Archive for September, 2009
Chef Poem One – By Ryan Anthony Gibson
There is an understanding that he is a good chef, and so I say,
The best ingredients are those you travel to find and taste,
I suppose some recipes require time, even longer than a day,
So prepares he his passion on his plate no moment to waste,
An infusion of sorts from Far East to North West,
The savoury thought in physical form, he does test,
Such colors, scents, tastes, beauty, warmth, and spice,
No normal artists brush could paint so nice,
For this is of his hands but with her own mind,
The food of which he wishes to love and find,
So discovers he the elements of the whole that make his dish,
A lifelong signature, all her parts that have answered his wish.
By Ryan Anthony Gibson to Blake Webb on your love with Laura.
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Begining of Twitter Free Form Conversational Poem
ColleenCoplick@RyanAGibson yr sappy today. 😉
@ColleenCoplick “I am sappy because for a moment I could see us both drinking beer giggling at ideas” 5 minutes ago from web in reply to ColleenCoplick
@ColleenCoplick “and for that very moment i realized we are just on the other side of the planet” 4 minutes ago from web in reply to ColleenCoplick
RyanAGibson“only for me, i am not in the day, so rather closer to the dream world than you, so my thoughts are close to admission of my thoughts sincere” 3 minutes ago
RyanAGibson“thoughts that i would rather take one to when I am more near, more closer, to whisper, than to broadcast here. :)” 3 minutes ago from web
[1:07:13 PM] Ryan Anthony Gibson: i mean it feels good to be around each other
[1:07:17 PM] Ryan Anthony Gibson: like a little kid who has a puppy, he’s happy
[1:07:26 PM] Ryan Anthony Gibson: i was very happy when i had chances to be around u
[1:07:46 PM] Ryan Anthony Gibson: and the thought holds close inside of my heart
[1:08:51 PM] Ryan Anthony Gibson : I have a lot of locks on the little boxes in my soul over the years, but for every lock is a key, u have that kind of spirit that can unlock me and i hope I you so at least we can have many conversations and enjoy expression and friendship. love. its all one thing anyway…
[1:09:00 PM] Ryan Anthony Gibson: i am also always there with u
[1:09:15 PM] Ryan Anthony Gibson: i found out with my daughter who I love so much
[1:09:25 PM] Ryan Anthony Gibson: its possible to miss her when she is only in the next room
[1:09:34 PM] Ryan Anthony Gibson: imagine… missing someone that much only in the next room
[1:09:54 PM] Ryan Anthony Gibson: so to imagine missing someone so far away… is not so hard, especially if u like that person
[1:10:00 PM] Ryan Anthony Gibson: as i do u
By Ryan Anthony Gibson, feel free to just read the text LOL. Lots of love.
Fortified By Roses By Ryan Anthony Gibson
there is more emotion in the ocean than in the earth, that is why i prefer to flood you with my words and love so much as to surpass your ability to feel grounded in the hopes that you would float in my thoughts like a pool of water full of roses. For my words are written on the many pedals and surround you carressing and holding you up firmer than just any liquid thought for within my thoughts exists a beautiful natural substance meant for you.
Love Ryan Anthony Gibson
Raise the Spirit of Entrepreneurship
“Barn raising is a one- or two-day event. The preparation of barn raising includes making plans, collecting hardware and lumber, and clearing the ground. For proper work supervision, some specialists may be brought in from other communities who may have to be paid. Old people who have participated in many barn raisings are crew chiefs. Women are usually entrusted with the responsibility to provide water and food, men to do the work, and young boys to fetch parts and tools. The main part of barn raising is taking two framed walls, laying them on the ground, and raising them to a vertical position.
Barn raising, being a community activity, strengthens social bonds. It will enhance interdependence and an inter-serving nature. Barn raising became rare by the close of the 19th century. But the tradition of barn raising is still prevalent among some communities especially in Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.” Cole, Alison “Barn Raising.” Barn Raising. 9 Nov. 2006. EzineArticles.com.
