How to Integrate Learning Into Your Business

Oct 11

Illustration of a stack of marked-up notebooks with scribbles and crossed-out notes—symbolizing the messy but valuable process of integrating failure into growth.

Certain things stand out in the early years of my working life: drinking too much during after-work bar crawls, my eagerness to partake in office gossip, and having crises of confidence if I knew what I was doing.

I remember being thrust into roles and thinking, "Do they know I'm figuring out this whole thing as I go? Do they have any idea?"

I was scrambling every day and the thought that I was supposed to know it all *haunted* me.

One particularly barfy moment happened one week after I was hired when the entire department had come into the office to work over the weekend without my knowing. When I sauntered in on Monday and met their stares, I felt like it had all been a setup that proved to them how unfit for the job I was. Part of me still squirms just thinking about it.

The older, wiser part of me knows now, though, that I was simply learning.

As entrepreneurs, we take the lessons of our past work experiences into our own businesses. So, here's a question for you:
✨What would it look like to build "I'm learning" into *your* business model?
✨ What would it look like to see your business as an iterative process? (You, after all, are an iteration, too).

By building "I'm learning" into your business, you give yourself the freedom to move forward and make bold moves in your biz while still having the freedom to change it all and try something new.

After all, isn't that the business you always wanted anyway?

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