Tapping Business Power
by Shirley Ryan
Many times our
lives feel like a game that we are a part of, even though we don’t
seem to have or recognize all of the pieces, all of the time. Metaphorically
speaking, would you like to have all of the pieces, so you can play
more effectively? Of course you would. Everyone wants to take advantage
of all of their resources and to be more successful at living. So,
let’s take a look at how to increase your skills at the game
of life by adding the pieces and reconstructing the patterns that
increase your chances of continual success.
How might this
play out? We can illustrate this by brainstorming with the “what
if” game. Now in order to play, you have to suspend judgment,
right? Are you willing
to do this? OK, so what if you could tap all of the
power that you truly have at your fingertips? What if you
were only using a fraction of your brain and power, as Einstein postulated? What
if you actually did meditate in the Board Room? Even
farther out, what if you let your Higher Power into the
Board Room? A Higher Power, you mean the G--word…in business?
Pretty risky stuff, huh?
Research shows
that 95% of North Americans believe in a Higher Power, but leadership
still feels the need to keep it private in order to “not offend” their
customers. Sounds a bit like compartmentalized thinking to me. We
only think of spiritual things on Sunday? Or at dinner time when
feeling grateful for the food we eat-if the kids are at the table
to model the way? What if everyone knew that 95% of North Americans
believe in a Higher Power? Would we let go of the notion that we
can’t say things that affirm a belief in a spiritual realm.
Interestingly enough, the biggest problem we have with others and
spirituality is when we begin to talk of religious doctrine. So, what
if we go beyond religious doctrine?
What if we
were to keep our language at a generic level? Some do anyway: A Higher
Power, the Universe, is an example of keeping it generic. In this
way, we might be more apt to stay out of areas that affect another
person’s belief system. Are we getting “New Age-like
here?” Not really, just generic. So, in generic terms, what
exactly does that mean to have your Higher Power in the Board Room?
If that means you would have all of your resources available to you,
wouldn’t you want it to happen? Does that mean that we pray
before meetings, like Cher (the singer) and her team used to do before
concerts?
Actually, it means
different things to different people. When we meditate, we know that
each person meditates differently based on their personal style and
belief system. Meditation can be a combined effort for greater
spiritual awareness, using all of your senses in alignment with your
belief systems. For some, it is another word for prayer, and for
others meditation is an instrument for focusing and centering all
aspects of the mind, body and spirit. Wouldn’t focusing and
centering be an advantage to any situation, regardless of belief
system? Would business and community be ready to use all of the resources
available to them if it meant that they would get more and keep more?
The answer is yes! We are ready for this kind of evolution. We are
a people starving for spiritual depth in a Universe filled with spiritual
abundance. In fact, there is abundance everywhere, and yet most of
us don’t feel we get enough, we feel deprived…
Getting
more abundance in our lives means taking our spirit into every area
of our life. I am not saying to thump that Bible, I am saying
to live better, more integrated life. If we work on a better self,
we have an opportunity to truly contribute to humanity. We don’t
have to have big contributions. Simply looking at how we can make things
work for everyone is a winning response; it is a right attitude, an
enlightened attitude. We can collaborate together to make every daily
event a true victory in living. True collaboration is to operate from
the position that we are in this universe together. We can do this
in business or in a family…we are a community of
one people, making small wins that we offer to the whole. We are united
by our common humanity reaching out to bring together one spirit of
winning for all.
