What Is Spiritual Entrepreneurship?
Generally speaking, entrepreneurship is the process of ideation, designing, launching, and running a new service. The vehicle which provides the service may be a commercial business, but it can also be a not-for-profit social organization, a social club, or other formats. It requires innovation, initiative, adaptability
Spiritual Entrepreneurship goes beyond that, to incorporate the spiritual space. This can include:
- Personal growth journey: Viewing the entrepreneurial process as focusing not only on the business/organization and its material success but also on the personal growth journey of the entrepreneurs themselves, including developing and nurturing their worldview, values, personal qualities, and spiritual beliefs.
- Spiritual practices: Incorporating spiritual practices into the entrepreneurial process, such as mindfulness, meditations, creative visualization, and using the principles of deliberate creation and manifestation utilizing the Law of Attraction.
- A spiritual entity: Consciously viewing the organization as a spiritual entity, a whole that is more than the sum of its parts. It is created as a being which has a mission, aspirations of implementing positive qualities, and a unique spiritual essence that should be expressed and developed.
To clarify, spiritual entrepreneurship does NOT mean the enterprise sells religious, spiritual, or mystical products and services as a commodity. Nor does it mean merely contributing some of the profits to charitable causes.
Rather, it’s essentially about shifting away from the old survival/scarcity mindset of business as a cut-throat competition, caring only about financial profit, sometimes at the expense of the health of workers, customers, and the environment. It’s about embracing a wholesome view of a thriving/abundance mindset, a compassionate win-win approach instead of a zero-sum game, where the goal is a positive change that benefits the wellbeing of individuals, society, and the environment, by aligning with positive values and a deeper sense of purpose.
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