Entrepreneur Diaries: Blessings in “this guise”!

Oh yes, been a while since the Entrepreneur spoke and this post is going to be pretty real. In the journey of an Entrepreneur, there are many ‘Blessings in Disguise” situations and people you learn from. Some of them are “Pure Positive Experiences” yet others are “Pure Positive Lessons”, all meant to grow into their own reality, to exponentially reflect the truth! None, should be dismissed as a goner… till you’ve learnt what they’re meant to teach.

When you work from an intent to GROW WITH GRATITUDE, the obstacles are “thought processes” not people. People only reflect and radiate the “thought processes” of the “collective” and as you continue to accept them as they come, you personally learn, that there are social challenges far greater than “Poverty, Illiteracy, Hunger, Mal Nutrition and jobs” that need to be met.

In my recent and phenomenal conversations with people, wanting to know more about Intern to Entrepreneur” this is what I have come to learn and these learning's, really, are the solid affirmation that I have to continue what I am doing, irrespective of “response”. I have begun a new journey and that is to inspire and empower “Entrepreneurs” with their first big step and to take this first big step, they’ve got to want it, they’ve got to choose it and they’ve got to live from a more inspired and empowered place in their minds first… that the reality of their thoughts may show UP in their lives. It is not about me, it is NOW about them.

Entrepreneurs Create in the Image and likeness of God and not the image and likeness of God:  Sometimes, we choose, to play GOD, creating GOD in our own image and likeness, which is the folly of an entrepreneurial journey, the truth is that we as entrepreneurs learn from our ventures how to ALLOW growth, both for ourselves and those that come in connect with us. We unlearn all the “management jargon” to ACCEPT that our ventures must continue to create, ripples within us, to keep us “creating”. We first choose the outcome, then figure out, through experiment and experience “how” to reach that outcome. We don’t always have the PHYSICAL ANSWERS yet, we derive them from our experiences, we learn all the time, we innovate to sustain and grow. These aren’t tangible “things”, these are infinite in-tangible, born of a “growth mindset” not “grow mindset”.

Entrepreneurs, take the RISK of CONFIDENCE in their VISION: Every Entrepreneur, has a beginning, that is filled with “circumstantial evidence of growth” possibilities. Once they take the plunge and are on the other side of the fence, the initial dilemma is “that the grass is greener” on the employee side of life, where cheques walk in to your bank account and money is around at regular intervals. It is the Entrepreneurs confidence in the SELF and in the AD-VENTURE, that is the “power backup” of the un-learning process, getting out of the employee mindset, takes atleast 6 months. if not more to adjust to! It is often “fear” of “”no money in the bank” and “bills to be paid” that breaks the vision.

As a survivor, I learnt that practically. It wasn’t easy yet it was fun, I took 3 detours in the process : 1) Everytime I felt “poor” I’d take a pen and paper and write what it felt like to create a brand 2) I wrote a book K.A.A.M guided spiritually to a new Know.Allow.Accept.Manifest the idea, the brand, the waiting and the divine timing. I found, that Gratitude, that has been present all my life, was leading me to be able to THINK BIG, before I began what I now call my DeePositive Journey. 3) fallouts, drawbacks, depression, poverty all knocked at my thoughts, wanting to drown my “vision”, as I look back, my fears, my deepest fears were surfacing and I had the CHOICE to treat them as real or accept them and let them heal. My greatest gift, well, accepting that these “fears” were deep within me, being brought into my awareness for the simple purpose, letting me know, that they existed, then when I saw them with gratitude, they unfolded into “healing my fears” making me MIND READY to grow the vision. I learnt that my VISION was far greater than my fears, each time a fear cropped up and I can promise you they did, lots of them, those who know me closely, know that I have had my share of tears, fears and tantrums, I felt so alone so obsolete that I wanted to go back to my comfort zone, being an employee! Thank God for Gratitude, thank God for a deeper understanding, Thank God for Angels… I took a leap of Gratitude in 2010, today I am co-creating at the speed of Gratitude and I love it! Dedicated.Enthusiastic.Empowered.Positive my anchor and vision.

