Ep. #7 You Have a Choice
Hi, this is Kate Zurenko, host of the podcast Practices Progress. I've curated content and interviews to inspire and to help fast forward your solopreneur's success by learning from others who are sharing real examples of what it takes to create and to run a business from within their own four walls. I hope these real life experiences are inspiration to what is possible. I am driven every day not only to create a successful business, but one that is sustainable. And I know it's possible for you too.
Hello all. I can't believe this is my 7th episode. I've just been reflecting a lot and I'm really excited to be here today and to be able to have this opportunity to speak my thoughts, my mind and feel more and more comfortable doing it. Each week I am sitting in a different space, so I'm curious how the sound quality is going to come through, but I'm kind of hoping you can hear the birds outside. Although it's February 27 and it's going to be 68 degrees today, which is odd, there's a lot of spring songs going on outside.
Anyway, one of the topics that has really resonated with me lately, a good friend of mine was talking about choices and kind of what choices mean and how they can create a lot of wonderful things in our life and how they can also be an inaction where we do not. Choosing something is also a choice. But I loved her spin on it, and it was less about kind of monumental choices that we make, and it's the small ones and how you can flip the script on a lot of things that we do as humans day to day, that are kind of mundane. So one of the topics she talked about specifically was like, laundry. Right?
I have to do the laundry. Well, actually, you don't have to, but you're choosing to do the laundry. And then if you can think about why you're choosing to do the laundry, it's because you want clean clothes. And so if you approach that task, rather than resenting it or feeling somehow victimized that you have all this laundry to do, you can actually take a step back and flip the script and say, I'm choosing to do this because actually I don't have to. I could be doing something else.
And that goes for everything that we do. It is a choice. Oftentimes we get caught up and we're living this life that is so busy with all these moving parts, and we're overwhelmed, and it just seems like we're drinking out of a fire hydrant. But really, that's because of the choices we are making, and we're choosing to do them. And some of them are absolutely valid.
And then there's others you can sit and really dig deep, like, why is this part of my day or my week or my month? And so that is something that I have sat with a lot, and it's made doing laundry a lot easier. I think it's so funny. Laundry isn't the one for me, that is hard. It's actually keeping my kitchen clean.
And so last night when I was cleaning, I actually really just felt at peace with it because I was choosing to be there to clean, not because I had to, but because I wanted a clean kitchen for me and my family. So I'm just leave you with that. And I'm curious what comes up for you as you think about the choices you're making in your personal life, in your business, and how they're either supporting you to feel inner peace, or how perhaps they might be creating turmoil inside. And how the tasks that feel like they need to get done, like the dishes and the laundry, just flipping that script and realizing that you have a choice to do it and you're choosing to do it because of something positive, it makes all the difference. Thank you so much for being here with me this week, and I hope you have a wonderful day.
