Welcome to our second episode of the Uniquely Yours series on the Coaching Hive podcast. If you remember last week’s episode

you’ll know that I posed a thought for you to explore. When building your coaching business, focus on your path first and foremost. This week we will extend that thought a bit more with the idea that you want to spend time and energy planning for contentment inside your life and business. Today we are going to think about this concept of contentment, and you will walk away with an action item to help you begin the process of building contentment into your coaching business.

With our theme of simplicity, clarity, and vision for 2022 in mind, lets jump in.

Introduction

What will happen if you have contentment built into your business each day? You know, that feeling of satisfaction, ease and just plain enjoyment with what you are doing.

The challenge is that this isn’t usually how we operate. Think about a 9-5 job. Is it about experiencing contentment or is it about hustle, getting things in by deadlines, and following someone else’s agenda? Likely all those things.

Now think about an entrepreneur who is in a race to build a big business or even just a successful one. It is about hustle, long hours, worry, getting things done by a deadline, and maybe still following someone else’s agenda (or path like we talked about in Episode 53).

How many people do you know who build contentment into their day-to-day lives? You know, the stuff that happens outside of work hours. This has been a big challenge, especially in United States culture where an individualist approach to life means we are always stretching to reach ahead or trying to keep up.

None of these scenarios lead to contentment. In fact, they probably lead to the opposite and include burnout, dis-ease, and even feeling frustrated with life.

The question remains, what will happen if you have contentment built into your business each day? In truth, this doesn’t happen by itself. You must spend time and energy planning for contentment inside your life and business.

No one wants to feel frustrated, burned out, constantly hustling, or worrying about deadlines. Most people, given the choice, would eagerly sign up for satisfaction, ease, and enjoyment inside their life and business.

This brings me back to last week’s idea that when building your coaching business, focus on your path first and foremost. With your path in mind you have already taken a giant leap toward contentment because you are pursuing the business that you desire. But why stop there? What if you could incorporate 3 things into your business that will build contentment.

Would you do them?

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Here they are, three things that you can do to build contentment inside your business.

The first is to craft a mission statement that you incorporate into your daily routine. This was something that I was lacking early in the Coaching Hive. I knew it in a broad strokes kind of way, but it wasn’t until encouraged by Donald Miller of Business Made Simple, to put that mission into words and make it a part of my daily routine that I saw contentment and confidence flowing into my business. The beauty of a mission statement is that it is just one or two sentences. This is not a dissertation that you have to write. This