There’s a common experience that most people share when they show up in my world, and it sounds something like this…

“There’s this vision, this calling, this message, this idea that I know in my bones I’m here to deliver. And it’s not that my brilliant mind came up with it. It’s more that it was delivered to me, or I landed on it. Now that I’ve got it, I know I have something I’m here to steward. I’m here to bring it forward into the world.”

What people don’t always fully realize is the degree to which this requires a vastly different relationship to being in business… 

Because while you are the owner of the business, you’re not really the owner of the inspired idea or the intellectual property that’s flowing through, right?

You’re the *owner* of the business, but the *steward* of the IP. 

If you were running a standard business, I could just ask you what you want regarding any business decision and get your answer. After all, it’s your business, your IP, and the decisions are all yours.

But when you’re answering a calling, you’re partnering with an emergent consciousness, and the degree to which you’re loyal to it is the degree to which it flows through you into the world beautifully and bountifully.  

In that setup, “What do you want?” regarding anything in the business is just one part of the equation. “What does the work want?” is another big part of the equation.

What you want and how you want to work is important, but what you’re here to express and how it wants to be expressed comes from the calling. It’s the calling’s consciousness that you’re here to anchor, understand, translate, express, and amplify.

When it comes to you, focus on understanding your design and structuring the business so that your genius, expressed via your innate design, is front and center. That’s how you prepare the vehicle to hum as you’re doing the work.

But when it comes to what you’re here to express, how it wants to be expressed, and why? That comes from the calling. It’s the calling’s consciousness that you’re here to anchor, understand, translate, express, and amplify.

That’s partnership, which is what the work wants and what the world needs.