Dear Nurtured Entrepreneur,

As a self-nurturing entrepreneur, I buy flowers for my home every couple of weeks.  I love looking at and admiring them.  “Just look at you beauties!” I’ll exclaim after arranging them in a vase.

What is beautiful to you and how does it nurture you?  Maybe you have an arrangement of stones or sea shells near your work area so the shapes, colors, and textures can ground you in your creative entrepreneurship. Maybe there’s an inspiring photo, print, or painting on the wall that reminds you of your work-with-passion.

“We find beauty at the intersections, the edges, the center of so many experiences.  Although we keep trying to talk about beauty as inner or outer, that language is too static, trying to fix beauty in a single location.  Beauty is an energy, not an image, and that energy can go anywhere; that energy takes on an image, a form, many images, many forms.”

Notes on the Need for Beauty, Ruth Gendler

Beauty is an energy.  Ah, of course, but what a different way of defining it from the usual.

I spent the day yesterday rearranging and cleaning my whole office.  As I put things back into place – hanging a new bulletin board and re-hanging a picture I love that has been tucked away in a closet – I noticed how the new flow to the furniture arrangement felt as if it lent more beauty to the room, how the cleared spaces let the eye rest, how the greater openness gave peace to the room.  When I walked into the office this morning, a big smile came to my face.  It all felt right and inviting and uplifting … there was a new energy of beauty throughout.

If you’d like to read more about beauty, I recommend Ruth’s book with its intriguing tag line: “An intimate look at an essential quality.”

I’ve been absorbed in final preparations for announcing a whole new packaging of all my services, just for you, my beauties (smile).  Taking a day off to create more beauty in my work space has brought fresh insights and means to that end.  Stay tuned for the announcement.

In the meantime, look around and see where beauty is waiting to be released or appreciated.  Put flowers on your shopping list.

Until next time …