Risk For Bliss - Name your Passion Entrepreneurship

Have you ever picked something up along your journey of life thinking this is great and will work wonders, found passion in the words, were moved to do something but a micro ingredient was missing so you laid it down, not having the impetus to re-engage until decades later.  The thought process, this is all too familiar.  Many years ago having experienced an awaking with the principles of First thing First and 7 Habits of High Effective People it is more profound today that in that moment it was first introduced.  Profound because there is passion and purpose in my life, in my goals, in my vision. Despite putting aside 7 Habits many years ago, within the inner recesses of the data field of my mind fragments of the past exist.  Those fossilized remains periodically ignited to memory would serve their over time but not come to full fruition till now. Of the 7 habits, the most decayed were 1. Begin with the end in Mind, 2. First things first and finally 3. Sharpen ...

Take a moment and take in through your nose a deep cleansing breath.  Breath in as much air as your longs can take. Now hold, and slowly exhale, breathing out gradually.  Read the following questions Do you have a Dream?   What is your dream? What are you willing to do make that dream a reality? How do you want your family, friends and colleagues to remember you?  Now take a deep breath, think through those questions and close your eyes.  As you exhale focus on the answers to those questions. Take one last deep, powerful breath in and slowly exhale.  Are these questions triggering emotions in you.  Think for a moment and connect with how you feel. The purpose of this exercise was to reunite the passion within you to keep dreaming and to see how self  can either defeat or ignite the drive we innately have within us. Plato said: "The first and best victory is to conquer self, to be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shame...

It is easy to get caught up in the demands of career and life only to loose site of purpose or drive that makes us who we are; our passion. How do we find our way back to a path that has meaning? This is both a complex and intriguing question where there are many answer, mostly suited to our circumstances and beliefs. Where do we derive meaning, career, work, home, society, accumulation of wealth or people? Breaking this down to its simplest form, the truest definition of meaning as accounted in the Webster Dictionary states: the third definition states as follows 3 :significant quality; especially : implication of a hidden or special significance a glance full of meaning (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/meaning) This summary gives great insight with phrases like "significant quality", special significance," denoting a level of importance to yourself or those around you. How do you discover meaning in life? Recently listening to a lecture by Brian Car...

Paint Night - I love to paint Francis Ford Copella one said, "Do what you love because you will be better at it."  The causation of  this statement is the impetus to put in extra time because you love it. How do we find out what we love?  That would seem to be the burning questions on everyone's mind.  A little bit like walking into a room and everyone shouts simultaneously, "Surprise!" What is the next steps on this quest for discovery, albeit self discover that often can be tempered with disdain and procrastination.  Often we do not like to look into the mirror and self -reflect but that is about to change.  Think for a moment about the following questions Jim Collins, author and entrepreneur advocates in his book, "Good to Great," What are you deeply passionate about? What drive your economic engine? What you can be the best in the world at? These concentric circle are interwoven and are interdependent of each other. Collins calls this m...

Have you ever just taken on a task for the sake of getting it done and discovered a greater learning and insight.  For me that happens when I do the dishes.  Other occasions are when I am being diligent in working on a project and faced with multiple challenges at once that diminish my capacity to participate at 100%.  Those moments when your 7 year old has a melt down over what’s for dinner and mac and cheese is not on the menu, which is exacerbated by a migraine that is so bad you have an upset stomach.  Welcome to life, my life of a single parent, widowed, fully employed and studying part time.  This is my new normal.  I am sure some of you can relate to that picture. In life’s school of learning this week I found some valuable truths that will impact the rest of my life and perhaps yours as well. Comparatively, continued education not matter the format or form (sometimes experience is the educator), has relevance in the professional and personal are...

Do you remember a moment in your childhood when you starred into the dark sky and whispered under your breath... Star Light, Star Bright, I wish I may, I wish I might,  Have the wish I wish tonight. I do.  I want to ask you two questions.  When was the last time you did that? and Why did you stop? In all honesty I haven't stopped wishing upon as star.  Why?  Because  still believe naive or not that dreams can come true. If I can keep a small hope alive even in my adulterating years then I can keep alive that can do, I can conquer the world attitude we all had as children. Remember those effortless moments of doing something crazy... My crazy moment was at about 7 years old.  I climbed a huge ladder inside a 50 foot barn to shimmy along a galvanized pipe about 5 inches in diameter and then drop about 20 feet or more, landing only on hay bales.  I dared to dream  and made it a reality. What drives us to forget those moments an...

With risk there is no guarantee and essentially that in itself is an issue for most. The majority of us like smooth sailing in life in that we feel we diminish drama and challenges. I was that type of person until 2016 when I lost my husband suddenly.  Indiscriminately life decided to rear its ugly inconvenient head and turn my entire life, goals and purpose upside down.  I found myself having to quickley reinvent and as it were re-brand myself.  Yes RE-BRAND myself. The journey I encountered as many of your have heard, often, if not until this moment is  that it is not about the destination but the paths you take.   My risk was to take a leap of faith and discover what I was made of and how I could move from a mourning widow to a dynamic, passionate vibrant woman facing a new normal. My new normal involved finding a passion to be an entrepreneur and build a company that provides services to the community for at risk youth, as well as being a business t...