Roland called. So did Mimi. Now Mimi I personally know… and Roland, I have no idea who on planet Faust, he is.
And since I do not remember having met a Roland that stands on two feet how can I physically personally get involved with ensuring that I will not bite him ever?
The only Roland I know is the one my fingers twinkle upon when composing themes for tragedy movies yet to be unveiled by Hollywood, or FINAS. So this whole week has been deciphering whose voice was at the other end of the call.
When there’s a crisis, there are opportunities knocking at the door. For hard-core businesses, business is business where getting personal is out of the equation. For dealing on hunches there are apparently no such thing in a male-dominated-masochistic world, as I’ve been told, but after living life on your planet for more than thirty years, living on intuition is what is called for, especially coming from an eagle-eyed personality like myself. Besides, business is business, and getting personal is better than investing money in a gamble factor just for the adrenaline happiness that gives very ephemeral bliss. It is true that in the twenty-first century, where every sen {eurocentime} counts even if pride stands in between the making and breaking point… an ecstatic climax should at least last a couple of years {and pun intended}!
To address these issues, funds abound, but social change does not. Young people provide an untapped resource to redirect this ineffectual course. Their idealism and open-mindedness to new solutions create opportunities to empower communities to develop and own solutions to poverty. Generation Y is the generation of social innovation — Social Edge.
For Businesses that are in the Lifestyle Industry — Angels reading should seriously re-consider communicating with these two very talented and capable, stylists who have been in the industry for more than five seasons. The recent institutional crisis has literally maimed these ladies who have been working on a very tight budget, one due to incessant instigative wars dealt by big boys with bigger guns, the other being a single parent since they started their business with their selective clients.
- Rola is an haute couture Lebanese stylist, who has been dressing both Royalties, and celebrities. She is looking at expanding her design repertoire and need funds to grow exponentially. I’ve personally met Rola in Kuala Lumpur recently, and know how well and serious she is in her work. An interview undertaken earlier on AamarnA Lifestyle Magazine will tell you more of Rola.
- Mimi is a talented lady I met when studying in Paris, whom I personally know over the years. She is a Stylist, a designer with very beautiful ideas up her sleeves when it comes to designing boudoir styles for ladies and is in dire need for funds to let her designs come to live in the more feasible luxury prêt à porter beyond the Salon 2010/11 which will take place in December.
Where small businesses are left with literally nothing more than compensatory relationships, what about bigger ones? How is your business continuity strategy like? Many of my European, and some American friends have called over the past few years, telling me their histories of hell, living in their capitals – Paris, or otherwise. If one would succinctly subscribed to Social Media, for businesses or otherwise even during the years when the World Wide Web was yet to be conceived, the possibility of getting out of the rut, is quite optimistic.
But nobody listens to me, the madwoman living twenty years ahead of almost everybody else who are just happy tagging along with the ‘times’. Societies have conditioned how one should think, behave and react to in a situation where the mighty stays mightier, and the weak, annihilated. Societies living in a veiled mind fearing every permissible shockwave from having to deal with third world countries, through to every non-like skin tones of themselves should seriously consider the meaning of ‘transparency’, ‘sincerity’, and ‘sustainability’.
We cannot change the world overnight by throwing words hoping the Media would pick up on it, and make a huge brouhaha about it. Change comes when we are deeply compassionate and concerned about the world we live in, and that accounts for about ninety percent compassion, and ten percent thinking about your wallet, and returns of investments or inspiration.
If we are to say that as human beings we’re connected on many levels, some things have to change, especially where mindsets are concerned.
When one has learnt, and implemented the very facets of humility, bigotry is a totally foreign word! And one needs humility to become transparently compassionate! Compassion is not about showing the world through PRESS conferences how money is spent {that is all about public relations, and marketing potential businesses in the other future}, and having made someone in dire straits go through the process of bureaucratic bullshit when s/he applies for a Grant.
Compassion is about putting yourselves in that person’s shoes and sympathize with {not pity!} with the person – feel what s/he is going through, and do your utmost to helping the person out of the rut. If your heart does not literally cry you have a long way to go. Care to know more about connected-ness? Read it here, and please do so with an open mind!
