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Holistic Business
Success
Going from bills you can’t pay to having money overwhelm you like
a tidal wave.

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“THINK AND GROW RICH.” How
can we talk about success without
mentioning Napoleon Hill’s best-
selling classic? This book has prob-
ably jump-started the engines of
more people on the success path than
what AAA Motor Club has done for
the stranded motorist. Multi-million-
aire and motivational speaker, Bob
Procter, said Napoleon Hill’s book,
along with some personal mentor-
ship he received along the way, was
instrumental in changing his life—
he went from bills he couldn’t pay to
having money overwhelm him like
a tidal wave. But let’s get one thing
straight here—success has nothing
to do with money. Most of us know
this…or do we?
Almost everyone has their own
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All of us have heard phrases like:
Success is a journey not a destina-
tion; success is a state of mind, an
attitude, success is….
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ition: Success is Self Awareness. This
theme runs throughout all success
literature. The development of the
self is all inclusive. That is to say, the

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truly successful person is one who
has looked beyond the illusions of
what he or she thinks material wealth
can do for them, and has crossed
over to contact something more de-
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cess can be measured by a person’s
ability to recognize the he or she is a
special part of the divine whole and
has inherited divine capacities to
contribute to the welfare and bene-
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go into business do so because they
innately feel they have something to
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with working for others—although
working for others was a part of their
training.
This is not metaphysical mumbo-
jumbo. The chances that most start-
up businesses will still be around
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Why? Could this be due to the fact
that some entrepreneurs have a de-
sire to do more than they are doing
with their lives and to be more than
what they currently are? Do others
simply look at success as making
a lot of money? Does the business
owner who is self aware know that he
or she is supposed to be doing more
than punching a clock everyday and
coming home to a mundane setting
which affords little or no room for
creativity and self-exploration?
Let’s face it, not all of us are sing-
ers or musicians, doctors or nurses,
athletes, inventors, landscapers,
construction workers or business
owners. Yet, in the panoramic view
of wholeness, we are forever inter-
dependently linked to each other
to such an extent that we cannot
succeed without offering our aid to
someone else. Thus, everyone, con-
sumer and business owner alike,
is woven into this circular motion,
much like the yin and yang symbol
of ancient Chinese philosophy.
Seen from this perspective—the
perspective of “collective business
consciousness,” we come face to
Failure is simply success turned inside out, and
success is simply failure reversed. You can’t
have one without the other.
face with the movement of business
as a universal culture. The business
owner is the customer, and the cus-
tomer is the business owner. The
customer therefore owns the busi-
ness; the business owner thinks he
owns it too. If you don’t believe me,
try making a shoddy product or fail
to supply your customer with what
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who really owns the shop. Is it pos-
sible then that when people embark
on their start-ups, their vision is ob-
scured by the need to make money
and not by the desire to bring some-
thing to the marketplace, something
[OH[PZNVPUN[VILULÄ[the whole? Is
it possible that most start-up busi-
nesses fail, or long established busi-
ness go out of business because they
either had a narrow-minded view of
how the universe operates—or are
they just not aware of the evolution
of the universe?
Let’s get totally honest about this.
We may tell ourselves that we have a
good product or service that people
need, but this usually comes second
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thing that might come to mind when
we’re considering starting a business
is: “Boy, I think I could really make a
lot of money with this.” This is a nat-
ural response of many entrepreneurs.
But it is not a spiritual response. The
desire to do more or become more
(which has to do with becoming self-
aware and aware of the collective
whole) has been overshadowed by
that part of the ego, the I, that says,
“I need more.” However, as most
of us have already found out, when
we’re in “need” mode we are prone
to make mistakes.
For example, due to our thirst
to satisfy the “I,” we make mistakes
in calculating how much money
it’s going to take to get our project
off the ground, how many people
we’re going to need to help us, and
a whole host of unforeseen problems
that crop up. Aren’t these the sort of
things that kill our business within
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seen problems? Of course, they are.
Somewhere along the line, we forget
to factor in something critical—and
it costs us.
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intent to bring something unique to
the marketplace, but we forget that
intention has to be aligned with who
we are at our core and our purpose
for each other. Many of us might
simply be unaware that we need to
have a correct vision of who we are
and what our mission is for ourselves
and others. This lack of clarity about
“living life on purpose” is the pri-
mary cause of failure for any would-
be business owner. But this brings us
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cess is Failure.
There’s an old saying that goes:
“You can’t keep a good man down.”
I might add, you can’t keep a good
woman down, either.
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Everybody fails at something, and you are no stranger
to it. Failure is written into the equation of being human
because our knowledge is limited. We are always in the
process of learning. Failure is simply success turned inside
out, and success is simply failure reversed. You can’t have
one without the other. They are two sides of the same coin.
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what didn’t work. Thus, failure becomes your best teacher.
Wallace Wattles, the author of the bestselling classic
called The Science of Getting Rich said, “You don’t get rich
by doing things, you get rich by doing things in a certain
way.” But, as true as this statement is, it doesn’t mean a hill
In the money trap, competition drives the motives
of the self, and the self becomes trapped inside an illu-
sion, the false vision of scarcity. Your job, should you
choose to accept it, is to live life on purpose and to
create a business that will live for the purpose of serv-
ing the whole. The person who does this is a true suc-
cess, and the universe will reward him or her for living
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the whole. He will not get rich by doing things, but by
doing things in a certain way. BNM

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work. Thus, failure becomes
your best teacher.

of beans to people who are caught in the money trap—

because their vision is murky. They can’t see “the whole.”
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ike learning styles,
order to access the most creative part of
people have differ-
themselves, where they can produce their
ent working styles.
very best work, they need to be alone.
Some are more product-
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ive at home and some do
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better when surrounded
places of inspiration when distractions
by people. These types of
abound. See, humans are interesting
workers are motivated and
inspired by the presence of
others. They thrive in an en-
vironment of conversation,
The Lone Worker
anecdote and feedback.
The other kind of per- creatures and demand a lot of attention—
sonality, the one who works attention that could be well devoted to
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to be a distraction, a time Which one are you? Do you work well
consuming and unneces- in a group or are you a lone worker?
sary effort. They relate to
various art forms, and, in

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