#11 OF 52 GIRLS
Posted on October 15, 2014 2 Comments
Poetry and Art, this week’s collaboration. Enjoy.
The Prince and the Goddess – Ideas, Innovations, Inspiration
Posted on October 15, 2014 6 Comments
It’s time for the Artist Formerly Known as Prince to move over and bow to a new Prince. I discovered Prince Ea on the Facebook newsfeed of a Buddhist friend when I wished her happy birthday. She had posted a video, What No One Wants to Say About Ferguson. From the title I thought he was from Ferguson, sharing his feelings. Prince Ea did share his thoughts but they weren’t the same rhetoric about police violence and racism propagated by the news. He offered another perspective.
He said, we’ve been “brainwashed by our cult-ures.” This is why we have wars and racism, destructive concepts handed down for generation after generation. He pointed out that all of the protests, marches, and peace agreements have only resulted in short term relief but no lasting solutions.
“We have a chance to make a real difference.” Then, he said the words no one wants to say, “There will never be external peace if there is not internal peace.” Prince Ea added this original observation, “Mankind can transform into kind man.”
Prince Ea is a rapper using his poetry to light a beacon to assure us that in these times, each of us can use our power and knowledge to create a sacred world.
Why I Think This World Should End is an anthem about the challenges facing us all. But, Prince Ea doesn’t just complain, he tells us “We can change ourselves. We can change our hearts. We can meet hatred with compassion….And the path to a new beginning starts with you.”
Leoni Dawson has been doing her part to change hearts and the world as an innovative entrepreneur. She dedicated her 2014 Create Your Amazing Year Life + Biz Edition Workbook to “Every Woman. You each deserve incredible, beautiful lives that sing to your soul.” Beneath the dedication is “World Changing Philanthropy: A portion of profits from every workbook will go to a range of charities that support the world to become an even better place.” Leoni has shared her colorful drawings and carefree, creative approach to life and business to women for several years.
I discovered her through Project Radiant ISIE, a new group of on-line women entrepreneurs. Leoni’s most recent blog, 50 Lessons from a Decade of Blogging offers practical advice sparkled with her original artwork. A happily married mother of two, Leoni shares her adventures in motherhood and her experience in creating, maintaining, and expanding an online business with thousands of women around the world in her weekly blogs and business courses.
One of her important bits of advice is to “give stuff away” and she links to five of her give aways in her decade of blogging. Leoni is an inspiring ball of energy and enthusiasm as well as a savvy entrepreneur. She has shown that an open, giving, free expressive heart can also be a successful business force.
Prince Ea and Leoni Dawson are just two individuals among millions of people around this world whose work introduces ideas, innovation, and inspiration for living a sacred life and creating a sacred world. They recognize, encourage, and honor the unlimited potential for good in every one. Prince Ea and Leoni Dawson know that each of us must look within to find our own strength to create our own beauty and wealth. Then we must open our hearts and minds to the reality that we are all interconnected and it is our individual responsibility to change our world. Check them out, consider their ideas. Be inspired and let your star shine with theirs. Above all, Be Whole. See you next week.
I am Skywalker Payne, RN, Rigzen Chomo, and Skywalker Storyteller, founder of SACRED, and author of The Ultimate Wonder, World Stories Illuminating Death.
illUmiNations: Protecting Our Planet
Posted on October 10, 2014 1 Comment
Here’s an inspiring video to launch your week-end. Beautiful, thought inspiring, and short. Enjoy.
Dad’s Legacy – A Defective Gene or A Positive Obsession to Start My Own Business
Posted on October 8, 2014 8 Comments
Yes, the handsome man at the camera is Tommie Walker, my father. My dad was a 20th Century Black Renaissance man. He had a wall full of amateur tennis trophies, was a photographer, TV camera man, electrician, and finally a teacher. But, his unfulfilled dream was to start his own business. He tried a few times but had to sacrifice his dream to raise my three older brothers and our younger sister. Unfortunately, I wasn’t raised by my dad. I am the only child of Tommie Walker and Ann E. Glenn. Mama kept me with her. But, that’s another story.
Today, I want to talk about that entrepreneurial drive I received from my dad. Some day, scientists may discover a genetic sequence that makes a person want to start a business. This obsession can possess you for a lifetime and lead to bouncing from one job to the next, one career to the next. Until finally, that light shines through and you take the jump. Along the way are attempts that don’t succeed and I’ve had many.
But, this spring, in my quest to find creative ways to market my e-book, I found The Complete Guide to Pay What You Want by Tom Morkes, a young vet and entrepreneur. Through him I was introduced to Jason Spencer, creator of Tribe.ly and Asher Leigh. These three facilitated The Flight Formula 4, an on-line heart-centered business incubator I joined.
Limiting Beliefs
One of the things we learned and explored were limiting beliefs. These nagging thoughts and comments we all grow up with that keep us going in circles. Work has to be hard. You can’t do anything on your own. No one will be interested in what you have to offer. Who are you anyway? What do you know that someone should pay you?
And yes, some mornings I wake up simply overwhelmed by limiting beliefs. But, I’m not the only one in my family with this obsession. My oldest brother, Tom Walker, continues with his own business efforts. And since I’m obviously obsessed, I can not give up. Now I do have the support of a diverse tribe of talented individuals sharing the same obsession I do, to start our own heart centered businesses.
Heart Centered Business
When I searched for a heart centered business definition, I didn’t find one. I did find a couple of entrepreneurs who took umbrage with the term. But I like it. I don’t think it’s a concept that was taught in MBA programs before this century (if it’s even taught now). As Ann Evans pointed out, one could say that anyone who is an entrepreneur is starting a heart based business.
It takes heart to step out on this world stage and say, “I have knowledge, talent, insight, skills, services, and products that will help make your life better. But you have to pay me for it.” Flight Formula described heart centered business as the “gift, purpose, and power of our heart being directed toward opening the hearts of our clients and customers.”
So a heart centered business offers personal attention with direct one-on-one communication. It’s easily accessible and affordable. A heart centered business is generous and consistently offers free useful information. Most importantly, a heart centered business provides value laden services and products that empower clients and customers.
Overcoming My Limited Beliefs
In this 21st century physicists and spiritual teachers have proven all that exists is made of spacious, pulsating energy. Knowing this true reality is the base of the business I created. We are all, in essence, energy, without beginning or end. We are sacred. We can realize this sacredness in our everyday life. I have, so can you. See you next week. Be whole.
Skywalker Payne is Skywalker Storyteller and Rigzen Chomo. I am the founder of SACRED. You can learn more about SACRED here and more about Skywalker Storyteller here. I also wrote The Ultimate Wonder, World Stories Illuminating Death.
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