I heard a question this morning during my morning studies:
Is this an energy I wish to continue in, or would I choose something else?
It sounds simple until you try to ask it in the middle of a difficult week.
Recently, Carolina and I spoke with someone who had made real progress in her business. Then life became demanding. She needed to rest. By the time she had room to think about the business again, she felt behind.
She could see everything she hadn’t finished. It was harder for her to see what she had done: showing up more visibly, making new connections, changing how she priced her work, and starting to build something she believed in.
During our conversation, she asked a brave question:
Did she still want to grow this business, or had she been holding on to an idea that no longer fit her life?
That question deserved a answer. Stepping away was a valid choice. So was continuing at a pace her life could hold.
What caught my attention was the story beginning to form around the pause: I’ve lost the momentum. Maybe there’s no point picking this up again.
I know that story. I’ve told versions of it myself.
And this is where the teaching met the practical work in front of us.
Choosing a new energy doesn’t mean declaring the hard season an illusion. The demands on her time were real. Her need for rest was real. So was the progress she had made.
The choice was whether the pause had to mean abandonment.
Carolina said something during that conversation that I really resonate with:
You can rest without withdrawing from what matters to you.
That might mean giving the business an extra thirty minutes this week instead of demanding a heroic comeback. Looking at the unfinished invitation and writing one more sentence. Asking for help while you still feel uncertain. Returning to a conversation you care about.
Small actions like these do more than complete a task. They let you experience yourself as someone who can return.
After sitting with it, this person chose to keep going. The next chapter wasn’t a promise to push harder. As Carolina put it afterward, it could be a steady, light, delicious push.
I love that distinction.
If you’ve been building meaningful work, take a moment to look at the energy you’re living in around it. You may find that the business needs to change. You may find that you need rest. You may also find that the work still matters to you, and one small action would help you meet it again.
You get to choose from where you are today.
This is part of what we practice in Your First Yes: choosing one direction, shaping a clear offer, making real invitations, and having support as you move through the resistance that comes with doing it. The current group is full, but if that’s the kind of support you want for your next chapter, join the next-cohort waitlist here.
With love,
Phil
If “you can rest without withdrawing from what matters” resonated for you, there may be something here worth looking at more closely.
Growth takes patience. But after a pause, it can be hard to tell whether your business needs more time, a different pace, or a different direction.
The free Harmony Map Assessment looks at Growth alongside eight other frequencies shaping how you move in your work. In about eight minutes, it helps you see where the friction is and where your attention could create movement now.
