she does. I'm not only my title at my company. I am guided by purpose in all things because as I am in yoga I am in business and as I am in business I am as a friend. How you do anything is how you do everything.
Bella - I love it!
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