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Message to all you social entrepreneurs out there!

The Melting Pot in Edinburgh is having open day events! 10 June 2008 and 10 July 2008 from 9am till 9pm.

You could pop in and work from the melting pot for a day or pop in and have a look around.

Are you:

• Self employed and missing a sense of structure within your working life?
• Looking to benefit from improving your network of like minded contacts?
• Looking for a socially aware space to use for meetings and events?
• Aiming to broaden your horizons and get exposure for your ideas?
• Looking for a professional space in the city centre location within Edinburgh?
• Looking for a green or eco space to work out of to compliment your business or enterprise?

If you answer yes to any of the above you should head along to the open day at The Melting Pot and find out more about what is going on…

Contact Information for: The Melting Pot

5 Rose Street,

Edinburgh,

Scotland.

EH2 2PR

Telephone: 0131 243 2626

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What makes you happy?

…and would make you want to jump out of bed in the morning?

One of the key things that people who succeed in life seem to have a grasp of is making sure they identify what makes them tick, what will drive them to success, Why do they want to achieve that something?

So how do you find out what makes you happy?

• Try new things!
• Look at what you have enjoyed in life in the past.
• What did you get excited about in childhood, teenage years or early adulthood?
• What things in life get you really passionate, is it injustice, is it people, is it working with animals, are you really keen on helping others?
• If you can’t get anywhere with the above questions, just keep looking and asking, what makes me happy in life just now or in the future?

If you look at identifying what you get most out of in life you can really make a shift towards a life of abundance and true riches (happy, contentment, successful.

Also, it makes sense to define what you do like about life at present, in the recent past, and in the near future as well as dreaming about the long term possibilities in life.

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‘I am the greatest’ Mohammed Ali

If you want to achieve something extraordinary then you have to dream something extraordinary, imagine, see yourself getting what you really want, feel as though you are living it, smell what you would smell, hear what you might hear.

You simply are aiming to leave your subconscious believing that the vivid day dreams are actually real and exist in the ‘real world’.

I listened to one of Jack Blacks CD’s today, a Motivational and development speaker from Glasgow in Scotland. The CD has three tracks on it and the 3rd track is great, I was impressed because I could really relate to the ideas he presented as well as the people that he used as analogies. I have listened to hundreds of personal development and motivational CD’s but this one really struck a note with me.

One key thing that I got from the Mindstore CD is that you should not do as many motivational and management materials preach, by only dreaming of achieving things that are ‘achieveble’ and ‘atainable’. I feel free to dream of achieving things that may be a far off dream to others even if they are extremely difficult for people to achieve.

Dream big! Achieve loads and be the greatest!

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New Statesmen Magazine - On social enterprise and the voluntary sector.

Last night I had the opportunity to attend the Edge Upstarts Event in Edinburgh, with speakers including Brian Tannerhill MBE - Chief Executive of the McSence Group and John Swinney MSP Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Sustainable Growth.

The main question to the floor of speakers was simply ‘where do charities and social enterprises differ and what are the similarities?’, but the discussion seemed to go in circles a bit and focused more on the definition of what a social enterprise ’should look and act like’.

I am glad that I attended the event held in the Grape (function room) in St Andrews Square Edinburgh and I did get some learning from going along.

I can’t help but wonder exactly why I was there, I have had a keen interest in social enterprise for about 5 years and I have had experience of small business and enterprise projects since I was about 16 years old, but I could not help but feel that I did not fit in, that I was not quite expected to be there.

It was strange, I was asked by a number of people ‘how did you get an invite?’ and ‘what are you doing here?’ as though I should not be in a room with the ‘elite’… but deep down I dont really care (well just a bit) as it is all part of the old thing about learning to deal with all kinds of people and deal with rejection.

I am sure many young euntreprenuers out there have experinced the same thing, the advice that I would give anyone who is just starting out, go for it, unless it is a waste of your time and taking you away from your desired goals and dreams… go for it!

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