I Girl Bossed too close to the sun
[Not written using Ai]
I’ve girl-bossed too close to the sun, pals.* In other words I’ve bitten off almost more than I can chew and I am about to drop all of the balls.
But I’ve been determined to stick to my strategic guns and work out how to do it without losing my mind.
We all know far too well how much there is to do when you’re self-employed. There’s a never ending list of tasks, and even when you think you might be on top of everything the website needs updating, or your inbox needs tidying, or ya know, big things like your tax return needs doing. So boring. Good lord please give me a stressful project over having to scan my receipts in. But sometimes those boring bits are necessary to face, because believe it or not, they still mount up to that work load. Seems suspicious but ok, sure.
Well, 2025 has been the year of the experiments for me and Wild. The idea has been to try out new things, test the waters and see what people both inside and outside the community, react to. The plan has been for that to culminate in an evolution and for a group of members to help me develop the next stage. It’s all been part of the strategy and it’s all going to plan. Our objectives haven’t changed, only the ways in which we achieve them. That has meant, though, that I’ve launched loooooads of new things on top of everything else we normally do. My aforementioned workload of boring things didn’t disappear when I decided to evolve the business either??
I was extremely optimistic about it all. I still am. However, I’ve been wondering why my head has been so damn noisy and I think it’s because I just started collecting a whole ball pit of balls and forgot that I perhaps might not be able to carry them all by myself. Certainly not very well anyway.
So what am I going to do to relieve the pressure and do less things, WELL? So far I’ve taken stuff off my plate. For Q4 we had more clinics, workshops and an extra location planned for Christmas drinks (on top of me running Beyond the Bubble and the Retreat plus all other regular sessions). I’ve turned our Exeter coworking day into a casual meetup over coffee. I’ve asked for help (thanks Wild Evolution team, Paulina and Meg!).
“And I drove around thinking. ”
Yeaaaah. Turns out thinking actually helps?
I distract myself far too much because my brain is so noisy, I just plaster over it with noise that doesn’t mean anything eg. comfort shows and podcasts. When actually I needed to confront the difficult stuff with no distractions. I managed to do for myself what I help other people do - to be honest with what they truly want from their businesses.
Me or Aristotle? Me or Aristotle?
After all of this I’m now at an exciting point where I have had a MAJOR breakthrough with what the future holds for Wild (it’s literally happened in the last 24 hours), so I’ll be sharing that with you very soon.
It’s likely to be as soon as the beginning of next week because I am bursting with excitement.
If you’d like to be part of the Wild Evolution team, just drop me a dm on Heartbeat.
*I’m not sure of the originator of this phrase but my best mate Greg James said it the other day so now I'm using it. And in case you didn't know, I hate the term Girl Boss.
I think it's always really great when you feel you have to explain your jokes, ya know?
GROSS.