Myriam Borg, The Create Australia Founder Reflection in Vanuatu October 2018
Lessons in life; as I near my 50th birthday I can't help but reflect... The following are lessons that are true to me, I hope sharing them can help you in your journey.
One of the greatest and hardest lessons to learn for me was to listen to other people's experiences with humility and to learn from others mistakes. Being a hardcore type A entrepreneur, I was born wanting to jump, to try things and to take risks.. These attributes were great assets of personality and if you have these you will go far, but learning from others experiences saves you a lot of heartache. I have seen many people work so hard, innovate and push and shove only to fail miserably... Why? Often I have observed that they do NOT listen to good advise, or they get bad advise that caters to their ego, or they simply ignore their gut feelings... And so crash and burn. I have observed it tens of times, and I myself tended to think ' I know best'... It’s a trick of the ego. And ego is actually a ' dream killer'!
So lesson number 1; get good honest proper advise and listen to your gut instinct. And above all else curb your ego, it is your enemy.
Lesson 2, your ego is your enemy- we live in an age where the individual is a superstar... Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest make us believe we are very very special... :) We are important, we are amazing... and we love it, we believe it because it makes us feel good without us having to do anything at all. On Facebook a clueless year 10 dropout can be a star without having any actual talent of their own, they believe it and if they get enough endorsement then it must be true...' They are amazing'. That is the ego gone crazy, we are in an age where people are actually dumber than ever, they are passified by media and screens and they exist in a fantasy endorsed by the social media and me first ideals. It is FALSE. And what you see resulting is a failure and breakdown of individuals. Depression is on the rise... The fantasy has not bearing on the reality. You start believing the fantasy, but then reality hits hard. For anything to be real and to last and be of value it has to be of your own genuine creation, effort. Not a copycat 'me too', ' I am fabulous just because I exist'... Curb the ego, you and I are actually not special, there is 8 billion of us and hundreds of billions lived and died without leaving any mark on their world... Human beings are only special when they do great service to others, so humility first- serve whenever you are asked and find ways to live with purpose. I find this lesson challenging! :)
The other thing I have learned from working with entrepreneurs is the lesson of honesty. Honesty is a hard one because we are such creatures of a surreal society that is built on perceptions but not truth.
Truth and integrity are a part of the human soul, its part of our conscience so to speak... If you are dishonest to yourself or others, it will trip you up. There is a self governing set of rules that are unbreakable-whether you know them or not does not make them less applicable on you. These rules say ' if you are not true to yourself and deal with absolute integrity with others you will be punished by life'... So I meet a lot of people who say things like " why me, I am a good person?" Or " bad things happen to good people" almost every time it relates to that person having a lack of honesty and integrity- they often lie and delude themselves too, but you can’t fool life, it has a way of making things right every time. If you experience ' bad things happening for no reason' you need to get honest with yourself. Its called congruency and until you get 'that' right, you keep on experiencing the same harsh medicine until you 'get it'... Some people never do ( refer to section on ego)
Finally get your priorities right, know what matters to you most it is of course where you give most of your time to! If what you do most is not what you love most then something is a miss and you need to assess and act from integrity to yourself. :)
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