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The Spiritual Journey of Entrepreneurship
“Ultimately the journey is about becoming who you always were.”
By Laura DiFranco
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f you’re a business owner, you’re on a spiritual growth journey. How do I know? Because there’s nothing like running your own business to give you the opportunity to face just about every possible struggle, obstacle, stress, resistance, or serious problem there is. And with big-ass problems come bigass opportunities, as long as your badass entrepreneurial self is awake enough to practice the ninja-level of mindset mastery it takes to actually learn something, rather than stress the fuck out and run in the other direction. “Hey Laura, I need an article about spiritual growth for the magazine.” I read that Facebook message and thought, oh man, I’m finally rubbing off on him. He’s gone full woo now. “Fantastic,” I replied. “You mean that whole idea that having a business is basically one big spiritual journey?” “Perfect,” he said. Thing is, when I went to go find a definition
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of spiritual growth for you all, you know what happened? The number one Google spot said “There really is no definition of spiritual growth.” And the number two post was very religious, way more than I was comfortable with. And listen, my Italian grandmother made me drive her to mass every week. I’m no stranger to religion. Come to think of it, that’s probably the reason I’m “spiritual.” That, and my step-father always reminding us we’d go to Hell if we didn’t go to church. Listen, the main reason I love spiritual growth is because it stems from one very important and basic idea that there is no right or wrong; that God and The Universe is love, and there are a lot of ways to be, express, and live with and in love. All very worthy, by the way. And no way is the “right” way. “Would you rather be right, or would you rather be happy?” Dr. Phil Phil, dude, my man, I’ll take happy. Spiritual growth is a forward movement toward having faith in a bigger energy than you, and trusting it to drive your bus.
