Soul Over Matter. Zhi Gang Sha
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Название: Soul Over Matter

Автор: Zhi Gang Sha

Издательство: Ingram

Жанр: Эзотерика

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isbn: 9781942952596

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СКАЧАТЬ business, you don’t try to corner the market, undercut the competition, or win the war for search engine results. Instead, you root for your competitors; you wish them well and even buy their products. You don’t beat your vendors down on price; rather, you work with them collaboratively to find a way to ensure that they succeed. You don’t try to squeeze the most work per dollar from an employee; instead, you work to make him or her as successful as possible so that the productivity will flow back to you.

      You don’t need to be an entrepreneur to reap the benefits of karmic management. As an employee, you can see your peers as karmic partners, too, not corner office competitors. You can help them get the promotions, the raises, and the kudos, and discover the wonder of watching it come back to you in turn.

      If this sounds like “You get what you give” or “Do unto others,” you’re right. It is. But it’s also more than that. Karma in life is about eliminating fear by acknowledging the abundance in the world and finally seeing the divine in everyone and everything around you.

      A great example of how giving benefits the giver is Google, which in 2011 built physical community hubs or coworking spaces called campuses, where entrepreneurs come to learn, share ideas, and launch start-ups.

      Google also supports and reaches out to minority-owned businesses to join its Accelerate with Google Academy, a free twelve-week program aimed at small-business owners who are looking to take their marketing to the next level and significantly grow their revenues using online advertising.

      In a case of helping others to help themselves, Google shows businesses how to create website landing pages, manage Google AdWords to advertise their business, and manage marketing campaigns. The program is beneficial to businesses as well as to Google: More businesses using Google’s services gives the search company more data to mine and helps it provide more granular data to people who are searching for businesses.

      Here are six examples of things you can do to help others, your business, and yourself at the same time.

      1. Connect with like-minded businesses. By joining forces, small businesses can achieve economies of scale and have a presence that can compete with larger corporations. There is power in the collective, and businesses can harness the power of community to move forward.

      2. Participate in your local chamber of commerce events, Meetup. com, and similar networks for interested parties in your area. Build a strong Twitter network so you can organize a tweetup to leverage that network into an even more powerful experience through face-to-face networking.

      3. Join a social network or virtual group for like-minded small business owners to exchange advice, get support, build partnerships, find help, and more. For example, join Entrepreneur Connect, part of the Entrepreneur Network and Entrepreneur.com.

      4. Build informal alliances with like-minded companies. Reach out to other companies who share your views on customer service, business, product development, etc. Start with simple steps like swapping guest posts or sharing online communities.

      5. Create a “support small business” mind-set in your own company. Support your local economies by shopping at independently owned brick-and-mortar businesses. You can adopt a similar mind-set at your own business. Analyze your current vendors and service providers for opportunities to “downsize.” Are there any places where you could be supporting a small business—virtual or physical?

      6. American Express Open Forum online (https://www.americanexpress.com/us/small-business/openforum/articles/8-ways-small-businesses-help-communities-1/) is a great resource for small- and medium-sized businesses to help each other and to be visible to a much larger audience nationally and globally.

      In your quest to find financial peace, things are inevitably not going to go as planned. It’s nice to have a road map to follow, but if there’s one thing you can count on, it’s that not every road is going to be as smooth as you’d like.

      A big part of the reason is that you’re going to make mistakes. Money is going to flow into your life because of great decisions, but it’s also going to flow back out because of some not-so-great ones. Some days you’ll make decisions that earn you a windfall, and on others you’ll make errors that cost a fortune.

      And while the times you get everything right are wonderful, you’ll never escape the downturns; inevitably, you’re going to screw up and you’re going to make a mistake that costs you. It may cost you in time, in energy, in heartache, or in cash, but whatever the cost, know that it will happen.

      The issue, then, isn’t if you’ll make mistakes on the road to prosperity, but what you’ll do when they happen.

      First of all, know that you’re not alone. Mistakes happen all the time, yes. But understand that they happen to everyone, not just you. You may have screwed up, but you haven’t screwed up any worse than the rest of us. If it doesn’t seem that way, it’s because most people don’t like to talk about failure. Show me someone with a perfect, error-free life and I’ll show you someone who’s too scared to tell you the truth.

      With this in mind, you’re presented with a glorious new opportunity the next time you make a mistake: You don’t have to beat yourself up the way you usually do.

      The greatest danger when things go wrong isn’t the thing going wrong, but your judgment of yourself in the situation. You may judge yourself by feeling you caused the mistake. Or perpetuated it. Or weren’t able to resolve it. You may judge yourself for your response to the hardship. But the cause, the response, the behavior, the resolution—they all matter less than how you treat yourself in their wake.

      That’s the real potential “wrongness” of being wrong.

      This “failure phobia” we all experience is something we come by honestly. We all learned early that mistakes are “bad.” You make a mistake on a test? You get a C instead of an A. You bring that C home? Your parents are upset. You make a mistake in the office? You could lose your job. Your career. Your license.

      Our world punishes mistakes. That’s the lesson you were taught, and it’s why you take failure personally.

      Ultimately, though, that perception is also what slows you down. It stops you from trying something new. From taking risks. From doing things that are intuitive. That failure phobia stops you from taking a moment to listen to that inner voice, the whisper of your soul, saying Try something different.

      Yes, the programmed lessons of mistakes are powerful ones. Right now, you have many years of unconscious training telling you to ignore your instincts, your intuition, your soul. You have decades of programming telling you to invest your time and energy in just maintaining. In treading water. In protecting the status quo at all costs.

      But remember the cost of that. It’s mediocrity. A ceaseless, mindless commitment to what is safe.

      Here’s what you’re telling yourself: Mistakes are bad. I made one, so I must be bad, too. If I just never make another one, everything will be okay.

      But it won’t, will it?

      It’s time to realize that mistakes are the best thing that could happen to us. СКАЧАТЬ