One could write a complete book on Barn Raising and how it applies to building a community of business, but in this case we are simply going to help you pull the principles behind it and apply it for your entrepreneurial spirit and success. In the next section, we discuss the philosophy and its purpose with the spirit of entrepreneurship and future focus of an individuals community and personal economy.
Raising The Spirit Of Entrepreneurs
“The summer tornado that touched down… left a path of destruction cut as cleanly into the landscape as a swath mown through the middle of a hayfield. The wind plucked up giant oaks, tulip poplars, ashes, and maples and laid them down in crisscrossed, splintered chaos through the Amish woodland. With the same nicety for borderline definition, the tornado sliced through Amish farmsteads, capriciously reducing barns to kindling while ignoring buggy sheds, chicken coops, corncribs, and houses close by. In the twenty-minute dance that the tornado performed before exiting into the wings of the sky as abruptly as it had come, it destroyed at least fifteen acres of mature forest a hundred years or more in the growing, and four barns that represented the collected architectural wisdom of several centuries of rural tradition.”
For many, the tornado touched down the moment you began struggling in your business and personal economy with the downfall in stock markets, dissappearance of banking loans or lines of credit, and or simply the effects of ruthless competitors within your industry. The damage occurs like an act of God, it often is common knowledge that these acts can occur, but no one ever expects it to happen to them. Well luckily for this tornadoes tale in Holmes County, they had a community to help them put the barns back together again, and so do you. It is the spirit of community and the spirit of entrepreneurship.
Whether your business has been blown apart or whether you are struggling to get a new business idea off the ground, you are not alone. We are a massive community and economy, and we are locally and internationally connected. As an expert in your field you can give to the community, and as an amateur you can accept the help to plan, prepare, build, and develop your business. Most individuals will preach the need of professional business writers and consultants, but many of the so called “amateurs” and “elders” around you in your community have the knowledge and expertise to help you. The reward in life is the relationship. Remember that the Noah’s Ark was built by amateurs and the Titanic was built by professionals. Not to confuse the matter with references to an entirely different process of construction that can be discussed in its own right later in the book, but your community is there for a reason, because they believe in you and need you.
Raising the Barn
Within the community of entrepreneurs, so often we become self focused like in the story of rebuilding Solomon’s temple, where personal wealth becomes more important that the community temple. Individual businesses are the cornerstone of local and international communities, and we can not forget that helping your neighbor built a new business or supporting their existing one is an essential part. In some cases, it may be spending an hour or 1-2 days with a business person who is new or struggling within your business community, but it is that commitment to do so that makes the difference. What difference would it make to your business if you new a community of followers and helpers were willing to dedicate 2 days to get your business off the ground and running. What if even 8 experts decided to work with you, what difference could it make.
In the Amish community participation is mandatory for community members. These participants are not paid, and all able bodied members of the community are expected to attend. Failure to attend a barn rasining without the best of reasons leads to censure within the community. Some paid specialists did come in from other communities for specific trades and journey expertise. As defined in several articles on the matter, barn raising activity demands humility, trust, accountability, commitment, sacrifice, and having a future focus. To apply these values look at the following:
- 1. Humility: The person who wants a barn is often far outside of town and has no choice but to let the community know that they need help, and for the most part, it just happens as the community comes together. In business, an entrepreneur requires the Humility required to accept the help of their community, the volunteered assitance and patronage offered for the trade of goods and credit often given by their community. The ability to ask and accept the help of those around you is an essential part of the spirit of entrepreneurship and the humility we all understand and respect. Being able to receive from a community is a sign of respect and being a part of something larger. We all need neighbours, community, and customers, and for this, we need to work together and be able to accept each others participation in the diversity of our everyday lives. With humility in business, you need to include the fact that you need to increase the size of your personal reading library, processses and systems to help you prepare, plan and think like those in your community. You may need to accept several mentors to help you prepare for the raising of your business and understanding of “How to.” This may include the hiring and paying for outside specialists to come in for the necessary direction and knowledge.
