Where Are You in Your Entrepreneur Journey?

This year at Coaching From Spirit, I’ve really begun to see becoming a Spiritualpreneur as being on a journey, and as a Coach it’s exciting to me to be able to share my own journey with you through these online tools like blogging and social networking and my most recent setup on Blog Talk Radio!

I created the show, Empowering Spiritualpreneurs, as a way to bring people together in the Spiritualpreneur community to share tips, insights and resources with you from their own journeys as a way of empowering you as a Spiritualpreneur in all that you are doing.

Recently I had internationally recognized author, speaker, coach and editor of Synchronicity in Your Life Magazine, the Synchronicity Expert, Bill White as a guest on my show, and he shared a powerful story from his journey as a Spiritualpreneur!

Bill began with talking about how he wasn’t always a successful entrepreneur – for him it was a journey from blue collar work to white collar to finally getting into entrepreneurship.

He talked about having a lot of ambition and an entrepreneurial spirit when he was in grade school. In fact, he actually started a business in grade school of making necklaces and selling them to the other kids in class!

Unfortunately, the mothers that were sending their kids to school with lunch money that was being spent on Bill’s business venture didn’t appreciate it too much, and he wound up with being called to the principal’s office and being told to shut his business down.

A simple thing, perhaps, but Bill made an important point – it happens a lot to children when they have bright ideas – oftentimes an adult’s first response is to shut it down (even for what may seem like a good reason!).

But the child, when told at such a young age that, “You can’t do things like this”, may very well end up internalizing the “You Can’t” part of the message, which can affect them more than they may realize.

It was not many years later that Bill witnessed the absolute collapse of his family – his parents separated, his grandmother died on Christmas, his grandfather followed soon after, and he was crushed!

He just couldn’t understand how all of this could be happening and he rebelled against it, which meant that by the time he got to high school, despite the fact that he had good grades, a guidance counsellor took one look at him and told him that she thought he was best suited for blue collar work…

Once again, Bill had an authority figure helping him to create the “You Can’t” belief – something that he accepted and internalized, and that caused him to follow a path on his journey that he didn’t even realize he had a choice in for a very long time.

He kept that reality, and by his mid-20s, Bill was working as a contractor.

He was actually making great money, but he was absolutely miserable! There was nothing in his external world that was fulfilling what he actually wanted internally.

The programming and the beliefs he was brought up in – the stories that he was telling himself – were keeping him in something that didn’t match and didn’t jive with anything that he really wanted to do or be.

Bill shared on my show that through a unique series of synchronicities, he finally reaches several stages of unfolding in a different direction, though not all of the things he went through were absolutely positive…

Bill had a dream that a guy came up to him and said, “Hey, you better get to a doctor – you have cancer.”

A couple months later, he found a tumor, and he was told that he had one year to live if he didn’t have surgery immediately.

Bill asked the doctor for 24 hours to consider things. He went home, took the phone off the hook, locked the door, and just sat there and thought about his life.

He was thinking, “Here I have the opportunity now. I’ve been depressed for years to the point of contemplating suicide…now I don’t have to overdose, I don’t have to shoot myself… I just don’t have to take action because in a year I’ll be gone.

At least this way it would be more along the lines of, “Poor Bill; he died so young of cancer”, and not “Oh my goodness, he killed himself…”

Bill thought about it for a long time – for hours – and finally he decided that he didn’t want to die, but he didn’t want to keep living the way he had been.

Bill says, “And once I made that choice – call it the Universe or God – something opened the way to healing for me.”

Bill had the surgery, but when the oncologist wanted to keep going with further treatments, he refused (and 15 years later – he knows that he was right to refuse!)

Bill knew at that point that he was cured…

Bill then talks about how he created that cancer with his thinking of all those years, and that once he made the internal shift of not believing that “You Can’t” mentality, he didn’t need more treatments because it was something inside of him that had needed to change.

Once Bill found his desire to live, the Universe started delivering things to him and he began to live differently – and every day now, Bill wakes up with an enthusiasm for life that he never had before.

Bill went from compromising himself so early in my life and internalizing those beliefs (which was a choice – though he didn’t know it at the time) to deciding by choice to turn that boat around.  And it was then that everything started coming together for him to bring him to the point in his Spiritualpreneur journey that he has reached today as a successful entrepreneur.

Having gone through something very similar to Bill in my own “Dark night of the soul”, I feel like his story is one that every Spiritualpreneur should hear – particularly those that grew up with the “You Can’t” beliefs that Bill dealt with in his early life.

I invite you to listen to the rest of Bill’s story by checking out the On Demand Episodes in my profile at Blog Talk Radio, which you can find by visiting www.coachingfromspirit.com/BlogTalkRadio.

Bill has also put together a very generous and special offer for the Coaching From Spirit Community, which you can find at http://www.synchronicityexpert.com/sharon.htm

May you be blessed in your own journey as you take advantage of these resources!