Sustainability

In a conversation I had with Ruben Perczek, my partner in the co-creation of the Positive iMPACT Movement, he highlighted to me that I speak naturally about Sustainability as it being part of who I am and what I create. And indeed, this is so, but I never thought about it until he told me.

I've started the movement to connect, inspire and empower the person behind the project. For me, this is the most important factor in social entrepreneurship. However, the way I think about social entrepreneurship does not match the current status quo. That's why I consider myself a specific type of social entrepreneur: a socially-conscious change maker (SCCM).

I began the movement thinking in these change makers like me, who feel alone believing that they are not doing it well. Nevertheless, the reality is far away from what they are guided to think, they just aren't aware that they are beautifully expressing their Power of Being through their projects.

The PiMOV community has been created to connect the SCCMs to get mutually empowered, be supported and to continue evolving and creating our projects, whatever these might be (businesses, organizations, tribes, communities, etc.) from the inside-out and nurturing them from the outside-in, individually and collectively. The aim is to reinforce our sustainability and that of our projects.

By sustainability I do not only talk about financial sustainability. Sustainability for me also includes my well-being and evolution, as just confirmed by wikipedia “Sustainability is the ability to exist constantly”.

My project relates directly to my Power of Being - freedom to be who I am and create what I love. I want to reinforce my project, by empowering myself, and vice-versa. I want to live well for many more years, I want to be happy and remain healthy. I want to continue growing as a human with other human-beings, evolve to what I came to become and positively impact through it and with what I create, moment by moment - constantly.

Each of us is authentic with who s/he is and what s/he creates, and if we reinforce this Power of Being through our sustainability and that of our project, we individually and collectively positively impact the world.

Evolution - Community - iMPACT

With love, JEM