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Top 10 Ingredients for a Brilliant Entrepreneur

By Sue Frederick,
author of Dancing at Your Desk

1. Stop Facing Reality!
"The economy is terrible for starting a new business; You can't be financially successful being an artist; There are already too many therapists in this town …"

This is what I call pitiful thinking, and it's certainly not the way a successful entrepreneur thinks. Remember, quantum physicists tell us that at the core of all matter (which makes up our reality) are endless waves of pulsing light. They remind us that the observer (you) determines the form and shape of reality by the thoughts and beliefs they choose to follow.

And, as the physicists point out, we send out vibrational frequencies which interact with other vibrational frequencies. We connect with and attract people, circumstances and opportunities that exist on the same vibrational frequency as the one we are sending out. Think a thought and it's on its way to becoming reality.

If you want to be successful, focus on what you want to happen. For example; How much income do you want to generate in your first year of business? How many new clients or customers do you need in a month? How big of a business loan or investment do you need to get started? Who would be your perfect business partner? Who would you love to have on your board of directors? How terrific can your product be so that it stands out from the competition?

These are the questions that a successful entrepreneur focuses on. Worrying about what could go wrong is giving our attention to things we don't want to happen - and thus attracting those negative circumstances with the magnetic power of our thoughts.
Unfortunately, we have been raised in a world that primarily focuses on what we don't want to happen. This lack of mental discipline has provided us with exactly the opposite of the tools we need for a successful life.

Your mind is a powerful machine that sends out a vibrational code with every thought. This vibrational code is so magnetic that it interacts with the vibrations sent out by every other living being. Your mind sends a negative thought into the universe and that thought acts like a powerful magnet.

To be successful, we must dream big. Dreaming gives form and energy to what you DO want to happen; Worrying gives form and energy to what you DON'T want to happen.

From now on, when a problem flits across your mind, follow it immediately with three possible solutions. And when someone tells you to face reality, say: "I will face the reality that I want to happen."

2. No more pitiful thinking
I can't do what I really want to do (open an art gallery, start a llama ranch, or run a retreat center), so I'll do this smaller, more acceptable business - like corporate consulting or real estate. I certainly can't take out a big business loan in this bad economy, so I'll get my little business going without much initial investment. I'll play it safe…

By this process of "pitiful thinking" we minimize and minimize our dreams until they aren't grand enough dreams to excite us anymore. Yet without exciting our passions and our innate drive to create joy and abundance, we will not succeed. And so we fail at our little dreams. Then we have "proof" that our big dreams would never work because we couldn't make a "little" dream succeed.

We've got it backwards. If we'd gone after the big dream, we would have rallied our passion and joy behind it. That positive energy would have made our big dream succeed in spite of challenging circumstances. Recognize that the ideas that come to you when you're in the pitiful end of your energy continuum are never going to be brilliant, divinely inspired or hugely successful.

Don't insult your divinity by dreaming small and living small. You're part of source energy, and you're here to create. Only by using your fullest potential, can you make the world a better place.

3. Create Your Giggle Dream (and giggle team).
According to the laws of quantum physics, the bigger the dream, idea or plan and the more it makes you giggle, the more successful you'll be. Your high-end passion and excitement will guarantee that your idea attracts what it needs to succeed.

When you're successful, will you be on Oprah? Will you a have a best selling book, or a successful art gallery? Will you have a waiting list of clients because you're so busy? Will you be invited to speak on a business panel with Donald Trump? Will you receive thousands of testimonial letters saying that your new product improved lives? What makes you giggle?

Remember this song you learned as a child: "Row, row, row your boat gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily. Life is but a dream." Sing that song as if it's your mantra. Sing it today until you giggle at yourself. Then you're on your way to higher energy and greater success.

