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Jeffrey Mishlove
August 2009 
Greetings from Athens, Greece
Posted on Jul 20th, 2009
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Jeff Mishlove
Jeff Mishlove
I have been in Athens since Wednesday, attending business meetings associated with our three, inter-related consulting and training companies -- TACK-USA, TMI US, and Branded Customer Service. The picture above is the view (somewhat closeup) from my hotel window on the fifth floor of the Athenaeum Intercontinental.
I feel like this event has been very transformative for me. For years, I think I've always considered my involvement with our business as something secondary, not central, in my life. It's always seemed as if something I'm doing, peripherally, while I wait for a big break elsewhere -- i.e., a great university position, or a new book, or a new TV show, etc. Somehow I've never thought of these businesses as being central to who I was as a human being. And, as a result, I've never put myself into them wholeheartedly.
But, I believe that something has now shifted for me...partly out of necessity (as we live at a time when one cannot afford to give a business anything less than one's very best right now)...and partly as a result of a new vision I seem to have attained.
I had the realization, yesterday, that the work we are doing -- and the friends we have made through this work around the world -- is really something of a spiritual community. We are part of it. It is part of us. We are already deeply integrated into it. I just had to open my eyes and see it in all of its depth and glory -- rather than distance myself in my own mind from what was going on (because, I suppose, it wasn't about parapsychology, yada yada yada). The veil has been lifted for me. I think I now see that something very extraordinary is happening here.
I had a brief discussion with our partner, Bob, about this tonight and he confirmed for me that the TACK meetings are really not like any other business meetings he has attended before -- and he says he been to thousands of such meetings. People here seem genuinely committed to helping each other and helping their clients -- rather than aggrandizing their own little power base.
Of course, no one is speaking in the language one might read in The Roots of Consciousness. But, that's beside the point (and, probably for the best, anyway). After all, this is fundamentally about business -- and building affluence for ourselves and our clients. In that sense, it is all about a wonderful kind of pragmatic spirituality. And, I can see now that I can fully embrace what we are doing in this business as 100% appropriate for me -- as central to the whole core of my being.
To me, this feels like a subtle shift -- but, at the same time, very major.
I feel like this event has been very transformative for me. For years, I think I've always considered my involvement with our business as something secondary, not central, in my life. It's always seemed as if something I'm doing, peripherally, while I wait for a big break elsewhere -- i.e., a great university position, or a new book, or a new TV show, etc. Somehow I've never thought of these businesses as being central to who I was as a human being. And, as a result, I've never put myself into them wholeheartedly.
But, I believe that something has now shifted for me...partly out of necessity (as we live at a time when one cannot afford to give a business anything less than one's very best right now)...and partly as a result of a new vision I seem to have attained.
I had the realization, yesterday, that the work we are doing -- and the friends we have made through this work around the world -- is really something of a spiritual community. We are part of it. It is part of us. We are already deeply integrated into it. I just had to open my eyes and see it in all of its depth and glory -- rather than distance myself in my own mind from what was going on (because, I suppose, it wasn't about parapsychology, yada yada yada). The veil has been lifted for me. I think I now see that something very extraordinary is happening here.
I had a brief discussion with our partner, Bob, about this tonight and he confirmed for me that the TACK meetings are really not like any other business meetings he has attended before -- and he says he been to thousands of such meetings. People here seem genuinely committed to helping each other and helping their clients -- rather than aggrandizing their own little power base.
Of course, no one is speaking in the language one might read in The Roots of Consciousness. But, that's beside the point (and, probably for the best, anyway). After all, this is fundamentally about business -- and building affluence for ourselves and our clients. In that sense, it is all about a wonderful kind of pragmatic spirituality. And, I can see now that I can fully embrace what we are doing in this business as 100% appropriate for me -- as central to the whole core of my being.
To me, this feels like a subtle shift -- but, at the same time, very major.
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