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Does Your Value Have a Limit?
Can you really know your value? Is it a fixed thing? Is it of value to quantify your worth? These questions intrigue...
You’re Going to Make the Difference
You're not going to make the difference for me: I am. I'm not going to make the difference for you: you are. You and...
F*$k Rich, Let’s All Be Wealthy
This is how I see wealth…
Wealth = the ability to fulfill needs now + in the future
It’s got nothing to do with being rich…
Being wealthy isn’t about what we have, but about who we think we are. It’s about feeling free to fully experience life.
In creating the freedom to be the best me, I am unlocking my ability to be wealthy, and to make money.
I believe that we increase our wealth by recognizing our individual talents and intelligences. This cultivation of our talents and intelligences spirals outwards, increasing the stock of human capital, and helping humanity. As we grow more wealthy, so does our world.
An Affirmation for Wonder
I am in a state of questioning, open and receptive.
I seek to gain understanding of my Self and others.
I allow for surprises and discoveries about what I don’t know.
The Opposite of Consumption Is Not Thrift
It’s generosity.
Cooperation.
Want to change the economy?
Examine your ideas around the act of exchanging. When you are buying or selling, what are you thinking about?
What can I get?
What can I give?
What if you approached the exchange of goods and services as a generous act?
Create Your Own Economy of Integrity
You have a choice in the kind of market economy you participate in.
The type of economy you inhabit, as a customer and/or as a business, is yours to define. If you imagine a different kind of market society, and a different way of valuing the world, you have the opportunity to shape it. You are contributing to an integrity-driven economy each time you allow your values to drive your decisions.
Too often though, we betray our values when we find ourselves overcome by money pressures. In these moments, we see our integrity as a cost. But the true cost is acting on our price/profit-motivations, as we can make short-sighted choices that prove far more costly in the long-term.
Thinking About My Self All the Time
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How Selfish. Egotistical. Narcissistic.
There is something scary about believing that wanting a Self is not selfish.
There’s something terrifying about admitting it’s our natural instinct towards a wholeness that is truly our birthright.
It makes us feel ashamed, judged, blamed. It makes us feel like helpless children.
How Evolutionary.
It’s a new movement for humans to recognize the value in having a Self. And the value in doing things in support of it.
Slowly, generation-ally, evolution-ally, we are waking to this concept. The Baby Boomers were the first batch of humans to understand that wanting a Self is a natural stage in our evolution.
And yet fifty or so years later, mainstream culture and religion still portray supporting a Self as a gluttonous and silly act.
Fantastical Stories of Money and Fame
[tweetmeme] How much do you love them? In the business world, fantastical stories seem especially lauded.
Fast money. Overnight fame.
It just sounds so good, and so easy.
You can’t blame me for wanting it, or wanting to believe in it.
I’m a gambler by nature. After all, I started my own business. I’m all about risky choices. And I can’t help but hear fanciful success stories and want to believe them.
The problem is, I don’t. They’re bullshit.
You Won’t Know How
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Forget How to Do It — Commit to What You Do
You’ll never know how to do it until you commit to what you are doing. Your success in whatever you choose is a matter of commitment.
Your choices are your daily commitment
In my experience, when I completely commit to the what — that something that I feel passionate about — I trigger the how — the means and answers I seek.
Discovering a Sense of Boundaries
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Artificial acceptance of people and circumstances we resent
Why do we pretend? Why do we stay in situations that hurt us?
It’s not that we’re being nice. It’s not that we care.
We tell ourselves we’re needed and necessary. We inflate our importance.
We feed our ego.
Because we ‘care’
Because I ‘cared’ I used to happily let myself be a food source for others. I saw it as the thing I was good at. My fulfillment came from letting others dine freely on my time, talent and energy. They fed on my energy and my ego fed on their attention.
Life Could Be A Dream, Sweetheart
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Dreams.
I’m hesitant to use the word ‘dreams’.
The word has a touchy-feely quality that makes me feel kinda icky. ‘Dreams’ can seem kinda pie-in-the-sky. Especially in business.
It’s not that ‘dreams’ are unrealistic or unreal. God, no.
It’s that people often use the word to talk about things they’re not acting in direction of. They use ‘dreams’ to discuss the things that they hope to get, but are doing nothing to create.
What they’re talking about is dreaming.
And it’s a whole other kettle of fish.