Follow this advice:
- Admit that you need advice with those around you
- Accept the help and or training needed to get prepared
- Realize that the business can not be built on your own
- Understand you can not possibly know everything
- Accept mentors
- Hire a specialist to act as foreman for a day or two
- 2. Trust: Like the future owner of the Barn, the entrepreneur needs to trust the community around them as they advise on the structure of their business, the activities and preparation necessary, and able bodied elders they need to advise in as Crew Chiefs, having experienced the raising of many businesses or barns. The ability to trust the young people in the community who have seen many businesses built or barns raised, to follow suit and do what they have seen, and put the pieces together that have been prepared by one knowledgeable leader. The knowledge comes from the community, and we need to trust the knowledge, especially if it is being given to us. The spirit of entrepeneurship is to trust those in your community and attract those able bodied elders and youth. Entire books have been written on trust, but this is the stage after humility. As once you have accepted the help, there is the need to be able to trust it.
Follow this advice:
- Remove the idea that it only gets done if you do it yourself, and accept and trust the able bodies around you
- Accept knowledge when it is given, especially from those who know your business
- Trust the process in the books you read, tapes you listen to, and courses to apply proven principles that have existed and worked for 100 years
- 3. Accountability: Everyone in your community needs to be held accountable for what they are able bodied to do in order to participate. You need to know what they are able to do however, but it is essential that all members of the community are ready, willing, and able to build your business, as you need to personally be ready to help them and support them to build theirs. Identify the members of your community who are “able bodies” and let your community know what you are an “able body” in. The spirit of entrepreneurship is not just a philosophy, it is a combination of opening up your spirit to what you are able and capable of doing and holding yourself accountable to it as others would respectfully do with themselves around you. The speed at which the barn was raised was not because of the sheer number of people, or the fact they often worked without being told what to do, as often many of the workers where just standing around talking. Rather, they new exactly what to do next, and worked together seemlessly under the frame work of how to build a barn. Know what your team is “Handy” at. We all know what we are handy at, and we know how to put the pieces together from the endless libraries of how entrepreneurs can build their business.
Follow this advice:
- Attract able bodies to your community and identify who they are and what they know
- Be an able body in your community
- Let people know that you feel its mandatory to help them, as you are part of their community
- Everyone in the community needs to take on their part, approach them and get them to buy-in to the principle of Barn Raising. Ask them what they can do to help, and hold them to it.
- 4. Commitment: If you have gone to someone for help, you are commiting yourself to be a part of their community. If they are going to be commited to you, be prepared to be commited to their community and business. Commitment is past the stage of just liking each other, trying a few things out and or kicking each others tires. Commitment is a marriage or bond between people that says we will work together, be pieces of a whole, and walk united and not divided. The very foundation of a commitment is that the time and genuine assistance given is meant to be the development of a real relationship. Business relationships are forged on this long standing community based commitment to trade and work together. My word is my bond, and so is my actions. Be committed. Work from Sun up to Sun Down to help as quickly and efficiently as possible… thats commitment. In your case, wake up earlier, get started, and finish what you start.
Follow this advice:
- Commit yourself to the community and ask others to commit to you for the betterment of both of your future
- Reward those commited with your help and or a piece of the opportunity you are working on
- Once you start on the venture, be prepared to give what you can back and be aware that its mandatory to help other people. If it was mandatory for everyone, the world would be a better place.
- 5. Sacrifice: As mentioned before, entrepreneurs have the assets of time, energy, money, ability, and reputation. In order to be part of a community you need to sacrifice the time, energy, and ability to be apart of it. If you are going to have your business raised like the barn raising that was the foundation of rural farming communities in the US for over 100 years, you need to be able to make the sacrifice. Why? Because if you do not make the sacrifice, you are just working, working, working but sacrifice gives you the future focus that you are not alone, and that we are with you “I am with you.” Sacrifice is part of prooving that “I am with you”, and that is your future and the key to birth and rebirth in the world of business. Embrace this combined with the humility, trust, accountability, and commitment, there is no stopping your future success.
