Hi all,
My acquaintance with MJ's work happened by chance at the beginning of this year. Intuitively, I chose his book to read. Then I started the 2nd, and now I have finished the 3rd.
A few words about myself:
I am an introvert, 50 years old, happily married, 90% vegan/10% vegetarian (researching scientific approaches to this topic), graduated in economics, and moved to Slovenia 12 years ago.
In my 20th I had my first business attempt - preschool education for children. A few years later, this chapter of my life was closed and I went to work as a project manager in a large company.
In my 30th I had the second attempt - an online store for digital equipment. In 2008 I sold it. At this time my spine health worsened and I decided to visit yoga classes.
Then my hobby turned into a profession. I became a yoga teacher. I started following my passion. I had many grateful clients. However, I avoided online classes in every possible way because I decided that the quality of online services was not comparable to offline services. I worked a lot on self-development and studied different approaches, somatics, and embodiment.
More than 10 years have passed. I was like the Mexican from DeMarco's book: I was doing well, doing what I love, living as I love... until Covid times. The market was instantly flooded with online products, no one asked the gurus for permission. And I suffered from cognitive dissonance: ethics or money, authenticity or money, business or yoga, quality with 3D offline assistance or online. A re-awareness of the world order has arrived. I realized that I had accumulated a lot of excuses in my head: my difficult life history, health problems, ADHD symptoms, moving to another country, my non-perfect English/Slovenian, my age, I don’t know how to do something, etc.
After DeMarco’s books, I managed to re-write many meanings for myself: what authenticity is, what an ethical business is, from what angle I should look at the financial side of my life, and what freedom is, generally. I liked maths and chess in my childhood and teens. But I forgot about it further. Thanks, MJ, that you remind me about it! I have found psychological, coaching and logical essence in your books!
Many thanks to the community for letting me in! I hope to become valuable to you and to the whole world!
My acquaintance with MJ's work happened by chance at the beginning of this year. Intuitively, I chose his book to read. Then I started the 2nd, and now I have finished the 3rd.
A few words about myself:
I am an introvert, 50 years old, happily married, 90% vegan/10% vegetarian (researching scientific approaches to this topic), graduated in economics, and moved to Slovenia 12 years ago.
In my 20th I had my first business attempt - preschool education for children. A few years later, this chapter of my life was closed and I went to work as a project manager in a large company.
In my 30th I had the second attempt - an online store for digital equipment. In 2008 I sold it. At this time my spine health worsened and I decided to visit yoga classes.
Then my hobby turned into a profession. I became a yoga teacher. I started following my passion. I had many grateful clients. However, I avoided online classes in every possible way because I decided that the quality of online services was not comparable to offline services. I worked a lot on self-development and studied different approaches, somatics, and embodiment.
More than 10 years have passed. I was like the Mexican from DeMarco's book: I was doing well, doing what I love, living as I love... until Covid times. The market was instantly flooded with online products, no one asked the gurus for permission. And I suffered from cognitive dissonance: ethics or money, authenticity or money, business or yoga, quality with 3D offline assistance or online. A re-awareness of the world order has arrived. I realized that I had accumulated a lot of excuses in my head: my difficult life history, health problems, ADHD symptoms, moving to another country, my non-perfect English/Slovenian, my age, I don’t know how to do something, etc.
After DeMarco’s books, I managed to re-write many meanings for myself: what authenticity is, what an ethical business is, from what angle I should look at the financial side of my life, and what freedom is, generally. I liked maths and chess in my childhood and teens. But I forgot about it further. Thanks, MJ, that you remind me about it! I have found psychological, coaching and logical essence in your books!
Many thanks to the community for letting me in! I hope to become valuable to you and to the whole world!
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