The Spiritual MBA: Discover How to Manage Your Biggest Asset

By Vladimira Juskova

Fresh off the press...the Spiritual-MBA is not just another self-improvement book!

Inspired by a true story of a successful female entrepreneur, this success companion was created in response to a new narrative emerging around the topic of spirituality and its place in business and our lives at large. According to a USA Weekend poll, "47% of Americans cited spirituality as the second most important factor in their personal happiness and they are looking for ways to bring spirituality to all aspects of their lives, including their workplace". Are you looking for new and more fulfilling ways to build a happy and successful life? The Spiritual-MBA may be just what you need to move along your own success and happiness continuum. This practical handbook lays out a new spiritually-inspired self-leadership framework that shows you how to effectively manage your biggest asset: your mind and your Self.

This insightful and informative reference book scores high on its practicality value and is populated with unique high-performance tactics that you will most likely not pick up in a traditional classroom! Filled with actionable insights, practical success-building strategies and self-management tips, it is interwoven with entertaining personal anecdotes and real-life testimonials. The proposed ‘spiritual-preneurship’ framework and with it the ‘spiritual-preneur’ are a new addition to an entire suite of already established preneurs, from entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, infopreneurs, techno-preneurs to other innovative variations. Most importantly, spiritual-preneurship is a code of conduct; a spiritual manifesto. A set of success and happiness habits that lead to greatly positive and lasting life-outcomes because they are achieved in alignment with Higher spiritual (natural) laws that govern our universe.

What’s in it for you? You can expect this book to inspire, empower, educate and motivate. It will make you more self-aware, expand your views and introduce you to the spiritual-MBA toolkit that can make a real difference in your life. You will gain a deeper understanding of how your mind actually works, how to harness its creative power and how to program it for whatever goal you are after. You will learn about the concept of brain integrity and mind-sync as well as various cases of internal resistance that may be holding you back from achieving the level of success that you deserve. You will be introduced to the concept of energetic healing and some energetic clearing techniques. You will be also introduced to the life-path system that sheds an invaluable light on some specific challenge areas and also points to untapped opportunities that are inherent to your life journey.
The Spiritual MBA is much more than just another self-development guidebook. It is an exciting new beginning of a collective journey that will touch many lives and impact greatly! It is also a new platform to promote other successful spiritual-preneurs. It is a growing social and virtual community that connects, inspires and creates a positive spiritual footprint across the globe.

Lastly, this entertaining life-success companion gives you an opportunity to pause, reflect, and re-imagine your life. You may feel inspired to re-invent yourself or define a new more fulfilling vision for yourself if the one that you are currently living no longer fulfills you. Are you ready to reach for your dreams and design the destiny that you have always envisioned for yourself? Let this Spiritual-MBA help you along the way. Your success and happiness are only a decision away!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Vladimira Juskova
• Release date: Dec 12, 2018
• ISBN: 9781999494216

Vladimira Juskova

Over the past few years, most of my efforts were focused on building a global advisory firm with activities in the commodities sector. My real passion, however, comes from my writing, life coaching and talent development work. I consider myself to be many things: a successful businesswoman, intuitive life coach, author and most importantly a spiritually-inspired entrepreneur. Aside from creating and managing new businesses and enticing joint ventures with my partner and our team, I enjoy educating myself and guiding others on their own journey to success and fulfillment. My passion and expertise is people and the development of their inner gifts and talents. I gained invaluable insights into the area of talent management during an almost decade-long career in Executive Education at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. U of T is a premier research and teaching university in Canada. I earned a graduate degree in Adult Education (M.Ed.) in Curriculum Design from Brock University, Niagara (Canada) and a graduate degree in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Toronto. While in this capacity, my work in leadership development programs has been recognized by the International Society for Performance Improvement. I am a certified Human Resources professional and a certified practitioner in an energetic healing method. I was a content contributor for a book chapter in a publication titled Creating Standards-Base & Integrated Curriculum (Dr. Susan Drake). I am here to inspire, empower and share my experiences to help others succeed and be happy. The Spiritual MBA is the first volume of a new self-development series that draws on my experiences as an entrepreneur and lays out a new life success paradigm. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful.

