Drawing a Big Blank in Business? Take a Snooze
Are you a member of the bloody-forehead club? Been banging that head against a wall a little hard? I have and I often do. This is a picture of me, needing to visit a “Headbangers Anonymous” meeting!
Take a load off.
We small business owners often labor under the misconception that when business sucks, we just need put in a little more elbow grease. You can do that, but I gotta tell you that you’ll just be shortening your life.
See, the love of my life is an acupuncturist and serious student of metaphysics. When he sees me banging my head against a wall, he loves to tell me that all I’m doing is whacking a year or two off my life. According to Chinese Medicine, we are all born with a certain amount of “qi” or life energy. We can use it all up right now in head-banging, or we can slow down and spread that life energy over our entire lives (that means smelling roses, and stuff like that!).
Yeah, it can be a little hard to wrap the brain around, but think about it like this: your life energy is like a roll of toilet paper, and the faster you unroll the paper, the faster you get to the end. End of the roll = end of your life.
Whew! Now that we’ve gotten “Small Business Metaphysics 101″ over with, we can move onto real, hard core, productive entrepreneurial ideas. In the same vein, here’s a great article by Brian Clark to dig into. It’s called “How to Sleep and Daydream Your Way to Success.” It debunks the myth of the hard-charging entrepreneur, and highlights examples of entrepreneurs who have gotten their sparks of brilliance outside the office, while daydreaming, for instance.
Read “How to Sleep and Daydream Your Way to Success” here.
Enjoy, daydream, and be brilliant!
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