by Tara Joyce | Mar 8, 2013 | Innerpreneurship
I’ve been told those who “know” things are experts, and that they can help me make the right choices. I’ve been taught that when I have a problem, an expert will have my solution. And I’ve been led to believe that, by asserting my own “knowing,” I can create evidence of my own professionalism and abilities – and be an expert too.
To not know and to admit it, to be open and asking questions can feel wrong in the world of expertise. It can feel shameful to “not know”, and it can feel safer to appear certain of things — even when I am not. “Knowing” can feel like more of an accomplishment, and proof of my abilities, than being honest about my lack of knowing.
I know others build their careers around this false belief, that by living as an expert, they will truly know what’s best. But I can’t help but wonder, where’s the room for curiosity and wonder in that perspective? Where’s the room for living the questions?
I’m thinking the only thing I really need to “know”, as an expert or as an amateur, is that I can’t possibly have the answers until I lived the questions. It’s in the questions that the answers can be found.
photo credit: Macarena C.
by Tara Joyce | Feb 26, 2013 | Cultural Creativity
From the moment I learned of the existence of the web, I was immediately drawn to it. I couldn’t have told you why, I just was. I felt I belonged there, and I wasn’t used to feeling that way.
What I realize now is that I was so attracted to the web because is was the first medium that allowed the individual to share their unique perspective with the world.
Shine your light.
For the first time, we, the individual, have the power to touch and connect with people from all over the world. Before, we usually only had the opportunity to shine our light on those in direct proximity to us.
The web has created an opportunity for us to share our story with the people who truly want to hear it.
No one else is like you.
No one else is like me. No one else knows exactly what you know and communicates it in the special, amazing way you do. You have so much wisdom that only you can share.
And you now have the opportunity to make a difference in more people’s lives than you ever have before. We need to hear from you.
The very existence of the web is an open invitation for you to share your wisdom. This, I believe, is what it is here for and personally, I can’t wait to learn from you.
photo credit: kelley_leigh
by Tara Joyce | Feb 11, 2013 | Pay What It's Worth Pricing
As a business owner, here are some reasons why you might employ Pay-What-It’s Worth pricing:
1. It reduces transaction-related costs
- reduces the cost incurred from finding info on your customers willingness to pay
- removes the cost of promotional pricing initiatives
- reduces the cost of sales
- removes the cost of setting prices
2. It maximizes your potential market participation
- removes price as the major barrier to entry for the client
- adds value creation as a major reason for engagement for the client
3. (Almost) guaranteed positive revenue
- you will makes sales and receive business (as long as your service/product creates value)
4. Potentially higher profits (than setting prices) if you are:
- small
- exclusive
- intimate
- have loyal clientele
- provide personal service
by Tara Joyce | Jan 28, 2013 | Cultural Creativity
It depends on where you’re looking
There are so many different worlds within this one world, this ‘real’ world, we ALL share and call home.
There’s my world, for one. And your world, for two. And you or I can both know the experience of Billy over there and visit his world through empathy, for three.
And we can go online and have the opportunity to visit millions of different worlds, each different from the next.
We can open a book and visit the world an author is creating with us, and we can turn on our screen and watch different world’s others have created for us.
And we can listen to music and enter the sonic world of it’s creator.
There is the world of outerspace too, hovering over us, begging us to explore it, and the many worlds living within it.
And then there’s the dream world too…
Layer upon layer of realities, of worlds, that we are ALL feeding and supporting. And that are ALL feeding and supporting our reality. None stand separate, alone or inferior.
Depending on where we put our attention, we have the magical ability to be in infinite different worlds. Who is to say which is the real one?
Only you.
photo credit: Ivan McClellan
by Tara Joyce | Jan 11, 2013 | Featured, My Journey | What's On My Mind
As this new chapter, a new year, begins I’m considering the story I am writing, and whether the character I’m currently playing is fully embodying who I want to be in the story of my life, now and in the future.
Do you know what an archetype is? Archetypes are universally understood symbols that reflect the collection of characteristics humans share, and that we use to define and group ourselves. An archetypal symbol could be “the hero”, for example.
Every one of us, consciously or not, have identified our Self with one or more of these archetypes. These symbols live within the collective unconscious and these archetypal energies are a tool we use to understand who we are, and what we want to become more of. The personal archetypes that most deeply call to us and appeal to us are essentially the character(s) we have chosen to embody and play in the story of our life.
As the new year unfolds before me and I begin to write a new chapter of my life, I’m considering the archetypes I play and which I want to embody more of. I’ve decided to dedicate myself to my relationship with character – to becoming more of the character I want to play, to having more appreciation and curiosity towards the character of others, and to play more with the type of characters I want in my world and in my story.
Looking at the characteristics and characters that attract you, are you playing with the archetypes that resonate with you most deeply? If you want to explore the world of archetypes further, this is a great overview of the 12 most common archetypes.
