Smart Women and the Game of Entrepreneurship

“The unconscious is our best collaborator.”-Director Mike Nichols
You came into this word equipped with some killer apps, including a personal GPS system. It tells you whether or not the turn, the choice, you are about to make will lead you to your destination or not. It shows you whether you’re on the right path to achieve all that you dream of or on the road to a life unfulfilled, a dream never achieved.
Like many apps on our mobile phones, you may have forgotten that you have it, or not use it very often. If your life is not going in the direction you desire, perhaps you are reading its indicators upside down. Maybe you’ve done a good job of ignoring or justifying the alarms it sends off. You just may not be paying any attention to the darn thing at all!
This powerful app syncs up with your emotions. Emotions are indicators of whether or not you’ve made, or are about to make, a good choice. Your emotions are served up by your Inner Being, your True Self. It is that part of you that knows, precisely, how to turn dreams into reality. It is there to guide you every step, every turn, on your way to the fulfillment of all experiences you desire.
“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.” – Erica Jong
Simply put, your GPS will trigger a bad feeling if you’re headed in the wrong direction. Similarly, if you’re headed towards achieving your aspirations you will feel good! Your emotions artfully guide you every moment of every day. As a creator of your life experience, you are a masterful artist! The question is, what part of you are you allowing to dictate what you create – your True Self or the part of you that choses to turn off your apps out of self-fear and doubt? If your operating system is running on frightful insecurity then you have installed the Inner Critic OS that, like a virus, cancels out your GPS app.
Use your GPS app to guide you as you make all of your choices, big and small. I paid attention to my GPS last Sunday. I was at Home Depot buying plants for the home I just moved into. I paid for my selections and was putting my plants in my car when an uncomfortable feeling came over me. “Gee, I bought a lot of plants for $33.89!”. I ‘felt’ that something was wrong. I looked at my receipt and saw that I was not charged for the two rather large hanging plants that were hooked onto the back of my shopping cart.
Here I was, in the parking lot, clearly getting away with my freebies yet I didn’t feel good. In that moment I had a choice. I could hop in the car and go on my merry way knowing that I cheated the system or I could march back into the store and pay for my hanging plants. Which choice would make me feel good? To the sales clerk’s shock and awe, I went back into Home Depot and paid for what was overlooked. I felt good again.
Why didn’t I feel good about getting away with not having to pay for my purchases? It would be one thing if I were not aware that I wasn’t properly charged. However, I did know. In that knowing I could choose to be a cheat and a thief or I could choose to be an honest person. As an honest person who stands centered in the truth of who I am there could only be one choice I could make that would be in alignment with that truth. Being in harmony with your truth feels good! Inauthentic choices do not feel good.
That experience was a simple example of how your emotions are GPS indicators of what life direction you are headed towards yet you can expand upon its simplicity and use it for all of your life choices, personal and professional. Use your GPS and Happy Journeys!
“Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.” -Albert Einstein
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Smart Women and the Game of Entrepreneurship20322Smart Women and the Game of EntrepreneurshipA few days ago, my 7 year old daughter came home with what I thought was a challenging school project—designing and creating her own game from scratch. Jenna was stumped at first. She came up with a few ideas but then quickly gave up as she found someglitches in her plan. This got me thinking about Smart Women and the game of entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneurship can be fun, exciting, challenging and risky all at the same timejust like any other game we play. There are days when I’m on top of the world because everything is working out just the way I had planned and, there are days when I want to crawl in bed and pull the covers over my head because it feels like every move I make or card I play turns out to be ones that don’t move me forward at all.

Jenna’s game will be graded on several factors; easy for anyone to understand how to play, organized and neat presentation, and of course, turned in on time. If you want your business to get high marks and become successful, there are several questions that you need to ask yourself:

1. Decide what game you’re playing. What type of business do you have or want to have? Is it something that the marketplace needs? Are there other people doing the same thing or a version of your business that have been successful? Jenna sat down in her room and I put her favorite games all around her—Chutes and Ladders, Sorry, Trouble, etc. This exercise helped her to see how other games were put together in terms of pieces, die, cards and rules.

It’s always a good idea to research other people who’ve been successful in your industry. It’s not to copy what they’re doing but to see similaritieswhat’s working, what’s not working.

2. What’s the object of your game? What product or service are you offering? When your ideal client makes a choice to work with you, what will they receive at the end of your time together? This is critical to your business process. Helping the client understand how they will be better or different after working with you is of high interest to them.

3. How do people play your game? In other words, how do they work with you? Is it in person? By phone? Online? Do you offer packages or bundle services together? You have to make the access to your service easy for the client.

4. Make the experience rewarding! People want to enjoy the relationship they develop when working with someone. Price is not always the major factor in why people buy. They want to work with someone who has the expert knowledge they need and who will make the process enjoyable.

Jenna created a game called,Math Baseball. It’s a game that she knows a lot about and enjoys playing. The rules she made up for the game are both fun and challenging involving some risk. Sounds a lot like the game we play calledEntrepreneurship.

Anything is possible. Everything is waiting for you.

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2010 Joy Chudacoff

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