The Biz Owner Life Plan: Part 1, Your Lasting Lights
No matter how large or small your business vision, the investments of time, money, energy, and relationships that you and your family will make along your biz journey will push and pull at your life.
Knowing and directing how the two can gel is essential to your happiness and success. So let’s start to take stock of how your business plans will dovetail with your LIFE PLAN.
Over the next few weeks we’ll dive into a series of key questions to help you do just that. The first relates to the legacy you’re creating, or what I like to call your lasting lights:
What LASTING LIGHTS do you want to create in and through your life? List 3-5.
How is what you’re building through your business contributing to the impact you’ll have on your time here?
What lasting lights would you like to leave behind?
Legacies & Lights
Legacy is one way to think about this idea – and if it works for you, that’s excellent. What 3-5 legacies do you want to leave?
But what I’ve found is that this concept can sometimes feel too big for the scope of the everyday business owner’s life – something for multimillionaires, missionaries or empire builders.
(If we were in conversation, however, I might lovingly question this; who are you NOT to feel you can leave a significant legacy? But, baby steps!)
Legacy also often relates to a single theme or impact area. Yet in the time we’re here, we’ll likely have multiple careers, swim in dozens of spheres of influence, potentially have multiple significant others.
For these reasons I suggest thinking instead of our lasting lights, or the ways we can make an impact, leave a glow, add some radiance in the world around the things we value.
Your glow, your energy, really can brighten the world, and truly make a difference. You are the one and only one of you, so breathe into your light!
Identifying lights for 2025
Here are some ideas to jumpstart your thinking:
Is there a higher human quality that you really value, and want to more fully embody, like kindness, wisdom, or love?
… a bigger-than-you shift that’s close to your heart and soul, like reducing hunger, preventing mass shootings, or boosting the reading scores for kids in your town?
… a concept you believe can open new paths in and for the world, like the power of technology to do good, the underrated value of alternative healing, or the transformations possible when people’s money mindset expands?
… a relationship or organization that you feel dedicated to, whether because it connects so strongly with your self-concept (like your family or church), or with your personal mission or intentions (like a charity, or even your own company)?
Here are a few other questions to get your heart and soul revved up:
How can you add power to your lasting light through your business?
Is the business you’re building nourishing your life and/or your family’s in the ways that make your sacrifices worthwhile?
Is the value you’re delivering through your business making the type and level of impact that you intend and desire?
Are there other ways you’d like to make an impact through your life or your business, besides what your business does today?
Let’s talk about it! Join us at group mastermind, or make forward progress at your own pace by working with me one-on-one. Book a free 30-min call with me, Wendy Harrington.