Basic Considerations

We know you're fixed on the outer aspects of developing your mission. It is after all the point that you've been conditioned to focus your attention upon all these years.

The normal approach to building any new business works on the assumption that the prime intention behind it is to sell a product or service that generates a profit, the overall effort of which creates a lifestyle for its owners. As a result most people starting missions concentrate on developing the outer skills, attributes and relationships needed to make their ventures financially viable.

This is not our approach. While we have a long track record applying such outer expertise, we do not see it as key to growing your mission to contribute to a new world. Sure, those abilities are important, but in our opinion they are secondary to aligning yourself with the reason that new world is coming in the first place.

That reason is to evolve into new expressions of what we are at our core, freed of the extremes duality imposes upon us in its never-ending battles of opposites.

The only way to do that is to evolve ourselves from the inside out, and to allow those changes to be reflected in how we see and go about about our affairs. Since your focus now is upon developing a mission, those inner changes should be permitted to lead the way in its manifestation. This is why you will see so much here and in our other efforts about how you might go about experiencing and processing your life inside.

Besides, there are many fine coaches and trainers out there who will be more than happy to teach you their methods at making money and the skills they've picked up along the way. The success industry is going strong, and if outer success is what you want, more power to you. Go get 'em.

Here we will continue to focus on the intangibles and inner attributes needed to build the new world, and the kind of life you probably want it to bring. That means your mission not only fits into your life, it is a big part of it. And it must be done the right way, the way that takes you where you want to go, rather than leaving you alongside the road somewhere down the line wondering what happened when you didn't quite get the success those gurus dangled before you.

A Word on Outer Considerations

Don't get the idea you should ignore outer considerations. It's just that in our view they don't take precedence over inner ones.

Instead, a balance must be reached between them, outer guided by the inner, reinforcing and carrying them into action once clear and aligned with your innermost intention.

Therefore consideration must be given to the outer means of achieving your mission. The possibilities need to be explored and tested by intuition and vibrational alignment for suitability -- not only from an inner view, but from an outer perspective as well.

As you prepare your mission plan, odds are you will uncover a plethora of confusing legal and business issues to work through that if not done right can create a significant obstacles or stop you altogether.

Perhaps your mission simply involves giving what you have to others, such as through some form of philanthropic gifting program. Or maybe it asks you to give up your time and effort to serve food to the homeless or babysit a neighbor's kids after school. Liability risks, tax laws and government regulations can throw a monkey wrench into even such simple ways of serving.

Then again, your mission may take on a more formal form that has its own set of hurdles to clear.

Perhaps your mission encompasses starting a business, charity or other enterprise. If so, then that will take you in one direction. In it you'll have to decide on such important issues as whether you'll be for-profit, not-for-profit, or some hybrid, as well as all the operational issues that need to be mastered for mission success.

Maybe it's simply expressing your creativity or passions, perhaps through music, painting, sculpture, photography, writing, etc. Such expressions involve a host of legal considerations (not to mention business ones) when you decide to start sharing it with others, like derivative rights, royalties, copyright and trademark issues, distribution and merchandising arrangements, recording contracts, joint ventures, and all the myriad concerns that go along with being a creative artist.

There is also a new breed of missions that are being undertaken by social entrepreneurs, whose desire to add some contribution to the world often overshadows and causes them to ignore their own needs, and often threatens mission sustainability as well. Besides the obvious business and legal considerations, such missions can raise a range of life issues that will influence how the mission takes shape. It is crucial to understand where it fits into their life plan and balance their efforts so their mission can serve their needs as well, otherwise risking the creation of dramas that can be hard to escape, not to mention burden the soul with excessive energies it will need to balance out in future lives.

Don't forget about social enterprises, a whole class of for-profit ventures started by charities and other non-profits to provide income streams to sustain their charitable efforts. Those in the non-profit sector often have a hard time adopting the for-profit mentality needed for mission viability, fighting battles within or amongst themselves to push it in one direction or another rather than allowing it to take on the life it needs for itself.

These are just a few of the myriad things you're probably going to have to consider if you're going to become a mission entrepreneur.

Take your time. Consider carefully what you want to do. Get competent professional advice when you can.

It may save you a load of time and trouble down the road, or having to retrace your steps to start again another way.

But no matter what you do in to address these outer concerns, always keep one eye tuned to the inner ones within you. That's where you'll make the most difference in your mission -- and in making strides to better know who you are and what you and your life are all about.