Entrepreneurs, are take Responsibility or Response Ability of their CHOICES:,Growing with Gratitude is a gift to every human being, based on their CHOICES. Entrepreneurs live through it, to tell a success story or fade away. An Entrepreneur makes new choices everyday, born from their inner vision. One of the key attributes of an Entrepreneur and a wonderful way to KNOW the difference between and entrepreneur and a businessman/woman is the ability to be “inclusive” in success and “exclusive” in failure. An Entrepreneur, takes failure as a lesson, a personal lesson, it is a gift really. Failure, in the KNOW of an Entrepreneur, is the gap between Vision and Execution, a personal learning. Where as Success is a bridge built between vision and execution. The Entrepreneur HOLDS the vision before all that is, always and in ALL WAYS! It is important therefore, to KNOW, that the RESPONSE- ABILITY comes from a deeper understanding of the vision. If the actions in thought word and deed don’t match the vision, the VISION, ceases to INSPIRE AND EMPOWER growth, the brand, doesn’t need NEW PEOPLE, it simply needs a new vision. As an Entrepreneur, you embody the vision, you are the vision, that every team member draws from, so, you should actually be the perfect example of what your company stands for. If your CHOICE comes from VISION, you will automatically create an “inclusive growth” environment. When the VISION is OUTSIDE of YOU or you see INSPIRATION and EMPOWERMENT of your team as an OBSTACLE, you begin to desire “exclusive growth”, this cramps your ability to respond with vision. Looking for “scape goats”!

Blessings in “this guise” , assist the inner growth of the Entrepreneur Mindset, this is another perspective, merely another perspective to meet the entrepreneur within you. In my learning, the odds have produced more results that the expected. I still choose, the VISION, for the vision is the guide to tomorrow I may not live to see, yet, that will I leave as a memory, shall grow, for GROWTH is Intentional, it is Infinite, it is Invisible, Omnipresent and Omnipotent… all of out choice and all in “this guise”.

How you perceive it is how you receive it!: Dee

Assume is a beautiful word…

For the last three whole years I’ve learnt to GO WITH GRATITUDE & GROW WITH GRATITUDE in a more practice makes perfect life accepting way. The results are absolutely phenomenal, even to the naked eye ;)

OneNess is a gift, a product of Gratitude in Action and Reaction really, it’s the pause that reveals WHY a particular event or occurrence takes place. The thrill of Gratitude is in the KNOWING of this simple truth. It is true for my experiences, that Gratitude for the KNOWING has triggered a series of events that have in fact brought all of life together and helped me focus on growth.

There was a time, when I would notice updates from other event managers and feel anxious, that my brand is growing pretty slowly. Gratitude for their work, moved me to introspect and these brilliant moments of introspection led to new ideas on what I really wanted to do and these ideas have found shape in building relationships today that are part of my brand growth of tomorrow.

As an entrepreneur, it is essential to keep focused on the vision and make provision for it to grow large enough to accommodate personal growth, brand growth and social growth of the brand and all those associated with it. Assume plays a vital role…. to assume is to make a practiced path forward towards a specific result. More often than not… ASSUME is CONSUMED with “Make Believe” taken literally. The connotation is the essence and you get to CHOOSE and your CHOICE is the path forward to a specific result.

My many assumes are the reason why I have reached where I am. I assumed the roles of my thoughts and have grown. I have learnt to say YES to experiments and experience the results as I have assumed them to play out, keeping a single minded focus on the COMPLETION, as ASSUMED. As I look forward I am reminded how powerful moments of ASSUMPTIONS with GRATITUDE have in fact co-inspired my present learning and knowing.

Often, as an event manager you are called to CONCEPTUALISE an event OUTCOME and all that you do have, to begin with, is ASSUMPTIONS. YOU assume your role in the project as the creator of the final outcome and the plan works out backwards, in every row, is an assumption worked backwards from the result and served to the client. Every detail is assumed.

We assume roles in our lives… we live out many roles in the ACT OF LIVING. We assume the role, then we play it according to the rules of the role as defined by those who’ve ASSUMED the roles before us. Now and again, we make a new CHOICE and with this new choice, we begin a new series of roles and rules. We don’t question the roles or the rules of the role, for when we assume what exists we learn to adjust to the frameWORK put in by history, passed on through the ASSUMES of lineage and we make a tradition of it.

I look at the assumes that have created my life ….

I assumed the role of a responsible elder sister, when my mom made the statement “because you are the eldest you have to be an example to your sisters”

I assumed the role of a student when I began school and to this day I remain learning and reminding myself, that I only need to assume as per my dreams and I am confident that I will fit into the role.

I assumed as a child that “ because Jesus wants it”, then came “everyone is born with a purpose”, “I was not created to so small things”, “Jesus

I assumed the role of a teenager when I turned 13, then I grew to an adult at 18, then I joined the workforce at 19, then an entrepreneur at 33 and now at 36 I am readying my self to assume a new role… wife… and with it comes a whole new plethora of experiences and assumes that will pave the way to the finale when I prep myself to assume the role of a soul in celebration of the completion of the journey we know as LIFE.

