Fingertip Titans UniteBe the 100th Monkey
July 9th 2007 15:29
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How Many Monkeys Left?
Each of these failed businesses represents a broken heart, and in the collective consciousness of our planet, we are hard pressed to find a need for yet another broken heart, broken home, broken marriage, or broken dream. We've got enough of those already.
The true entrepreneur will take the lessons learned from that failed business, and after healing the gaping wounds, he'll go and, scars and all, start the next one. and the next one, and the next one. The spirit of a dreamer can be bruised, and battered, but only broken by choice.
Another closely related statistic is the number of domestic violence incidents reported. You know as well as I do that people fight over money. They fight over silly things most of the time, but when it comes to money, that's when things get really uptight. The young family that just moved in down the street may look like the picture-perfect image of the American Dream, but when that SUV has to go back to the bank, their home could become a war zone.
Half of the marriages starting out on any given day are doomed to failure. More broken hearts. More vibrational pollution in the Universal Consciousness.
But, all is not lost. We are responsible for our experience. We are powerful beyond measure, and we have the powerful responsibility of doing that thing that is in our power to do to change the trends of these statistics.
If you are a dreamer, you have the responsibility to become a success. If you are a broken hearted lover or failed businessperson, you have the responsibility to dust yourself off and try again. You MUST succeed. Because when enough people have proven that it CAN be done, the 100th Monkey principle will take effect, and people will begin starting businesses that are perfect for them, and families will be more permanent, and more peaceful.
You owe it to the struggling Single Mom to be successful, You owe it to the High School Graduate who is fighting against the idea of the 40 year lie, and you owe it to the soon-to-be-retired Army Liutenant who sees a way to buy a boat to enjoy his retirement in, if he can just earn this certain amount in a certain time frame.
Their success will be more forthcoming if YOU fight your way through the unknowns, Data-smog, niggling details, etc and Fight the good fight, give your dreams wings, and live for the moment. The struggle is the reward, and your achievement is secondary to the thrill of the ride. Do this next thing, and then do the next thing. Let your successes build on each other, and your failures be only information. Be the 100th Monkey
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Comment by David
The subject of failed small businesses interests me. I shared a flat with a woman who was a financial analyst specialising in small businesses.
In her opinion, most people don't do their homework. They get excited about things like 'I'll be the owner and not have to answer to anyone' yet they end up answering to the banks and their partners and children when the business collapses within 6 months?
Or they focus on the secondary issues such as having a swanky office in an outrageously pricy location, spiffy business cards, a trendy uniform, a company car (when it's only a business, not a company), rather than the primary issues such as, do you have the cash in bank to sustain this business in the first two years, how much are the overheads, and can you afford to pay yourself a wage or is this all a big show to impress your friends, blah, blah, blah, etc, etc, etc.
And then they go and do it all again (in the same manner) when the first 'dream' fails? I'm not anti-dreaming. Dreaming is good, but to realise a financial dream? Apparently it pays to think about the money and cost factors (at length, as in, do your homework first).
If you can't afford to consult a professional business analyst (or you won't listen to what they have to say)? Can you afford to set up a small business?
None of the above thoughts are my own. They're just things I picked up from a savvy financial analyst, and I think she was spot on. I thought they were worth sharing. They've certainly made me very cautious about setting up a small business. They made me think about things like, how much will it cost on a monthly basis to pay the rent, electricity, rates, water, phone, internet, vehicle costs etc (and not just on the new business premises but the place of residence)? And all for what? Just for the sake of having a spiffy business card and a new title to show off to people to big-note yourself as a success and achiever?
What are you going to say to the same people six months later when you're broke? This is not egg on my face?
I'd write more but I've already written volumes on the subject.
Just a few random thoughts.
Comment by Fingertip Titans Unite
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I'm planning now for a site that consists of Interviews with various experts, and this is one topic that gets to me, because it's such an emotional and personal injury for anyone who has experienced it. And most of us never can pin down what went wrong! but Being the Maverick Dreamers we are, we'll go right out and do the same thing again. I'm hoping to help people (and myself) avoid repeating that trend.
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After a certain number of monkeys (not exactly 100, but it's hard to pinpoint) had learned to wash their potatoes in the stream, the researchers began to see monkeys on other islands who had no communication with the original batch of monkeys begin to wash their potatoes before eating.
There is a theory that after so many people learn a concept, that it is imbedded in the morphogenetic field, a level of Universal Consciousness above our perception, but available to all of us. Once that knowledge is in the M field, It becomes "Common Knowledge" and no longer has to be struggled with. It's just "known" They call it the "100th Monkey" principle.
And that's what's up with all the monkeys. LOL .