Do Start-up Projects have KARMA?

My wife will kill me for writing this, as she believes we should not mess with KARMA...but what the heck, so I am biting the bullet and risking my dinner tonight, just to illuminate you (yes, I have this blog to nourish my ego!).

In the last 20 years or so, Dozens of "Eastern" concepts were put out of the context, most of the time to make money out of the clueless and depressed Western people...

Even quantum physics (QUANTUM PHYSICS for haven's sake!) became a topic amongst "desperate housewives"...

Karma is another example...

When you look at the literal translation of the word "KARMA" from Sanskrit, you will see that it stands for ACTION...

In a broader sense it defines the cause-effect correlation between actions and consequences.

so, you see, this is an INTERNAL (about YOU) phenomenon, not an EXTERNAL (about others or an invisible power)...

On the other hand, we always hear people using KARMA as an excuse or explanation about what HAPPENS to them...

Actually project management or specifically start-up management is a perfect platform to observe
this misunderstanding...

A couple of days back, while discussing another (definitely not the first) stupid mistake (the bank had lost a document necessary for an urgent credit) with the owner of the Start-up Project I am consulting for, the phrase "this project has a bad karma." slipped out of my mouth....You should have seen the relief in the man's eyes...so "this was about KARMA, nothing could be done! Let's be positive!"

Don't get me wrong here, I do believe that positive attitude will always help...at the end of the day, why start something if you are not positive about it?!

but...

What I do not totally agree is that this has anything to do with metaphysics or divine energy or Toltecs in Mexico!

Simply, if you are positive, you will attract the other positive people who have clear and healthy minds which drive them to MAKE THINGS HAPPEN or constantly looking for solutions and/or precautions for probable problems or mistakes...

Being positive, you will work in an enthusiastic way and you will not be too lazy to get a notarized copy of documents which you hand to a bank to get credit, so that when and if they lose them (people DO lose things), you will not have to wait for another week before your overseas supplier sends another original by DHL!

Being positive, you will not take setbacks as catastrophes, but merely as situations and you will learn from them (if we want to put it in Buddhist terms, "you will appreciate the setbacks")...

And all these (YOUR actions) boil down to a better KARMA of whatever you are doing...

Being positive, on the other side, just for the sake of being positive not taking ACTIONS will only make you look like a happy loser!

So, YES, your start-up (just like anything else) does have a KARMA, but this KARMA is YOU...

As Mahatma Gandhi said:

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

Good Karma to all!