I assumed the role of a singer when someone, first helped me recognise I had a brilliant voice, then my first choir experience, then my first solo in school when I came second, then my first choir solo in church, then my first public performance at rashtrapati bhavan, then my first prize for singing in school, then my representing my school at the state level as a singer, my first studio recording for an ad, then my first club singing assignment, then many other experiences of singing… recording my song for the first time and sharing it with my social world and now a new role beckons as a lead singer of a band…

I assumed the role of a writer when I wrote my first poem in school, then my first play, then my first journal, then my first blog post, my first response to a thread of a community, then I learnt to write from my responses, then my first book in which I compiled and shared the simple truth I learnt from our sharing and now a book about experiments and experiences I’ve practiced

I assumed the role of an entrepreneur when we first got together as a group of kids to earn, then with my jobs to learn and now my own brand to practice what I learnt and create my own experiences, which I now share… each time I get an opportunity to speak… each time I speak a new idea is born and with it begins a brand new level of being an entrepreneur.

I assumed my roles as I met them and along the way in accepting these new roles, which my great assumption was, that it will lead me to running my own brand led global corporation on one day!! Today I smile upon the excitement that with an agency and a foundation that a couple of steps have already been taken and the new ones will reveal themselves as I continue to make choices and assume new futures in thought and assume new roles in action. It is this thrilling experience of ASSUMING that leads to innovation and growth. We are blessed to make choices in the knowing that we are a GLOBAL CORPORATION in the making… and this shall be made possible through the many different ASSUMES I will meet on my own path to completion of the grand vision of my soul journey on the earth NOW and then when I am back in the formlessNess of OneNess, through the many who will choose their ASSUME and evolve in creating from another CHOICE a NEW ASSUME for the Future!!

I assume that in sharing this with you, I am sharing the powerful assumes that I am so grateful for and in this recognising… I also accept the many assumes I haven’t written about but sure am thinking about… Assuming with a Grateful heart creates a rainbow of reasons to celebrate life. It is amazing when you look at the world of assume… and how it has played out in your life, you recognise, that the process of assume is the divine driver of all that is part of the visual process. Assume is SILENT GROWTH, without expecting, without demanding… it simply moves you to RECOGNISE the silence of “MYSTERIOUS WAYS OF GRATITUDE” delivering your PURPOSE TO YOU through ASSUMPTION.

Assume is a beautiful word and creates a beautiful world… when we look back and see how Life is a series of ASSUMES…evolving with every choice!!!

Here’s wishing you a journey to ASSUME the YOU, you were created to BE!!

Ignorance IS Bliss : The Awestruck Tourist

For all the years that I’ve used these words, I had misunderstood what it truly expressed!!

and then… I found out… Awestruck… that IGNORANCE is, a positive, most personally That the truth is… What I don’t KNOW does not have the power to affect me and by the time I do KNOW… it has manifested into the NOW of my BEING.

The Awestruck Tourist’s “Ignorance IS Bliss” for it takes away the weighing down of TIME and invites a PERSONAL perspective… that RE-DISCOVERS the creative energy and enthusiasm of LIFE as it was CREATED!! All else is a FIGMENT of SOCIAL TUTORIALS  

You don’t need to know where you’re heading… sometimes, when you ACCEPT that you’re heading… YOU reach where you always wanted to be anyway!!

Ignorance… is a helper really  

…It takes care of RISKS Ignorance doesn’t understand the risk… it only understands, that an action taken… means you’re one step closer.

…It prevents OVER CONFIDENCE Ignorance knows there’s much to learn… and so, will seek knowledge from every source, willing to impart and still follow it’s own advice  

… It guards against COMPARISON Ignorance, is aware of it’s own quest for its moment in the sun. It looks not at the shadows being cast upon the ground. It looks at the sun, blinded by it’s glory… seeking an infilling of power.

… It understands the HYPOCRACY of time Ignorance, does not work by a projected timeline, it creates it’s own path… at it’s own pace. Maybe, Ignorance is where the higher consciousness finds it easier to transfer, purpose and knowledge to.

… It acknowledges the ONEness in all Ignorance, has a deeper appreciation for life as it is. Unadulterated by social, economical or financial pressure!! It continues to see as COMPLETE… all that IS!! Its Gratitude knows no LACK!!

Personally, as I look back and express my Gratitude… the IGNORANCE of the HOW… of each achievement… is the BLISS of the NOW of their manifestation!!

Here’s wishing you “Ignorance IS bliss”… where the KNOW. ALLOW.ACCEPT…. Manifests