Being a social impact entrepreneur demands that you intrepidly step out of familiar paradigms and innovatively create a solution that has never existed before for a social ill that entire societies and governments haven’t been able to solve.
There are myriad challenges in your external environment, but your experience, education, innate talent, and intrinsic motivation keep you moving forward.
There are just as many challenges in your internal environment. Do you have the experience, education, natural ability, and compelling motivation to manipulate them as easily as any of the external pieces?
Unless you had social and emotional education growing up, you are making decisions blindly. What you are conscious of are your results and behaviors, which account for only 5% of the data contributing to your decision-making.
If you have not learned to understand and manipulate the invisible portion of the iceberg, there is a lot of data that is not being accounted for that is contributing significantly to any choice you make.
Would you choose to ignore 95% of incoming data when making a decision for your business?
Learning to understand your internal data and shift your emotional & psychological state to make values-based decisions, rather than fear-based decisions is a skill. One that you can learn. One that being in the business of solving the unsolvable problems in the world demands.
