I love words. I chew them up, digest them, integrate them and tear them up. My word this post is “plexus”. I’ll get to why in a second.
What is a plexus? I’m glad you asked:
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plex⋅us
/ˈplɛksəs/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [plek-suhs] Show IPA
Use plexus in a Sentence
–noun, plural -us⋅es, -us.
1. a network, as of nerves or blood vessels.
2. any complex structure containing an intricate network of parts: the plexus of international relations.
Origin:
1675–85; < NL: an interweaving, twining = L plect(ere) to plait, twine + -tus suffix of v. action
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Now, why this word at this time? I was searching for the exactly perfect word for a new group I want to start. I was privileged just recently to participate in a Summer School for Entrpreneurs offered by Paige Stapleton and Brian Stark that absolutely rocked my world! The biggest tip the 20+ speakers shared (every single one of them!) was that you need to network and connect with others who can be mentors and partners with you. You can’t create your entrepreneurial empire by yourself. It just doesn’t happen.
I say it takes a T-E-A-M (Tell someone else what you’re doing – Enroll someone else to help – Ask someone else how they did it – Move forward together).
Then I found “plexus”. This works much better.
So, I guess what I have been doing is created a people plexus; a network of cogent powerhouses who are all working towards a common goal – success by service. The members of my Powerhouse Plexus are men and women who come from heart, who see what’s missing and guide others to fill in the gaps and live powerful, passionate and possibility-filled lives. For me, anyone who comes to me as a client is one of the most wonderful gifts, because those people have recognized that the next step for them is a partnership of excellence and that they don’t have to do it all alone!
Have you started creating your Powerhouse Plexus yet? Here are the requirements for mine – start making your list of attributes to find yours.
1) The participants in the plexus need to have recognized the need for partnership
2) The participants in the plexus need to have a sense of something bigger in the marketplace and not come from a scarcity mentality*
3) The participants in the plexus must be willing to help
and lastly
4) The participants in the plexus must be proactive, personally powerful and living their own dream.
So? Who’s in your Powerhouse Plexus? Am I?
These two hook up to create a Partnership of Excellence and both win — the writer writes and the checkbook balancer balances checkbooks. Both are happy and both are much more effective because they’re doing what they love and what is natural for them instead of agonizing and pushing to complete tasks they hate and which take twice as long because they’re so repugnant.
everything well; why waste your time doing what frustrates you and stresses you out? Don’t you have tasks you just HATE to do? Of course you do. Finding others who enjoy doing those same nasty tasks and offering to do the things they hate to do, providing you’re better at them, is just good sense. All it takes is a conversation to find out where assistance is needed.
Now, let me establish first of all that I am three years older than dirt. I’ve been around the block so many times, there’s a permanent ridge carved in the sidewalk. For most of my years, I’ve been an entrepreneur, mostly on my own, having to figure out the who, what, when, where and why and for how much by trial and error.
