I have a passion for business. With my father and grandfather both business owners and me the first born girl always wanting to hang around my daddy, it got into my blood. Recently I read two business books that inspired me. The first is "True to Your Roots", an account of Fetzer Wine's evolution. The other is, "The Company We Keep", another memoir about a sustainable home builder in Martha's Vinyard.
Sustainable living is more than consuming less and recycling - although this is important beyond belief. For me, it also flows into self-care and relationships. It is why we nurture ourselves and each other - so that we can grow rather than wilt. My spirit is hovering around this topic with excitment and possibility.
Sustainable living is more than consuming less and recycling - although this is important beyond belief. For me, it also flows into self-care and relationships. It is why we nurture ourselves and each other - so that we can grow rather than wilt. My spirit is hovering around this topic with excitment and possibility.
posted by The Energy Coach at 8:54 AM
2 Comments:
I loved this post.
Knowing your dad and having heard many stories from him about your grandfather, I think your success in this realm of life is definitely destined. It is in your blood.
I have noticed over the years what a huge piece of the puzzle this is. My college friends and I all started out with ambivalence about jobs, careers and success. We all had esoteric majors that didn't really lend themselves to work. Now that many years have gone by, some of us are successful, some not. The key seems to me that those who had parents who enjoyed work and success were given an ease and lightness in this area that the rest of us can marvel at and aspire to.
I have seen this again and again. It's easy for them to make money, in fact it is practically effortless! I have a friend who is a script supervisor in Hollywood working in TV; his father and grandfather had a successful business. After being on several shoots out of town he figured he could make money by driving his RV to the shoot and renting it out to actors. After doing some bad crime drama at the coast he figured he could also rent out his boat. He installed camera platforms on the boat and rented himself out as captain, when he wasn't on set. He had 3 paydays for every show he worked on. He did not struggle, he had no self doubts. It was organic - a business opportunity that was like finding cake in the refrigerator. It's there to be eaten.
If you have been taught the right attitude and point of view, it's easy to switch jobs, careers and take risks. But what if your role models saw work as drudgery, a necessary evil? What if they were financially successful but hated the work? Maybe they were gifted in many areas but didn't want or couldn't take chances? These things also get passed to the next generation.
I guess my point here is about gifts. If you have the gift, the thing becomes effortless, light, fun, a great game. If you've got gifts, and we all do, you wonder why other people find it so difficult and weighty to do what comes so easily. Whether it's business acumen or hitting home runs, if you don't have it, you struggle. The thing becomes a life challenge, you must make up for what you were shorted.
I guess this is what you mean by nurturing each other: maybe you can receive someone else's gifts by sharing your own.
Bill
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