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It’s the opposite of “divide to conquer, keep divided to keep conquered” and it has a unique possibility called SYNERGY, sometimes known as emergent behavior where the sum of the whole is unpredicted by the individual parts.
There are other fascinating benefits of working together … one often called ‘the group effect’ where individuals performances improve when working or training with a group.
I’ve experienced this a number of times in sport, particularly in running teams where four or more team members run in rhythm and it’s an absolutely amazing feeling. I’ve also experienced it in business wherethe growth generated by an aligned team can be so explosive that it is difficult to manage without proper financial planning.
It’s just one of the reasons I love Buckminster Fuller or ‘Bucky’ as he was known, in particular for the clarity he brings to almost every topic … and synergy of course was one of his favorite topics. See nothing in nature operates on it’s own! Yet as human beings we are very often working separately … and even just walking down the street don’t you sometimes feel a separation?
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Studying Buckminster Fuller and his work and reading biographies has had a profound shift in the way I view my life.
He said (c1975) that it no longer works to prosper personally at the exclusion of everyone else, or more accurately “It is no longer integrity to look after yourself at the expense of another.”
To do so means that you are not present to the opportunity or possibility that everyone can be abundantly SUCCESSFUL within a very short time.
Our current financial structure is still based on the Malthusian belief that there is not enough for everyone, and so it is accepted as OK to take what I can … even if it takes from someone else, or at the expense of another!
This is old thinking, this is dinosaur thinking …
“Hello, it is time we switched on our brains I think!”
Facebook … the New “BarnYard”, But Not One For Billionaires!
Ever had a job in the BARN YARD … trying to catch sheep, herd cattle or god forbid try catching pigs or chickens?
There is so much going on and only the experienced farm hand actually gets anything done that’s worthwhile while everyone else runs around expending lots and lots of energy getting sweaty and looking forward to a long cool drink.
Almost two decades ago I participated in a course called Money & You and we played lots of games, including one called the “Barn Yard Game”. It was noisy … there were people yelling, music playing and it was hard to think.
I mean it’s not easy to think at the best of times is it? One of Henry Ford’s famous sayings is “Thinking is one of the most difficult tasks there is, that’s why so few people participate in it.”
Well when people are telling at you this, and telling you that … suggesting we do this, inviting me to do that, it’s even harder to think.
So my strategy with Facebook and I do enjoy the part of catching up with family goings on, is that I now logon, have a look round and then log off.
I am staggered how much time some people spend on Facebook … it’s now the Web’s Ultimate TIME SINK … and it’s growing by the month.
Evidently there is some growing disquiet around Facebook and like others I am seriously considering erasing (if that’s possible) my account … and simply staying with the healthy, green networks I belong to including Your Healthy Planet.com of course.
I honestly doubt that the future billionaires, the people who are leading the conversations towards growing a healthy, green and sustainable future spend too much time on Facebook … chances are they have leveraged that out as well.
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One of her (many) keys to success is the ability to do business globally and to have access to international markets through powerful networks of successful entrepreneurs from not only North America, but also from Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, Taiwan, Hong Kong and all throughout China!
Let me share a bit about her work and her world-famous Money & You® program…which I completed in 1992, some eighteen years ago and have employed to create two successful National businesses and throughout the development of Your Healthy Planet.com’sEthical Marketplace and Member’s Club.
Is Politics Relevant to Your Future on Planet Earth?
Australia has just terminated Kevin Rudd as it’s prime minister and replaced him with Julia Gillard as Australia’s first ever female prime minister, but what relevance does that event really have?
“Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to final moment. The race is between a better informed, hopefully inspired young world versus a running scared, misinformedly brain-conditioned, older world. Humanity is in “final exam” as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe as mind, with the latter’s access to the design laws —called by science “the generalized principles” —governing eternally regenerative Universe.”
“Human minds have a unique cosmic function not identifiable with any other phenomenon—the capability to act as local Universe information-harvesters and local problem solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.” — R Buckminster Fuller, xxxvi Introduction to Critical Path, c1981.
