You know those moments when you feel things are flowing exactly the way they’re supposed to and you’re surrounded in that right flow by exactly the people who are helping you get better and who you’re helping to get better? You don’t understand exactly what it is, but you feel that nothing is bothering you and it’s going exactly as it should. With care. Happy to. And then there are situations or collaborations/relationships where things don’t work out and something is constantly bothering you or nagging you or you feel inside that it is contradictory to something inside you. You don’t understand what it is exactly, but you feel that something is bothering you. Scares. Peeps. Checks. Competing. Plans.
In working with the different communities, each community has something to teach me, but there is one community where I truly feel that we are helping each other to make each other’s dreams come true and bring plus-mark value to the world. I think that professionally (and otherwise) you should only be together if you help each other to achieve dreams, to grow spiritually, to get in better touch with yourself, to be more successful in illuminating your own dark corners. Of course, this assumes that you know what you are dreaming of and what your real goal is.
If you’re in a taxi on Viru roundabout and you don’t tell the taxi driver which way to go, then you wander around the roundabout, your heart goes bad and you blame the bad taxi driver, but if you haven’t told him which way to get out of the roundabout, he’ll keep wandering around and your heart goes even worse.
I am lucky to have such communities in my life, where everyone has a common goal. Early this morning, in a joint meditation with my fellow believers in the Lead5 programme, I realised that our dream is to bring spirituality to the business world. We knew this before, but today it became so clear that this is our common dream and we’re not going to sell the programme to any flight in the classic sense, but just the right people will come to you when they need to come to you. When the student is ready, though, the teacher will be found.
And we are not ashamed to say that we bring spirituality to the business world, and this is for the leader who is willing to think beyond classical leadership theories to the spiritual dimension. And then there’s another collaborative where I work. It’s as if you have the right objectives and everything is as it says in the textbook, but where there is a constant debate about how to sell, how to hook the customer, etc. And no, they can’t and they won’t. I have also stated there that I do not wish to work with clients whose sole purpose is to grow and make more turnover/profit or to whom we have “sold” our service. My luck is that we accept each other there too. I only want to work with clients who value growing as human beings with each other, which may be a by-product of more turnover, but is not an end in itself. Feelings first, figures last.
I sincerely believe that we are in a time of corporate spiritual awakening where corporate pretentious bravado could be left behind. Why do we need all this endless growth if people are more and more broken? Who is this growth being chased after? All you can do is talk about what you believe in and share it (not keep it selfishly to yourself) and then those will come along with you to make each other’s dreams come true. If they don’t come, thank God they don’t come, because we are the average of 5 people who are our inner circle.
What is your closest circle, who do you give energy to and receive it from? Who are the 5 who help you shape yourself? Is it the one that helps you raise your average to a new level, or is it the ring that keeps you mediocre or even drags you down? I am truly lucky to have people around me every day who help me to raise my average to a new level, and my mission is also to create that space and circle for my clients where we can grow together as better people, not as a resource to deliver business results.
