Stilling waves of anxiety starts with separating the temporary and the permanent. What do you want to keep? Holy and worth protecting. What is open to change? Holey and worth allowing to pass. What are the problems you genuinely want to solve?
There will always be problems. As Nightbirde pointed out, you can’t wait to be happy. Calm exists within, rather than after, the chaos.
When we are filtering good ideas and good business ideas, business ideas might get elevated because they are easy to contain. The ideas that you can’t contain may be the most valuable. This is not a problem.
Good business ideas are problems we can solve that we want to go away. Not problems that we want to perpetuate to deliver a rent. You don’t want a good business idea to become part of your identity, because then you will become part of the reason that it doesn’t get solved... making you irreplaceable.
When something is a good idea, but not a good business idea, it is often something you want to keep. To build on. These are the activities, ideas, and relationships you sustain by building engines of capital. Ideas that are worth spending money on, but don’t generate money. They tend to focus more on abundance, permanence, sharing, and connection.
For problems that are temporary, we need a process to develop the skills and knowledge to be able to meet challenges and move on. That requires constant learning, reinvestment, and reinvention.
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