The bliss of being who you are, the bliss of being your Self

I wrote this article five years ago. But it goes well with my next… so I am republishing it… so they can be read together.

Last night I finished watching the British series, ‘The Paradise’ about the first department store in London.

I learned something I probably would not have been able to learn anywhere else.

The series is mainly about two characters, the owner of the store who created it. He came from nothing, and is a true entrepreneur.

The other character is a small-town girl, who works for him, and discovers herself as an entrepreneur. Discovers is the key word.

An entrepreneur is someone who has a strong inner drive to do more, be more, grow himself or herself, and the enterprise.

There are a lot of people who want to be like that, but unless it’s an inner drive, it’s an outer drive.

Being driven by greed, or want, or wanting to own, escaping being told what to do, wanting to be respected, whatever. All outside drivers.

A real entrepreneur is driven by something inside… and the statement ‘I can’t do no other‘ fits them: work is self-expression for them, growth is self-expression…