Entrepreneurs Balance Archetypes

From Abundance Unlimited - Conscious Entrepreneurs, the newsletter of May 11:

Successful entrepreneurs balance the archetypes of the Warrior and the Lover.

For some people, the Warrior is what they quintessentially wear. These people typically have an imposing presence, clear boundaries, and speak in crisp sentences. Others wear the Warrior through their empathy, compassion, and attunement to the nonverbal. You might see these archetypes rewritten as masculine and feminine, but for me they are essentially two modes of operating and adaptability means being able to effortlessly deploy one or the other depending on the social and professional situation.

I like to write this newsletter from personal experience, because it gives me an opportunity to contemplate the different lines along which my business is swimming and evolving within the larger ocean of businesses that flow through Southern California. We're all rubbing elbows at networking events, delivering "30-second commercials" or elevator speeches, pitching and getting switched on (or off) to various prospects and partners, and merging into the great collective awareness that is building along both technological and spiritual lines on a planetary scale (more about that, later).

This week at an RBN event someone invited me to join them at a lunch table that was smack in the middle of the room under the bright sun that streamed through the skylight. The Universe seemed to be saying: "you wanted the table on side, behind the column, but no more sitting on the sidelines for you!" It was so bright I wore my sunglasses through the event. When it came time to speak, I simply stood and said: "I'm the most unusual attorney you'll ever meet. I am filled with Light."

Some people got it, there were smiles and laughter. I had chosen to wear a bright yellow shirt and the sun was filtering brilliantly. I had spoken with humor but also from a place of truth: beyond selling, agendas and attachment. And from that space, I was very, very comfortable.

When a client needs legal protection, the Warrior is ever-present, guarding the citadel, and when the client needs understanding, the other archetype is in place, too. We are filled with light, and no matter how we blend and meld our different archetypes, it is time to acknowledge that despite the armor we consciously adopt (or get paid to construct), the light that binds us still shines through the skylight.

I hope this newsletter is useful and that you are gaining insights and skills for your own success.

Have a great week,

Michael H. Cohen

Look for a CD to come out soon for the Entrepeneur's Legal Toolkit, combining Contract Essentials and Legal Issues Involving MLM (Multilevel Marketing) and Director Sales.

Trust Your Business Intuition

From the weekly newsletter, May 4 (you can sign up for the newsletter on my website):

This week's theme is, trust your intuition. The more you trust, the more it trusts you. Who are we, what are we, how are we evolving, which part of our brain do we trust--these themes are steaming out of the movies Hollywood is serving up, whether it's the upcoming Terminator (what happens when humans and robots merge) or the popular new X-Men film, Wolverine (what's the "animal" in you?), or even films about girlfriends and ghosts. I've had a slew of encounters in the last 7 days where I just seemed to have plucked information from air, making a deeper connection.

The first person asked about my law practice, which I somehow analogized to the philosophy Rumsfeld had adopted, when he decided to revamp the military by focusing on light, mobile units instead of the old, 20th-century mindset that was always building clunky armor against "the Communists."

I don't know why I invoked Rumsfeld. The Dalai Lama or Thich Nat Han or even Ghandi or Mother Theresa would have been more fitting to my personality. I just said whatever popped into my head--yes, that's right!--because after the grounded education that a BA, JD, MBA and MFA has provided, I've also developed a trust and healthy respect for my business intuition. It turned out that she came from a military family, and Donald R was the perfect metaphor for her. The analogy made total sense, and she was amazed that I intuitively connected with the military echoes in her childhood.

This same 'coincidence' occurred again and again, as I seemed to plunk a metaphor out of the ethers that related something as seemingly factual as a law practice to something deep inside the person. Eventually, I realized I was leading with my heart and spirit, and letting my intellect sort of catch up to the more advanced and full reality. Now, what % of our brains can we really use, and is the brain just sitting inside the skull, or does it permeate our being?

When we trust ourselves, we become channels for our own divine intelligence. That is how I practice law, that is how I give business advice. I listen to my own golden mind before I speak--the higher mind that has developed discrimination. This I learned from modeling a great spiritual warrior; and also from learning to trust that a refined mind knows best. As Milton Erickson, MD, the great hypnotherapist, used to say: "Your conscious mind is very smart, and your unconscious mind is even smarter than that." So to which one will you turn for your business judgments?

I hope this newsletter is useful and that you are gaining insights and skills for your own success.

Have a great week,

Michael H. Cohen

The newsletter also features a new shopping portal with over 750 shopping entities in the online mall. It's call Fun Easy Shop for a reason.