The well-established ‘standard’ model of business out there is to determine the cost of your product/service and the value it holds to your potential consumer and market to them, often aggressively, with the aim to convince your target consumer that they must have what you’ve got. But does it have to be that way?

Lyn Woodland tells her story of what happened when she allowed herself to implement her spiritual principles in her business.

“I first began exploring alternative ways of doing business in the early ’80s, when I was director of the nonprofit Baltimore Center for Attitudinal Healing. The Center reached a financial crisis point where our funds weren’t stretching to meet our needs. As director, I was the head fund-raiser and agonized over the burden of this responsibility: I worked harder and harder to make ends meet; I whined to God about the unfairness of there being insufficient funds for the work that felt like my highest calling; and, because my salary wasn’t getting paid, I panicked and frequently lost sleep worrying.In my clearer moments, I meditated and contemplated on why this was happening. What was the lesson in it? My reflections led me face-to-face with an enormous, and previously overlooked, double standard I held about money. I thought I believed in the principles of attitudinal healing — that everything is love and that giving and receiving are the same — but I lived as though these spiritual principles didn’t apply to the “real” world of finances. In my meditations, I kept getting the message that if I wanted to create more of something, I needed to give it away unconditionally.”

Read the full article in http://edgelife.net/issues/2004/05/woodland.html.

Empower Your Business with Jeff Stoner, Life Coach

Jeff has many years of business experience as a Teacher, Entrepreneur and Vice-President of a multi-billion dollar global manufacturing company. He has also worked in the community, in particular with young people in a variety of settings including public schools, the church, group homes and non-profit organizations. 

Jeff will share his experience making the transition from a large corporation to a small business, covering issues such as personal values and growth, relationships and life balance.

Alliance Network Meetings are held from 7pm to 9:30pm at the Bio-Self Emergene Institute. 28222 Franklin Road, Southfield, MI, 48331. For more directions go to http://www.bio-self-emergence.org/directions.asp

The Alliance Network exists to support the community in creating, building and generating business in a spiritually conscious way. It supports you in doing business in alignment with your life purpose and unique self.

Whether you are managing your own business as a sole trader, are in partnership in small business or have a role in a larger organization, just being in business brings many challenges to living as your unique self and in alignment with your life purpose and spiritual values.

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