You may or may not have heard of the concept called Alchemy …where it was believed that it was possible to turn a base metal (lead) into a premium metal (gold)

All good gardeners know that alchemy is real and actually works.

But alchemy can also apply to small business as well.

The gardeners version ...

Put all your kitchen and garden scraps in a container and leave them sit in the sun and they quickly become rotten and attractive to flies etc. They are absolutely worthless.

Put those same kitchen scraps on the top of the oil, or bury them they are still of little value.

But place them in a container (compost bin) together with all sorts of other “valueless” bio degradable matter and over time they become infinitely valuable.

That matter is called compost. You can now buy it in bags at your garden store.

The Small Business version of Alchemy .

Turning unproductive thinking (we can’t, I can’t, but we’ve tried) in productive outcomes (why not give this a go, if we did this another way)

Turning negatives into possibilities by looking at the flip side can make all the difference.

Others have titled this concept as “getting rid of your stinking thinking”

Thinking is the precursor to action.

I found a trailer to a movie called  “The Call of the Entrepreneur ” … which is about the beauty, mystery and power of entrepreneurship.

One of the stories told is that of Brad Morgan, a Michigan dairy farmer, who bucked the odds and the naysayers and turned the problem posed by the disposal of his herd’s manure into a profitable business venture.

He turned pollution onto profit by changing his thinking and applying alchemy to the problem he faced.

Some of the profound quotes from the trailer

• “Without the entrepreneur, economies are barren. They are dead.”
  George Gilder, Author of Wealth and Poverty.
  
  

• “I learned risk without knowing it is risk. Taking risk is actually dashing into hope. You’re just dashing into the future and hoping that it’s going to be better.”
  Jimmy Lai, Hong Kong entrepreneur.
  
  

• “You put your butt in the corner, you’d be surprised what you can achieve.”
  Brad Morgan, Morgan Composting.
  
  

• “Sometimes they’re the most common resources that we walk over, that we ignore, that we even are perhaps repulsed by, that become the source of wealth, the source of jobs, the source of prosperity.”
  Rev. Sirico, President of the Acton Institute.

Note: The bigger picture of the organisation behind the production is of concern.

I?m not against religious organisations but am concerned about the current trend of mixing religion, business and politics. This video subtly does that