Crossing the Invisible Barrier.... Going From a Salary to Creating a Business....

Can't, see me.

When you hear a sound, that you just can't place
Feel somethin' move, that you just can't trace
When something sits, on the end of your bed
Don't turn around, when you hear me tread

I'm the invisible man, I'm the invisible man
Incredible how you can't, see me
I'm the invisible man, I'm the invisible man
I can, see right through you

Now I'm in your room, and I'm in your bed
And I'm in your life, and I'm in your head
Like the CIA or the FBI
You'll never get close, to know how I survive

I'm the invisible man, I'm the invisible man
Incredible how you can't, see me
I'm the invisible man, I'm the invisible man
I can, see right through you

Now I'm on your track, and I'm in your mind
And I'm on your back, but don't look behind
I know your every thought, And your every fear
But I'll never get caught, you can't shake me shake me dear

I'm the invisible man, I'm the invisible man
Incredible how you can't, see me
Watch me
I'm the invisible man, I'm the marketing man
I can, see right through you
Look at me look at me

Okay, so I changed the actual lyrics a bit. But Queen seems to have known a thing or two all right.

As soon as you cross over... become one of us... you have an edge. You're like the invisble man... no one can see you BUT you can see them. You know HOW they work, how they operate to get by, but they don't have a clue about you. You have sacred knowledge.

I believe Robert Kyosaki also mentions something along these lines. Your edge is knowing both sets of rules but playing by the set that most don't even know exists.

I'd like to quote another Queen song which sprang into my mind when I read your post...


When love breaks up
When the dawn light wakes up
A new life is born
Somehow I have to make this final breakthrough
NOW!

I wake up
Feel just fine
Your face
Fills my mind
I get religion quick
'Cos you're looking divine
Honey you're touching something, you're touching me
I'm under your thumb, under your spell, can't you see
If I could only reach you
If I could make you smile
If I could only reach you
That would really be a breakthrough - oh yeah

Breakthrough these barriers of pain
Breakthrough to the sunshine from the rain
Make my feelings known towards you
Turn my heart inside and out for you now
Somehow I have to make this final breakthrough

Now! - oh yeah.

Your smile speaks books to me
I break up
With each and every one of your looks at me
Honey you're starting something, deep inside of me
Honey you're sparking something, this fire in me
I'm outta control
I wanna rush headlong into this ecstacy
If I could only reach you
If I could make you smile
If I could only reach you
That would really be a breakthrough

If I could only reach you
If I could make you smile
If I could only reach you
That would really be a breakthrough
Oh yeah

Breakthrough, breakthrough

Break...

If I could only reach you
If I could make you smile
If I could only reach you
That would really be a breakthrough

If I could only reach you
If I could make you smile
If I could only reach you
That would really be a breakthrough

Breakthrough


And...

This is the only life for me
Surround myself around my own fantasy
You just gotta be strong and believe in yourself

Just believe - just keep passing the open windows


Anyway. Yeah, there is a barrier. An invisible and strong barrier. And once crossed you become a different person. Not that most people notice. But other's who've also crossed it do notice it. They pick up on it like a sixth sense. It's... It's...


It's a kind of magic
It's a kind of magic
A kind of magic
One dream one soul one prize one goal
One golden glance of what should be
It's a kind of magic
One shaft of light that shows the way
No employee can play this game


And, while some try to cross over... they never quite make it. They try to play in one playground by using the rules of the other playground. They end up with a business that's just a job. These people are the one who also don't want to discuss business with anyone. Share ideas? Mutually beneficial? These terms are not in their vocabulary.

And who can blame them? There's no school of entrepreneurialism.

But there doesn't need to be.

Think back. Way way back to when you were little. You had what it took. But years of schooling drilled it out of you.

You may have gone to a school which had "We help bring out the individual in your child" as part of its rhetoric. BUT, as soon as you tried to be individual you were "shown" the prefered way... the way of sameness.

Only those who've never had their free spirit truly enslaved have broken free from those binding shackles.

Of course, it also helps that the immutable law of "like attracts like" exist.

So how does someone cross the barrier now?

Same way they cross all self imposed barriers... by giving it a go. Maybe even building up to it bit by bit.

They may see someone they can relate to who's done it. They'll get them going. Then they'll look into it some more. Buy a book, audio, video, game, product rights, whatever. Each part adding to give them the confidence they'll use when they finally step out of the cave of darkness and into the light of entrepreneurialism.

They'll have an awakening. The planted seed will finally germinate.

Michael Ross.