Why I Want To Get Off The Ground Essay

To Entrepreneurs Who Want To Rock Their World - But Can't Seem To Get Off The Ground
By Aditi Walsh
Mar 13, 2009
Do you want to realize new possibilities for your life? How about mastering a winning formula for success, so you can thoroughly enjoy the fruits of your efforts. And all this without the pain of relentless stress and fear of losing what you have carefully gained.

Then, changing the way you think and work is critical. Otherwise you just end up creating more of the same old stuff you thought you were leaving behind. Currently the old way of doing things is the way most people know how to create. There is great security in the old ways and a great resistance to change.

As new entrepreneurs, you may be bringing habits and thinking that served you well in your past experiences,

And today, more than ever before, due to the nature of the internet, this can be much more traumatic, unbalancing and brutally swift.

Great masters have told us that unless you get lost, you can't find new ways. That is true, but how do you get back your bearings, or better yet, find new bearings to venture forth with? Better yet, another more basic need emerges, and that can be a good thing, actually.

It's the desire to find out who you really are, why you are doing what you're doing and who do you want to become in this brave new world that makes the real difference. Resistance to change can be transformed into something really great and fulfilling for you.

How many times has it happened in your life where you finally surrendered your resistance to change about something and began to embrace it? How many of you have said what a good thing it was that such and such happened, otherwise you would not have gone in your new direction? The French call this process "Un mal pour un bien", or "a bad for a good." Yet this process of undoing, while creating something new, can be extremely painful for some