Follow this advice:
- Put aside an alotment of time to talk and work with others in the community, don’t be afraid to invite yourself into their business
- Buy the lunch, buy the dinner, hold a party, make the time to be with your community
- Wake up early or work late and get more hours in with people in the community who can’t help you during regular working hours. Do the same for others.
- 6. A Future Focus: As learned from Haggai and the rebuilding of Solomon’s temple and again in barn raising, if we focus on the structures and foundations that bring us together and our future economy we will gain great satisfaction in what we do daily and in others around us. Many will ask why you put the time in, even yourself, but be careful of its intent, such as the discouragement and disinterest that challenges every entrepreneur. Embrace the pure and open spirit that it is mandatory to be an able body to be alive and in business. Don’t dissable yourself with the nay sayers and focus on the future, focus on a bigger picture. Having neighbours is our future, and being one. Carve out your place in the now and the future.
Follow this advice:
- Focus on helping even one business within your community of friends for a day a week, even if its just a phone call
- Ask a mentor to come and talk to you about your business, maybe several. As long as you have mentoring coming to your business once a month
There is a saying amongst the Amish and rural farmers that the “Raising brings all the attention.” The reason being is that it is a magnificent achievement for people to work together and build. The great structures of man, the wonders of the world, the engineers who became the driving force of nations, all worked together, and the raising brought all the attention. Raise the entrepreneurial spirit in yourself, raise it around you, and be a part of entrepreneurship.
Celebrating members of the Community
When that work was completed food was served with a good old fashion rejoicing and or party, well as close to a party like celebration as the Amish could come to.
“On occassion, after a barn or house was raised there would usually follow, at the next opportune time, a barn dance or gathering of the workers to return with thanks the help from friends and neighbors. It would be a highlight of the summer.”
One on looker once said, “Makes you wonder if some of them folks might not consider praying for a tornado once in a while.”
Follow this advice:
- Hold an event to thank mentors, staff, people within the community, and families to thank them for their involvement the next oppotune time that comes up after their help.
- Give immediate feedback on the appreciation and your commitment to them as a community and the idea of barn raising and the spirit of entrepreneurship in the community
- Open your heart up and spirit up, and let them know “you are there”
Thoughts on Efficiency:
When it comes to efficiency, Henry Ford may have been the inventor of the assembly line, but the barn raisers of the Amish community had the system a generation before. Eye witnesses recelled that “Crews of older men, away from the barn, marked each board with a chalk line indicating the place where the board crossed the beam it would be nailed to. Then these men started nails along the chalk line. Other men quickly carried away these boards, invariably three at a time, and passed them up to younger men clinging to the beam frames. They, in turn—one above, one below—slapped the boards in place with one hand and drove the preset nails in with a hammer in the other hand, the siding going on in almost a continuous wave, as if it were being slowly unrolled.”
At least 200 years since the birth of Barn Raising, and we have come along way as a community but have also stepped away from the Basics. Imagine if the spirit was raised amongst our business community and peers to worktogether in selfdirected co-operating pieces to build a strong, secure future generation. Imagine the change you could make with just 8 people in your community, or how targetting the right 8 able bodies in your community could help you.
A Note On The Finish Talkoot or Barn Raising
In the Finish culture they have embraced the philosphy similar to that of barn raising called talkoo. If a person wants to build a cottage close to a nice lake, they don’t purchase a ready made home or hire an expensive workforce, but instead they surround themselves with willing and able friends, talkoot. They get their friends and some distant connected individuals through their network and community to build the cottage as a group effort, the talkoo power. When the work is done, the Finish down a few beers together and most likely enjoy the sauna. Some could use the anology that the economy is an enormous barn or cottage, but each individual business is also a barn onto its self. How many times have I sought the advice of peers and mentors in my business and participated in a beer or dinner to digest the advice, help, and success of the day. Lifting someones business is as simple as lifting up their spirit within the community and doesn’t need to be more than a 1 or 2 day event, but it could also be a weekly or monthly gathering.