According to R Buckminster Fuller, considered by many as one of the most important humans of the twentieth century (c1895 – 1983) politics would be irrelevant by the year 2,000AD. Fuller made some fifty predictions throughout his lifetime, and this was one of only two that did not come true.
The other prediction was that poverty and hunger would no longer exist by 2,000AD and yet one billion people will go hungry today.
There have been many assertions that politics and ‘big business’ are one in the same, that they work together for mutual gain. In Australia we have seen a number of Prime Ministers take a ‘stand’ on issues that they believed were in the interest of the country, like taxation reform, health care, a resources tax and others … and do that at their peril.
Invariably the “power brokers” have their way and often one persons political career is ended.
These people of integrity cannot back down, or take a side step. It is not in their making and we have seen that today in Australia as the prime ‘ministership’ changed hands.
What alternative do we have to a political machine?
The definition of “wealth” according to Buckminster Fuller is “the number of days forward you can continue to live (at your current standard of living) if you stopped working today”.
In many developed countries, including Australia and the United States the wealth of an average person today is a matter of days, or weeks … in other words while they generally own a house and a car plus other possessions they must keep on working to continue to enjoy them. If they lost their employment the vast majority would have to spend their savings, sell some possessions or even downsize their house and lifestyle very quickly to survive.
Warren Buffet is in the media a lot, and at 79 years of age many articles about him focus attention on his 2006 pledge to give 99% of his assets to charity, particularly through the Bill Gates Foundation. Doing so, he said in a recent letter on Fortune’s website, would leave his lifestyle “untouched”. Read the rest of this entry »
What do Warren Buffett and Bucky Fuller Have In Common?
Warren Buffet, sometimes ‘wealthiest person’ on our planet … and R Buckminster Fuller, sometimes called the “gentle genius” and “grandfather of the Universe” who often was penniless? What do they have in common?
Initially I thought NOTHING in common, then I thought of a program I saw years ago that looked at Warren Buffett’s life, his business Berkshire Hathaway in particular of which he is Chairman, and his philosophy of success.
This morning I was looking at some of those philosophies and how we could apply some to Your Healthy Planet.com and it’s Ethical Marketplace. The one in particular is that Warren and his business partner have never taken a salary at all and have become two of the wealthiest men in the world from the dividends they earn.
At Your Healthy Planet.com we are doing the same. As the Founding Member and CEO I earn my reward income the same way every other member does and that is the way it will stay. Imagine if we can bring on-board healthy marketing consultants, healthy copy writers, healthy financial planners et al who similarly love what hey are doing and are financially supported by the structure. It means more profits to go into building holistic education centers worldwide. Read the rest of this entry »
What Did Buckminster Fuller Mean By “Unevident Selfishness”?
Like many of Fuller’s terms and words there is a clarity and a point that cannot be mistaken.
When I first heard the phrase “unevident selfishness” I felt something ‘hit me’ in the gut … and I stopped the CD to listen again. “People appearing as though they care, and doing good things”, but according to the presenter, the late R Buckminster Fuller in reality they are actually selfish, and doing their best to conceal it.
People interested in bettering their own position.
Isn’t that what we should be doing in our life? I’m sure most would agree, however when you understand there is abundance available, enough for everyone on our planet to be living the lifestyle of a billionaire then it is no longer integrity, (ie it no longer works) and that is what Fuller is saying.
It simply no longer works to be focused on bettering your own position, and everything we see in economies around the world are evidence of this fact. It doesn’t work for one country to try to do better than another, for one person to try and do better than another (especially at the expense of others), it simply keeps in place the old context that there isn’t enough and it creates more problems, more upsets and more ‘scarcity’.
If you have studied some of Buckminster Fuller’s amazing work you will know that he was not making anyone wrong for their “unevident selfishness”, he was just stating a fact, stating what is so … what indeed was happening then in the 1980′s and unfortunately is still happening all over our planet.
