When lecturing for the first time this week and taking about a dozen budding entrepreneurs through what it takes to make a business successful, I became more aware than ever before of how important it is to establish this right relationship with ourselves, others and the planet.
On initially asking all the teenagers that were sat there in front of me what their ideas were for creating a successful business, I was initially a little dispirited by their response. Their suggestions seemed to stem around owning a night club, taxi company, estate agents, coffee house and beer company. I saw perhaps more than ever before the affect of our societal conditioning on the youth of the day and began to wonder what hope there was for our future community and the wider planet.
However, once I started to work with them, getting them to acknowledge what they really cared about, what they were innately talented at, passionate about and what they wanted to see changed in the world, creating more of a purpose for them. I started to see a sea change within them. Suddenly I had at least half of them ready to change the world. Just simply by getting more of them to acknowledge what was the right relationship that they needed to establish with themselves.
Obviously of great concern for all these budding entrepreneurs at the moment as they venture out onto life's great ocean is how they will be able to sustain themselves within the community that they live and the economy that they are about to encounter. Something we can all relate to.
To be sustainable we have to get the balance right between our economic, social and environmental demands. This balance has been upset in recent years with practically all what we used to do for one another within community and what we received freely from nature itself being replaced with a financial transaction. So much so that our cost of living has quite literally gone through the roof.
For any young person these days or any new business owner for that matter too, the money we have to find just to keep a roof over our head is extreme and is affecting our personal well being, wider habitat and ability to be human.
Some how we have to find this right relationship again between all three aspects, so we can live a life of fulfillment and protect our planet in the same way too. Something I believe we are all capable of doing, when realigning ourselves with that ancient voice that lies within us, the one that tells us truly where we need to be heading.
