Mastery and entrepreneurial spirit

Secret number 4 of successful mastery = entrepreneurial management

Last week I have spent a couple of days with my wife and my 2 sons nearby Paris, in the ‘woods of Fontainebleau’. We went there to go climbing. Or to be more precise: to go bouldering. Bouldering means that you climb on rock-blocks of various heights, but you do so without any breakers. If you fall, only a small easy to transport mat, a ‘crash-pad’, will break your fall. Blocks of about 2 to 3 meters are often technically very tricky, but they are not very frightening. However, many of the blocks are 4 to 6 meters high. When you are climbing such a rock you notice the great impact that fear often has. The few times that I went above that 3 meter frontier I very much experienced what it means to take risks. And personally, I am not a big fan of risks!

Do you know that feeling? Why take chances. Why go on a new journey? Why take risks? Why go a new direction when the current way of doing things still seems to be working quite all right?

Create your own Tribe!

Becoming a master is a growth-process, enduring on this level is an art!

Secret 3: maintaining positive relationships. The professional who is doing everything on his own, without any feedback, encouragements, amendments, critique or support will possibly slowly start to lose inspiration and substance. Therefore, Chris and I belief that it is essential to create and maintain good relationships.

I have, next to my wife Sylvia – who is my best pal –, some buddies who know me for a long time and who know me really well. Last week Sylvia and I visited an old friend and mentor of ours, Pastor Heinz Schreckenberg, who knows and guided us personally and us as a family for over 30 years. Nowadays we only see him ones a year, but it is an absolute boost and encouragement every time that we see him.

An interesting and increasingly present platform for relations as a professional is the phenomenon ‘the Tribe’. Here are some ideas on how to create and build a tribe...