Yesterday I talked about Trying To Box God In.  Today I want to share my experience of letting God out of the box.

I don’t hide much of my life. It is what it is and there is no other way to explain it. Over the past few months I have been at a point of truly trying to focus and get where it is God wants me with my business. I have tried so many different things in the past, but never found true satisfaction in any of them. I believe the business owner should love what they do and when they no longer love it, then they need to consider, evaluate, and prune where necessary.

I have also learned that when your life is just a mess then your business will feel it. Although my path is clearer now, it does not mean that it won’t come with its share of troubles. This past spring I decided it was time for me to get away from the environment I was in and move where I can find peace and more clarity. So I relocated to Oklahoma. It was where God was leading me and I went without knowing why in the heck I was going.

At any rate that was April and we are now in July. Over the last few months I tried my best to maintain my business that was already in jeopardy because the of the environment I lived in. I could not handle the load because I was trying to maintain my sanity that I worked so hard to get back. It was getting harder and harder to cope.

However I pushed, even when God said it was time to consider, evaluate, and prune. I tried to get God to bless my mess. In May is when everything started to go downhill as far as I was concerned. My income was cut in half and I started losing clients due to the summer, kids out of school, and some I let go because God told me to do so. I even lost a few because of my own negligence.

All I could do was look to God ask why, and how it all happened. Either He was silent for a while or I was trying to hear what I wanted to hear because He was not answering me at all. So finally I shut up my mind and my mouth. I stopped trying to put God in that box, that He never seemed to be in anyway and just let Him be God.

Don’t shake your head because you have been there too (if you are not there now).

God gently reminded me to trust in Him as I had before and rest on His promises to me. He then told me to look at my life and I will see the state of my business.

WOOO…talk about a scary view. I did not want to see that because I had come so far. However, there were still obstacles in the way; and most of them I created.

I have been working on tightening my brand and developing programs and products that fit it. I have been missing so much and I was led back to a post I wrote some time ago about the Epiphany of Me and how I discovered myself that weekend. How I lost myself after that is still up in the air; but the reality is that it can happen.

I have realized that the more I get my life together, the more my business comes together. My income did not fall because of all I was not doing. It was cut in half in preparation. God needed me to be quiet for while. Being here in Oklahoma with my mother has enabled me to be able to do just that because the cost of living is low. God removed the clients so that I regain my focus. I had to remove what did not belong to make space for what was to be added according to His will for my life and business.

WOW… that was another epiphany (I tell ya those revelations are eye opening)!

Am I giving up Social Savvy VA. Nope. As I work on my brand it all fits together.

I can’t share much about what I am planning or rather what God is directing. I can tell you this, if your business is determining your life I have something great planned for the fall over at my main site LaTara Ham-Ying dot com. The plans have been in the works for some months but I can see better now that the rain are gone and can see all the obstacles in my way.

Oh yeah, and like I said, I finally let God out of the box

Have you let God out of the Box? If so what is it doing for your life? If not, why?

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