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3 Steps to Destroy Your Way to Business Success

Everything is Falling Apart Beautifully

Destruction is inevitable. Everything falls apart eventually. Eastern wisdom traditions teach us that painful as it may be, in the grand scheme of life, destroying is as natural and necessary as creating and preserving. Destruction is a means of letting go of things that no longer serve us and making space for innovating something better.

In business, we often think of destruction as bad, as losing or failing. No. Amare leaders know that there can be truth and beauty in destruction, when there is not resistance or attachment. This includes destroying limiting attitudes and beliefs.

May you see beauty in destruction?

What would serve you to destroy related to your business?

How might you create a culture that balances creating, protecting, and destroying, in a healthy way?

3 Amare Steps to Constructive Destruction

1. Destroy negativity. Choose one belief or behavior that is rooted in fear, greed, or ignorance. Destroy it. Write it down and burn the paper, tell a trusted friend you are letting it go, dig a hole and bury a symbol of it – whatever action works for you.

2. Notice the spaciousness. Pay attention to what happens in your psyche when you destroy something that no longer serves. Experience the expanded space for creativity, for experimentation, for something new and invigorating. Be grateful for it.

3. Create something new. Consider what would be good to fill the space that destruction freed up. Choose and commit to a new, healthier belief or behavior. List three ways you can sustain it – e.g. repeating it as a mantra, getting support from others, and rewarding yourself.

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