Conscious Startups Entrepreneurship for people with a soul
Being a Conscious Startup
Together, we’re defining a new form of entrepreneurship that’s relevant for the time we live in and the challenges humanity is facing. A form of entrepreneurship that is based in love, not fear.
Conscious Startups …
- Are more obsessed with creating something meaningful and worthwhile than they are with fame and fortune
- Aren’t looking to exit, because to them, it’s not just a business, it’s an extension of who they are
- Give a fuck
- Have the courage to keep their hearts open
- Listen to and follow their inner voice and intuition
- Live out their highest calling
- Have the courage to face the truth about themselves & their motivations
- Are willing to look at themselves to clear the things that are contaminating their actions and relationships
- Dare to be the truest expression of who their are
- Dare to face their fear
- Dare to be vulnerable
- Dare to love
- Maximize love for everyone, inside and outside their business
- Don’t care what other people think
- Are willing to be ruthless when that’s what’s called for
- Follow their heart and calling with a fervor that stops for nothing and no-one
- Bring their entire selves to work
- Bring their higher selves to work
- Speak their truth
- Live their truth
- Act from a state of presence, a place of truth
- Trust their inner visions and guidance
- Go slow to go fast
- Use both their right and left brains
- Use both their masculine and feminine energies
- Use skull brain, heart brain and gut brain
- Strive to create something meaningful
- Focus on having an impact rather than fame and fortune
- Focus on being first, doing second
Websites with similar thoughts
- fear.less by Ishita Gupta and Matt Atkinson
- Fearless Revolution by Alex Bogusky
- Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art
- Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford U commencement address
Books worth reading/listening to
- The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
- Fuck it by John C. Parkin
- Linchpin by Seth Godin
- Tribes by Seth Godin
- All marketers are liars by Seth Godin
- Purple Cow by Seth Godin
- The Dip by Seth Godin
- Unleashing the Ideavirus by Seth Godin
- Ship it jornal by Seth Godin
- Eating the big fish by Adam Morgan
- A return to love by Marianne Williamson
- Theory U by C. Otto Scharmer
- Thick Face Black Heart by Chin-Ning Chu
- Delivering happiness by Tony Hsieh
- Business stripped bare by Richard Branson
- Siddharta by Herman Hesse
- The Alchemist
- Working with presence by Peter Senge and Daniel Goleman
- Ignore everybody by Hugh MacLeod
- Journey into now by Leonard Jacobson
- A whole new mind (live) by Daniel Pink
- Honest signals by Alex Pentland