{"id":928,"date":"2009-02-19T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2009-02-19T19:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=928"},"modified":"2021-10-02T09:45:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:45:50","slug":"innerpreneuring-thru-economic-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2009\/02\/19\/innerpreneuring-thru-economic-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Innerpreneuring Thru Economic Chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Creative Commons License photo credit: Isaac Bowen<\/p><\/div>\n

Written by Jay Cowan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs we know our Self, opportunities are no longer limited by the obvious psychological and institutional factors; rather we become masters of our own domains.\u00a0 We then live at cause, not effect.\u00a0 We become the means to create new opportunities.\u201d – Phillip Dignan in Secrets of the Wealthy Mind<\/em><\/p>\n

Are these chaotic times built for the Innerpreneur?<\/h3>\n

Or, am I just used to chaos?\u00a0 The chaos for me has always been the battle between chasing the external world and being myself.\u00a0 Everybody in my world has always referred to me as a Serial Entrepreneur<\/strong>.\u00a0 When I was younger \u2013 I liked the term.\u00a0 As I got older it seemed like people were saying I hadn\u2019t figured out who I was yet.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m not an Entrepreneur.\u00a0 For me, the word Entrepreneur refers to building something external and that just isn\u2019t what I\u2019m about.\u00a0 My business endeavors have always been more of a reflection of what journey I was on at the time.<\/p>\n

The journey nowadays is thru choppy waters \u2013 or are they?\u00a0 Conventional wisdom would say that starting a business is best in good economic times.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

Competing with the false premise of how good<\/strong> things are out there is a challenge for a lot of start-ups.\u00a0 When things seem good out there<\/strong>, start-ups do what many people do. They compare their insides with the world\u2019s outsides.\u00a0 They say \u201cWhy is it always harder for us?\u00a0 Why don\u2019t we have a cool flat-screen in our conference room?\u201d\u00a0 My own experience says it isn\u2019t harder \u2013 it is just different\u2026and money is seldom the<\/strong> answer\u2026.even though it can be an<\/strong> answer.<\/p>\n

Money makes happy people happier and unhappy people unhappier<\/h3>\n

Same for business.\u00a0 Money also can make you less creative.<\/p>\n

But when the world around us stops looking so good\u2026interesting things happen internally. Things that are outside our self don\u2019t look that much different anymore and the future is less of a given for everybody.<\/p>\n

While the future for many is a depressing idea, I am finding that things don\u2019t feel any different.\u00a0 I have had to learn to deal with fear and uncertainty as one of the prices of my journey.\u00a0 The only difference now is that I am not the only one at the table that is concerned about tomorrow.<\/p>\n

What I am also discovering is that many people are now open to listening to not just new ideas about how to do<\/strong> things, but in new ideas of how to view<\/strong> (or frame)<\/em><\/strong> things.<\/p>\n

When times were good, many took safer and less risky paths.\u00a0 Today, the mood is shifting and it seems like people are just happy to have a home \u2013 no matter how chaotic it may be.<\/p>\n

So, as the world around us fears tomorrow, we can embrace who we are and learn to express that which got us here – our inner drive to simply create<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

For me the last few months have provided me a space to ask myself and those with me \u2013 what are we really creating here?<\/strong><\/em> And how is what we are doing a reflection of who we are?<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 both as a company and as individuals.<\/p>\n

What we have discovered is that really there is no company expression<\/strong>.\u00a0 What we end up with at the end of the day is that our company is reflected in the marketplace as a collective expression of each one of us involved.<\/p>\n

How empowering is that? (both from the individual or company view point!).<\/p>\n

While our environments are always<\/strong> a reflection of who we are \u2013 it is becoming clear that (as innerpreneurs) we can and will have a collective say as to where we go from here and how<\/strong> we get there.\u00a0 And who can beat that!<\/p>\n

The world is waiting\u2026..peace<\/p>\n

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Creative Commons License photo credit: Isaac Bowen<\/p><\/div>\n

Written by Jay Cowan<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs we know our Self, opportunities are no longer limited by the obvious psychological and institutional factors; rather we become masters of our own domains. We then live at cause, not effect. We become the means to create new opportunities.\u201d – Phillip Dignan in Secrets of a Wealthy Mind<\/em><\/p>\n

Are these chaotic times built for the Innerpreneur?<\/h3>\n

Or, am I just used to chaos? The chaos for me has always been the battle between chasing the external world and being myself.<\/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-928","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\/928","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=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}