Well, the coin it seems have turned its face the other way around, and in the next couple of years, we will see the rising of the Sun in the West. Are we ready to embrace that critical change now to adapt to our potential future, today or should we keep to our ‘old’ ways of strict and predictable ways of doing things without embracing change?
The reality is that each potential customer is worth much more than the dollar amount you put on your product. By creating a personal relationship and treating them with respect you can not only gain their business, but also you create a product evangelist — Ben Kittrelle
Each one of us, whether reflective or otherwise is there {or here}, for a specific reason. Just one specific reason — be it for business, personal gratifications, or … and when the fixation period is over, it is over. Some other scenario takes shape, and another set of ‘responsibilities’ to be undertaken comes and challenges the Self, to take notice, and undertake the tasks at hand.
How do you reconnect with your ‘selves’ in a crisis?
Be sincere with you! — How many people do you know that have come into your lives by chance, or at a business event, or even at a funeral that you’ve exchanged cards with, perhaps a number on a napkin in a Bar have you called over those years? Have you called them or tossed those cards away, or blew mucus on it? If you’ve called them to build a ‘relationship’ of sorts, all the better for the both of you. If you haven’t, and thinking that calling them when you need them {considering they’ve finally made it after a hard-break}, they might not even be there when you want them – call them when ‘you are’ still fresh in their minds, not twenty years later when they have gone through their fifth IPO success.
Contrary to popular belief, people do move on. Have you?
Once you’ve made connections, really connect – talk about everything under the sun. Business should be the last thing on the agenda. You’re building a relationship here, not trying to sell somebody else’s thingamajig so that you can live like a King! While you’re at it, for once think of the other – put yourself in their shoes. Know them, connect with them, and respect them. They, like I’ve said earlier are not here in your ‘sphere’ of ‘reasons’ to make your lives miserable – you both have things you need to learn from each other. One of which of course, is compassion.
Next up the agenda is to help them help you – in other words, you would need to create opportunities for others instead of yourself. Think social, think sustainability, think transparency, but first you must do the one up there – you have to know and live compassion.
By creating opportunities for others, you leverage yourself on the pedestal of opportunities – you should do this as a daily exercise – help someone in your Twitter or your Facebook list every other day or daily – really help them, call and ask how you can make his or her lives better – this goes for all, not just businesses – it should be a ‘norm’ for urbanites living in the 21st century. There’s no point being urbanite if you have a concrete jungle as a heart! In other words, there’s no point being human, if you must behave worst than a box jellyfish, great white shark or even the Indian Cobra but these only maim when provoked. You shouldn’t have to have an excuse to be humble and neither should you have the need to be pretentious just because you’re better off than most world population – its all the more reason as to help others in need – for they are part of your integrated-ness of being human, of being spirit.
Working together strengthens the spirit of solidarity, of friendship. And friendship is not something that happens overnight especially in your world – you would have to invest months of getting to know each other through car designs to music tastes through ideas, and in some cases, when you can consider the ‘relationship’ as staunch as a relationship of siblings, even each others’ dislikes and likes.
It was easier when you were a kid wasn’t it? Well, it’s never too late to start one now!
Meanwhile, get active online – and I’d suggest you build your online reputation or in some lingo, your credibility. Don’t have a blog – time to get one – there are places you can just sign up for free, and if you’ve decided to go pro, get your own domain. I do it because I’m a vain pot! {Or so I’ve been told several times by people in the circle}. Next up, sign up on forums, get active therein, exchange ideas, collaboratively work together to achieve a common end, for yeah … you’re gonna read it…“connectability!”. For that connected-ness you’ve taken time to re-connect to, in your community, your state… your world.
Being human takes a lifetime. It’s easier being a jerk!
As much as some of you may disagree, the recent institutional crisis, had hit the majority of the world. We’re in this together – it doesn’t hit a Black more or a religionist less or a “Chicken Little” more, and a “corporate executive” less – it has hit us all. By learning to get personal embracing compassion, we’ll have at least made one person happier, one company better, one State worthwhile.
The key is to recognise that we are capable of caring, that our caring should extend to all colours, deeds and mindsets. Only then can we be considered ‘one’ in the eyes of the “One, and only”… and we do not have time to rectify things. There are signs in the world showing us critical danger points as it is. Are we doing anything about it? How compassionate are we? Are we merely lip-synching or are we wholeheartedly in-synch with the very nexus of the Universe?
