Tangible Minds founder Joe Shirley joins the invited speaker list for BizJam with a JamSession titled “Indie Success: Ditch Your Vision, Launch a Revoluion.” Here’s his summary:

The old formula for success was built on a computer-like model of the mind. Program the end result and that’s what’s supposed to happen. Well, real life doesn’t work that way, in case you hadn’t noticed. Joe Shirley offers a new model based the dynamics of living systems as they exist in your own conscious mind, (and the minds of everyone you do business with). Run your business from the new model and you become a supercharged success genie, creating tangible results for yourself and inspiring others around you to do the same.

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As an indie professional, you’re in a unique position to make the world a better place at the same time you make your business far more successful. Here’s how.

OLD MODEL: 1. Articulate a vision. 2. Write a plan. 3. Execute. Guess what? The world moves too fast now. Follow this strategy and you’re likely to be out of business before you get the plan written. And if you do get underway, you’re playing catch-up and putting out fires from day one.

NEW MODEL: 1. Populate your “field of possibilities” and keep it always in view. 2. Show up with passionate presence. 3. Engage and evolve in constant dialog with opportunity. The result: you create something you could never have envisioned or planned. It fits, it’s growing organically, it’s leveraging unforseen opportunities, and it’s kicking the competition’s ass.

The old formula for creating success was built on a computer-like model of the mind. Program the end result and that’s what’s supposed to happen. Well, real life doesn’t work that way, in case you hadn’t noticed.

The new model of the mind is a dynamic system in constant, implicit, mutual engagement and co-creation with reality. The more you engage, the clearer and more compelling your desire becomes, evolving in concert with reality, becoming an ever-more powerful expression of who you are becoming. You are free of attachment to outcome, open to the dance, powerful in bringing forth new passions, new innovations, and new expressions of collaboration and flourishing.

Run your business from the new model and you become a supercharged success genie, creating tangible results for yourself and inspiring others around you to do the same.

The old model is dead. Join the revolution.

More About Joe

Joe Shirley believes that every one of us has access to great wisdom. In his Tangible Minds practice, Joe’s clients tap into their feeling mind and elicit the knowledge deep within. Listening to the collective insight of thousands of these revelations, and influenced by his MA in Whole Systems Design, Joe has discovered a universal architecture of the human mind. This architecture points the way to a more sane and effective approach to everything from enhancing intimacy to achieving business success.

Recently Joe has begun to articulate a practical philosophy of indie business which is organic, dynamic, and evolutionary. He believes we need to balance our overemphasis on logic, planning and control by embracing a wholistic, feeling-centered engagement with the present moment, while orienting ourselves not toward a specific vision, but toward an open field of possibilities.

Joe lives in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, and loves improvisational dance.