Entrepreneurs live in the idea zone.
But Spirit-filled entrepreneurs, the caring ones, live in the vision zone.
They envision something that would help themselves and everyone on the most precise level.
They will shun many projects, offers, and ideas if these don't truly help people, even at the risk of having to personally live super minimally till they get a project they believe in, going.
They will not work with people who merely wish to aggrandize themselves.
That's not the whole objective of their work, you see. Thus, many people think enlightened entrepreneurs are deluded beings with no sense of reality, but of course, how very off-base they are.
Such entrepreneurs will not create products and services that will make people addicted to it. That's what makes them an endangered species in this world of ours.
Enlightened entrepreneurs are not interested in making a fast buck for that's pretty easy and yet can be soul-less.
Sure, they may sell everything they own in pursuing their vision.
As they say, they will sell everything except themselves, their families, their friends, and their community.
That's tantamount to saying, they will not sell people so they can reach their objectives.
That's why it takes a clear vision, a magnanimous heart, and precise planning to get work done.
He will work with what he has, who he is, what God fires him up to do so -- and will only create stuff with real value.
There will be no empty promises for that will not fill his heart and help others.
It's the hardest thing to do, of course, for the world style goes totally against his own style of working.
But that's what real entrepreneurs are for -- to think independently of others.
That's his personal DNA.
He's cut out for the toughest job of finding or creating that which will be of real value to people. His search will be relentless.
He values your hard-earned money, for he, too, works hard to earn that dollar, even as you think he's a careless nut.
The enlightened entrepreneur can't really sell you useless stuff. That won't reflect all that praying, meditating, visualizing, thinking, sweat, and the God in his heart that powers him so.
Not to mention his boatloads of "experiments" to get things done as he carves a path for himself. Every experiment leads him closer to his ultimate dream or project.
He follows every conceivable thread God puts upon his path. He may work solo but it's not really so.
The enlightened entrepreneur is patient, persevering, tenacious, creative, kind, energetic, dynamic, imaginative, awake, and aware.
The man's got "soul".
Entrepreneurs usually work for themselves because they work and think fast, plus, they don't have the time to listen to a bored...I mean highly-paid board of directors.
The best minds in art, business, science, and technology know all about ideas that come from God, so they must pay attention.
Thomas Alva Edison was reputed to have a ball in each hand as he sat on a chair and napped (for he napped often) and if he came awake, the two balls would fall on metal pie plates positioned right below those creative hands. I haven't really heard if they accidentally fell on his foot. Now, that would really jolt the dude awake.
The idea being he'd remember what that dream or idea was.
We're now full of light bulbs because of him. He turned on the physical light for us and that made us work longer than we're already working but entrepreneurs don't mind. We have a built-in Energizer battery -- we just keep going.
Expect real entrepreneurs to be quirky, crazy, lost in their own wonderful, dynamic world of creativity and magnificent imagination. A lot of them see what we don't see, that's why we call them crazy. Still, they remain at it, oblivious to all naysayers and criticisms.
That's really how they test the strength and validity of their own vision anyway -- if their faith holds despite the clamor they do something more "normal".
Translated?
Normal is boring for true entrepreneurs. It goes totally against the core of their being. They don't mind your calling them all the delightful words in your cuss vocabulary. They have a mission to do and that day is now.
Sometimes, they forget to live in the real world where people have to sleep, eat, and be nice.
They're usually off in their art and science world, communicating with God (if they're the genuinely caring and prayerful ones), or talking to themselves as they work out all the variables of an idea.
Not all are like that, of course, but they do get off course from the human mainstream.
They're like frogs you will not be able to pin on a board and dissect for they don't like being pinned to a board and getting dissected. They love their freedom to think and be.
Entrepreneurs are a crazy, imaginative, hardworking lot who can create non-stop.
The only difference with the usual entrepreneur and an enlightened one is that the latter ALWAYS creates with heart and awareness. He's got so much faith in God that he will NEVER ever knowingly create products and services that will make people addicted to those. All for what? Repeat sales and ROI?
Nah, he's not that unimaginative.
The dude's got heart.
With God in it.
All the time.
21 January 2022
