The Importance of Having Fun in Your Business
Guest post written by Jordan Maney. Visit Jordan’s Website.
Being uptight and buttoned down may be what most people think about often when running a business, but it doesn’t have to be. Rigidity can actually kill your business. When you don’t allow your business the space for spontaneity, you dramatically limit its possibilities. Structure is just as crucially important to your business as is having fun.
Not sure how to have more fun in your business? Let’s show you how.
Fun is having curiosity
What if are the two most vital words to a business owner. It’s how you started a business to begin with, after all. It’s how you’ve maintained one through a pandemic. It’s how you’ve gotten to this point and it’s what will take your business through the various stages from which it’ll grow.
But every now and then we get afraid of what if. We avoid it because it’s often a new and unknown stressor. We’re all used to stressors like adding someone to our team, lean seasons financially, or mental health taking a toll on our brains. But what if isn’t meant to terrify us, it’s meant to get us curious. What if you offered new products and services? What if you restructured that thing that didn’t work last time? What if you tried something completely different based on your stats and intuition? Fun reminds us to remain curious and explore new ways to grow in our businesses.
Fun is the ability to test without expectation
So often we test offers with expectation and then get overwhelmed when we don’t get what we expected. We cling onto the results without realizing that’s not the point. The fun is in the process of creation but the expectation can kill that. Prioritizing process over results will ensure your ability to create anything. That practice builds trust in yourself as a leader and alleviates pressure from any launch, product, or service from having to be “perfect.”
Fun is how you grow
You cannot grow by simply doing the same thing over and over again. Growth comes from variation, variation comes from risk. Fun is introducing spontaneity and risk into your structures, operations, and offers. You incorporate it, you don’t let it take over. Creating that harmony is how you can allow everyone in your business to have fun. The risk of fun doesn’t have to be frightening and doesn’t require that you throw caution to the wind. It’s an opportunity to simply do something with less fear and rigidity.
Allowing fun in your business can be an exciting way to grow as a leader, grow as a business, and grow your community. What ways can you bring fun to work?