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The Spiritual MBA:

Discover How to

Manage Your Biggest Asset

Vladimira Juskova, M. Ed., MBA

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The Spiritual MBA: Discover How to Manage Your Biggest Asset

By Vladimira Juskova, M.Ed., MBA

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Dedication

To my inspiration, my love, business partner, a serial entrepreneur and most importantly my soulmate Warren Backman! I am eternally grateful to be able to share this remarkable life journey with you!

To the Universe! Thank you for the inspiration!

And most importantly to YOU, the reader!

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The need and a nascent readiness for a new and more spiritually-inspired, holistic and all-encompassing approach to building a life of lasting wealth and happiness is what ignited the spark that led to the creation of this book.

It is my sincere wish that you enjoy it and gain from it!

To you, the Spirit within you and the boundless opportunities ahead!

The Spiritual MBA

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Personal Motto

MAY THIS BOOK INSPIRE YOU TO BE…

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"The GREATEST VERSION

of the GRANDEST VISION that

YOU HAVE for YOURSELF"!

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~David Cameron Gikandi~

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Table of Contents

Copyright Page

Preface

Introduction

Spirituality & Business Belong

I Promise: What’s in it for You

Time for Some Spiritual Poetry

A Dream of an 11-Year Old

What We are All after

The Iceberg Theory of Wealth Creation

The Evolution of Consciousness

The Spiritual-MBA Way or Spiritual Preneurship

New Thought and the Mind Stuff

Let’s Get Meta-Physical

The ‘Not-so-Strange’ Secret

Desire is the First Law of Gain

Unlocking the Law of Attraction

The Spiritual MBA Toolkit

Karmic Giving

The Magic of Believing

Detachment: If you Love it, Set it Free

Dollars-Want-Me Mentality

Your Wealth Creation Profile

Grab Good Habits, Kick the Bad Ones

Leverage the Now!

Ride your Idea-Wave: Inspired Creation

From SMART Goals to Hypnotic Intentions

What Winners Actually Do

The C+3P equals SUCCESS Momentum

Mind Expansion and your Path to Fulfillment

Don’t just Team-Build but also Dream-Build

Wealth Creation Ritual: Visualized Meditation

Command your Built-in Success Mechanism

The Prosperity Game

Your Three Musketeers

Can you Hear your Spiritual Self?

Overcoming Resistance and Allowing

Mind Sync or Energetic Integrity

Clear your Energy through Tapping

The Emotional Freedom Technique

Forgive the Hawaiian Way

From Corporate to Spiritual Law

The Spiritual and Success Law Convergence

The Life Path System

From Chaos to Clarity

Conclusion

About the Author

Appendix A: Bibliography

Appendix B: Relevant Trivia

Appendix C: Success-Building Affirmations

Appendix D: Tapping for Specific Issues

Appendix E: Energy Points: Meridians

Appendix F: Map of Consciousness

Appendix G: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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Preface

The Spiritual MBA?

Did the title catch you off guard? The truth is, there is a new movement emerging across the globe that aims to integrate more spiritually-rooted values and spiritually-inspired principles into everyday life, including the workplace and business at large. As Corrine McLaughlin, the founder and Executive Director of the Centre for Visionary Leadership observes:

There is a growing number of business people who want their spirituality to be more than just faith and belief—they want it to be PRACTICAL and APPLIED.

To this point, Professor Ian Mitroff, and the author of A Spiritual Audit of Corporate America claims that spirituality could be seen as the ultimate competitive advantage. A USA Weekend poll reported that 47% of Americans consider spirituality the most important element in their happiness and they want to bring this spirituality to all aspects of their lives, including their work.

An article published in The Sloan Management Review, a research magazine of MIT Sloan School of Management, concluded that people are hungry for ways in which to practice their spirituality in the workplace. The word ‘spirituality’ is used generically and seems to emphasize how one’s beliefs are applied to the day-to-day, rather than ‘religion’, which can invoke fears of dogmatism or exclusivity (McLaughlin).

Ideas around the concept of a Spiritual MBA or a ‘spiritual-preneur’ have been incubating in my mind for a while. With the emergence of a new narrative and an increased degree of acceptance of spirituality in business, I felt the time was right to give my ideas wings and capture this new spiritual wave that is penetrating even the ‘impenetrable’ business world.