Lifting up the spirits of those around you will definately lift up your own Spirit
In a book written by Henrik Ingo called Open Life, he explores in a few pages of the book the nature of Open Source code, a philosphy where software developers give their hard work and modules developed away for free to a community of like minds. I have been around the open source community and have watched entire development projects that would take years for an individual developer, where modules and guidance among open source community members accomplish a working masterpiece. Often this is done working sun up, sun down, and inbetween with the fuel of accomplishment and Coca Cola. Different than the closed door conglomerates in the software industry where everything comes with a price, there is a free world that exists out their embracing the free spirit of entrepreneurship and community called Open Source. It definately takes an open spirit to let go of the ownership of your hard work and knowledge to others. However, the community has proven in practical modern terms that once that spirit opens, great things will happen. Your business is unique to you, but in life every business is open source, as it comes down to common foundations, business blocks, community, and giving. Be a part of the business community and be a part of the Open Source spirit of entrepreneurship. Like 8 great developers working on an open source project what would 8 great people helping you in your business do? Open your spirit my friend, “I am with you.”
A Modern Day South African Example
Another example of community was recently explained to me by a friend Lee Surmon, who is an accountant in Sandton South Africa. She volunteered a few days with a team of people organized by the community of the Vodacom Foundation to work with an Orange Farm past Soweto to plant spinach. The two day event helped the farmer supply a crop of spinach he then sold into the local community and profitted from. The farm is healthy and self sufficient thanks to the spirit of entrepreneurship displayed by individuals like Lee Surmon and the community of a good corporate culture. The true spirit of entrepreneurship is in all of us, accept and grow, but don’t forget to plant the seed with those around you.
Thanks for reading my article, lots of love.
Ryan Anthony Gibson
Awakening The Spirit Of The Entrepreneur
April 17th 2009
By Ryan Anthony Gibson
A company depends on the spirit of those who build it and rebuild it. In the bottom of the economy, we hear a lot of discussions about how is your business, how is your industry, and for all those who existed in the prime time, it is not as good as it was. Many times in life, people face the same challenges as we are feeling today, and it has been documented. Therefore, this discussion is meant to awaken the spirit of the entrepreneur, and the spirit of all those who wake up and need to go to work. That is why it is only appropriate that the discussion initially focus on overcoming disinterest, discouragement, and dissatisfaction, like the labors of those who required rebuilding Solomon’s Temple as we have to rebuild our global and personal economy today.
The First Challenge: The Issue of Disinterest
Whether you are a major corporation who has decided not to work with small businesses, an employee who has decided that your personal wealth is more important than building a great company, or a person who is simply interested in building a business and not sharing the spoils with their investors or the people who have got them there, you suffer from disinterest. Disinterest of what? Disinterest of the greater picture of what business and an economy is. When a group of people become self-focussed and self-centered, they have become disinterested in the greater good, and the real economy. Recognizing this error often requires the loss of the business, the job, or the money and opportunity, so that what they had been working on with self focus becomes fruitless. For this reason, the self-focussed naturally need to turn to others for help. Like in a down economy, bail-outs, pay-cuts, and emergency activities build up to try and assist these firms and people who focussed once on their business, their house, their kingdom.
