mind.your.entrepreneurself

You don’t think we can change the world. I know we can.

You will tell me that I can’t help everywhere. I will show you that I can help somewhere.

You will question, criticize, judge, and hate me because that’s what you do. I will take principled, calculated, and small steps forward because that’s what I do.

You will show me the statistics, charts, and numbers that show I’m not changing anything. I will take the genuine smile and relief of others as a sign that I am.

You will make individual people doubt their gifts and you will tear at the seams of commonality that bind us. I will rally, inspire, and lead others by building on the common bonds of our humanity.

You will focus on what I can’t do or should’ve done. I will focus on what I can do and what I am doing.

You will condemn me when I rest and scold me when I gain. I will take care of my needs and graciously take the gifts I receive along the way.

You will continue thinking that to share is to lose. I will find that to share is to gain.

You will wait for the right moment, opportunity, or permission to act. I will open the door and see serendipity waiting for me.

You will remember and catalog my mistakes. I will remember the lessons I’ve learned from experience.

You will let your fear and worry keep you safe and secure on the sidelines of history. I will carry them with me, knowing that there is more to life than sitting comfortably by the fire.

You will reach your final days and see that your inaction and dissuasion was a series of choices you wish you could change. I will be spent but proud of the flourishing life I lived making this journey better for others.

I am changing the world. Lead, follow, help, or get the hell out of the way.

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This is a wake-up call; I will ring again. Take your first step toward doing epic shit and be the change you want to see.

Bruce Lee once said that "ultimately, Martial Art means honestly expressing yourself."  I believe that this "honest expression" made possible by a raw, intimate knowledge of self is one's True Self.

If you’re involved in any kind of creative work, you and inertia are probably well acquainted. I wish I were an exception, but no—inertia and I are mortal enemies. Every day I get up and fight a battle against that beast. Sometimes I win; sometimes I lose. Sometimes we get “stuck” in something and have a hard time figuring out what to do next. If you’re feeling stuck, try one or more of these ideas.

Paul Potts bespeaks the truth about us.

We may be wearing the labels of our unfulfilled profession, we may seem lack of self-confidence from the outside, we may be ugly, we may be having the worst nightmare of our life.

As Matt Cheuvront wrote, we are all there, fighting the same struggle down in life’s trenches, storming the beaches of Normandy every single day, telling ourselves CARPE DIEM! but not even knowing what’s out there to be seized.

Suddenly,

The moment we let our innermost and purest passion speaks, magic starts to happen, bringing joy and confidence to ourselves and people whom we touch their hearts

The conviction which you make decisions with and then follow through on them will go a long way toward shaping the character of your business and for that matter, your life.

The truth is success is not much a matter of looking for opportunity, its more that you actually create opportunities

You don’t have to tell how you live each day;
You don’t have to say if you work or you play;
A tried, true barometer serves in the place–
However you live, it will show in your face.
The false, the deceit that you bear in your heart,
Will not stay inside where it first got a start;
For sinew and blood are a thin veil of lace–
What you wear in your heart, you wear in your face.
If your life is selfless, if for others you live,
For not what you get, but how much you can give;
If you live close to God in his infinite grace–
You don’t have to tell it, it shows in your face.
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