Are there things in your life that feel heavy and "work"-like? For me, dinner has long felt like a task that really...
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What Are You Asking For?
I'm so intrigued by what I'm witnessing. With time, I'm learning of more and more business experimenting with not...
Competing for a Better Me
Can competing not help to better me, without needing to create conflict in my inner self and my outer world? It’s not...
Speedy Gonzales
[tweetmeme] When we rush to do something, we can waste a lot of energy forcing action when we are not ready.
When we hurry, we aren’t giving our self the space to let our answers come, or allowing our self the time to understand our choices.
If it really is that important, can we really afford to hurry it?
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Pinning Down How You Help Best
Stuff I ‘could’ help you with:
- thank you letter writing
- organizing your stuff
- having an in-depth X-Files conversation
- dog care
- floral arranging
- dancing like a fool
- singing badly
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It’s taken me 28 years to develop a very small understanding of my purpose in this life. Turns out it’s not an easy task to discover how you can best add value to the world and, in turn, how you can best receive it back.
The Magic of 3’s
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The 3 Keys to Consciousness
It is said that we have 3 dimensions of the physical world, theI, We, and It of consciousness,. There’s I, representing our Self, there’s We, representing how we feel with others and in our environment and then there is It, representing everything that is bigger than our Self and our World. Like the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, or Russia.
This I, We, It is often expressed with the words the Beautiful, the Good and the True.
The 3 Keys to Business
Tom Peters, a quirky and wise business writer argues there are 3 keys to business:
Make Me Work For It
[tweetmeme] I’ve always liked the idea of burlesque. The slow tease. The gradual peeling away of layers. The art of making ’em wait for it.
Your marketing, especially your web presence, could be seen as a soul strip-tease. Each time you create for it’s purpose you reveal a bit more about your Self.
Cultural Creatives are attracted to layers.
Guilty As Hell That We Can’t Do More
[tweetmeme]Why do we insist upon trying to do it all, and then beating ourselves up when we fall short of perfection?
The Guilt
It’s an icky feeling when we feel The Guilt. The Guilt arises when we can’t do all the things we would like to do, or the people around us would like us to do. We feel like we don’t care enough.
The List
But the thing undone is just one more thing on The List. The List that keeps getting added to. The List that never ends.
The Beautiful, the Good and the True
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Ever heard the term “the beautiful, the good and the true”?
Plato was the first to note that every event in the physical world has 3 dimensions – the beautiful, the good and the true.
The Beautiful stands for the expression of ‘I’ in the world. It stands for Art or Self. It’s about how you personally see and feel about the event.
The Good stands for the expression of ‘We’ in the world. It stands for Morals or Culture. It’s about not just you but others see the event.
It’s Not the Money, Honey: The Real Purpose of Business
[tweetmeme] I don’t care what the Donald says. The point of business is not to make money. The purpose of business is to expand who you are through what you do. And use profit to achieve a more noble end (and yes, self-development is a noble end).
I believe this because the worth of any business resides largely in it’s human capital (the value of its people) and in it’s intellectual property (the value of the ideas generated by it’s people). People make a business great, and they do so by being provided a vehicle to express who they are, and to create.
It’s this expression of our inner Self that is the real purpose of business, and our ticket to wealth.
There’s No Money In It
It’s not worth the chance.
Go ahead and believe that. Please, continue to agree to your belief that doing what you love will never bring you the wealth you desire.
Please, go on upholding the premise that creating a career from your passion, and fulfilling your physical, mental and spiritual needs, isn’t a recipe for financial gain.
Now, stop and think about this rationally.
Is it logical to believe that you can make more money doing something you tolerate, rather than do something you are gifted at? Wouldn’t a person have far greater long-term earning potential if they used their talents, and expressed their beliefs about life in their work, rather than say, got some job with a steady paycheck?
Borrowing Money
[tweetmeme] I’m in debt. And I have been for most of my adult life.
I see debt as means to an end.
There was a brief point in my life when I managed to pay off my first round of debt – this one due to attending university and post-graduate school. But my next round of debt started soon after, when I decided to leave my job and travel for half a year with my now-husband-then-boyfriend. And, subsequently, start a business with the money.