{"id":2460,"date":"2009-09-17T20:45:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T00:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2009-09-17T20:45:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T00:45:47","slug":"theyre-all-going-to-laugh-at-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/09\/17\/theyre-all-going-to-laugh-at-you\/","title":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re All Going to Laugh At You"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/furryscalyman\/532792143\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2466\" title=\"smirks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/smirks.jpg\" alt=\"smirks\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/smirks.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/smirks-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>It scares me to stand behind the word Innerpreneur.<\/h3>\n<p>As much as it connects me to you, and encompasses my views on business, life and everything in between, <strong>I am conscious of how the word, a word that references that which is within us, appears to others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Do you experience the smirks?<\/h3>\n<p>Perhaps in your social life spirituality is an open topic but in mine it is not. Reading this blog is more a window into my soul than most people get. Me, in person, unless I sense that you are open to it, you will only catch a glimpse of my spirit. It just isn&#8217;t something I share openly. I don&#8217;t like the smirks and whether it is wrong or right, I have no desire to share such an important piece of my Self with someone who is not open to it.<\/p>\n<h3>Business as a spiritual practice? Seriously?<\/h3>\n<p>In my life business and money are talked of ad nauseum but usually not in the way I see them. <em>Seriously Tara, who cares about creating meaning when you can make more money?<\/em> Score another smirk for me.<\/p>\n<p>To put business and spirituality together &#8211; to speak about my spirituality openly and build my business around it, well&#8230; I feel open to mockery. And I am. And it scares me.<\/p>\n<p>But whether I like it or not, no matter how traditional, less &#8220;hippie&#8221; people view it, <strong>the meaning behind the word Innerpreneur &#8212; it is my truth<\/strong>. And it will still be there with me whether I use this word or another.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a title=\"Link to Furryscaly's photostream\" rel=\"dc:creator cc:attributionURL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/furryscalyman\/\">Furryscaly<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/furryscalyman\/532792143\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2466\" title=\"smirks\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/smirks.jpg\" alt=\"smirks\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/smirks.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/smirks-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>It scares me to stand behind the word Innerpreneur.<\/h3>\n<p>As much as it connects me to you, and encompasses my views on business, life and everything in between, <strong>I am conscious of how the word, a word that references that which is within us, appears to others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Do you experience the smirks?<\/h3>\n<p>Perhaps in your social life spirituality is an open topic but in mine it is not. Reading this blog is more a window into my soul than most people get.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-being-an-innerpreneur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}