This was actually one of the first problems for motivating the people returning to Jerusalem (Ezra 1:2-4) to rebuild the Temple of Solomon to its former greatness, however, instead of focusing on the Temple, they focussed on their own homes and crops, and left the task they returned for. In many cases, we are all guilty of stopping our focus on the big picture and focus on creating our own kingdom. However, there are many examples of us focussing on our own kingdom becoming fruitless in the end, which is often what needs to happen for us to realize our error. In many cases, the business community is a kingdom of which we need to have the faith to work together and build up the economy we once had. To build it in all its capacity, we need one that supports us working together for a fruitful future and not a fruitless one. In the case of rebuilding Solomon’s Temple, the message to overcome distinterest was that “they would be glorified if they will only yield to Him whay they have.” The draught, poor crops, and demise of the livestock was the punishment bestowed on all labors of “your hands”, which are the things created just for you with your own hands. The people did go back to work on the temple, after they had felt the effect of loss. For the most part, they had to consider their ways, and the great loss and dissappointment they realized when they discovered they were all alone when working on their own property and homes, a fruitless end.
Therefore, in order to avoid Disinterest, follow the following advice:
- Consider your ways: If you are looking for much and it is coming to too little it is because you have not opened your heart up to the entrepreneurial spirit of togetherness. Consider your actions, the people around you, and focus your ways on the greater goal.
- Gather the wood and climb the Mountain: Gather the tools, the people, and the team so that you can build the business. Start on it immediately, as your business and livelihood is in neglect if you are not working towards it, and do it for a greater purpose than just the self. The spirit of the business is important, as is the spirit of God.The greater purpose is to supply happiness, the spirit of your company in them, and them in your company.
- I AM with you: The message was part of the messenger Haggai to the people, that they were not alone. Remember that you are not alone. IN business, and in this economy, as long as we work together and are open hearted within the spirit of business and the spirit of entrepreneurship, than we are not alone. The fact is, you can build a good company when you are in good company.
The Second Challenge: The Issue of Discouragement
Have you been told by someone who has been in the industry for a long time that things will never be as good as they use to be? That the business you are in was once great? Possibly this is something that you even tell yourself. Maybe you heard that car sales are down, no one is buying cars, and the economy is going into a slump. The ever so popular, no one is investing like they use to be, there is no money! Or, people just are not buying houses or are not buying within your industry. This is the direct contact between you and your piers that we call discouragement. Discouragement from building your business, working harder, and becomng successful. The people who have lived and experienced a once great economy are no different than the elders or older people who lived to see the once great temple of Solomon, as children before exile. On their return, they said that no building, however beautiful, could compare with the glory of that former temple. This quickly influenced the others, especially the younger generation, whereby in less than one month of rebuilding the work ceased on the temple. To deal with the problem, the people needed to be motivated. Thus, the people were given a moto, in combination with “I AM with you”, the messenger Haggai said to the people “be strong, be strong, be strong, and work” for you are building for the day when God will so fill the house with glory that it will surpass the glory of Solomon’s temple.
Therefore, when dealing with Discouragement, follow this advice:
- Be Strong: Don’t listen to the news, the people around you discussing the comparison of now to the past, you must live in the now and work! So Be Strong, Be Strong, and Work! This means wake up earlier, motivate those around you, and bring the strongest people to the forefront, especially yourself. This is the immediate solution to discouragement, is to hold your head up and keep working.
- Surpass Yesterdays Glory: Remember the goal you are working for in the long-term, not the ruined state you may currently be in, in comparison to the sales of the past, business of the past, or competitors. Competitors and or your current business may be the glory of yesterday that you will surpass if you can Be Strong and Work! Success will fill the house of those who believe in their success. Build a house, not just for yourself, but your employees, your family, and your beliefs. Embrace the future spirit of success now in order to keep building… if you can do this, you are already successful. There is no such thing as discouragement if success is in the now and beyond. Discouragement is for those who live in the past, and thus, you need to remove yourself from this by surpassing yesterday’s glory by working on the future today. It doesn’t matter how old you are, how many times you have tried, you can always surpass yesterdays glory. Time and time again. An entire book could be written, from individuals in all stages of life and time, from CEOs, inventors, to auditions on a talent show, you can always surpass the glory of the past if you creat the opportunity to do so by being strong and working! I encourage you to look on the internet for the story of Susan Boyle, a 47 year old, UK lady who came out and auditioned against all odds and skeptism, and became an overnight sensation in less than 3 days! It doesn’t happen by mistake, and it took many years, but after watching her blow away the judges minds and an audience of people, you will understand the meaning of surpassing yesterdays glory! Look Susan Boyle up on www.youtube.com if you need to kick-start the emotions of glory for yourself today.
