2.5 Months to Go!
October 16th, 2009 | 
Author: The year’s coming to an end. The holidays are on the horizon and the next two and a half months will go by rapidly, as we all know. I’m sure we’re all saying the same thing to each other, “Where did this year go?” Some will be glad when this year is gone and soon fades into history. At the same time, we have had an opportunity to learn much about human nature, business ethics, and economic resiliency.
What’s especially important is the opportunity for CREATION that lies ahead. 2010 marks the beginning of the second decade of this new millennium. There is an opportunity for refocusing and renewal. Consider what’s next for you, your friends and family, your community, and those with whom you work.
Some feel as if they are passengers in an automobile moving down the highway, reacting with uncertainty to the turns and the bumps in the road, and hoping that things will work out. Others are moving forward very much in the driver’s seat of life and taking ownership for the process of creation. To move forward as families, communities, businesses, and as a nation, we need those who are willing to take the steering wheel and drive and those who will sit in the front passenger’s seat and navigate. What we don’t need are back seat drivers who rant and rave or fret and criticize, and who distract us from the course that lies ahead.
The journey continues to be exciting! Enjoy it! Drive on.
Posted in Creating Your World
Here’s a thumbnail of what it takes, in my view, for a society to be prosperous:
1) An inventive / innovative class; people have to want to invent things and processes;
2) Cross-culturalization, where multiple inventors get together and compare their inventions, and newer \ better inventions are created;
3) Seaports or trade route intersections;
4) Business flowing from invention / innovation;
5) Decent jobs flowing from business, so people can take care of their families with pride;
6) A reasonably decent life flowing from more people having jobs; and
7) Education encouraging the repeat of the process
Either some force in society sets this in motion, governs the process, and maintains it, or it does not. If you leave it to chance, you might be on top for a while but you will not be on top indefinitely. But that is a cost of freedom, when you do not direct people what to do with their lives.
My suspicion is that China will be the next world power because they tell more people what to do, and they are more controlling. More free? Of course not. But more planning, organization, consistency, and coordination take place under their model. We in the U.S. use the “herding cats” model, and there are benefits and costs associated with it.
We’ve needed more inventors for years, and few in our country have paid attention to that issue.