And how do leaders lean into funding their vision?
Great question.
Leaders lean into funding their vision by taking small steps into filling their own
cup, by starting to do small things for themselves.
And it can be something really, really small.
But I think what's really important first is to make yourself happy, to do something
that you love.
Because when you do something that you love, you fill your heart with joy.
And when you fill your heart with joy, what happens is that you become a magnet for opportunities,
you become a magnet for people.
And that's when you attract everything that you desire.
And you also attract the path that you're supposed to actually be taking.
And that's when you start to get clarity.
When you are sad, when you are depressed, when you're not feeling well, when you are
feeling rejected or criticized, when things appear to not be working in your life or business,
that's when you are most likely to attract scammers, people to disrespect you, clients
who reject you, clients who don't pay you.
And when you are leaning into more happiness, more joy, doing more of what you love, you'll
find that you're not pushing anymore.
It's so much easier for you to attract your desired path.
It's so much easier for you to put energy and time and money into your own vision.
And I think being joyful is a responsibility as well, because you are impacting thousands
of people in your neighborhood just with your personal frequency.
How happy you are makes a massive difference to the people around you.
It's not just your neighbors.
It's so much bigger than that.
And I find that quite interesting how your happiness, your joy, the love that you spread,
the compliments that you pay, the sincere compliments that you pay to those around you
have such a massive impact on those around you.
You will never understand how big this impact can possibly be just because you were nice
and friendly to your concierge or to the waiter or to the people around you that normally
do not get noticed.
You will see when you start to analyze how big your impact is when you are happier yourself,
you have a responsibility to make yourself happy.
So, Lily, what were some of the things that you did early when you were trying to figure
out into funding your vision that gave you joy, that gave you clarity, that helped you
in your path?
Great question.
One of the things that I started doing was to create a happiness calendar.
So, many, many years ago, I was a nanny and I published my first book.
And when I did that, I realized I wanted to have a boyfriend and I also wanted to do something,
but I wasn't sure what.
I wanted to do something big.
I wanted to feel like I had succeeded in some way.
So, I started to create this happiness calendar.
And what I was starting to do was to include in my diary things that made me feel good,
for example, swimming and dancing and walking and doing my nails and having fun with my
friends and going out for a drink or, you know, all these little things.
But because I was filling up my calendar with happy moments, I gradually became a different
person.
And I also learned about this from a book called How to Win Friends and Influence People.
And what I remembered the most from this book is that if you are going to be a burger flipper,
be the best possible burger flipper there is and enjoy the process, even if your aspiration
is to be the director of a company, still be the most impactful, the most joyous, the
most productive employee you can possibly be, even while you are aspiring to become
the leader of a certain company.
And it was that that really transformed my habits.
And because of that, I published my book.
And because of that, I was hired to be the director of a company that was doing property
management and because they hired me, I managed to increase the revenues from 400K per year
to 642K per year with the same number of properties.
And I did that because I was with branding and with improving the image of the properties
and also with gifting books to potential clients that I desired.
But the key thing is that the had I not been happy, had I not created the happiness calendar,
I truly believe I could never have gotten there because it's so important to stay positive
while you are going through tough moments.
I think it's important to even when you are you don't have your ideal job, that you can
still enjoy moments of your current job so much so that you are observed in the community.
So when there is an opportunity for you to get promoted or for you to work with a different
company or for you to promote the services of another company, you get that opportunity
because of how positive you are, because of how fun you are, because of how charismatic
and confident and fun loving you are.
And that's the thing that made the difference for me in terms of being able to put time
and energy into my vision.
And now I'm collaborating with influential entrepreneurs that I could never have dreamed
to collaborate with had I not included the happiness calendar into my life.