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5 contributions to Nonbusy
Have to vs want to game ♠️♣️♥️♦️
What do you HAVE TO and what do you WANT TO do Today? Share your own self-reflexion with us. I have to take care of a few personal things before my flight to Málaga. I really want to hit the road again, start networking with people offline, and bring them here among us too.
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@Jakub Pacanda the key is to feel aligned with our personality traits, style of work, preferences, needs. Thank you for creating this conversation.
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@Jakub Pacanda I first have to declutter it and make space for energy and air to move freely. I love interior design (have studied professionally) and use feng shui a lot - the classical Chinese approach, creating individual planning for the particular people who live, with their birthday data. It uses the five elements and associated shapes and colours to harmonise the existing structures.
Doing what you love for money. Yes or no?
I'm curious how you see it. I was lucky to always do what I enjoyed, and somehow it also brought me money. I have had an entrepreneurial mindset since I was 16, and I always thought it was the path to true freedom. But is it really? The problem with things we love is that they can captivate us so much that we don’t know when to stop. It’s great as long as we feel passion, but what if that passion suddenly fades and we are left alone because we forgot about family, friends, other hobbies, and ourselves? Have you ever met someone who worked a 9 to 5 job and complained, but then discovered a new passion, like yoga, and suddenly considered getting certified to teach it? Planning to be their own boss and take control of their time. And what happened then? The first year or two, the excitement is huge. First students, first classes, it grows, it brings in money. Amazing. But what about three, four, five years later? They no longer practice just for themselves, but because they have to deliver lessons to clients who paid for them. Classes happen in the morning, late morning, and evening. They keep track of who comes and who doesn’t, handle marketing, prepay spaces, have to refund money if they get sick, and constantly worry about what will happen if their body suddenly fails completely. Where are those evenings when they could just say "See you tommorow" to their boss and be free to do whatever they wanted? Abandoning yourself as a bad boss, in my opinion, is one of the toughest tests of adulthood. Where am I going with this? You know the phrase never give up? It’s not always the right approach, and it’s not a failure at all if you abandon your own nonfunctional model, activity, or business and jump into the lifeboat. In my view, we don’t have to heroically die with a sinking ship. Who knows, maybe we’ll end up on the paradise island of our dreams and feel great with very little and beauty of nature again. PS: We create this world as @Saja Misolin says.
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Thanks for your reply to my comment - it brought me back to do what I said I would 🤗 So, yes, I fully agree with your reflections. Sticking only with passion may lead to the situation you described. We need a balance - connected to reality as well as truthful to our hearts and intuition. The online space is full of authorities who claim that everything is possible once you follow your heart. And lot of people face disappointment. I also would like to comment on the video you shared. I have to admit I was shocked. Such a visually pleasing image - a charming beautiful woman talking on the background of nature's paradise. Talking about concepts, compiled from from different opinions - it is not problematic that they are not all original. But the way it is spoken about trauma, with lightness and giggles I don't think would land well in all situations. I know people who might feel hurt if they listened to it. As a therapist and transformational coach, I am personally very sensitive about the choice of words and choice of tone. (It's true, communication has been one of my biggest passions). And obviously, sensitive about the audience that might consist of very different people. Thanks for posting - it gave me food for thought, I might even reflect on it (the video) this week in my community, I am running a 5-day visibility challenge. @Jakub Pacanda
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@Jakub Pacanda thank you, appreciate you sharing this - and I appreciate you for creating such a space of inclusivity and open conversations. I hope my comment is taken with open heart.
I am Iskra Petrova, a builder of experiences, film and art projects, and more :)
Hi, everyone, let me introduce myself with this post. I'd really love to become non-busy, but it is more of a theoretical dream state than actually desired one. Why? Because I am always excited about new projects, programs, art creations... I won't bother you with a long bio of myself (read a short one at the end of this post). I will quickly share with you about one of my projects of passion: I love hosting group experiences and building communities around them. OR Taking communities and building online group experiences in them. The purpose? When people connect with each other, they drop some of their masks, behave more like themselves, discover like-minded people (something they might struggle doing in real life). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ So now I have an invitation for you: Over the last two months I built a new free community that took off about ten days ago. In ten days we moved up rank from #1700 to #700 today. My community has 100% engaged members, and about 100 activities per day, with just 22 members. This is not random. There is theory and experience behind these results - to say the least, all my active communities have been having 84-100% engagement. I built or set up communities on Facebook, Circle, Heartbeat besides Skool. Now I am gathering consultants, creators and business owners who want to create experiences for their community members. I am bringing them together to start a brand new community and demonstrate exactly how I do it, which you could replicate in full or partially for your own projects. I am not going to go through all the details/ features like my proven 3-day workshop, how to build engagement, how to host live experiences in safe spaces for people to feel comfortable to express themselves, etc. I just want to say that this new community is paid - but there is a way for you to be in it for free, and even make money, as a member of it! (And this is something you can learn to do for your paid community, too!). Check the Powerful Group Experiences here:
I am Iskra Petrova, a builder of experiences, film and art projects, and more :)
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@Ruben Plasmeijer Thank you, Ruben, for "seeing me". I will check out what you have been working on - I am just starting in Jakub's community. Appreciate your words of encouragement and acknowledgement! 🙏🤗
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@Jakub Pacanda sure, Jakub, it was an incredible experience that helped me immensely grow as a coach, mentor and facilitator - I shall record a video and post it with captions.
I like the idea of building communities together from Iskra
Hey guys 👋 @Iskra Petrova asked this question in Skoolers: "What do you think about building communities together, in a co-working session?" I really love it. Since many of us are building communities from scratch, we can use our We are free ⛓️‍💥🐬🕊️ gathering, which is already on our community calendar. I'm definitely in favor of building our communities together. I have also tuned up our classroom a bit and there will certainly be a few changes. I have been thinking about how to simplify things in the group so they don't take up too much time and we don't just swap time spent on mainstream social media for time spent on Skool. As the Nonbusy movement, our goal is to simplify things and I see this as a step that allows us to grow together without wasting time. For example, we no longer need to spend time on online meetings doing lengthy introductions because we already have the Who we are? 🫂 thread for introductions. Who's in?
I like the idea of building communities together from Iskra
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I am glad to know you like the idea, @Jakub Pacanda :) co-working usually makes people be more focused and produce real results. And the format I suggested, adding a facilitated Q&A/ feedback part makes it even more valuable.
1 like • Aug 26
@Reid Richardson this is great, that you do it in real life.
What is your purpose?
Really, what is your life purpose and why?
1 like • Aug 21
@Jakub Pacanda Yes, we mirror each other. And when we recognise it, things get really interesting. I can talk a lot on this topic, mirroring :)
1 like • Aug 21
@Jakub Pacanda Thank you, Jakub, appreciate your generous invitation. I am a coach and mentor for experts in transition (cross-career, cross-border, cross-relationships) to help them make choices that feel right for them, for living and enjoying life and work, with a sense of purpose, connection, self-love and self-trust. The inner work creates the following visible results: find the love of their life after shifting to self-love and self-trust, run a group coaching program even before receiving their certification, grow a big social media audience - after being in self-doubt for years, repair important family relationships, launch courses and workshops, etc. My mentoring is about becoming practically visible, in the easiest and fastest way. And to it, I have several done-with-you services - set up and launch a blog website, design a group experience, to test a service, collect feedback or scale the impact and income, etc. I will start posting my stories (they are more than one - I usually have a set ready when being a guest on a podcast or summit), to start conversations here, too. If people resonate with me, they can check out my profile for my communities links - but sure, I will be sharing them in the posts as well.
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