Spiritual Principles in Business: Leadership & Cash Flow
Value, integrity, and contributing (on/to Earth) are core consistencies in business. Are you willing to take your place and fulfill your purpose through your business? Spirituality is the hidden talk that’s involved in so many of my client-conversations that I thought it worth sharing on this blog. Spirituality, morals, values, and integrity are all the core and driving force behind branding, cash flow, customer service, and employees. These are fundamental parts of every human and as a small business owner, they run deep and affect all aspects of your business. The pieces behind your integrity and vision are you expressing yourself through your business.
The first two spiritual principles in business:
1. Taking Your Place as a Molecule in the Universe
This is a core element in leadership; think of the basic molecules hydrogen and oxygen. Those molecules don’t worry about what they aren’t, they don’t try to be a different molecule, and they don’t allow a void. Nature abhors a void. Molecules don’t apologize for their presence on the planet; they just do their job.
We should behave the same way, it’s not for us to play small, to apologize for our nature, or to apologize for what we’re doing with or in our business; we're just supposed to fill our space as who we are. Apologizing or reducing who you are could be hurting others on the planet. Be like an oxygen molecule; don’t take more or less space than what is right for you.
Keep your boundaries in shape. Don’t let your nervousness, anxiety, your sense of apology cause you to share more than what is healthy for you to share. There is a perfection in you sharing what’s appropriate and no more or less, don’t share more than what allows you to stay stable and strong. Interact with employees and customers, that is appropriate.
2. Money and Cash Flow
The bible has two stewardship perspectives, one being that it's good to earn money, and the second being that it’s hard for a rich man to make it through the eye of a needle.
Be responsible for stewarding forward the cash flow of the business. If you don’t protect the cash flow, you can’t keep the business open. So, if you want to keep your promise to your employees, protect the cash flow because negative cash flow for too long will close
When you charge people enough, you can pay your employees enough, and that means paying people generously but overpaying them for their position. When you pay people more than what they’d make somewhere else, they start to feel entitled because they feel guilty or that they don’t deserve it. Entitlement behaviors look like people asking for more vacation days than is stated that they are entitled to.
I’m no preacher, but like so many people I work with and who listen to my radio show, I incorporate spiritual principles into my business. So the rich man through the eye of the needle has to do with focus. There’s nothing wrong with earning, or having
What do you do as a business owner? Do you apologize for the space you take on the planet? Do you not share? Do you keep your electrons to yourself? Are you making sure your business is financially sound each month?