A healthy business requires inner development
Kicking hope to the curb
One of the many things I have learned over the years is that there is not one solution (other than inventing a form of mind control and make sure it doesn’t fall into the the wrong hands, but what are the right hands?!?). Many changes are needed, many different voices need to be heard, many brains need to work on this existential crisis we are facing. If you are here, you are likely agreeing with the threat to our civilisation as we know it. We are overshooting planetary boundaries, public trust in systems and governance is eroding and we’re hanging on to economic growth by the fingernails.
My small ebook “Create a healthy small business” wants to help small businesses to take their power to where they can make a difference. But also to remember that there is something more important than building prosperity for oneself. Wanting always more stuff and not knowing when “enough” is hitting the sweet spot is one of the tragedies of our times.
Sometimes it is a lot. Watching governments allowing more mines, sending activists to prison, corporations and brands greenwashing with ESG ticks and carbon-neutral certificates, its easy to lose hope. But hope is not what we need, we need to be fearless, says Paul Hawken.
There is much the consumer can do with the hope(!) that collective consumer behaviour will result in changes by producers, suppliers, manufacturers. Being fearless on the other hand is doing our thing with conviction and talking about it, challenging others around us to question the mindless consumerism that comes from mindless production. Speaking up about the energy, mineral and material blindness which has spread to those in the halls of power where wishful thinking runs rampant that everything will get sorted with technology.
The ebook encourages an inner awareness that seems is not so common in these hectic times. I write about feeling an inner vibration and giving it a number, just to compare it to other feeling vibrations. We can also use the Inner Development Goals to learn transformational skills. Inner vibration and transformational skills require awareness. And the tricky bit is that true awareness is not coming from our mind, it’s nothing that we can think into existence, as awesome as it sounds. True awareness comes from being in the body, preferably in nature. Big thanks to John Siddique for writing the wonderful “Signposts of the spiritual journey” which makes for a great adventure for the upcoming festive season, together with the IDG 29k App. If you are irritated by the ‘spiritual’ I suggest to investigate for past triggers and trauma. Every inner development is a spiritual journey.
And on we go, walking our talk and talking to those we walk with or by. I wish you a wonderful time with loved ones and hope you are going out for a few walks, wherever in the world you are.
Ngā manaakitanga / With gratitude
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