From 2012-2016 each March , I (Hal Goldstein) taught and intensive month-long, five-and-one-half day a week course on entrepreneurship: The Successful Entrepreneur — Integrating Inner Fulfillment and Outer Success to Live 200% of Life at Maharishi University of Management.
In the mornings I spoke. In the afternoons, I invited local entrepreneurs to share their story and wisdom. The Table of Contents contains topics and main points from my morning lectures. [Read more…]
Unified Field Chart for Entrepreneurship
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| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thur | Fri | Sat |
| Week 1: Fundamentals of Business and Entrepreneurship (Well Begun is Half Done) | |||||
| 1. Starting, Running, Ending a Business (Thought, Action, Achievement, Fulfillment) | 2. The Entrepreneurial Fire: Passion, Love, and Vision (Blissful Self Creates to Play) | 3. Business is Product, Customer, Connecting the Two (Knower, Known, Knowing) | 4. Keep Your Word (Ritam Bhara Pragya) | 5. See the Outcome, Commit, Persist (Desire and Let Go) | 6. Giving – Business’ Essence (Full mind and heart means maximum giving, receiving) |
| Week 2: Luck, Time, & Money (Gaining the Support of Nature) | |||||
| 7. Creating Luck: Silence, Commitment, Right Action (Gaining the Support of Nature) | 8. Understanding Laws of Money (Infinite Abundance) | 9. Applying Laws of Money (Living 200% of Life) | 10. Eternity, Time, and Todo lists (Do Less, Accomplish More) | 11. Managing Time Effectively (Law of Least Action) | Review |
| Week 3: Running a Business (The World Is as We Are) | |||||
| 12. Run a Biz and Grow Fast –Biz Reflects You (Individual Mind is Reflection of Cosmic Mind) | 13. Create an Org Chart (Constitution of the Universe) | 14. Language of Business –Words, Numbers, Pictures (Name and Form) | 15. Marketing: Reaching those Whom You Can Serve (Connecting Self and non-Self) | 16. Selling is Giving not Taking (Love Unites) | Review |
| Week 4: Finishing a Business (Thought, Action, Achievement, Fulfillment) | |||||
| 17. Welcome Obstacles (Purification Brings Progress) | 18. Success (It’s all Self-referral) | Class Presentations | Class Presentations | Class Presentations | |
Wholeness: An entrepreneur starts, runs and finishes a business by taking an idea and manifesting it through commitment, skill, and nature support; that business becomes an expression, a reflection of the entrepreneur. Creative Intelligence begins in its pure state in silence, emerges as thought and gets expressed as action, achievement, and fulfillment.
Wholeness: A business is conceived in passion, nurtured in love, and sustained by vision. “Generally, the people in the world, for the success of their actions, count upon their ability of performance of an action, and they count upon their intelligence, their creative mind, and their energy. But all these factors are of a secondary importance. The main factor for success and production of results is the purity of the doer. (Maharishi – Science of Being and Art of Living)”
Wholeness: Most fundamentally, a business consists of products or services, potential consumers, and the efficient linking of the two. Knowledge results from the coming together of the knower (Rishi), the process of knowing (Devata), and the object of knowing (Chhandas)
Wholeness: Keeping your word is the cornerstone to personal and professional success in life. “One word from the mouth of a man reveals his inner quality” (Maharishi – Science of Being and Art of Living).
Wholeness: Success comes from committing to a clearly envisioned outcome and having the internal inspiration, clarity, and strength of character to realize the goal. Through Transcendental Meditation it becomes possible to put oneself steadfastly in one channel of action until the action is completed. (Maharishi – Science of Being and Art of Living).
Wholeness: Success in business is based on the capacity of the entrepreneur to give to its many stakeholders. If one is established in Transcendental Consciousness, the level of infinite abundance, one is in a position to both give and receive maximum.
Wholeness: The entrepreneur can create the ground for luck, necessary for business success, by cultivating inner silence, committing to the goal, and engaging in right thought and action. “Neither by force nor moral pressure nor suggestion is it possible to change the surroundings or make full use of them for oneself. … If one is able to submit oneself to nature, then nature will react to his needs.” (Maharishi Sci of Being)
Wholeness: Understanding and abiding by the laws of nature governing money allows for more easily attracting money. Established in Being, the home of all the laws of nature, gain nature support.
Wholeness: Attract money by applying the natural laws of money. Enjoy the fruit of any channel of knowledge by being established in the home of all the laws of nature.
Wholeness: How you spend your time determines quality of life and success of business. “For Him the eternity of knowing is maintained, and the factor of time fails to obstruct it. The Lord’s Being is the playground of the time which He creates” (Maharishi on the Bhagavad-Gita 4-3)
Wholeness: Time management systems help you prioritize and track the action steps of what you want to accomplish. “Time is a conception to measure eternity” (Maharishi on the Bhagavad-Gita 4-1) [Read more…]
Wholeness: Your business is a reflection of who you are. The world is as you are. ”Individual mind is found to be the reflection of cosmic mind or cosmic intelligence” (Maharishi – Science of Being and Art of Living)…
Wholeness: An org chart allows you to see the whole while clearly differentiating the various functions of your business. “The Veda and Vedic Literature is in reality the functioning constitution of creation, the Government of Nature, which is ceaselessly governing the entire universe, and sustaining it in absolute order and harmony” (Maharishi – Science of Being and Art of Living)
Wholeness: The Successful Entrepreneur Effectively Uses Words, Numbers, and Pictures to Communicate, Analyze, and Persuade. Being is the essential constituent of creation and is present in every word, number, and picture.
(The Successful Entrepreneur, Maharishi University of Management
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Wholeness: Marketing is lead generation, the process of communicating the benefits of products or services to potential customers for the purpose of selling. The nature of the mind is to seek fields of greater happiness.
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Wholeness: The successful salesman believes his customer will benefit from his product or service; therefore, coming from a space of giving, he feels confident repeatedly asking for the sale. “As you sow, so shall you reap: The nature of the results or consequences of any action depend upon the positive or negative quality of influence generated by the action on other people and the environment”. (Maharishi Sci of Being)
Wholeness: What we perceive as obstacles are stepping stones to progress “a strong mind can make best use of the surroundings and circumstances” (Maharishi – Science of Being and Art of Living)
Wholeness: It is wonderful to create a profitable business; however, entrepreneurial success is much more than money: it is about serving, about the realization of your vision, and about completion. “It is open to every individual to experience this state of Being and create in his life a state of eternal freedom while bringing greater success in all fields of activity.” (Maharishi – Science of Being and Art of Living)
This site and book tell stories of men and women who moved to Fairfield, Iowa home of Maharishi University of Management (MUM) to practice Transcendental Meditation as part of an ongoing world peace project. To stay in Fairfield, many, with little experience or know-how, began and ran successful businesses.
On a part time basis, one of those entrepreneurs, Hal Goldstein, created this website and from this website an upcoming book, The Meditating Entrepreneurs – Creating Success from the Inside Out. All proceeds from the book will be donated to MUM. If you would like to help on the website or book, read this and contact Hal.