Counterpoint to my blog #6- I offer that anything I say I can change my mind if something new that is more accurate flows in. So, 20 minutes after posting #6 I am talking to my friend and she says- I think that perspiration and persistence are a very one-sided way of describing power- what about the power of intention, intuition, and the right thing showing up just because of your desire to create?
If I look at my direct experience over 40 plus years of work, I have dozens of moments when the right person, the right amount of money to pay the rent, the right next connection flowed to me due to what appears to be no sweat on my part.
Grace is a concept that I can say is real- there are many times when not because of my effort an opportunity presents itself just because of ? what? mystery, magic, life force... I really don't know why.
So, power is also not doing. It is very difficult for me as a Western European male from the US to get my head around the notion of Flow but it is apparent that it is as real as that which comes from effort.
Let me try to articulate how this works from my little pea brained perspective:
I feel that it starts with a strong positive emotion like love, compassion, a desire to serve and is followed by that longing to care and create growing in intensity through attention to it.
Then, people, events, situations show up that match the energy of your positive emotions and even when you feel negative and lose hope or energy for the idea you find a way back to it with strength.
Others join your intent with their good wishes or offers to help and the sense you have that this brain child of yours is beginning to pick up momentum. There is a feeling that energy is flowing towards the intent and you do not need to worry or make too much effort- it is coming of its own accord.
At some point I have experienced that the intent has a life of its own. I did not go out looking for allies when I started my first business but a highly accomplished adminstrative assistant who who could have made double what I could pay her voluntary took a 50% pay cut to be a part of the noble aspiration I had to transform business through education teaching the "Stress Theory" of Hans Selye. She and I would wait at the end of the month, for well over the first year asking each other- "so how is the rent and other payables going to get paid this month"- every time the right amount of money that we were waiting for would show up on time.
It got to be a joke between us about the incredibly mysterious way the receivables would come when it was needed.
Of course, I was owed the money and it had been my effort to make the money but the way it came on time each month showed how much was out of my control and required my relaxing my grip to let it arrive without my having a heart attack in addition to paying the bills.
Sunday, October 21, 2007
Power, persistence and perspiraton
Blog entry #6
Power has become a word that is associated for many with evil. The images that come to mind are those conjured through the misuse not the noble use.
I offer the following: power is the energy of change and can be a force for decency, authenticity and love as well as heartache and suffering.
How is power important to Noble Purpose?
To cause something to occur in the mundane universe- the place of tangible outcomes; power is the medium. We are all forces for good or not but many of us are not conscious of that as our intent.
I propose to you that you consider your sources of power and work with them.
Sources of power:
Persistence- more gets done because of dedicated effort to an intention than is publicized. When you ask the creators of companies or services how they did what they did, often the work is a matter of dogged persistent effort on behalf of a noble idea.
You have to learn how to stick to something through the hardships of generating momentum or it will die of your lack of attention.
Case in point- when I started Keep it Simple Seminars in 1978, I worked 80-100 hrs a week doing everything that was required to launch the business- including licking thousands of envelopes and stamps, going out on the rubber chicken circuit- meaning that I would eat rubbery chicken lunches with groups like the Lion's club or Rotary to generate new business. It did not matter what it was, I just did it whether I was good at it or I disliked it- that is not the point when you are an entrepreneur- you do what is necessary and exert discipline on your self to get the noble aspiration out there.
Perspiration- sweat equity is what we all learn about when we are starting a venture we truly believe in- you will sweat the small stuff even though people will tell you not to and also the big hairy audacious aspirations- there is not any way to launch your vision with the power you have accrued without the two P's persistence and perspiration.
Maybe it does not sound very lofty but here is what is true for me lofty plus willingness to go to any lengths for what I have believed in is my formula for bringing my vision into being.
Power has become a word that is associated for many with evil. The images that come to mind are those conjured through the misuse not the noble use.
I offer the following: power is the energy of change and can be a force for decency, authenticity and love as well as heartache and suffering.
How is power important to Noble Purpose?
To cause something to occur in the mundane universe- the place of tangible outcomes; power is the medium. We are all forces for good or not but many of us are not conscious of that as our intent.
I propose to you that you consider your sources of power and work with them.
Sources of power:
Persistence- more gets done because of dedicated effort to an intention than is publicized. When you ask the creators of companies or services how they did what they did, often the work is a matter of dogged persistent effort on behalf of a noble idea.
You have to learn how to stick to something through the hardships of generating momentum or it will die of your lack of attention.
Case in point- when I started Keep it Simple Seminars in 1978, I worked 80-100 hrs a week doing everything that was required to launch the business- including licking thousands of envelopes and stamps, going out on the rubber chicken circuit- meaning that I would eat rubbery chicken lunches with groups like the Lion's club or Rotary to generate new business. It did not matter what it was, I just did it whether I was good at it or I disliked it- that is not the point when you are an entrepreneur- you do what is necessary and exert discipline on your self to get the noble aspiration out there.
Perspiration- sweat equity is what we all learn about when we are starting a venture we truly believe in- you will sweat the small stuff even though people will tell you not to and also the big hairy audacious aspirations- there is not any way to launch your vision with the power you have accrued without the two P's persistence and perspiration.
Maybe it does not sound very lofty but here is what is true for me lofty plus willingness to go to any lengths for what I have believed in is my formula for bringing my vision into being.
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