Attracting Prosperity: What Do You Have to Believe to Prosper as an
Entrepreneur?
By
Molly Gordon
What do you have to believe in order to show up, serve, and prosper as
an entrepreneur?
Your beliefs, assumptions, and opinions give shape to the world,
ordering the vast quantities of information and overwhelming amount of
stimulation you receive every moment.
As
many self-mastery gurus have advised us over the years, negative or
limiting beliefs tend to close down possibilities, narrow the future,
put a lid on progress.
Much
has been written (and fortunes built) on how to identify and dissolve
limiting beliefs.
But what about positive beliefs?
While
it is important to be able to
notice and work through limiting beliefs, it is also important to know
and take a stand for what you "have to believe," to be proactive about
what gets you out of bed in the morning, sparks your vision, fuels your
choices, and instills the spirit of entrepreneurship.
A "have to belief" is a way of understanding that resonates so deeply
with your sense of purpose, meaning, and service that you willingly
embrace it and subordinate your choices to it.
A
"have to belief" is one that you hold with conscious commitment and
self-reflective awareness, knowing that it is a belief (not a fact) and
being responsible for the ways this belief endows your life with
meaning, purpose, and focus.
There is no absolute, verifiable, objective third-party system that can
prove a "have to belief."
Instead
you learn to hold these beliefs as a
skilled fencer holds a sword or a tournament tennis player a racquet:
with a loose-and-tight grip that responds to both inner promptings and
encounters with the physical world.
It's important to hold a "have to belief" loosely enough to remember
that you do not have the right to impose your belief on anyone else.
And in
this loose-enough grip, there is room to question, challenge, and
evolve what you "have to believe" as your learn and grow.
At the same time, it is important to hold a "have to belief" tightly or
firmly enough that it can order your experience (without closing down
awareness of other possibilities) and provide emotional and spiritual
sustenance.
So what does this have to do
with being open for business and your
prosperity as an entrepreneur?
In my
view, everything.
Every
day I encounter in myself or in my clients
situations that we cannot rise to without an adequate belief system.
It is
not enough to deconstruct limiting beliefs.
In
order to continuously
craft a meaningful and functional definition of success and to chart or
re-chart your course, you must become responsible for what you have to
believe and how you are about believing it.
Here are some other "have to beliefs" that show up in my work with
entrepreneurs, business owners, independent professionals, and artists.
Try
them on for size. Notice that a "have to belief" does not need
to quarrel with reality.
-- I have to believe that people can take care of themselves, and I
know that sometimes they cannot.
-- I have to believe that my thriving and prosperity will not
necessitate someone else's suffering, and I know that sometimes it
might.
-- I have to believe that being a good steward for my business will
help me show up and serve.
-- I have to believe that I can afford to act in my client's best
interests, even when that means that I will earn less (or no) income
-- I have to believe that prosperity is attractive to the people I want
to work with.
-- I have to believe that there are plenty of people for whom my work
is a perfect match who can and will value my services enough to pay for
them.
-- I have to believe that mistakes are the compost for future success,
and I know that this includes picking up after myself and making amends
for my errors.
"Have to beliefs" are beliefs you choose because they make you
stronger, wiser, smarter, kinder, more resilient.
They
challenge you to
be bigger, more creative, bolder.
And
for every "have to belief" a new
world of action is revealed.
What do you have to believe in
order to show up, serve, and attract
prosperity as an entrepreneur?
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Photo: Richard
Branson: “I have fun running the Virgin businesses, so a setback is
never a bad experience, just a learning curve.”
Another
quote in the article: “What’s the difference between the millions of
people who lose their jobs and get paralyzed by feelings of
hopelessness and helplessness and the 600,000 last year who said, how
can I monetize my skills and interests, and who then created a new
business? Only one thing: Negative beliefs about themselves and life
versus positive ones.” From article How
I Discarded My Negative Beliefs, By Morty Lefkoe.
Molly
Gordon is president of Shaboom Inc., a "coaching and training
company that delivers hope, help, and hilarity to Accidental
Entrepreneurs so that they can build a business that fits just-right."
She
says, "Thanks to my checkered past, I'm able to draw road maps for
other accidental entrepreneurs – people who love their work enough to
risk working for themselves but who aren't particularly business
oriented and who have a deep commitment to personal growth.
"I
love that everything I learn (and every mistake I make) serves this
audience. From The Work of Byron Katie to Embodied Intelligence,
ontological coaching to Process Work to integral theory and
methodology, there is delicious synergy among my vocation and
avocations."
She
explains that her business name Shaboom refers to how "business
success and personal growth are intertwined. The more you grow and
develop personally, the more you achieve the emotional, physical, and
spiritual well being you want, the more successful you will be at
building a business where the person you have always wanted to be can
do work you have always wanted to do. And that's very cool, indeed."
Her
programs include:
The
Way of the Accidental Entrepreneur, The Practical Path to a Business
that Fits Just-Right
A testimonial: "Before I bought the program, I assumed you were
pretty touchy-feely, “think positive” kind of coach, not much real
world application stuff. What I discovered is that you have really
amazing insights into the issues that I personally have as a
single-person business, and I’ve been doing this off and on for over 30
years...I’d recommend The Way of the Accidental Entrepreneur to anyone
who went into business because they loved what they do. Selling
yourself and your skills is exhausting, demeaning, and often sucks the
passion out of what used to feed your creativity and happiness. I’m
thinking about my work in a completely different way and am excited to
tell people my story once again." - Dick Carlson, Columbia, SC,
USA.
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