Over the last year or so, as my business ramped up, I noticed how prone I’d become to overwhelm (I’m sure many of you can relate).

As someone who treasures and values spaciousness and freedom, the mere sight of a full calendar can immediately catapult me into terror. My first urge is to catastrophise and become very dramatic, imagining that the tiniest of five minute tasks will eat up my entire day and making sure that everyone around me knows about it.

After a particularly frazzled week, I knew something had to change.

So I took out my notebook and I did what I always do in these moments. I listed out my values — and I checked to see if anything in my life or business was out of alignment with them.

This is the quickest and truest way to design and refine your life, so that it nourishes and supports you on the deepest of levels.

What does it mean to create a product, service or program that is magnetic?

It’s not marketing trickery (although it’s often hijacked as such) and it’s not manipulation.

At its simplest, magnetism means that your customers instantly recognise your offerings as HOME.

This beautifully simple, unadorned truth is central to sacred business.

My seven years of building a business primarily on Instagram showed me the realities of what tends to happen on there. Simply put, it's a hotbed for 'hungry ghost' syndrome.

One of the biggest lessons I've learned over the last few years is that the energy you bring to your concrete, strategic action (i.e. focussed, deliberate and discerning) is exactly the same energy that you can and should bring to your closed-eye, energetic practises.

Cultivation - of anything - is an ongoing process involving assessment, adjustment and refinement. Working on self trust is no different, you have to be in conscious, active relationship with the unfolding of it across your whole life, micro and macro.

Your body is your home, your one true home. It is a living, breathing form that houses the essence of your Soul in this life; indeed it is your Soul in form.

Soul Powered Business means aligning your healing and personal growth with your professional development. We often compartmentalise our life into different boxes: family, health, business, prosperity, creativity, etc.

The Soul-Powered approach is about cultivating wholeness across the whole ecology of your life. Your relationships, your health and vitality, your creativity and fulfilment, your life purpose, your finances, they are all intrinsically connected.

As a business methodology, it means placing your Soul’s trajectory as the compass for your professional life and aligning your choices and actions with its unfolding.

Far from being a distant comfort or an abstract spiritual concept, your Soul is omnipresent in every cell of your body - and it has the capacity to shape your life in measurable, tangible ways. Think of your Soul as a fully embodied, magical version of yourself with all the powers of the multiverse at its disposal.

This is a term I see banded around a lot, slotted into many an Instagram bio with a whimsical “ooh, this is a snazzy label, I'll use this for myself, thank you very much!"

I say this with a rueful smile, not in a jaded way. It's a fact that within social media, language is borrowed and brandished with equal measures. We've all been there! I know I have.

But I want to share with you what Sacred Business means to me and how, as an approach to creative life, it informs and shapes my work as a business mentor in a significant way.

Why is it so important to know the essence of your creations intimately?

We are not designed to live alone. Each of us is one stitch on a cosmic quilt; sovereign, but united. If you make all of your decisions from a place of unconscious selfishness, you are literally cutting yourself off from the currents of creation itself.

There is nothing inherently wrong with daydreaming, wishing and desiring. It's fun, it's human and it can be a powerful practise if held to lightly and playfully.

But to become a master of anticipation takes practise and skill. It means to understand the source of creation, the seeds of change and the cycles of life on a primal level. It requires discernment, sensitivity and courage.

It is the quality of your response to your environment that has the biggest effect on the quality of your life.

“High frequency” doesn’t mean being free of suffering. It refers to how we engage with the suffering itself.

Imagine if overnight we all forgot about all of the constructs we invented, like careers, financial success, 9-5, hierarchy, sales tactics, etc etc. And we just allowed ourselves to walk around naturally expressing our exact genius for the sole purpose of contributing to our fractal, effortlessly receiving in whichever form was most supportive to us, whether it be money, food, services, and we finally allowed our societies to function in harmony with the natural order of things.