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Can I Do It? (Part 7)

Can I Do It? (Part 7)

Finally, there is the question of what is “it” for?  What will our “it” accomplish?  What story will it tell?  How will it inspire future generations?  How will it ultimately remind people that there is more to life?  How will it work?

Of course the artisans of the world may not bother themselves with such questions.  They may be so focused on their skills that such deliberations are a distraction.  They are doers.  Engineers, not necessarily producers. 

But there are those who possess the ability to see a new reality before anyone else.  Some have the skills needed to bring that vision to life themselves.  Others require the help and collaboration of others.  True visionaries find a way.

They turn their heavenly or invisible reality into a physical one.  But do be sure it starts inside them.  In this sense, they join the very song of creation, where the Poet perfectly draws one letter in front of the other in perfect, magical harmony.

Can I Do It? (Part 2)

Can I Do It? (Part 2)

Can I do it?  A fundamental question of humankind.  Yet almost erroneous from the start.  The subject and focus of the question is us (the “I”).  Can I do it?  It assumes sort of an isolated go at the whole thing where we bear all responsibility. 

And in today’s corporate understanding of responsibility there is the loaded word “accountability.”  People are held responsible to produce certain results or be let go.  Trying is not enough.  Outcomes demand results, not logged office hours.

But ownership is a good thing.  Certainly.  We want people to “own” their endeavors.  Yes.  But what most people mean by that is make sure it works, or succeeds.  Hence the hubris and the fear mongering.  Can we really know what will work?…

To Be or Not to Be (Part 1)

To Be or Not to Be (Part 1)

Whether we live, or whether we die.... One is not necessarily better than
the other. There are those who fulfill their calling by negation, By what they give
up. Then there are those who do so by what they embrace.

The entrepreneur of course is one who embraces a vision, who with great
passion decidedly moves toward that vision, and making it happen. In such a strong pursuit it is very easy for their identity to be wrapped entirely around the venture.

The problem is, the matter how passionately we are committed to our work, it
cannot define us. It would be simpler, to some degree, if it could. But our work
alone is not enough to grasp the mystery of human "being."