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As I am writing this I am looking out of Vida e caffe in Parktown North Jo’burg.  I never thought that this day would come and I also did not think that I would enjoy it as much as I do.  In this line of thought – things that seem highly unlikely – I want to talk about the impossible.

In my line of work I deal with a lot of people that go through impossible situations on a daily basis.  I am a facilitator and a guide for entrepreneurs, for those of you who don’t know.  I am on a journey to transform South African society through transforming business.  Some might say this is impossible…

The tricky thing is that I can only achieve my goal if I convince others that they can do this as well.  It’s kind of like starting a virtuous circle that becomes self-sustainable.  My sole purpose for getting up in the morning and throwing myself into life with vigour and discipline is awaiting and creating opportunities to communicate to the entrepreneurs I work with their current worth and future potential so that they believe it themselves.

Through this I hope to assist them in identifying the one thing in their business/industry that is impossible to do but if they could do it would blow people’s minds.  Think about it:  A whole army of entrepreneurs that have at their core a desire to use their business to transform a country.  Businesses that do things in excellence and far reaching creativity that stands for life and all that is big, bold and awesome.
DEATH TO MEDIOCRITY!

The reason I am writing this is off course in line with what I said in my previous post and that it is about going from survive to alive.  I therefore pose the same question to you my reader: what is the one thing that is impossible to do (in your field, job, something you are passionate about, etc.) that if you could do it would blow people’s minds?

If you need some help you should consider Chris Guillebeau’s Brief Guide to World Domination (follow this link) which I am currently featuring on the Find Your Voice page on this blog.

Until next month…

So here is what the last three years of blogging have been about – going from just surviving to truly being alive.  This is The Konstrukt!
This is what I will be breaking down in the future.  Believe it or not but after many years of dreaming I am now living my dream and everyday is just getting better and better.

In 2005 I made a choice not to simply let circumstances take me.  I knew I had a voice inside me that had to get out.  It took about 5 years to finally get to a place of meaning and I felt like giving up many times on the journey.

So I ask:  Are you really living up to the potential inside you?  Are you truly alive or are you just surviving?  Get real with yourself and answer honestly.  If you are truly digging in and giving to this world from the gold inside you – great!  Tell me about it because I would like to know what your journey is like.

If you are not truly releasing the greatness inside you I want to dare you to do better.  I dare you to do your best!

Check out the info on the new page – Find Your Voice.  Just click here

The more time I spend with the entrepreneurs I guide I am confronted with a simple question: what is big?  I don’t know how many of you have seen Apocalypto – the film by Mel Gibson.  

Many people wrote it off saying is was simply just violent mayhem in a Mayan setting.  For those of you who have not seen the film yet the plot basically goes something like this: 
As the Mayan kingdom faces its decline, the rulers insist the key to prosperity is to build more temples and offer human sacrifices.

Right, so what does this have to do with anything?  Somewhere in the middle of the film there is an interesting fable being told by the elder in the tribe (please forgive me if I don’t get the detail right – I saw the movie quite a while ago) that centres on man’s desire for more and how all the animals in the jungle gave him their special skills and gifts in order to make him happy and yet he never is.  The point of the fable is that ‘he will never be happy, because there’s a hole in man that causes him to take all that he can until the earth can give no more’.

From this perspective I doubt if going big is the answer in developing entrepreneurs. At least the definition of big should be reevaluated.  I believe that entrepreneurs are not aware of the whole they have and it really is necessary to go the distance with them so that the motivation behind their entrepreneurial endevours truly takes the interests of broader humanity into account.  That is the greater strategy.

We’ll talk about this some more in the near future…