What is spirituality in business? The definitions and interpretations are many and still forging. The spiritual MBA book is the first of its kind life-success reference book that lays out a new spiritually-inspired self-leadership framework. This framework, if applied, builds a strong foundation for a new wealth-creation and happiness paradigm. Most importantly, this book introduces you to an entire toolkit of unique and spiritually-inspired success-building strategies and nuggets of wisdom that you are not likely to pick up in a traditional classroom and that you can easily leverage to your advantage!

The importance of spirituality in business is undeniable. I am convinced and have personally witnessed the benefits of spiritually-inspired approaches. The global management consulting firm McKinsey & Company (Australia) found that productivity improved, and turnover was generally reduced when companies engaged in programs that use spiritual techniques for their employees. For instance, prayer and meditation are two spiritual techniques that have already infiltrated the corporate setting. McKinsey & Company further remarked that many companies have already built designated mediation rooms. Other new spiritual practices, such as visualization, deep listening, and intuitive guidance, are also taking root.

On that note, welcome to the Spiritual MBA Development Series! The first volume of this exciting new venture sets out a new spiritual approach to self-leadership and provides unique strategies that will help you better manage your biggest asset: your mind! While most of you may be familiar with the concept of an infopreneur, I will introduce a new ‘genre’ of entrepreneurship that is called for: a spiritually-inspired entrepreneurship or ‘spiritual-preneurship’ and with that a new phenomenon- spiritual-preneur! Spiritual-preneurship is a new self-leadership framework, a new way of being, a global online community, and a new platform to promote, share and lead by example. You can judge for yourself, however, I am of the view that the spiritual-preneurship approach has the potential to create more sustainable and rewarding outcomes as it focuses on building value from within. In short, the Spiritual MBA book is a roadmap that makes spirituality more applied and pragmatic. View the various strategies and techniques discussed throughout as your success levers and you will certainly benefit!

So, without any further ado!

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Introduction

A recent scroll through the Instagram home-page brought me to this:

You are the lead actor, director, writer and producer in the movie of your life. If you do not like an aspect of it, change your story!

Re-write! Re-create! Re-design! Are you ready?

A new blockbuster is hitting the theatres near you called Incredible Life! An accurate depiction of your life and where your current trajectory will bring you. Based on a true story, sensational reviews, unbelievable acting! Starring: YOU! Did I get your attention? Now let’s see that movie!

Close your eyes, fast-forward and IMAGINE what your life is going to be like in 5 years. Imagine what it is going to be like if you do not change a thing; if you live your tomorrow exactly the same way you lived your yesterday. Same thoughts, same views, same way of looking at yourself and the world, same habits, same level of awareness. What is the picture that you see? Above all, do you like the picture you see, or does it scare you a bit? If the answer is yes, you are not alone!

In the words of an American poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau, the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. Despite our big dreams, startling ambitions and unrestrained optimism, somehow, we get lost on our individual journeys. We wake up one day and frightenedly realize that our life has become what Earl Nightingale calls the composite average of the averages. Have you experienced one of those mornings? I must admit, I have!

As Zig Ziglar, a well-known American motivational author observes, most of us dream of becoming meaningful specifics but we somehow end up living our lives as ‘wandering generalities". We tend to forget that occasional failures and roadblocks are all a necessary part of our life journey. Rather than see them as temporary, we regard them as definite and this belief leads us to develop a somewhat defeatist mindset that leads to stagnation or self-sabotage. After a few unsuccessful experiences, many of use plainly give up and settle for the life we don’t really like and particularly, the one that we are not meant to live. We shrink our dreams, or stop dreaming all together and little by little, we compromise on what and where we shouldn’t and unwillingly resign to living a life of confirmed desperation and our happiness and success remain elusive.

What about the future then? The irony is that many of us expect our tomorrow to be better than yesterday, yet, we show very little willingness to change our ways. We keep going about our life the same way, with little or no awareness of our self-imposed limitations. Clinical practitioners define this as insanity; doing the same things over and over, while expecting different outcomes. I am not implying that we are insane. I do, however, agree with the author and psychology Professor Daniel Ariely and his observation that people are predictably irrational and act in predictably irrational ways, even when it comes to their deepest aspirations and living the life of their dreams.

