Yes to Me

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How luck, or synchronicity, came into my life today

Happy Easter, my readers. I understand Easter is a celebration of renewed life. For me, it is a beautiful time in spring to appreciate the gift of life and review if I am living it fully.

What we do is a big part of our lives. I have been thinking a lot recently about my coaching business and its marketing. Some of you may have noticed that I changed the tagline of this blog from “For Tomorrow’s Successful Entrepreneurs” to “Life Purpose, Passion, and Entrepreneurship” I’m clarifying my niche – in other words, I am redefining my target market and my message. And this is a scary process because choosing something is about letting go of others. After tons of brainstorming, I thought I could really use a little guidance . . .

My guidance came unexpectedly. After I visited my CPA’s office this morning, I stopped at Powell’s Books nearby. There was a book-signing event going on – an old man was talking to a bunch of people. I listened to him for a while and liked his non-arrogant way of talking, so I took a seat, still not knowing who he was. He was talking about how we are all spiritual and how the invisible power works behind the scene. It was Neale Donald Walsch promoting his new book, Happier Than God: Turn Ordinary Life into an Extraordinary Experience. I was surprised how down-to-earth he was – he wasn’t like a crazy bygod at some religious institutions at all. He was even funny!

BE who you intend to be whatever you are DOING

During the Q&A, he told us how he started to do what he does now. At that time, he was very frustrated because he wanted to be wisdom, to work as the wise-man helping people, but he didn’t seem to get there. In layman’s terms, I guess he was unemployed. That night, he was asked what he needed to DO right now, and he answered he had to do some grocery shopping. Then he was told, “Then go to the grocery store.” Neale responded with frustration, “You don’t understand. That is not what I want to do.” “You can BE what you intend to be whatever you are doing. Be the wise-man you want to be while doing the grocery shopping.”

So he went to Safeway. There he saw a woman with a baby cart. The kid was picking grapes while the mother walked off to pick up things from the shelf. When she saw what the kid was doing. she hit the kid’s hand, and the kid started to cry. So Neale walked up to the woman and quietly said to her, “You don’t need to do that to your child.” She got upset at him and yelled at him it was none of his business, blah blah blah. He again told her she didn’t need to do that to her child, in his wise quiet voice. Again, she bombarded him with her stories – how her husband lost his job that week, how tough things are for her, etc. Third time, Neale talked to her, and she started sobbing, asking him who he was. “Are you a minister of some kind?” By the time, a crowd was forming around them and listening what he had to say. By BEING what he intended to be, a spiritual worker, he became one, although what he went out to DO, a grocery shopping, had nothing to do with it.

What does this story have to do with my or your businesses?

On one level, the message is straightforward. We need to BE first before we DO it, BE it whatever we are DOING. If you want to become an entrepreneur, be an entrepreneur whatever you are doing now. Think as entrepreneur even when you are doing employee work.

When we do this, the X Factor of life kicks in. Coincidences start to happen. Like Neale walking into the situation where he could exhibit his wisdom. Or me walking into his book-signing and hearing what I needed to hear. This is the second takeaway of the story.

We are spiritual beings, and spirituality works in business as well.

We have the tendency to think of business in a superficial way. We tend to see only the doing part of entrepreneurship. I think this is quite an ineffective way of thinking. DOING it right is of course important, but there is this hidden working in entrepreneurship, the BEING part.

So I think my blog is about BEING a successful entrepreneur, the inner mechanics of thinking and feeling as a successful entrepreneur so that we can act as one. Maybe I just lost a group of readers who are only interested in the How-To’s, and honestly that saddens me. I am also excited about this niche. There are a lot of good teachers and their blogs about the doings of entrepreneurship, and there are also a lot of great personal development and spiritual growth blogs, but I don’t know many writers who effectively connect the two points. Jonathan Fields occasionally writes about it (like this post), but that’s about all I know. This is still a pioneer field.

From experience, I know that synchronicity starts working when I embrace my spirituality.

In fact, my next post is about another synchronicity I had this past week and the great motivational speaker I had the honor to interview. Stay tuned.

Do you see synchronicity working in your life and in your business?

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