- I AM with you: Remind yourself that you are not alone, and the house you are building in the future, the business, the economy, and the life is one where you have others with you. You are not alone. They are with you, success is with you, and I AM with you. This is the spirit of success, and the glory that will bring you to your goal.
The Third Challenge: The Issue of Dissatisfaction
The person who has started a diet, and after three months, wonders why they have not lost what they wanted to is dissatisfied, even though they look better. The business owner who implements a new sales strategy, but the sales don’t turn around overnight or in a few months, is dissatisfied. The person at work, who after three months is wondering when they are going to get the raise for working overtime and meeting deadlines, and doesn’t get it right away, is dissatisfied. Often those who need to work hard at the business, and the glory of success doesn’t penetrate the walls and fill their bank with money, do get dissatisfied. It is a major challenge for those with problems focusing, those who procrasitnate and begin prioritizing other people, businesses, and problems into their life without dealing with their goal, at some point they became dissatisfied. Once the people began working on the temple of Solomon, they expected an immediate success and reversal of all their years of inactivity. Of course, dissatisfaction is easy to catch, easy to distribute, and easy to pass on, because labeling the negative is always easier. The prophet asked the holy men and high priests, when you take a piece of meat and put it against something holy does it become holy. The answer was no. He then asked, if I take the piece of meat, and I put it against the ground, does it become unclean, or dirty. The answer was an immediate yes. The conclusion therefore, was that being holy was a gift, given to the objects, which takes time and is bestowed upon the object. In the same respect, success is a gift, and it doesn’t happen the moment you touch the surface of it. It doesn’t happen from rubbing against other successful people, even though it helps, it happens after time, faith, and the strong ethics it takes to build the temple. Therefore, it comes down to you.
In order to overcome Dissatisfaction, follow the advice:
- Be Clean: It is easier to become dirty with your thoughts, dissatisfied, and disappointed than it is to feel successful, or be successful. It only takes one dab of dirt to make something dirty, but one dab of success is enough glory often for a lifetime. I suggest you surpass the thinking of dissatisfaction, poverty thinking, and focus on the wealthy, open, and giving nature of building a house for all. Being clean, is remembering the end goal, following through with it, and building it, and believing in those within it to continue the glory. Keep yourself clean, and those around you clean. With hard work, strength, and belief, the gift of success is eminent. Rarely have I ever seen a driven, focused, all believing person, going towards the goal of surpassing yesterdays glory actually not reach success. Assets of your life that often get tarnished include your time, energy, money, ability, and reputation. Devoting these resources towards success is the cleanest approach to building a business. Diverting the resources often muddies the water and delays the success you are looking for. Be aware of clean, and unclean things and their influence on each other.
- Expectations: It is important that your expectations are not to become an instant success, as it just isn’t in the cards for everyone. For the most part, those who believe in an instant success often end up fruitless, building a house for themselves with no one else in it. This doesn’t mean that you can’t wake up every day focussing on surpassing the glory of yesterday, and living with success in your spirit, but the true success of ones life comes with the sustained glory we all pursue. Many people preach of managing expectations, but in this case, the message is clearly, don’t allow yourself to be dissatisfied if your expectations are not immediate. It is healthy to have high expectations, and to push yourself forward to overcome the three challenges, but when you have built the company, and you have satisfied the people around you, it is not uncommon to feel something missing. That missing piece is an illusion developed by expectations and the negative or unclean around you. You are in your greatest happiness when you have in the presence of yourself, and are encouraged to fulfill your commission. As long as you encourage yourself, you will be encouraged to meet your goals, like the the message of the prophet was complemented by the direct activity of God who stirred up in the cold hearts a renewed desire for doing His will, where the builders began working again with renewed energy, as will you!
