By the Ocean
Mostly Cloudy 73 Degrees
5:38 a.m.
The biggest question isn’t how to “make it” in business. It’s what business should you try to “make it” in?
At the beginning of my life, I never asked myself this question. I wasn’t big on questions back then. I just did what I was told. Somehow I started down the road of being a musician. I spent 20 years of my life climbing to the top of a mountain I’m not even sure I wanted to be on. (In the process, I found a Goddess who is the mother of my 10 children, so it wasn’t all bad!)
That was an “outside-in” type of journey. I was caught up in what other people wanted and I just went with it.
You can do stuff like this in business too. I did it. It’s miserable.
You might actually make a lot of money with this method, some people do. But I never did.
Everything I ever tried because I thought it sounded smart and reasonable according to the world FAILED.
The only business I’ve ever found success in is the business of being me. Of doing my art and figuring out how to make that a solution to other people’s problems.
Is it always the business I want to be in? I’m not sure. But it seems to be the location of what I call “The Balance Point.”
The Balance Point is the intersection between what you want to make and what wants to be made.
It is the balance between exerting your Will on the Universe and figuring out how to fit into the song it’s already singing.
In the Matrix, business people are taught to exert their Will. This is probably why so many businesses fail. Not because the entrepreneur is not equipped, but because he sets out on the wrong journey.
When you find the Balance Point, things feel different. Something happens to your Will. What happens is that it softens. Something also happens to the way you receive the world. Gratitude goes up. Complaining seems to exit the building.
The Balance Point is where you belong to do the dance with the Universe you came to dance.
I can’t guarantee you success if you exist there. I can guarantee something much more important:
You will find a level of meaning and satisfaction with your work that nothing else can provide.