Along with your giggle dream, create your giggle team. Imagine sitting around a table with the best and brightest minds in your field. Think of how much fun it will be to work with these brilliant partners. When you imagine having a meeting, does it make you smile? If so, you've got your giggle team. Don't be pitiful and think these experts would never be interested in your business. Call them. Ask for ten minutes of their time. See if they connect with your dream. Miracles happen all the time; they follow the positive energy.

4. What do you really want to happen?
This is the only question worth asking - ever. Ask it right now. Keep asking it until you get a clear answer.

5. Save your life with EPR
Of course you'll run into challenging situations and people as you build your business. What then? Use Energetic Personal Resuscitation to raise your energy to a higher vibration. EPR is humor, gratitude and sweetness. I've written about EPR many times in my books and articles, so I won't go into detail about it here. However, I guarantee you that these three tools are your easiest, most powerful ways to raise the energy (yours and everyone else's) to a higher vibration. EPR works like a charm whether you're in a tough business meeting, a long line at the post office, or a nerve-racking business presentation to a potential investor. For more info, read Dancing at Your Desk: A Metaphysical Guide to Job Happiness.

6. See it before you do it.
Going to meet with a banker or potential investor? Pause for a moment. Clear your head. See the meeting concluding with everyone feeling good and shaking hands. See positive energy flowing around the room. Picture everyone satisfied and happy about the outcome of the meeting. That's all you need to see. Leave the rest of the details to be filled in by source energy.

Practice this technique before going grocery shopping, looking for a parking place, or going out to dinner. You'll be amazed at how powerful a tool this is. Gain your confidence by doing this exercise with little things (like finding a parking place). Then when you really need a meeting to go well, you'll be an expert at seeing it first.

7. Use your continuum.
Each of us has an energy continuum from pitiful (fear, anger, sadness, pessimism, etc) to powerful (joy, love, divinity, brilliance and inspiration). Become aware of what you're feeling and where you are on that energy continuum. If you want better circumstances or relationships in your life or business, focus on how to raise YOUR energy higher on your continuum. Your higher energy will transform every situation and relationship for the better.

What would make you feel better right now? What would make you feel better tomorrow? Dream it. Do it. Raise your energy, and you'll attract what you truly want.

8. Take action every day.
Make at least three phone calls everyday to research your business idea. Investigate how others have succeeded and failed, talk to the experts, line up your giggle team, and research your competitors on the web. Ask everyone to give you a name of someone who is doing a similar business. As you network this way, put out pure positive energy and intent. You'll quickly attract the solutions you need to be successful.

9. Change it!
Change is the only process in life we can absolutely count on. Change is as essential as the air we breathe. In the autumn, do the trees refuse to let their dying leaves go? They release their old life so that new life can begin. To thrive, we must embrace the future rather than the past. Face forward and ask "what's next?" You'll never be successful or happy by focusing on the past.
As you move into the future, everything you need from the past will come with you. What you don't need won't follow you. Just let it go. Don't let the past sabotage your forward motion. Focus on where you want to go and who you want to be.

10. Bend time and space!
"I don't have enough time to get everything done." How often have you said that? Quantum physicists tell us that time is not linear. It's not a cassette tape that you can fast forward to the future or rewind to the past. Instead, time is really happening all at once; it's similar to a CD with different tracks running parallel to each other. You can jump to a different track where you have always had enough time. Try it now by saying, "I have always had abundant time to get everything done." As Einstein said, "Space and time are not conditions in which we live. They are modes in which we think."

Change your mind about what is possible, and you change the world - especially your world.

 

Reprinted from Nexus: Colorado's Holistic Journal - www.nexuspub.com

 

Sue Frederick is a career counselor, energy coach, author and lecturer. She is the founder of BrilliantDay Revolution Network and teaches workshops and classes at Naropa University and University of Colorado, and is the author of Dancing at Your Desk; A Metaphysical Guide to Job Happiness and BrilliantDay: 7 Solutions to Turn Your Day Around. For more information, or to sign up for Sue's classes and workshops, visit www.BrilliantWork.com, email Sue@BrilliantWork.com or call 303-939-8574.

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