The set of CD’s I was listening to are of a wonderful day back on February 26th, 1983 … a day proclaimed as Integrity Day by the City of LA and the State of California. It was proclaimed in honor of Buckminster Fuller and the incredible achievements, artifacts and education this one man produced over a period of some 55 years. The CD set is available from the Buckminster Fuller Institute (http://www.bfi.org).
Evidently Tiger Woods “Networks”, and Is A Billionaire; But Are They Linked?
Networking is EXPLODING all over the world, and for good reason. In a nutshell, it’s time has come.
Ordinary people are succeeding BIG, and while they may not become billionaires they are certainly reaching the multi-millionaire stakes in a matter of years.
“LEVERAGE” - is something you definitely need if you want to become wealthy, and networking or more accurately network marketing can provide enormous leverage. But it is not the only way to leverage.
Is This The Electric Car For ‘Multi-Billionaires’?
First of all let’s get clarify on the term ‘multi-billionaires’ … because we don’t want it confused with multi-billionaire do we.
Multi-billionaires is PLURAL, meaning more than one and in this case we mean lots and lots of them, in fact it will one day reach billions of them; hard to believe I know but Google didn’t even exist a little over a decade ago and the founders are each worth some 18 billion dollars each.
You must start to realize that today, anything and everything is POSSIBLE.
So what’s this electric car that could help create ‘Multi-Billionaires’ on our beautiful planet within the next decade or two?
The best way is to watch this short video with Shai Agassi the Founder and CEO of Better Place.
Click on the picture to the left and allow a few seconds for the video to begin in a new browser.
The concept is simple but the plan is BOLD. By focusing on the aspects of automobile travel that people want and enjoy; on the freedom, the security and the choices that it makes available plus insisting on no downside to the purchaser or the environment, Agassi has come up with a brilliant plan that Renault-Nissan jumped at. Now we are talking multi billion dollar investments here but the returns are amazing.
I would love to have A Better Place as a sponsor on Your Healthy Planet.com … and I feel they should be one of the first International Sponsors. Let’s see what happens. Can you see the shift that is occurring around the world today as new industry leaders move to make morally correct decisions, and because technology is advancing so quickly they know that if the answer isn’t here yet, it’s not far away.
And here’s the ‘kicker’ … the economic returns are usually astounding. Agassi mentions travel costs down to 2 cents a mile by 2020, compared to the best possibility for an oil driven vehicle of 40 cents a mile. Read the rest of this entry »
Australian Farmers May Soon Become Solar Billionaires …
It looks like Aussie farmers are gearing up to become solar billionaires over the next decade or two.
Let’s increase the speed, and create a world that works for everyone.
“Success and money both love speed.” Joe Vitali
Our human technological advancements certainly have some speed and continue to surprise, thrill and expand our imaginations, as do our breakthroughs in our understanding of nature.
Take a look at this “Sun Powered”farm ute … with a 200HP electric motor it is powerful enough to pull seed drills and does most of the crop and pasture plantings on an Australian 2000acre wheat and sheep property near Bathurst NSW.
The Farm Ute is fully recharged overnight, ready to go back to work.
The ute and the farm house are powered entirely from the sun by a 4kwHr PV system installed on the garage roof.
The local energy authority is also installing a 4MwHr photo-voltaic array on a 5 acre lot donated by the farmer and this solar energy will help supply other nearby farms and businesses.
The cooperative venture between the farmer, Landcare, Country Energy, North West Catchment Authority and other supporters have made a small miracle come true for one farming family and soon others may follow as technology and further cooperation brings the prices down.
The property owner has also taken on an holistic approach to cropping and grazing … to ensure sustainability for farming into the future. For more details visit www.engagingnature.com
One thing I found unbelievable though was that the farmers were having to sell their beautiful high quality Merino wool at a loss, at around $10 a kilo ($4 a lb).
Most of the wool goes overseas, to Italy in particular, to be made into beautiful suits and fabric that are sold back to us and elsewhere around the world at $1,000 a suit or more. Evidently there’s less that 3 kgs of fabric in a suit! Read the rest of this entry »
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