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Originally Posted by DubStyle311
Hey ET, I remember ages ago you mentioned that you were getting into business for yourself. How has that gone? You seem to have a little bit different perspective on things these days.
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Thanks for asking. Things have gone swimmingly, really. I started by marketing myself door to door and had did the standard yellow pages ad. I helped a good amount of people at the beginning and had them post reviews about my company online as well as would always give people extra cards when I left. It's been a little over a year and now I primarily get business by word of mouth and the occasional cold-call from the yellow pages. Already have raised my rates twice, as well. I've been blessed with the opportunity to run the business from my home so my overhead is extremely low, which equates to a nice net profit at the end of each month. I enjoy my business mostly because I work in repairing computers and designing websites (amongst other things) and it feels good to encourage people to re-use their old machines through overhauling it rather than tossing it and buying a new one. It's one of my ways of 'giving back to the Earth', you could say, through my business. I'm working about 60 hours a month and making more than what I used to make working 40 hours a week and I absolutely love the work I do, every day is fun. I've been truly blessed.
My perspective has definitely changed on things, in the respect that I basically gave up buying into the 'Prison Planet' fear mongering as much as I stopped buying into the fear mongering of the Mainstream media as well. I decided to stop assuming I knew what is happening in the world right now, enjoy and make something self-worthy of my life and let the story tell itself. I still believe and recognize a lot of the same things concerning 9/11, the coming/occurring changes happening, the corruption and atrocities happening all around the world, etc.. It's just that instead of being paralyzed by my own mind making assumptions, I chose to be happy now and change the world however I felt I could to fit the world I want to see all around me. I can't change Human Nature in other people, but I can change it in myself and that is really where all changes in consciousness that we've gone through have begun in the first place.
Business and capitalism are essential to the world right now but are just not in check with human rights, wealth distribution, sustainability in terms of the Earth and plain out mindfulness. But as per your other post, I feel that changing everyday and I am glad to be a part of that process by maintaining the same ethics in my business as well as finding new ways to give back to the world as much as I consume from it.
/rant