Part IV: The Love-Led Leap
(The Sacred Business Manifesto Part IV)
The fragmented approach shows up in predictable ways.
Maybe it’s looking at your calendar and feeling dread. Days full of commitments you don’t want.
Maybe it’s waking up without energy. No drive to meet the day.
Maybe it’s the lack of clarity. Rewriting your plan every month. Taking things in a different direction. Or having no plan at all.
Maybe it’s burnout. The things you think you should be doing simply aren’t working.
When you can’t see what’s actually wrong, you’ll try anything.
Going on retreat. Doubling down and grinding harder. Taking another course that promises to fix everything. Believing that the next milestone, your first $1K month or seven figures, will finally make it feel different.
The online business world is full of enticing, misguided advice. The specifics change based on your stage. The pattern doesn’t: always chasing the next thing.
It’s easy to get charmed by the next big idea. You see peers making moves. You think you should follow. Especially if they look successful.
Inspiration is fine. But thinking someone else has your answers means disconnecting from your own clarity.
This happens whether you're comparing yourself to someone making their first sale or someone hitting eight figures.
Entrepreneurs get one thing working and immediately hop to something else. They lack the focus to stay the course. Or the thing they built was opportunistic from the start, not aligned with what they actually want to create.
Addicted to the thrill of the new.
They build on quicksand. Too many directions. No traction.
Here’s the thing: getting to the next level sustainably requires a sacrifice.
The Bamboo Tree
There’s an old story about the Chinese bamboo tree.
For four years, it barely grows at all. Stays underground. Seems to be doing nothing. Then in the fifth year, it shoots up 80 feet in six weeks.
The lesson: growth takes time. It can’t be rushed.
Most of the growth happens underground. Don’t mistake it for nothing.
Like the bamboo tree, you need to lay a foundation before the visible growth. That requires patience. And before patience comes trust.
It’s called a miracle plant. It’s not a miracle. It’s the outcome of years of invisible work.Of course, it's no miracle at all but the outcome of years of patient and non-linear growth.
You may not see progress for a while. But if you trust the process, results come. Time alone isn’t enough. You have to stay the course when nothing seems to be happening.
It’s not growing. Must be the wrong spot. Let me dig it up and move it.’ Whether it’s your first idea or your fiftieth pivot, the pattern is the same.
Resist the urge to dig it up. Go all in on one direction.
This is when everything shifts: when you commit fully.
It’s knowing your business will support the life you want. And committing fully to what’s in front of you, even when it doesn’t make logical sense.
My mentor Michael Singer put it this way:
"My formula for success was very simple: Do whatever is put in front of you with all your heart and soul without regard for personal results. Do the work as though it were given to you by the universe itself — because it was."
Michael achieved everything by traditional measures. Yet by his own admission, he simply served what was unfolding. Following internal guidance built on deep trust.
We call this trust the Love-Led Leap.
Before the Love-Led Leap, you’re chasing the thrill of the new. Constantly creating. Hedging. Both are fragmented.
After the Leap, the thrill comes from somewhere else. A deep sense of connection to what you’re building. Clarity on where you’re going. Faith that the path will reveal itself.
This quote from the great mystic and Spanish nun, Teresa of Ávila, says it all:
"The important thing is not to think much but to love much; and so do that which best stirs you to love."
When you let love lead, everything changes:
You trust your path. You know where you’re going.
You look at your calendar and feel energy instead of dread.
You wake up ready to work because the work actually matters to you.
You have clarity. One plan. One direction. You’re not rewriting it every month.
You’re not burned out because you’re building something aligned, not grinding on something that doesn’t fit.
You don’t need external validation. Your internal compass is clear.
People might think you’re crazy. You’re fine with that.
This becomes enough.
You don't need people to agree with you or to even like you. In fact, they might even look at you like you're crazy as you lean into your highest vision of possibility for your life and business.
But you can’t get to this clarity through the fragmented approach. All outer strategy, no inner work. It doesn’t matter how many courses you take or pivots you make. The pattern will repeat until you address it.
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