215: Hardship is a Great Teacher in Your Business

Financial
Written By Michele Williams

215: Hardship is a Great Teacher in Your Business

with Ceil DiGuglielmo

On the podcast for our yearly review and progress session is Ceil DiGuglielmo of the Sew Much More podcast. This is a joint podcast that we love and look forward to each year. This year we seemed to really look at our personal lives and how they intermixed with our business lives a bit more. Also, listen in to hear the one thing that we both struggled with this year that we have enjoyed so much in the past.

Topics Mentioned:

  • Proud moments

  • Reading

  • Lessons Learned

  • Rest

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Key Thoughts:

  • It also made us realize what's most important in our life. And in our family. It's just always that reset button. Then it also made me thankful for the business that I've built, and the processes that I have, so I could take a step away for a week or so. Michele (7:34) 

     

  • My job is not my whole life. Most of us started our businesses for that reason, we wanted to work it around our lives. So where did we lose our way that the business is controlling our life? Ceil DiGuglielmo (14:30) 

     

  • I had to and still am having to learn how to navigate that with joy, and with calm and even when it doesn't feel calm. And how to be curious, and how to be kind and soft, not hard hearted, and irritated and angry and frustrated when my plans keep getting disrupted. Michele (17:27) 

     

  • There are also a lot of us who are the parents of adult children, and there are times we have to stop everything, being a teachable moment because our children have become adults. But I also think that our children learn from us when they see us in difficult circumstances. Ceil DiGuglielmo (23:55) 

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