Through my work with business leaders, I’ve identified six characteristics of Enlightened Professionals. How many describe you?
As an Enlightened Professional, you:
- Trust in your innate wisdom to make conscious choices based on your awareness
- Live and work on purpose, pursuing your passions through your work and/or your service to others
- Maintain a high prosperity consciousness, always seeking win-win opportunities with a focus on collaboration and cooperation, not competition
- Think positively, transcending negative belief systems and self-defeating habits
- Through support and by example, naturally inspire others to be enlightened
- Use universal principles to achieve your goals
Sometimes I feel most enlightened when I view a disappointment or setback in business as a lesson learned and I trust that a better opportunity will soon appear. And it usually does.
How does being enlightened show up in your life?
I’m hopeful we are moving to a wisdom-based economy, but we’re not there yet – The age of information has created information overload – Distilling this down into wisdom is a process -I’m thankful for the guidance Tricia’s book provides. We’re getting there!
I feel strongly that we are moving toward a wisdom-based universe, vs. a knowledge-based world. I feel confident about this statement because history shows us that though knowledge is “power”, power is destructive in the absence of wisdom. There is too wide spread a call to “Love” for Human Kind to destroy itself. And I believe that “Love” is only one step away from “Wisdom”. Is it not?
I feel enlightened when I choose to consistently praise my employees for all that I appreciate that they are doing well, and when I choose to look on every “mistake” as an opportunity to do some additional training. Any time I hear an apology for something they didn’t handle well, I quickly let them know it was a routine mistake, nothing to think about, and I point out how well they are handling things. I am choosing to keep the energy focused on what is right, not on what is wrong.
How I wished I had known to do this 35 years ago when I first became a manager! A lot of grief would have been avoided for both my employees and me!