In today’s episode of “Healing from Within”, your host Sheryl Glick, author of The Living Spirit: Answers for Healing and Infinite Love, welcomes John Murphy (http://www.venturemanagementconsultants.com/), author of Zentreprenuer. John is a speaker and business consultant drawing on his diverse collection of experiences as a corporate director, collegiate football player, spiritual mystic and management coach who has advised countless corporate clients on building businesses with presence. John will share his program of kaizen meetings, which offer the means for change and good results by developing greater teamwork through cooperation and through conquering limiting beliefs of the ego in order to access “zenergy” or a heart based awareness within the dynamics of the business process. Heart based awareness is a mindful and conscious way to become more human and humane, which is also the focus in Sheryl’s book The Living Spirit, which shares insights through her work as a Reiki energy healer and medium in observing the interaction between soul based- innate wisdom, and our ego or physical life; the light or divine aspects of ourselves and the shadow elements, so one may begin to understand actions, reactions, and behaviors that may be either helping us or stopping us from developing meaningful relationships, work experiences and family successes.
John describes a “Zentrepreneur” as a person who combines two powerful strategies: the art and discipline of Zen practice with the science and execution of business and entrepreneurship. Conscious endeavors or the declaration of intentions and then following through in your thoughts and actions is an illuminating way to create success and growth in any area of your life.
In John’s experience as a business consultant, the most common mistakes that hold people back from reaching their desired goals or fullest potential is fear, insecurity and the desire for power over people and situations which create competitive conditions where cooperation is pushed aside for people’s own needs and agendas. When this happens, productivity and expansion suffer.
In The Living Spirit, Sheryl addresses this idea and suggests that the reason many creative ideas are not manifested is because fear or past conditioning and behaviors as well as a lack of self-confidence or self-esteem often stops us before we even try to take a step forward. The doubting people around us and the influences of the outside world attempts to override our sense of innate inner wisdom and personal power. A sense of faith and trust in yourself and your alignment to Universal Source, reconnecting to your life plan and purpose will help you make the best choices towards success. Remember: ego and control issues if not recognized and dismissed, will create unrealistic doubts and will contribute to the demise of many great ideas and wishes. By relaxing and allowing the natural flow of events, once you have put sincere focused attention and efforts with hard work, will help manifest your original intention. So, always take the first step forward… ask for help when needed and work towards making your good ideas a reality.
Conventional wisdom dictates that competition is good for business but we encourage leaders to let go of competitiveness. Why is that? And what is the alternative approach?
Successful zentrepreneurs value cooperation over competition and interdependent teamwork over independent ego. We know that in order to be highly successful with our ideas we need commitment and support from others. We need people to coach us. We need people to advise us, challenge us and reinforce our ideas. Teamwork is a powerful success factor. The ability to pull people together, focus and align behavior and allow zenergy to amplify synergy is essential to turning good ideas into great results. We need to pull people together working for common goals.
John mentions the term “Kaizen.” Kai refers to a place, time and situation.
