“The death of an Entrepreneur is isolation”, writes Michael Gerber in the E-Myth. Left alone, an enterprising couple will struggle, isolate further and then become frail and turn on each other. This is why we encourage you to join Enterprising Couples and get connected.

Graham Kerr, the internationally famous Galloping Gourmet teaches about our life influence appearing like a sphere –
a “Sphere of Influence” he calls it.

Picture a perfectly calm pond, the water barely moving at the edges lined with reeds, pebbles and sand.

Now, imagine the ‘sum’ of your life being dropped into the middle of that body of water, sounding like a ‘blip’ of a pebble. The tiny splash subsides into a ring of eccentric waves radiating outward toward the shoreline.

If you were to wait quietly at the water’s edge, your toes in the damp sand, within moments the expanding ripples would begin lapping at your feet, caressing them with wave-energy that your life had added to the body of water minutes before.

Our lives can seem like this – barely making a ripple by the time someone else notices. Our best efforts, the passionate energies we sacrifice to share can get away from us unnoticed – or so we feel.

There are many stories of lives spent in battle, in mission, in causes where the giver never knew what effect they had on other’s. You, and I, we continue making sacrifices anyway. We try again and again to ‘make a difference’ for others – with the occasional faith that we count.

onsider that our lives are NOT limited to two dimensions like the surface of water. Rather we are within an entire body of water – a three dimensional medium – within time - a fourth dimension. All this, and we are not accounting for the ‘unseen’ world.

Our lives DO TOUCH people around us.

Remind yourself who might know you. Picture them within their own ‘Sphere of Influence’ occasionally within your reach. Those closest and most familiar to you – as well as distant relationships.

Whom are you influencing?

• Spouse
• Immediate Family
• Closest Friends
• Business Partner(s)
• Business Peers
• Co-workers & Employees
• Acquaintances
• Clubs and Church Groups
• Distant Relatives & Family
• Authors & Speakers
• Online Social Networks
• Audiences and Fans
• Social and Political Groups

Peer Support, and WHAT to do about it?

Now, the litmus test. Which of your relationships are caustically corrosive, and which are nourishing? Which are healthy, and which are ‘draining’? Which support your pursuit of dreams, and which ‘kill’ your hope? Take the survey to the right and see how you compare.

The challenge of the Peer Support facet of the Enterprising Cycle is to become aware of who’s whom – and to learn WHAT, and HOW to deal with the relationship. We are usually our own worst friend! Getting healthy peer support and accountability is often a great step in healing the challenges.

Peer Support is very important, and hard to find. It’s one of the topics we cover in the workshops. It’s also one you can research on your own. Get some healthy peer support by joining the Enterprising Couples Tribe. You can also order and download some of the resources to the right.

Keep going! We look forward to meeting you.

Daniel & Angelina