By Georgina Joy Read No Clucks Given Journal

Finish the task — or grow in it?

Hi Reader

That line has been sitting with me for weeks.

It is easy to ask why your business is not growing and look outward to the economy or the environment. It is far more uncomfortable to ask whether we are growing.

You may agree that our inner world reflects in our outer world, but that agreement alone does not create change. Recently I have been talking about time and it's importance in building inner capacity. Time matters, yes, but still, growth does not happen simply because time passes.

So I’ve been testing something in my own work.

When I approach a task, am I doing it to finish it? To clear it from the list and move forward unchanged? Or am I doing it in a way that stretches me slightly beyond who I was yesterday?

Those two approaches look similar from the outside. The email still gets written. The call still gets made. The proposal still gets sent.

But internally they are very different.

One preserves the current version of me.
The other asks something of me.

The task becomes less about completion and more about capacity. Less about getting through it, and more about growing through it.

It makes me wonder how many of the tasks already on my desk are opportunities to become steadier, clearer, or braver than I was before.

If that question is landing somewhere for you as well, you’re welcome to reply and share what you’re noticing.

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu,
Georgina 🐣
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