Walking the Tightrope

Walking the Tightrope

Tightrope Elastic Mind

Ever feel like you’re walking a tightrope? That’s because you are. We all are.

All complex adaptive systems (that’s you!) walk a tightrope between too much structure and too little.

Too much structure…

and chaos! Organic systems become rigid and unresponsive to their environment and they eventually die.

To little structure…

and chaos! Organic systems become overly sensitive to environmental disturbances. They can’t maintain their organization and eventually disintegrate.

Living at the edge of chaos

This is where life and creativity exist. They can’t be limited by too much structure or failed to let unfold in the moment through too much planning.

It’s a process of listening to, and trusting in, the ideas within us; then revealing those ideas through our action.

Your business is no different

Contrary to traditional belief and our anxious minds, too much structure is not of benefit to your business. Nor is following someone else’s idea of structure. What is of benefit is listening to yourself, and paying attention to your environment.

What unfolds for your business will not be preordained by ‘vision’ or ‘strategy’, but by the choices you make and their long-term consequences. The future is yours to create in this present moment.

Stay present to what is evolving and stay aligned with your intention.

Walk the tightrope of chaos by making choices based upon the life and world you want to be.

Pinning Down How You Help Best

Pinning Down How You Help Best

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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.

My ideas for my life, and my career, keep on changing, and I’m gonna make sure they always do.

Where you start won’t be where you end up.

Your business purpose is going to change. That’s okay. Let it.

How you help best and who you help best isn’t fixed. What fits today might not always.

I’m learning that as your Innerpreneurial journey unfolds, so does your vision for it. It makes sense that just like life and all existence, our values, our gifts, our careers, are all part of a spiral, ever expanding and evolving.

What we think is our truth one day, isn’t another.

Let your business vision change.

Don’t fight it. Don’t punish yourself for it. You didn’t get things wrong. You’ve only changing your ever expanding mind.

Prosperity is a Venn Diagram Away

Prosperity is a Venn Diagram Away

VTG=VO
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Your Voice: the public expression of your authentic identity

Your authentic identity can be found in exploring Your Values, Your Talents, and Your Goals.

Values: what’s important to you
Talents: what you’re good at
Goals:
what motivates you

Understanding your unique mix of VTG, and expressing it, is what Your Voice is made of, and it is Your Brand. Your Brand is the public expression of your authentic identity.

VVW=Wealth

Your Wealth: understanding and connecting with the people who find worth in what you do

Expressing Your Voice will create profit and grow your business when Your Value is connected to the world.

Your Voice: the public expression of your authentic identity; Your Brand; Your Purpose
Your Value: the people who find worth in what you do; Your People; Your Clients
The Web: the medium by which you can express Your Voice and connect it with Your People and the planet; and they, in turn, can connect with You

This Is Not For Everyone

This Is Not For Everyone

The "On the other hand" selfportrait (bw outtake)
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I’m a romantic.

But I like my stories to be realistic too.

Owning a business is NOT for everyone.

Fuck, no. Suggesting such a thing would be just crazy talk.

I don’t know what your career needs.

Only you do. If you do the work to discover what you feel passionate about, and find purpose in it.
Some of us thrive working for others. Some of use don’t. Give yourself the freedom to understand what your unique dream looks like.

Bottom line on owning a business.

Forget the whole thing if you don’t thrive in uncertainty.

photo credit: dhammza

The Magic of 3’s

The Magic of 3’s

3 Keys to Conscious Business
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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:

  1. Design
  2. Marketing
  3. Systems

I agree. And thus I will expand on this…

If you look at what each three dimensions represent in business, as the other three dimensions represent in consciousness and culture, you will see they fit together like a precious little puzzle piece.

The 3 Key’s to Conscious Business

Design is how you express Who You Are. It is your choices in everything you do. It your I or your Beauty. It is your creative expression.

Marketing is how you connect with and treat others. It is your We or your Goodness. It is your intention.

Systems is how you make everything work. It’s your structure. It is your Truth. It’s how you exist.

I’d like to expand on Tom Peter’s and argue that the keys to a growth business are:

  1. Beautiful Design
  2. Good Marketing
  3. True Systems

If you want it built to last, you need design that is authentic, Marketing that is compassionate and Systems that are organic.