by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
Awakening the Entrepreneur Within by Michael Gerber shows how ordinary people can create extraordinary companies. Known for his E-myth series, Gerber at age 69, strikes out on a new venture he refers to as the dreaming room. He has been wanting to do this most of his life, and decided he hasn't burned up all his E-cells yet. Here's the process of the Entrepreneur about to "awaken" in you. It all begins in your newly found dreaming room.
To invent a new life out of nothing takes the Five Realities of the Entrepreneur.
Reality #1 An entrepreneur invents.
Reality #2 Entrepreneurs do not buy business opportunities, they create them.
Reality #3 Invention is contagious.
Reality #4 To an entrepreneur, the success of the invention, the business,
is measured by growth.
Reality #5 Everyone possess the ability to be an entrepreneur.
The entrepreneur personality has four dimensions.
The Dreamer
The Thinker
The Storyteller
The Leader
Each are in you and are part of the process of raising up the dream to be reality. It's to invent, conceive, articulate and build a new venture.
The Dreamer and the Dream
The dreamer invents ideas, then creates systems. Everything in a business needs a system to function, grow, thrive. Although at the beginning the dreamer stops, focuses, listens, feels. The awakening comes from this. Logic is not needed, the dreamer defies logic.
The best dreams of the entrepreneur are not personal dreams, but impersonal dreams. Dreams that serve your interests are personal; dreams serving other people's interests are impersonal. They care about creating it because it impacts so many people. They think about "what this will have for people who want to buy it." It's lasting value to the customer.
The personal dream limits one to one's self. The impersonal dream is much larger than one's self and impacts many who share in building it. What matters is the customer and treating them better than anyone else. It's a dream that has meaning for many. What's missing in every business... the system. When you see the system, the dream rolls. It then moves from a dream, to a vision, to a purpose, and mission. Results are then produced.
The Thinker and the Vision
Some fundamentals.
--All businesses require vision. To develop a vision requires a process.
--All visions are both personal and impersonal. A life vision, a business vision.
--Every company is an organization of people, relationships, functions, a flow that can be charted.
--An organization is an organization of systems. All systems merge into one system.
Take the dream apart. Study every detail and put it back together answering "what do I want." Then you re-dream again, and take it apart again... conceiving, creating process, systems and the scalability factor. The ten pillars of the most successful business in the world include the above four plus:
--There is no such thing as customer service, only commitment
--Master money, and everyone in your business must master money.
--Your people are not your business. Your business is your own reality. Your people are themselves, interested in themselves.
--Your business is an idea.
--You know more about your business than anyone else.
--A business must mean something. Never stop asking questions.
Design a business model that transforms itself and grows. Come to grips with your business model including your design, implementation, management (i.e., low cost, easy to enroll, easily accessible). Ask: "How are we going to get this done?" Revisit the "What?" you're getting done, for whom, and why it's important to them.
The Storyteller and the Purpose
The storyteller is the one who sings songs and tells his story to whomever will listen. It's the spirit of the story that grabs the heart of the listener. The story makes the purpose real, shows why the business is important. The story shows why a new company needs invented. The story grows within you and is you.
It's your story and you make it come true. For the story to be told you must tell it. For the risks to be taken, you must risk it. For the journey to be continued, you must continue it. For the mission to be accomplished, you must accomplish it.
The Leader and the Mission
The five essential skills to lead anything... concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. Everything you do as a leader is documented as a system, implemented as a system. Embrace ideas with your whole being. A business is a hierarchy of three stages.
The lowest is the practice... a self-operating system for lead generation, lead conversion and client fulfillment.
The next level is the business or many practices being tied together with a business management system to monitor, control and improve the operating system.
The third is the enterprise to lead management of the business to greater levels through inspiration, application, coaching and consulting. Then the company grows to multiple enterprises or regions. Most establish a practice but don't build, perfect or replicate what they started. There's wisdom in process... knowledge of the world, what it wants, knowing yourself and what you need, getting results and what you need in order to get them. Then knowing what's next and improving to get there.
You learn to take time to figure out what steps to take and take them one after another... to grow progressively. You learn not to move on until the step you are on is on sure footing. Getting everything under way falls back on your imagination... your energy, your spirit, your passion for your cause. You progressively move from dreaming, to thinking, to storytelling, to leading and missioneering. The old is thrown away. The new starts in your imagination.
More on Awakening the Entrepreneur Within and how to get involved in an exciting social network of entrepreneurs.
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In The Beginning The Spirit of God created.
The source of all creation is His Spirit.
Nothing existed and Spirit created all things we see now, have seen, will ever see.
It all starts in Spirit, which is first a dream. Spirit gives us a dream then it shows us how to process the dream. Then Spirit empowers everything to release and make the dream into something we see, something that works, that exists.
Ezekiel pointed out that we must let the old go and allow the new to come about. "Cast away from you all your transgressions which you have committed and make yourselves a new heart and a new spirit!"
(Ezekiel 18:31, NASB)
This is to put away the old and begin developing the new heart, a new way of looking and doing things. Our efforts are limited. "The Spirit alone gives eternal life. Human effort accomplishes nothing. And the very words I have spoken to you are spirit and life."
(John 6:63, NLT)
This new heart will then change everything around you and all things will become new and beautiful, fresh like a new spring in a meadow. "Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols. And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony, stubborn heart and give you a tender, responsive heart. And I will put my Spirit in you so that you will follow my decrees and be careful to obey my regulations."
(Ezekiel 36: 25-27, NLT)
The rules of the Spirit are filled with love, joy, peace. It's regulations give freedom, excitement and exhilaration in its process. The old rules wear you out, the new rules give you life... full and filling!
The New Spirit will begin rebuilding a new land for you to live. "I will put my Spirit in you, and you will live again and return home to your own land. Then you will know that I, the Lord, have spoken, and I have done what I said. Then I will arrange to take you to another land like this one—a land of grain and new wine, bread and vineyards."
Ezekiel 37:14; 36:17 NLT)
And this New Spirit, the Spirit of creative power is yours for free... "how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask."
(Luke 11:13, NLT)
He will put it in us and He gives the Spirit "freely" for all who ask. This Spirit is given "freely" without reservation... For those who ask and keep asking.
The more you ask, the more Spirit is given. Spirit is the creator of all things and with Spirit all things are created with the Unlimited resources of Spirit... The Spirit which created the Universe. He doesn't ask us to keep asking because he is a stubborn God, but because He is a generous God and gives more, and more, the more we ask. So keep asking, ask for a lot, of Spirit, and allow the dream to be as Big as Spirit can create, The All-Universe creating Spirit.
The secret is to go into your dreaming room of Spirit, frequently, stay a while. Go into this re-invigorating meadow where fresh Springs of Spirit flow into and then through you and you employ the strategies of the vision that come over you.
The Spirit then goes ahead of you doing the miracles of the vision, mission you are set out to participate in Him to see come into being. The Spirit is the ultimate dreamer in you, the vision maker, the vision fulfiller, the path director and the driving force of the purpose with a mission that keeps you proclaiming jubilantly to all what you are doing.
Spirit-inspired vision is your driving power. It is the Spirit power of God that creates all this of beauty, creates new life, and significance. Then we all know, when we see its exuberance, that the very Spirit of God has done this.
Its significance lances so much beyond us. We know that something greater than us has Created, has dreamed through us and has maneuvered a mission of eternal entries.
And the Spirit of God is coming on us new, the old will pass away,
and He will give us a new heart
and He will give us a new land to live.
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