Why your Spiritual, Emotional, Mental and Physical Well-Being is Critical for your Business Success?

How do you define business success? How about:

1. Sustainable, repeatable, profitable, scalable way for an energy exchange with your customer community - giving your product or service to your customer that he chases you to buy from and pay you money for. Lets call this Business Excellence.

2. Continuous creativity and innovation for making a difference to your customer community to ensure such strong loyalty and engagement with your business that not only they ongoingly buy from you but inspire their family and friends to become your customers. Lets call this Craft Mastery.

3. High levels of productivity and performance for creating greater value for your customer and greater profitability for the company which is the oxygen that your organization needs to go on breathing and living. Lets call this Leadership Depth.

I work with my clients through a 5-stage process of evolution and transformation on each of the above journeys. But that's taking us away from the question we are currently in the inquiry of. You may deep-dive into this process by reading a different blog by clicking below:

How to Transform your Organization from Good to Great

If you are still here and haven't as yet clicked yourself away, let me give you a quick reminder of what we are in the inquiry of at this moment - Why your spiritual, emotional, mental and physical well-being is critical to your business success?

If the output that we are seeking is Business Excellence, Craft Mastery and Leadership Depth as defined above; what input do we need to make the outcome a reality? I am asserting that if you and your team are not experiencing well-being in all the four bodies (spiritual, emotional, mental, physical) of your Being, your organizational car is going to run out of steam sooner or later. The car needs all the four wheels working in perfection for it to race ahead and keep on racing. Even one wheel off-axle or with less than optimum pressure or punctured, the car will come to a grinding halt with its destination of greatness still a long distance away. 

Emotional issues like feeling disconnected with your spouse, experiencing emotional distance from your kids; spiritual issues like not being in touch with your highest purpose or not feeling centred; mental issues like stress; physical issues like pain in your shoulders or back or in any part of your physical body are all pebbles in your shoe. Can you win the gold medal in the Olympics of Business with your feet hurting with every step on the ground? Is your mind fully available to you, leading you to your highest level of creativity, innovation, productivity, performance; or is your mind distracted with the physical, emotional, spiritual, mental pain it is present to? If all you do is keep slogging yourself and your team to run with pebbles in all the shoes, will your organization die the death of mediocrity or will you together soar into the realm of greatness?

If you are inspired to create wellness at all levels, here's a brief introduction to the path. Know that each of your four bodies' growth is blocked because of blindspots or limiting habits that you are not present to. You may be present to some limiting habits and yet you may not have found a path to freedom.

The first step is to work with a coach who is more committed to your well-being, evolution and transformation than to receiving your love, approval or appreciation because that comes in the way of fearless coaching. Click on the below link to read more about this:

Who is a Great Coach?

1. Physical Well-Being

The key question to assess your physical well-being is - How healthy am I? 

If you rated yourself 8 or above on a scale on 10, you are doing good though not great. Great would be 10 on 10 because you want to have greater physical energy with every passing year so that you are playing the game of Life with joy, aliveness and passion till your last breath. Hold yourself to account to be a 10 on 10, every moment of your life.

For physical well-being, you need to look at five aspects:
i. What and how are you eating? What are your eating habits? Are you taking care of your body like an athlete playing to win in the Olympics in the coming season? 
ii. How well are you exercising? Are you using integrated exercise science like yoga to keep yourself fit at the highest level?
iii. Are you using an integrated science for healing like Ayurveda, Homeopathy etc. or do you get yourself cut-up or pop tons of pills to get away from the pain? Modern medical science is great as far as diagnostics is concerned but continues to have a blinkered approach towards healing. In the near future, I see all big hospitals transforming themselves to integrated healing centres with prevention as central to their business model rather than cure. In the current business model that the modern medical industry is caught up in, human sickness is the only way for them to be successful and profitable. This business model, for sure, will evolve just as all business models evolve towards sustainability, harmony and collaboration sooner or later. 
iv. Your emotional well-being because limiting emotions actually cause dis-ease in the physical body. Anytime there is a discomfort in the body, know that the reason lies in your emotional body. There's enough research available in the world, so much so that the exact symptom in the physical body can be mapped to specific emotions and thought patterns.
v. You got it, your mental well-being as well. Limiting thought patterns cause limiting feelings / emotions which in turn cause dis-ease in the physical body. 

If you are sceptical about the above model, write to me and I will link you up with the relevant research done in the world for you to explore, experiment and study.

2. Mental Well-Being

The key question to ask here is - How well can I focus?

Your ability to have fish-eye concentration like Arjuna in Mahabharata when he was aiming to shoot the eye of the fish hung-up on a pole by looking at its reflection down below in the bowl of water. When their guru, Dronacharya, asked what each of the students saw. He got various responses - fish, bowl, sky, water, self etc. And, all Arjuna saw was the eye of the fish. He was the only one whose arrow pierced right through the eye of the fish.

Laser-sharp focus or fish-eye concentration is what gives you productivity, performance, effectiveness and the ability to get so much more done in so less time.

3. Emotional Well-Being

The key question to ask here is - How happy am I?

Not the mask of happiness that we put on to show the world but deep within, when we are all by ourselves. The easiest way to assess this is to do this mirror exercise for atleast a month - look into your eyes in the mirror for 5 minutes daily. Share with me what shows up for you.

4. Spiritual Well-Being

The key question to ask here is - Why am I doing all of this? What is my purpose?

In my experience, this is the place to begin from. Work with your coach to create this connection with your Highest Self. Once the curtain drops between you and you, you will feel centred, totally at peace with what is, with nowhere to go and nothing to prove; experiencing oneness and harmony with your own self, with every other being outside of you, with the Universe itself.

This is the wellspring from where everything will arise.

Sending love your way as you wake up to the new reality that you are, to live in the expression of your greatness, giving yourself the permission to let your Light shine, giving everyone else the permission to let their Light shine. Inside of this journey, everything will get created - Business Excellence; Craft Mastery; Leadership Depth; loving harmonious relationship with your spouse, your parents, your siblings, your colleagues and everyone else; happy responsible kids with their genius joyfully expressed; your experience of yourself nourished and nurtured; your being at the source of transformation in the world. Welcome to that Brave New World. 

Love,
Jyoti.