A couple months ago, I was thinking about the word "business". Stasia and I had been talking about changing the way we see "business", and by proxy, change the way we as a human body see it. So, that day a couple months ago, when I was contemplating the word I heard my thoughts go to the phrase, "None of your bees wax"... That made me smile because people say that instead of "none of your business". My funny brain loves a good play on words, so instead of calling our company a "business", I told Stasia I wanted to call it a "Bees Wax". This at least takes the mind out of the old concept of business and into a new concept of fun.
So, the other thing that has changed the way I see business is that we gave our Raw, Transformational Chocolate Bees Wax the name, "Never The Same Chocolate". We have had several people who understand "marketing for business" say to us, "Inconsistency will kill a business", and, "People always want to be able to depend on consistency", and, "How are you going to get return business if you are always changing?"
To this we say a few things... We are not a business, we are a Bees Wax; We are changing the way people see "business"; We have had no problem with return customers so far; We (as people and a planet) are always changing, and a company is going to change with the people and the times... We decided to step into what is going to happen anyway and just admit we are always going to change.
Our tag line (thank you to our sister JJ Connoly!!) is "Always amazing, never the same". People can always depend on AMAZING chocolate, but it will never be quite the same...
It has been very interesting the resistance we have received from people about that possibility of constant change... And yet, the very same people who resist the concept are asking us, "did you bring your chocolate with you??" every time we see them.
Another thing I have been saying lately is, "this is how I pay myself for living." :) I love doing what I love and loving what I do. I pay myself for that, and every day I look in the mirror and say, "Thank you for loving your life so much that you pay yourself for doing what you would be doing if you never had any concerns on how to pay bills." What a concept!!! :) Paying yourself for living...
Consider writing down what you would be doing if you never had to worry about bills. Not just what you would do for "work", but what you would JUST DO. I love making and eating chocolate, I love singing, I love channeling, I love traveling and visiting places I have never been. (I wrote a blog a few days ago about "Do what you love..." There are so many things I wrote in that blog that I LOVE to do. THAT is how I live now.)
I do what I love all the time. And the "Universe of Abundance" provides all I need to do those things and more. Example: I just got a $250 tithe this weekend for singing at a church that I hadn't sung at in 6 months. I sang there on Mothers' day, and I just got the tithe check yesterday... I had no idea that would happen, but it did. I am always being taken care of!! ALWAYS and in ALL WAYS!! :) Thank you me and thank you Universe of Abundance!!!!
When you know this as truth, it will be your truth... (Or whatever YOU see as the truth for YOU... live it and it will be that way)
This blog sort of went off in a few directions, but it's all connected :) The main point is that you can change things to fit your perspective. Just live as if it does, and it will... No need to convince others or change to fit into someone else's box, and it is ok to change your mind... I am living proof that changing your mind does not kill you... it actually makes you stronger!!!
If you could start a Bees Wax, (What I consider to be the "New Wave" of companies) what would it be? Try to think of something that you love, and create it into something that has never happened... As long as you have faith and trust you will be taken care of, you will!!! And I would love to hear when your Bees Wax takes off!!! Let me be the first to congratulate you for paying yourself for living!!!! Isn't it GREAT??!!?
Questions? Comments? Thoughts? Please share :)
My bees wax is creating connections between masses of people through art. I love singing words that we all know as US and raising MY emotions to ecstasy; through tones of turbulence, humanity, and compassion. I like both of you knowing that your lives inspire me beyond words. I love you both, sister godesses!
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