Walking the Tightrope

Walking the Tightrope

Tightrope Elastic Mind

[tweetmeme] 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.

Walking the Tightrope

Pinning Down How You Help Best

Supernova N49

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.

Walking the Tightrope

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.

Walking the Tightrope

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.

Walking the Tightrope

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: