She adds, "We were talking about inspired parenting today. I think when people are happily self-employed and they have children, they become an amazing role model for them. So many people grow up with bad messages about work. Their parents go away all day and come back cranky. The children don't know what they did all day but it obviously didn't make them happy."
Nick says, "One of the things we can do with Dreambuilders is serve people by offering learning programmes. Someone who has an idea but doesn't know how to make it happen could come to our programme. We are looking at ways to create this for people. There's no course about it at university. People think you're either born with it or not but we could help people learn."
Nick and Barbara bubble with enthusiasm for all the embryonic Businesses they want to support. They remind me of Mark Twain's quote: "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that but the really great make you feel that you too can become great."
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Barbara: "I don't know how long it takes to do something I've never done before. Be gentle with yourself." Nick: "One of the ways through resistance is a sense of humour." Barbara: "Sometimes the people who are ahead of you are there because they were born before you." Nick: "How we deal with failure links with how we feel about fear. Most people are brought up to avoid fear or to defend themselves against it." Barbara: "When we see someone who's really masterful, we forget how long it took them to get there because we didn't see their failures." Nick: "I used to think, 'If I could just face these fears and be clear of them, I'd be alright.' The day I realised it was a daily activity, I was very disappointed."
For more information about Barbara and Nick, see www.dreambuilderscommunity.com and www.alternatives.org.uk
Barbara Winter's 1993 book "Making a Living Without a Job: Winning Ways for Creating Work that You Love" began as a seminar she created and taught for several years. It has become the US's longest running adult education programme. Her most recent book, "Jump Start Your Entrepreneurial Spirit" is out now.
Nick Williams is the author of "The Work We Were Born to Do", "Unconditional Success" and "Powerful Beyond Measure". His most recent book, "How to Be Inspired" is also out now.
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