A Visionary Entrepreneur’s Takeaways from 2021

By Shiri Godasi 

So we’re seated at tabula rasa after airing out the remnants of the popped balloon - if you read my last email, you know what I mean. We’ve affirmed, and let go. This act of symbolic clearing and purification is the first step to wrapping up your ceremony of 2021.

 

Now, step 2: The Gifts. What are you keeping from 2021?

1. What are your takeaways? 
2. What pearls of wisdom are you carrying in your satchel to support you in creating an aligned, prosperous, peaceful, joyful and free 2022? And, my fave -
3. If 2021 had a title with a personal meaning - what are you naming it? (That naming technique again - the best!).

Take time to reflect on this as soon as you can. Don’t overthink it - just sit down and free-associate bullet points. 

 

Here are the gifts I’ve received - my unfiltered personal list of takeaways from this doozy of a year:

 

Gifts Of Business & Soulpreneurship:

• Soulpreneurship is psychedelic integration 2.0 - from individual to collective and transpersonal change
• Sacred business is an artistic expression
• Say Yes to pivoting as integration of your soul’s realignment
• Your soul’s message designed into a product that makes you and others happy will bring you affluence. 
• The path of the entrepreneur is patched with much stress, self-doubt, loneliness and long nights 
• Leadership sits at the roundtable
• To be a leader you have to be comfortable with being misunderstood
• Overextending yourself in business/service is a trauma response
• Misaligned money is void of blessing
• A business will grow sustainably in relation to energetic capacity/management and boundaries
• Do not start a psychedelic business unless you are personally experienced and professionally trained with the same service you are selling
• Your pricepoint will determine the quality of your clients
• Money is power, and we need more power in the hands of conscious people
• New-commerce businesses are vehicles for social change
• Your message and values are everything

Gifts Of Creativity

• Everyday life is an art - the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the words you speak and the relationships you cultivate. 
• We are all God’s artists and powerful, limitless creators - and creation is our soul’s dharma
• Recovering your artistic creativity is recovering your spirit
• Investing in your personal expression is a top priority
• Creativity does not judge or play favorites - it kisses everyone
• Your soul language need not have words
• Creation has no boundary nor limits. It is outside of time and space. 
• Discipline and constraint are necessary for productive creativity
• Creativity combined with courage and authenticity will change the world

Gifts Of Lifestyle

• We are not here to do the work - we’re here to play and re-create
• The hardest decisions hold potent and favorable outcomes
• The taller you grow the more rooted you must be
• Everything is systems and relationships
• Feeling good is the means, the end and the goal. When we feel good - everything falls into place. 
• No matter where you are, there You are. You cannot run away from yourself.
• No one is coming to save or rescue you. 
• You are your own biggest advocate, ally and lover. 
• Tight boundaries are essential for high functionality and sanity.
• A land that respects nature and animals breeds happy people
• It’s OK to stop everything and change your entire life on a dime - if it feels like that life does not support your soul’s dharma.
• Intuition is the compass.
• Slow.

Gifts Of Wellness

• Your health and wellbeing are priceless
• No one is worth your wellness. And we need connection to be well. 
• ‘Healing’ is an overrated narrative, an illness perpetuated by colonialist systems
• Whatever brings you hardship and ruins your health is not for you
• Depression is largely a symptom of diversion from your soul’s path
• Psychedelics and integration alone won’t fix mental health issues - finding a balance between holistic and clinical methods will
• Understanding mental health conditions and diagnosis is a self-awareness tool that can promote empowered choices
• Pharmaceuticals can be supportive of psychedelic integration
• Most psychological issues can be traced back to early childhood trauma
• Many mental health conditions can be eased with 8+ hours of sleep, proper nutrition, physical activity and connection ritual
• Green juice every morning will change your life
• Nature holds
• Conversations and community is medicine
  
  

Gifts Of Psychedelics

• Ketamine is completely underrated
• Integration is the 8th dimension made real in the 3rd dimension
• Psychedelic therapy can be detrimental to well being, more than people would like to think
• As psychenauts, before we are spirits undergoing a human experience, we are humans undergoing a visionary experience
• Psychedelics can cause mental health issues
• Psychedelic integration therapy is most effective when combined with supportive clinical tools
• The practice of psychedelic Integration can be substantially more life altering than psychedelic substance use
• There will be as many interpretations of psychedelic therapy as there are people
• The psychedelic revival belongs to everyone - especially those who take action to create it
• The looming shadow in the psychedelic community over anything involving money begs to be aired out
• Spiritual and ethical supremacy may be trauma responses and cause more harm than good.

Making a list and checking it twice: as my daughter has been repeating since Christmas, ‘I’ve been a nice girl this year’. So many gifts!

 

I am infinitely grateful for these lessons, and I won’t lie - I’m just as grateful to turn the page on this year! Onto the next chapter!

 

My year’s title is... 
Smacked x Starting Over. *Insert appropriate emoji*

 

And the prayers that I am blowing into 2022 are: 
Soul Expression
S-p-a-c-i-o-u-s-n-e-s-s
Just 1 Thing.
(= The antidote to this gift list above!). 

 

PS: What are your 2022 prayers? Comment below to share:

Author’s Bio
Shiri Godasi (She/Her) is a teacher, visionary creatrix, depth poet and mother. She is best known for her pioneering methods in the field of psychedelic integration and community bridging, including founding 5 psychedelic harm reduction organizations. She is passionate about creating a decolonized, psychedelic-positive counterculture and empowering others to step into radical authenticity/radical action to co-create a just world. Her professional certification program The Psyched Soul PlaySkool of Integration & Soulpreneurship trains people to become creative system disruptors through expert psychedelic support and heart-centered leadership. Her approach draws from transpersonal psychology, New-Earth sacred commerce, Eastern philosophy and multidisciplinary arts, fusing ancient wisdom with modern practices for a ‘Psyched’ lifestyle.