Life and Business is a game!
Our enterprises and endeavors are not created in the heavens. They are created here on earth, and they are created by us.
The premise of the new mindset is that because we create business:
A) If you do not like the game you’re playing, change it…
OR
B) Go play a new game with new players.
It really is that simple.
It’s a lot more fun to approach Life & Business as a game; but here is the first obstacle to this new mindset:
most of us have been brought up playing fear-based games!
Now, this is what I mean about fear-based games.
Anybody ever play Monopoly?
Monopoly is an awesome and timeless game and yet it instills a problematic perspective: to win the game of
Monopoly, you have to destroy everybody financially, bankrupt and decimate them beyond all possible
recognition and only then, after 17 hours, you can call yourself the winner.
New World New Game!
I’d like to give you an impression of what we’ve recognized as the essence of what this new economy looks like and what we’ve noticed about this new environment that we’re living in:
- First of all, it’s a really fun environment; and it’s a collaborative environment.
- we can be a lot more collaborative; collaboration is definitely the new competition.
- communication has never been faster than it is today. So in a world where communication is so
fast, how do we remain agile enough to accommodate where we’re going and still continue to optimize? - Multidimensional.
- we must begin to practice flexing our mental muscles. So, no matter what is thrown at us, we’re
ready and willing to master it. - Everything is available.
We have the advantage of interconnected networks, right? Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn… - you are never short on money, you are only short on
creativity. - Very often we get too wrapped up working in our business as opposed to working on our business.
What do you learn in FreshBiz?
Another way we refer to ‘entrepreneurial thinking’ is ‘multidimensional thinking’. The idea behind entrepreneurial thinking is to expand…expand your options. The idea of multidimensional thinking is to collaborate and then integrate those different dimensions to create what we call “Win to the Winth Power”.Win/win is so old school now. To actually create something extraordinary, ‘Win to the Winth Power’ depends upon our ability to unite multiple dimensions.
Our success is more about collaboration, creativity, and our ability to move fast enough (through challenges,
setbacks and amassing a fortune). In the end, that’s all far more important than how much money you started
with. (Do you agree?)
Who you are is what you have (when) you only see what you own.
Ownership is such a part of our identities that we may never recognize that we have access something greater. But once you really get into the new shared economy, these three words are absolutely life changing: Access trumps ownership.
If we think that all we have is what we own, then we’ve accepted a totally limiting belief. Nowadays, access is way more important than ownership.
How many opportunities do you think cross your way on any given day? Once in a while you are going to come across a very big opportunity, but creating opportunities is a skill; and you can create opportunities at any given moment. You do not need the right card to flip over. You can create opportunities in your life, from small ones to big ones, at any given moment.
We depend too much upon the people we already know and expect too much from the people working with
us in our business. But who’s working in the company? Someone with their own business while working in a
bigger company?
When you have that company meeting, aren’t most of the people, if not all of the people, just the
employees of the company? In this case, the only people you can team up with are
people working for the same company. Do you see the disadvantage in this all-too-common routine?
Can’t someone from the outside be called in?
The only thing that can limit you is the old way of thinking. Why not call in whomever you like? There
are a lot of people out there that would love to be part of your think tank, for almost anything you
want to think about.