My next thing is my business, right here online, on my website. Like many of you, I am super committed to my business, to doing all that I can to make it work, and to make it the best I possibly could. There are so many choices, so much wonderful technology, and such a wealth of advice available to us on the internet all day, every day. It’s easy to go down the rabbit hole of hustle and get completely off track. These were the signs for me.

1. Much like its close kin, shiny object syndrome, hustling for the glitzy shoulds and must do’s as recommended by online business experts blinded me to my own inner guidance system. I wasn’t creating my dream. Instead I was constantly chasing the brass ring, an ever-moving target that had little relationship to the real value of what I had to offer in my business.
2. Hustling grates on my nerves and stresses me out. Hustling simply doesn’t resonate for me. It doesn’t make me happy or fulfilled. It robs the pleasure from the doing.
3. Negativity is often the motivation for hustling. It seems to focus on a darker side of success. If you don’t do this now, you won’t get that. You have to be willing to hustle if you want to be successful. You’ll miss your chance, your one shot at this. The connotation here is that I have to give up something of personal value.
4. Hustling blurrs the lines between my Big Why for being in business and the systems that support that business. Systems are important, but they’re not the primary focus. If I lose sight of the very substance of my business, then there’s nothing really there for the supports to hold up.
5. Stopping, taking a deep breath amd a time-out allows me to reconnect with my why, supercharge my focus, and start enjoying  again what I am doing.

Hustle work well for some folks. But that’s because it’s their chosen path. It does make them happy and keep them on track. But it definitely isn’t my path, and it doesn’t get the results I want. There are times when I will have to apply some hustle, but it’s not my primary way of operating in my business.

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How about you? Are you a hustler. Does it serve you in your business or your next thing? Would you rather let it go? Or are you somewhere in between? Tell us in the comments below.