- Your Commission: You set what your commission is, what your purpose is, and what your goals are. Others may try, but you are the one who sets those expectations with yourself. Know your commission, and believe in the glory and success of it. The highest blessing is within the embracing of the spirit of entrepreneurship within you, and making this your commission, to build for the greater good and true meaning of business. You can only be dissatisfied if you give yourself the opportunity to not be satisfied. We should not allow the difficultes, enemies, or selfish pursuits to turn us aside from the promised presence of glory. Know your commission, and allow all those around you to know it and respect it as well, but be satisfied in knowing you are happy and respectful of your purpose and self. This is the key to opening the door to the spirit of entrepreneurship, the spirit of business, and yourself.
Beautiful Sense of Disaster by Ryan Anthony Gibson
there is a beautiful sense of disaster… i like it. I often think you know that there is a perfect amount of disaster as there is a pefect amount of happiness, and that perfect amount is whatever it takes to put us in a direction versus stuck without expression.
Welcome to the Airternet by Ryan Anthony Gibson
When will the day come when I can click on words as you say them,
Taking me to the meaning you give them,
Or maybe you are sponsored and the click takes me to a cool shop,
A world on-air, a word in air,
You could say the word clock, and I could click it with my finger or look at it,
Passing by and just open up a whole lot of clocks I like,
And somehow this world knows what I want,
It will just let me shop or give me meaning,
All I have to do is listen, mind click, and that’s it,
Maybe blink my eyes like I dream of Genie,
Maybe even my words could float through the air,
And I could just click them to,
Like I want to see you right now,
Blink, Click, there you are! You’re on air!
Ahhh welcome to the Airternet!
Can I add you as a friend?
All that from a word I suspend.
Ryan Anthony Gibson: A Brief Introduction
My social media contact information is http://www.facebook.com/ryanagibson my twitter account is http://www.twitter.com/ryanagibson. There are great places to communicate with me, send a message or join me there.
A little about Ryan Anthony Gibson, I have been writing poetry since I was 12 years old. I have volumes of poems around the world, mainly in the collection of Laia Gibson, who lives with my beautiful daughter Cala in Barcelona Spain. www.calagibson.com
I have worked with great people and organizations over the year, but really just enjoy helping people and helping entrepreneurs. I am a real lover of people, and have often guest written poems for friends anniversaries, weddings, engagements, vows, and other such wonderful moments. When traveling, I like to meet new people and share my poetry and read theirs if they also write.
My writing skills have helped me write business plans, marketing plans, documents, and consult, as well as speak and teach. At one point, I taught courses at Langara College Continuing Studies for Internet Marketing and Sales Training.
I currently am living in South Africa, and enjoy and love the people of this beautiful Country. I love their warmth, their humor, their entrepreneurial drive, and it brings me great joy to work here with people who need good coaching and advice.
I have always been an honest person, and have a great deal of integrity when it comes to working with people and helping them also grow as individuals spiritually, intellectually, and financially. I believe we all have knowledge to share, and it brings me great joy to share mine.
With great love and admiration for your reading of my poetry and my entries, I leave you with this introduction and hope that you enjoy my poems.
Sincerely,
What if I tried not to write about you By Ryan Anthony Gibson
If I really decided to write something other than loving you,
It would likely be about our obligation to be holy people,
To heal those and help those that we can,
Fend of those who need wrestling with our hands,
Wrestle with ourselves with divine intention, not contention,
Where we eventually find unity with all,
Such a grand topic that could make one feel small,
Until we realise we are all apart of each other now and at the point of intervention,
But then I would find a way to discuss how this makes our oneness last an eternity,
Just cycles of life, rebirth, heaven, the universe, pieces of infinity,
So that I can say I will love and be apart of you forever and you of me,
So I suppose it would be hard to keep my love for you from my poetry.
