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Entrepreneurship

Who Is Running Your Life…

Are you the star of your own
enterprise?

Do you dare To Be yourself? Who is          Thinking Outside The Box                     our brains are wired to process information
      writing your script? Do you have                                                   in narrative form. Think about it… we tell
enough courage to tell the world – YES      In my opinion, thinking outside the box,     stories all the time, about how we spent
I FAILED and that is why I succeeded?       is the most overused term in management      our day, funny things that happened, and
Do you live cautiously or do you live       circles and also in everyday life. Why       issues that are bothering us. We often
passionately? Who is running your life;     should you confine yourself and be boxed     frame our stories in terms of supporting
ARE YOU? Are you the master of your own     up at all in the first place. Realize and    characters – spouses, parents, children,
ship? Think about it this way… are you a    enhance your self-awareness, for the faster  friends, colleagues, to name a few – and
priority in the lives of others or are you  you realize it, the quicker will be your     adversarial ones – the disapproving
their option? I urge you, challenge you,    progress. Capitalize on your unique and      mother-in-law, the psychotic power-
and compel you to THINK very carefully      special personality - stop thinking outside  hungry boss, or the crazy ex-boyfriend. We
about this sentiment; I choose to call it   the box and start by stepping outside the    classify our lives as chapters, which we call
Relationship Illness!                       box! And for your own sake - don’t ever get  “the good old days,” “hard times,” “getting
                                            trapped in a box! Research suggests that     married,” and “raising children.” We get

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