In essence, SMARTSTART is the distillation of my business and entrepreneurial experiences, observations, insights and conclusions acquired through my work as a professional management consultant over the last 30 years. To date, I've spent some 60,000+ gloriously happy hours studying and working with clients of all sizes and descriptions and coaching people on the fundamentals of business success.
I've had the privilege of working with established business leaders, new and seasoned entrepreneurs, creative folks (writers, artists, designers, innovators), scientists and engineers, olympians and armchair athletes, key influencers and radical thinkers, and even the men, women and children next door.
People from 12 to 65 with big dreams and and a wide variety of business ideas come to SMARTSTART to learn how to bring them to life. And, more often than not, they also want to know how to best go about turning them into sustainable income and media-worthy success stories.
Every one of them teaches me a few lessons along the way too. Because we are all students really. Learning is a lifetime process.
The quest for knowledge binds us on a spiritual level. We don't work to live; we live to work. But we don't want to waste time and money chasing non-productive paths so there is a compelling need to put some intelligence into our effort. The poet, Rumi, has this to say about that:
There are two kinds of intelligence: one acquired, as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts from books and from what the teacher says, collecting information from the traditional sciences as well as from the new sciences.
With such intelligence you rise in the world.
You get ranked ahead or behind others in regard to your competence in retaining information. You stroll with this intelligence in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more marks on your preserving tablets.
There is another kind of tablet, one already completed and preserved inside you. A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness in the center of the chest. This other intelligence does not turn yellow or stagnate. It's fluid, and it doesn't move from outside to inside through the conduits of plumbing-learning.
This second knowing is a fountainhead from within you moving out.
The reason SMARTSTART isn't for everyone is we take you far beyond book learning and show you how to tap into your soul, how to make work your spiritual practice, how to move from being a person who is a slave to work to one who is a master of his or her own destiny. Not everyone is prepared to handle the responsibility that comes with that. But, if you think you are, we can help you find your path and share your voice.
Come along for the ride?
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