Business “how-to’s” are important, but far less important than most people think. Business strategies are given power they do not possess. The power of your business is in your consciousness.
Work on your inner state, especially self-compassion and self-love. Your inner state is the most powerful business tool.
You become magnetic to what you desire, including the business you love and all its mechanics.
“The karmas carry the seeds of their own destruction.” – Ramana Maharshi
We are wired to gauge the “rightness” of something by how good it makes us feel. This is not always what we should use to measure the rightness of an action or path. Please understand, I am not saying we should ignore feelings that indicate something is wrong. We should not do that.
However, we might be taking the right action at the right time and it doesn’t necessarily feel good. Feeling good is a perceptual filter. If we use our wisdom (our own wisdom) we might benefit from some investigation about the value of an action or experience if we look beyond the feeling state it engenders. The feeling state might be an old habit. The action or experience might be something beyond the known. And perfect for us right now.
Everything has a frequency. Visible objects have a frequency as do inner states, which are not visible. What does the frequency of anger feel like? What does the frequency of joy feel like?
Inner states may lead to actions or they may not. Actions are, of course, important and there should be harmony between inner state and outer actions. However, your inner state comes first. It is the most important. It is the point of power; the pivot of creation.
When a stressful thoughts arises, point peace at it.
When you are in Presence and you take an action, like making a business call, all of Creation makes the call. Creation is calling.
Someone posted a recording of a Byron Katie workshop – circa 1993 – on YouTube. Katie talked about living on the street. I do not know how long or under what circumstances she did this. She talked about a night when the weather was bitterly cold. Despite the weather and her circumstances, she was inside a building, warm, sipping a hot drink. She watched a man – also living on the street – sleep outside in the bitter cold.
The only difference between them was their beliefs. She did not let the limiting belief of “I am a homeless person and therefore undeserving with no options” stop her from finding a warm place to hang out. The man slept outside in the bitter cold.
This example is powerful because it illuminates the principle of how our thoughts can direct our energy (and life) in such a bare, alarming way. She had nothing more than the man in the cold except the ability to live beyond belief.
May we all develop that ability. May we all live beyond belief.
There is a place in life for planning. I question whether it is the “absolute necessity ” we are told it is, but I still make plans.
One of the advantages of planning is that it can be like a tuning mechanism, a tuning fork – harmonizing future and the time-based present in enjoyable, uplifting ways.
One of the disadvantages is that it can confine. Planning – and sticking to a plan – can be an attempt to control. Planning, by definition, relies on time and space. These bandwidths can be limiting. Also, it lives, perhaps, where life is not.
Many a wise teacher has said that life only happens in the Now. The only reality is the present moment which exists beyond (or behind) mind constructs, from which all planning springs.
What possibilities might we see, what energy might we access if we put down our calendars and dropped into the Now? Just for now.
I am working on a mission statement for my business. After trying to make its different aspects (some are still in development) fit into one statement, I decided I would need two, maybe three mission statements. One for each part of the business.
The class I teach: gives creatives tools for more empowerment..
The one-to-one facilitation: I hold the space for you to create art despite resistance.
Books: I give children a sense of hope and joy about their world..
If I boiled down the details to their essence, I would say:
Your soul is already free.
and…
Life only happens NOW.
The Love – that you are – collapses time and space.
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