Tongue Twister
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Is it just me, or is Innerpreneur not kinda hard to say?
photo credit: Chernobyl Bob
It’s Not the Money, Honey: The Real Purpose of Business
I don’t care what the Donald says. The point of business is not to make money. The purpose of business is to expand who you are through what you do. And use profit to achieve a more noble end (and yes, self-development is a noble end).
I believe this because the worth of any business resides largely in it’s human capital (the value of its people) and in it’s intellectual property (the value of the ideas generated by it’s people). People make a business great, and they do so by being provided a vehicle to express who they are, and to create.
It’s this expression of our inner Self that is the real purpose of business, and our ticket to wealth.
There’s No Money In It
It’s not worth the chance.
Go ahead and believe that. Please, continue to agree to your belief that doing what you love will never bring you the wealth you desire.
Please, go on upholding the premise that creating a career from your passion, and fulfilling your physical, mental and spiritual needs, isn’t a recipe for financial gain.
Now, stop and think about this rationally.
Is it logical to believe that you can make more money doing something you tolerate, rather than do something you are gifted at? Wouldn’t a person have far greater long-term earning potential if they used their talents, and expressed their beliefs about life in their work, rather than say, got some job with a steady paycheck?
Sure, you might make more money right away with the office job, and while it might feel like a safer choice, I can’t think of anything more risky than denying your true needs. When has that ended up well for anyone?
Do you really buy the starving artist bullshit?
Do yourself a favour and stop undercutting your Self and your value by believing in the idea that passion. purpose. creativity. joy. hard work. don’t provide and make you wealthy. What makes you think money is so hard to obtain?
Money is a current, an energy. If your not open to it, it won’t come your way.
Give your wealth and you’ll receive it back.
If you are serious about doing what you love and making money too, believe that you can, and, with patience, do the work so you do. It’s all up to you. But understand that doing the work doesn’t mean just creating, it means connecting too. Half your job is marketing. You aren’t just a [fill in the blank], your a business owner too. Just because you build it doesn’t mean they will come.
You need to identify the whackjobs that find value in what you do. If you don’t, you’ll be right, and you will be starving.
Please let me know how romantic you find it.
photo by: Stephen Poff
Borrowing Money
I’m in debt. And I have been for most of my adult life.
I see debt as means to an end.
There was a brief point in my life when I managed to pay off my first round of debt – this one due to attending university and post-graduate school. But my next round of debt started soon after, when I decided to leave my job and travel for half a year with my now-husband-then-boyfriend. And, subsequently, start a business with the money.
I never think that money is an excuse for me not do something. I see debt as access to possibilities beyond my external reach. I see credit cards and debt as a real gift in our culture. It gives people access to create money for them Self. It allows us the freedom to make the right choices for our Self and add to our wealth. A not every person is afforded that choice.
I know many people abuse it’s power, but that doesn’t mean I have to. I choose to appreciate debt for the opportunity it is and mange it mindfully.
photo credit: Lou Rouge
A Not-So-Simple Recipe for Creating Your Dream Business
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Prepare Your ‘Being’
1. Realize you have a choice.
In everything you do. You are a hero in your own journey.
Be the fucking hero you are. Choose to serve your higher nature.
2. Embrace change and uncertainty.
Or don’t.
Either way it’ll be happening around you and through you. Might as well learn to work with it.
3. Be the ‘Master of Your Domain’.
Stop reacting to opportunities ‘out there’. Instead, act from a place of inner knowledge of who You Are. What’s ‘out there’ is an effect, not a cause. You are the means to create new opportunities. You create the market, the market doesn’t create you.
Combine #1, #2, & #3 to discover your Innerpreneur.
Prepare Your ‘Doing’
1. Find an “engaging” activity.
Do something that challenges you, and is creative. It’ll create a “flow experience” in you. Seriously.
It’ll activate this part of your brain called the nucleus accumbens, which controls how you feel about life.
And it’ll stimulate your septal zone. That’s your “feel good” area – it’ll make you feel happy.
2. Find a “meaningful” activity.
Use what you are best at to serve others, or to participate in a cause bigger than yourself.
Combine #1 & #2 to design your happiness.
Combine ‘Being’ and ‘Doing’ to Create Your Dream Business
In knowing who You Are you will find the freedom to discover the mix of creating and contributing that is Your Innerpreneurial dream.
photo credit: Patrick Q
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