What A Ride!

10/14/2010

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WOW, it truly is amazing how quickly time passes! In the blink of an eye, six months have passed since I last wrote an entry to my blog.

I suppose by the "rules" of blog-writing, that's waaaay too long. But as I wrote shortly before my last post, I had consciously decided to break my old perfectionistic ways with this blog and write when I was truly INSPIRED instead of when I thought I "should."

Lucky for me that I'd made that decision because a whole bunch of great things have happened in the last six months that required the full dedication of my time and energy and I was able to do that guilt-free and in an undivided way.

I guess that's kind of the point in today's new rules of business...things shift and change so much that we need to be flexible as to how and when the flow is guiding us in new or different directions than we expected or planned, and trusting that we will come back to things we'd intended exactly how and when it's right to do so (or not at all, if that's more appropriate).

So what have I been up to...well, I've had the most extraordinary learning experience over the last six months, working with one of the most brilliant marketing and business coaches serving the conscious/spiritual/purpose-driven/heart-centred (pick your favourite word or insert your own synonym) entrepreneurial community today.

I worked as an integral part of the team, creating and launching new info products, coaching and training team members inside and outside the company, delivering powerful coaching to clients (which I continue to do) and many other things too numerous to list here. It's been an intense and amazing learning curve!

I've learned at a whole other level how to help heart-centred entrepreneurs take their unique and deeply-felt purpose, their message to the world, their innate gifts and talents and bring that to the market: determine who is their specific and narrow "tribe" or target market, what is the painful problem facing that tribe for which they are seeking a solution, what kind of lasting transformation they can deliver to that tribe, and how to create the marketing message and structure a business model around that. AWESOME.

So other than just reconnecting and saying "Hi, I'm back!" I want to remind you that even when your "plan" doesn't unfold exactly the way you imagined or intended, trust that what is happening instead is serving you, and will therefore, in turn, serve your clients or the people you want to impact the most.

Bottom line: Trust yourself and the process!

Since I've observed that that is so difficult for most people (myself included), I will be writing more about that over time for sure. '

Glad to be back! :D


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Self-reliance

03/09/2010

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Thanks to Brian Johnson (http://www.PhilosophersNotes.com) who posted this passage by Emerson on Facebook recently. I'd not seen this before and it moved me deeply. The message is of great value to anyone truly committed to creating purposefully and living on their own terms.

To believe your own thoughts, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men--that is genius.

There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards. A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise, shall give him no peace. It is a deliverance which does not deliver. In the attempt his genius deserts him; no muse befriends; no invention, no hope.

Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.

What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Do that which is assigned to you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster.

For non-conformity the world whips you with its displeasure.

We shun the rugged battle of fate where strength is born.

I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser, who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested, -- "But these impulses may be from below, not from above." I replied, "They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the Devil's child, I will live then from the Devil." No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation; but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession. That which each can do best, none but his Maker can teach him. No man yet knows what it is, nor can, till that person has exhibited it. Where is the master who could have taught Shakspeare? Where is the master who could have instructed Franklin, or Washington, or Bacon, or Newton? Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. Shakspeare will never be made by the study of Shakspeare. Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much. There is at this moment for you an utterance brave and grand as that of the colossal chisel of Phidias, or trowel of the Egyptians, or the pen of Moses, or Dante, but different from all these. Not possibly will the soul all rich, all eloquent, with thousand-cloven tongue, deign to repeat itself; but if you can hear what these patriarchs say, surely you can reply to them in the same pitch of voice; for the ear and the tongue are two organs of one nature. Abide in the simple and noble regions of thy life, obey thy heart, and thou shalt reproduce the Foreworld again.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.
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