Now, let’s go back to our movie. An OPPORTUNITTY to see a …

MOVIE Re-MAKE! Starring the NEW YOU!

It is September 2022 and you are returning from a fun-filled family vacation in Europe. Your 4th vacation this year! Your mortgage is paid off, in fact, you are financially independent. You love what you do and are fully present and aware in each moment. Your life is full of blissful moments and you let it unfold effortlessly and with the outmost faith as you actively participate in its co-creation. You look again and realize that you suddenly have and are everything that you have ever imagined for yourself and those close to you!

Robust health, passionate relationships, effective and fruitful business partnerships, lucrative business opportunities, loyal and fun friends, supporting family, global travel, star-like fame, global reputation, new innovative business ideas, philanthropic work, your own legacy, whatever YOU choose to pursue and whatever personally drives you and fulfills you on a daily basis! All the niceties, all the luxury, all the toys and gadgets, all the homes, all the clothes, shoes, watches, all the opportunities to make a tangible and significant difference in the world! You name it! Whatever your greatest vision for yourself was, you are now living it! You feel that you are living the dream! Or at least, you are living the LIFE of your DREAMS or what I call a ‘life by design’. And if you are wondering, yes, it is possible to live one! YOU are the architect of the destiny that you seek so aim high! And remember:

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says I’M POSSIBLE!

~Audrey Hepburn~

You are walking down the street and suddenly stop in front of a bookstore. A vision from the past blasts through your mind, a déjà vu of sorts triggered by a book you spot on display: The Spiritual MBA Volume 3. The book sends you down memory lane! You start remembering where you were in your life and how much you have grown and accomplished since you discovered this self-development series and its first volume. You are proud of all your remarkable accomplishments and all the changes you made and are forever grateful to your friend who recommended this new life success reference book spotted in a bookstore window. You now know that your friend handed you a very special gift. A master key that unlocked the path to a NEW YOU: a stronger, happier, wealthier and more fulfilled you!

That very key is now in YOUR hands and it is up to you to decide how you want to use it and what next step to take! May the following statement by Nido R. Qubein be a reminder of your true power and serves as an inspiration on your personal journey.

The most of history’s greatest achievements have been accomplished not by the most talented, but by the people who were willing to take on greater risks and challenges and see them through.

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A Moment of Inspiration

The Spiritual MBA book is a result of an inspired action taken by an enlightened entrepreneur. Yes, I do walk the talk so when an intuitive nudge came knocking on my door, I answered. It took me about three months of focused effort and boundless joy to create this practical handbook. Since it is a self-help book, I recommend reading it in 20-minute increments. This is the recommended optimal reading time so that you absorb and retain the most out of the material at hand, while keeping your attention up. To this point, it has been proven in multiple studies that after about fifteen minutes of focused attention, our mind takes so called ‘mini-vacations’. Do not let these mini-trips spoil the value of your reading and set some uninterrupted time aside for your self-development!

The inspiration and the content of this book draws on my personal experiences as a business (MBA) graduate, a successful female entrepreneur and a spiritually-minded person! I firmly believe it is mind over matter! The invisible before the visible, with the Spirit being the foundation. I was born an entrepreneur at heart and that is the direction I took after I earned my MBA. My entrepreneurial journey started in 2012 when I joined my partner Warren, a remarkable visionary and a successful serial entrepreneur of his own, to pursue a new business opportunity. I joined a newly formed advisory firm with projects focused on the commodities sector, namely a few mining projects in South America. My experiences along the way lead me to create my own success philosophy that is partly rooted in spirituality. My view: have one foot firmly on the ground, and allow for the other one to stretch, expand and be tested for a more rounded and holistic view.

As the saying goes, ‘birds of a feather flock together’ and spiritually-inspired entrepreneurs attract similar types. An entire book could be written on the value of social support networks, online communities and the importance of building your social capital at large.

Needless to say, the more I interacted with other accomplished entrepreneurs and business executives and learned about their fascinating paths to success, I found something I was not expecting to find! A pattern started to