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| Volume 8, No. 8 • June 8, 2006 Molly Gordon, MCC Sign up at www.authenticpromotion.com |
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Features Sidebar Open For Business: Can You Build a Business on Resentment? You gotta love resentment and fear. If it weren't for my own resentment and fear, I would be out of a job. I don't just mean that if people weren't resentful and fearful, I'd be out of clients. I mean that without my own experiences of resentment and fear, I would never have stumbled into the world of business. I mean really, how else would a nice girl like me get into business and marketing? Trust me, it wasn't my idea of how to show up and serve. The path to my current work began when I agreed to manage my husband's architectural firm. Scary. Until then, I'd never realized what it takes to be self-employed. If I thought about it at all, I thought in terms of the seemingly handsome, if not exorbitant, hourly rates professionals charged. My thoughts were something along the lines of: "Forty hours a week times $100 an hour = $4,000 per week." Obviously, self-employed people are rich. It never occurred to me that business owners might be lucky to take home a quarter of their own earnings. It never occurred to me that many business owners pay their employees more than they pay themselves. And it certainly never occurred to me that a business owner might go unpaid so that vendors and employees wouldn't.
The reason I never made a living at Mollycoddles is not that my work was too labor intensive. I didn't make a living because I was full of fear and resentment, and my primary business strategy was to repress both. I've succeeded as a coach because these days I use resentment and fear as raw materials in the art of living and doing business. I've said that failure is the compost for success, and thanks to resentment and fear, I am an expert compost maker. Many teachers and practices have contributed to my premium compost pile, and one of my favorites is The Work© of Byron Katie. What is The Work?
Beginning in July I'm convening two telephone groups to do The Work. One is for independent professionals: attorneys, therapists, designers, consultants, etc. The other is for working artists. If you are self-employed or a working artist and at war with yourself, The Work can be your path to peace. Doing the Work on Working for Yourself is doing The Work on the issues that make those of us who work for ourselves into the kind of boss that sane people avoid. (I don't know about you, but sometimes the person I work for is downright scary.) Here are some of the beliefs we might investigate:
NEW SCHEDULE Payment and registration: The group is limited to nine participants. I expect it to fill quickly, so please reserve your space as soon as possible. The fee for the six-month series is $600 ($100 per month) or $550 when paid in full prior to the first session. The Work for Working Artists is about coming home to yourself as an artist. It's about finding the ground of your own integrity and vision and unraveling the painful beliefs that keep you from loving yourself, loving your work, loving the art world. (Yes, it's really possible to love the art world.) NEW SCHEDULE: The Work for Working Artists meets for six months on the first three Wednesdays of each month from 11:00 am - 12:15 pm pacific (2:00 - 3:15 pm eastern time). The first session will be July 5 and the last December 20. Each session will be recorded and available on MP3 for the private use of the participants. Payment and registration: The group is limited to nine participants, and I expect it to fill quickly. Please reserve your space as soon as possible. The fee for the six-month series is $600 ($100 per month) or $550 when paid in full prior to the first session. What does it cost to use the teleconferencing system? Each teleconference will include:
What can you expect? The benefits of doing The Work include:
There is no required reading, though I recommend reading or listening to Loving What Is, by Byron Katie Mitchell, available at Powells.com. Personally, I prefer the audio version because you can hear Katie facilitating The Work. Questions? Please feel free to ask additional questions by emailing me: mgordonATshaboominc.com *Mona Grayson, who specializes in facilitating The Work on relationships and the body, has written two great blog posts about why we start by judging our neighbors. |
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell 101 Great Ways to Improve Your Life Thanks to everyone who wrote in support of my decision not to participate in the bonus promotion. I'm delighted to make this book available to you for it's very fair cover price of $14.95 US plus shipping (unless you order by Friday, hint, hint). It's a great gift for clients, graduates, and Dads. Connect. Grow. Inspire. Empower. And all that Zaadz. Meet Me In DC "When your body and your intellect connect like two dancers responding to the music of life, you find yourself with greater joy, heightened intuition, and a full range of emotional expression." Seishindo Downunder Learn about Charlie's phenomenal work in embodied intelligence at Seishindo.org
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Some years later I went into business for myself. My studio, Mollycoddles, designed, fabricated, and marketed one-of-a-kind wearable art pieces. Knit of many colors and fibers, highly embellished with buttons, mirror embroidery, or beads (some of them handmade), my pieces were rather labor intensive. It was a helluva way to make a living, and actually, I didn't.
Katie's four questions and turn-arounds end the war with myself. I've found that being at war with myself makes it very hard to succeed in business. I've also found that examining my painful thoughts about business has opened me to experience a degree of success I had never imagined possible.
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