Discovering & Nurturing Possibilities to Transform the World

Great folks at the Bettie M. Luke Muenster Public Library. One of the librarians shared a great tidbit with me recently in an old German saying.

“A barn will build a house, but a house will not build a barn.”

That is so cool. Enterprise Facilitation is ‘barn raising’ and really makes that old German saying live. Reminds me about what Ernesto says in Ripples from the Zambezi:

“Right now in your community, at this very moment, there is someone who is dreaming about doing something to improve his/her lot. If we could learn to help that person to transform the dream into meaningful work, we would be halfway to changing the economic fortunes of the entire community.”

As folks build their ‘barns’ with assistance from the Board of Intelligence and the Enterprise Facilitator it is “changing the economic fortunes of the entire community.”

What are you doing to change the economic fortune of your community?

“The Greeks did not write obituaries. They only asked one question when a man died; DID THEY HAVE PASSION?”

from the movie serendipity

Can you (really) have life without it?

Innovation is the successful exploitation of ideas.

Do you have a systematic plan of creative thinking?

Record your thoughts in a Power Journal! Make this part of each day to jot in your spiral notebook thoughts, examples, illustrations, jokes, anecdotes, analogies, metaphors, and quotations.

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” Helen Keller

“The search for truth is more precious than its possession.” Albert Einstein

“If you treat a person as he is, he will stay as he is; but if you treat him as he were what he ought to be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.”

Johann Goethe

If it sings with you get involved. The rewards are priceless.

You have a great opportunity before you every moment of the day. You have the ability to set the stage for success in all your hands take up to do. Imagine not having a ‘bad’ day, ever. Picture having the ability to color your world with beauty and grace. You can absolutely walk this victory trail, but if you are looking for the easy way just turn back now. The effort is worth it for the happiness you will experience.

“No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”

Barbara DeAngelis, Author

This is one of the principles resident in Enterprise Facilitation, YOU are in charge. You call the shots, you set the pace, and you succeed.

Want to get involved (at some level)? It is up to you.

The North Texas Enterprise Project was recently presented with the Lone Star Barn Raising Award. This prestigious award was earned by whooping up on The WesTex Allied Communities Project in an introduction challenge.

What a privilege we have in freedom from fear. No ‘paralysis by analysis’ or any other sort of inaction. Lob your BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) out there and never look back. YOU make the difference between success or failure.

“We weren’t born to make right or wrong decisions, we were born to make decisions, and then make them right.”

Charlie ‘Tremendous’ Jones

Are you up to it?

Bonham City Planner Mike Walthall has another great article (their server crashed and the article was lost) in the North Texas e-News talking about grass roots economic development. Mike is on the North Texas Enterprise Project Board of Intelligence making a difference here in the community. Just got a call from someone that read the article seeking assistance to give wings to their dream.

Way to go Mike.

In the book Something for Nothing Brian Tracy states:

“Each society is successful to the exact degree to which it supports, encourages, rewards and promotes entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial activity. Each year about 8% of companies and jobs disappear. To grow, a city, state, region or country has to replace these companies and jobs, plus create even more, to maintain the same level of economic activity and to offer opportunities to new members of the workforce.”

Various ones of us beyond doubt comprehend the magnitude of Enterprise Facilitation. We know it will change the economic landscape of our communities and beyond. Imagine my thrill when reading the above quote in Something for Nothing. I love this thing called life that we are each stewards of.

Brian Tracy goes on to say: “The natural spontaneous desires of individuals, driven by the E-Factor, to improve their situations, causes entrepreneurs to emerge naturally, like grass growing after a spring rain.” (You will have to read Something for Nothing to learn what the E-Factor is)

Enterprise Facilitation is ‘natural’ ‘spontaneous’