Just over a 100 people lifted out of poverty
Just over 300 smallholding and marginal farmers supported in their poison-free farming pursuits.
Just 500 acres belonging yo these farmers heaving a sigh of relief.
Just over 2 lakhs whole food plant based food meals distributed.
Just around 1.5 lakhs kg of poison-free food ingredients sourced from around 30 conscientious farmers.
Just 2.5 lakhs native and naturalised plants and trees plants in nearly 1000 gardens.
How did this come about? You may wonder.
I spoke to you about my failures in the last podcast. The folks who stand the rigour of our training are simple folks who are passionate about living well.
Each of them came to me with various issues.
One of my incubatees loathed having to handle people. He is a wise person and has greater love for animals than human beings as he found that human beings tend to be more self-centred. He himself is generous to the core. He understood the concept of all life forms being part of the Universal Energy. He learnt in his own way methods to deal well, the unsavoury act of dealing with human beings, especially their weaker and meaner sides.
Another incubatee had been always loved by all as she is affable and good natured. The fact that sometimes running a business would bring up issues that irritate customers was totally not in her realm of happy times with society. To be in someone’s bad books did not feel comfortable in the least. Overtime she understood that in order to spread impact and cause you had to stand firm and face chaos and make sense of things and attempt to change it for the better. If you failed it was ok and you just moved on to the next step with the happiness that you tried your best.
My youngest incubatee loathed opening an excel sheet! Talking to irate customers was facile for her as was mentoring her colleagues or creating new products. She would run a mile if she had to tackle accounts. Today she is on top of it and growing to understand what a superwoman she can actually be.
Another young incubatee used to get anxious about financial dips and arguments amongst team members. She has learnt the art of facilitation and that of cost cutting and saving to keep herself less stressed in business.
A skilled entrepreneur with high irritability was a tough one to crack. She now keeps an image in her mind which she brings on whenever she gets irritated. That of her venture growing into several fractals across the country…even the connection with God could not change her. But this single imagery has proved to be so powerful that she is going around giving better than the best!
There was this cantankerous skilled entrepreneur who got sick by getting angry for everything. He is able to stay within limits such that his health is not impacted by keeping the mission of the organisation in his mind.
Quite a handful of entrepreneurs are ridden with traumas of past failures. They are all compassionate to themselves and are finding ways to heal and to perform.
“Face the camera? No way!” A common fright that grips these entrepreneurs. Now they have become selfie experts doing guerilla marketing and bootstrapping by pumping away videos after videos!
Cash Flow in the red? They understand that the parta system of the marwadis will keep them out of trouble…Well, just about!
Writing about oneself? Ouch, who would do that? My entrepreneurs can!
Speak for oneself? Touch the on button and they can tell stories!
Make the sky fall on their heads? Well, they do turn around to look at me sometimes for that wee bit of reassurance, but my oh my! Do they stand their ground?! It is I who can sometimes falter watching them wounded, wondering, “Have I created a system that would simply engulf and sacrifice its soldiers?” Perhaps I have…But I am totally convinced that if wars were fought thus, then peace would reign forever in the world!… For war it is!
Why bother to bring prosperity by planting native plants without using pesticides? Why nurture children without babysitting them with authority or dulling them with praise? Why eat food that will not make you sick? Why force farmers to grow poison-free food? These and more…why ever do youngsters have to do things this way, sacrificing their lives literally for the sake of sustainability of the planet and peace amongst societies? Fractal Enyrepreneurs are doing these even as I speak.
I guess one has to define the word success here…What do fractal entrepreneurs see as success? Let me list them for you:
- Visionary entrepreneurs see success if the skilled entrepreneues and manager entrepreneurs get their basic take home month on month whatever be the travails of business even if it means danger to their personal finances.
- They see as success if they can keep breathing and pushing their venture to the point of fractal success when investors or franchisees opt to sink their monies into the venture to fractalise it more and more
- They see as success even if they get to shed a tear or two or scream in pain for those few terrible seconds, if they shrug it off and get to the next big step to keep the movement going forward…even if limbs feel like they are going to fall off.
- Skilled and Manager Entrepreneurs see success if they can do their superior technical work that only experts know, seamlessly without getting their minds form blocks to progress
- All think they are successful if they practise meditation, exercising, introspection and eating whole food plant based diet everyday.
Now let me list what they will NOT consider as failure:
- If they make technical mistakes
- If they fail to remember
- If customers get irritated
- If cash flow dips due to unforeseen risks and due to the sheer battle of pushing forward a sustainable business missing the attention of potential clients
Bootstrapping for them is not merely what it represents…it is burdenstrapping as they have taken on the huge responsibility of changing lives of people from poverty to prosperity…and do you know what, they are succeeding!
Even fundamental to the hardwork put in by fractal entrepreneurs, the single aspect that is making them succeed big time is that they are forming a big community of people who look out for each other constantly, simply because they speak the fractal tongue!
If you want to know more about how they survive, what drives them and from where they source their courage to prevail, do write to me at radha@feactalentrepreneurship.org. Be blessed.