Business advice from the Toltec Indians!

  Those of you who listened to the recent Podcast by BNI Founder and Chairman – Dr Ivan Misner “Staying in your Flame” will have heard Ivan giving an outline of a presentation delivered by Penny Power of Ecademy at this years BNI Global Networking Conference in Kuala Lumpur (BNI Podcast).

During her presentation we heard Penny explain that an entrepreneur’s flame is where he or she is the most passionate and excited about their business. It’s where they are and what they truly enjoy doing.  Penny’s message was the need for entrepreneurs to stay in their flame: doing what they truly enjoy doing. Then the work doesn’t really seem like work.

Business owners who get caught up in the aspects of the business that don’t come naturally to them are working in their wax and not nurturing their full potential.

The solution is to remember that your wax is someone else’s flame. There is another entrepreneur out there who loves to do the things you hate doing. Delegate the things you don’t like or aren’t good at to employees or outside contractors.

The Toltec Indians describe people with personal power “to be like the flame of a candle which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle.”

So – the message is clear.  To maximise your personal power, you need to stay in your flame.  Know your purpose and what you are passionate about – and everything else will fall into place.