October 2019
Beginner
400 pages
7h 56m
English
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September 21Release Yourself
Wherever the soul catches a glimpse, in any form, of a perfect union of Love and Truth, it rejoices in the radiant marriage-vesture, and names it Beauty. In all these forms, the soul sees the face of its Parent. It is reminded of its home, and drawn thither. Hence, next to the word “harmony,” “a joyous perception of the infinite” is the most common definition of Beauty.
Lydia Maria Child—“What Is Beauty?” (1843)
The word “beauty” is not often applied to inanimate things, but a business, an entrepreneurial dream, can be a beautiful thing. What makes it so?
Perhaps Child's words can shed a global light on this question: “Wherever the soul catches a glimpse, in any form, of a perfect union of Love and Truth …”
As inspiring as those words are, how do you make them functional?
The enemy of love and truth in a business is waste. Waste in all its many forms creates dissonance and distraction.
Wasted time, wasted resources, wasted focus, wasted ideas. Waste on bloated ideas about income, possessions, and YouTube followers. Right now people are lurking outside your door, waiting to waste your time.
Being busy is the wrong thing to celebrate.
In the words of Greg McKeown, author of Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less: “You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.”
With simplicity comes harmony; with simplicity comes love and truth, and yes, beauty.
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