If I told you that you’ll never be able to launch your soul business if you only give it part-time attention and treat it like a side-hustle, you would probably unsubscribe and never come back to my blog.

Heck, if somebody told me this 3 years ago when I launched my own business openly to the public, I would have stopped listening and blocked that person too.

But here’s what I’ve learned after 3 years of starts and stops, and rollercoaster rides of profits and losses:

When I tried the work after the kids go to bed thing. It only left me sleep deprived and cranky.

When I tried outsourcing my most time consuming work like video editing. It only left my bank account empty.

When I tried working only 15 hours a week for the sake of “work-life balance”. It left me with a never ending to do list and nothing actually got done.

So, here’s my slice of humble pie:

If you are not ready to give you business your ALL, and throw in a piece of soul for good measure, you will not be successful.

This applies even if you’re doing your business on the side of being a full time mom or a have full time corporate job.

To birth something new into the world that will have its own entity, like a business, or a baby, you have it give it life force and usually from your own.

I was chatting with a Pandit from Bhakti Marga because I wanted a spiritual perspective on this.

This Pandit is a spiritual teacher who lives a normal life, has a family, and a job, etc. He happens to own his own company so his perspective was especially relevant.

My question was: “How can you throw yourself into the business of launching a business without losing yourself into it? How do you create material success while keeping your spirituality as your primary focus?”

His answer was a total relief.

He acknowledged the thing that I was denying.

Building a business is not a part-time thing. It is an all consuming thing that requires a part of your soul.

In the beginning, as you’re trying to build something from nothing, your business is going to need a piece of your soul in order to be born, kind of like a baby needs your life force to gain its own life.

It was humbling to hear this from someone who has successfully founded his own company, who has international clients and staff to pay and take of:

“You will never be able to establish a company working only 5 hours a week.”

I realized why my business just wasn’t working for me.

I simply wasn’t giving it enough hours.

Based on this, there are two options in front of me:

Either, fully accept that I simply can’t give enough hours to get my business to a full time status and be OK with it…

OR

Schedule more time to give to my business.

Because of my priority to be physically and mentally present with my kids in the afternoons when they come home from school, option 2 is not going to happen.

So, the answer is in accepting the current situation and being OK with it.

Acceptance is a hard lesson.

In my experience, it’s definitely a spiritual lesson.

So I suppose the chat with the pundit ended up being a spiritual lesson as well as a business one.