DROP THE DRAMA STORY.

If you picked up a dictionary from 2011 and looked up the word ‘drama', there's a chance my face would have been in the description.

Drama. I loved it. And without being conscious of it, I was continually letting that shit manifest in my business.

Whenever anything happened—I mean anything—I always needed to run things by at least 15 people as well as… putting up a FB post, pulling cards, and journaling. I made myself mentally relive it before I finally got some sense into myself — “Peta, it's just a phone call”

Well. It was always a little more than a phone call. But it wasn't switching someone's life support off, which I always made it out to be.?

The issue is my business always felt stressful, but only because I was the one perpetuating the stress. My brain was continually dramatising everything and actually creating the drama like a daytime soap writer. There actually wasn't drama until I was handed notes and created a screenplay around it —

Making a phone call

By Peta Serras.

Creative team — my Mum, my dad, my best friend, the group chat, FB, Instagram stories, and my close friends list, my tarot cards, and last but not least, emotional support from my cat.

We can giggle at this, but we do it so often in our business we don't actually realise how much drama we're adding in because it's so normal to us. It's an unconscious action. And we do it because it feeds us in a particular way.?

Everyone wants to consider their nervous system these days, but continually dramatising things is one way to absolutely not do that. It continually puts us in a heightened state and prolongs exposure to all the unsexy negative feelings.?

?It also moves timelines out. The longer we spend in the drama and not making decisions, the longer it takes for us to achieve the thing.?

My take — this is where entrepreneurial skills come in. I define entrepreneurship as an action, it's a verb, it's a way of existence. And it's something we can practice and when we do our entire life gets better:

• Be unbothered: This is my mantra for everything. Unbothered people have better lives because they don't let every little thing fuq their shit up.
• Remove YOURSELF from the situation: Half the time we dramatise things is because we put ourselves in the centre of the story when if it's our business, our business should be the centre and we're making decisions for it. You are not your business. And if you are enmeshed with your business you'll find it's all too easy to create drama from this place.
• Move forward with action: Great! Something has happened. Where to from here? How can you practice self-trust and self-leadership and just make a decision from what's happening in front of you?

It can be all too easy to constantly need to debrief. And although it's not a bad thing, we need to remember if we're using time to vent instead of vent >> process >> move through the feelings, all we're doing is prolonging the time spent in the drama story like a daytime soap.

And before we know it, we're the daytime soaps number one writer with a 10 year contract.

What drama story as you breaking up with today?

Peta ??

>> QUESTION FOR THE GROUP CHAT >> BE HONEST! WHERE DO YOU LOVE TO CAUSE BUSINESS DRAMA?

LOVE THIS? THEN YOU'LL LOVE THE FOLLOWING ??

EP. 48: WHEN NOTHING IS WORKING AND IT'S ALL GOING TO SHIT

EP. 58: MY THREE STEP PROCESS TO BE UNBOTHERED