Giving Unlocks Secrets and Creates Wealth....
As this new SERVICE model gathers steam there will be a huge rise in "giving" of all shapes, forms and sizes.
There's a fundamental/scientific principal behind giving, sharing, serving, helping which is grounded in the expanding, viral dynamics of light - transmission, radiation as a catalyst to facillitate and enable growth.
It's just the same as planting and growing things. Light is hope. Light is risk. Light is life. Light is love.
What works against this process are all the counterweighing forces which want to diffuse, refract, take, limit or hide the light from releasing it's natural, viral, radiating, transformative impact in the universe.
All light and energy comes from ONE source.
Put any lable you want on that source. Bottom line, none of this energy was created by YOU/ME/OTHERS.
And there's only two things you can do with light/energy: take it and try to possess/control it for you own purpose/gain or share it with others out of the belief that there's a higher purpose/energy that supports everything which will create, sustain, support an ever growing and vast increase in collective wealth in the universe.
Much of the problems in the world can be traced to limited, fixed-pie, fear-based mindsets which we all trap ourselves and others into believing is the only way to perceive and interact with the world.
I just think more and more individuals are learning the value of giving, risking, sharing and serving along the natural path of light.
Gates has sure set an incredible example in this regard. He's riding the light wave of giving back. And as long as he's really risking and not completely trying to control the process, the returns should prove staggering.
Each of us can step into this process in our own way on our own time each day in many innovative ways.
I believe giving will completely replace and erradicate all advertising. Giving back will become part of ALL Service models for marketing and distribution right to the end user.
More and more individuals will be claiming their power to "reflect light" from their inner universal source through risk actions which help, serve and create trust with others they personally reach out to help. Giving and risking is at the core of this process of meeting, networking, empowering, growing, etc.
This energy is behind the power which will drive this emerging Net Services revolution. For these Net Services are going to reach out and touch INDIVIDUALS, not just companies as intermediaries to reach INDIVIDUALS.
Companies have lost control of the data/information to track, label, define, monitize and "own" us.
More and more INDIVIDUALS are going to discover the empowered energy behind giving, risking, sharing and serving others. And communities that help "serve" this process along are going to act as direct partners in this process. Individuals inside communities and the companies that serve those communities are going to all, by extension, serve INDIVIDUALS.
Nice article.
We are at the beginning of a massive, transformative wave.
Peace.
GO!!
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From the Time Mag. article:
>>Our generosity may be the best measure of our humanity. To become fabulously wealthy, to win great fame--these are triumphs not of humanity but of vanity. For the past two decades of robust economic growth, Americans have too often reveled in that vanity. We are the richest, strongest, smartest nation on earth. We have produced more millionaires (2 1/2 million) and billionaires (267) than any other nation. We have discovered more cures and launched more new technologies. But are those the measures that matter?
Perhaps what really matters is this: we give more than any other nation. We are the most generous with our time and our money. Just 13% of German respondents and 19% of French volunteered their time for civic activities in the previous year, in contrast to 49% of Americans, according to a survey by the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project. And while 43% of French and 44% of Germans said they gave money to charity last year, 73% of Americans reported doing so. To be sure, many prosperous Europeans and Japanese pay far higher taxes than Americans, in part to finance social-welfare programs. Yet the private efforts of Americans make an impressive addition to what they do through government. Charitable gifts by Americans totaled $190 billion in 1999--equivalent to one-third of the domestic federal budget, or 2% of our national income.
That's far from a biblical tithe, but still the highest level in 28 years. Why? For many years, the multimillionaires of the booming technology industries didn't feel very secure in their newfound wealth and weren't at a point in their lives where they thought much about their legacies. Now that's changing. Silicon Valley CEOs, along with other newly rich Americans, are finally stepping up to the collection plate. And just as they've transformed American business, members of this new generation are changing the way philanthropy is done. Most are very hands on. They do lots of research before giving. They demand accountability and results. Paul Schervisch and John Havens, authors of a Boston College study on giving, cite the $41 trillion that aging baby boomers will be leaving to their heirs and charities as a philanthropic gold rush. The high-tech boom has made more people richer faster than at any other time in history--which means that more of the superrich are thinking about giving away their fortunes at an earlier age. Schervisch and Havens write that "a golden era of philanthropy is dawning."
Our generosity may be the best measure of our humanity. To become fabulously wealthy, to win great fame--these are triumphs not of humanity but of vanity. For the past two decades of robust economic growth, Americans have too often reveled in that vanity. We are the richest, strongest, smartest nation on earth. We have produced more millionaires (2 1/2 million) and billionaires (267) than any other nation. We have discovered more cures and launched more new technologies. But are those the measures that matter?
Perhaps what really matters is this: we give more than any other nation. We are the most generous with our time and our money. Just 13% of German respondents and 19% of French volunteered their time for civic activities in the previous year, in contrast to 49% of Americans, according to a survey by the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project. And while 43% of French and 44% of Germans said they gave money to charity last year, 73% of Americans reported doing so. To be sure, many prosperous Europeans and Japanese pay far higher taxes than Americans, in part to finance social-welfare programs. Yet the private efforts of Americans make an impressive addition to what they do through government. Charitable gifts by Americans totaled $190 billion in 1999--equivalent to one-third of the domestic federal budget, or 2% of our national income.
That's far from a biblical tithe, but still the highest level in 28 years. Why? For many years, the multimillionaires of the booming technology industries didn't feel very secure in their newfound wealth and weren't at a point in their lives where they thought much about their legacies. Now that's changing. Silicon Valley CEOs, along with other newly rich Americans, are finally stepping up to the collection plate. And just as they've transformed American business, members of this new generation are changing the way philanthropy is done. Most are very hands on. They do lots of research before giving. They demand accountability and results. Paul Schervisch and John Havens, authors of a Boston College study on giving, cite the $41 trillion that aging baby boomers will be leaving to their heirs and charities as a philanthropic gold rush. The high-tech boom has made more people richer faster than at any other time in history--which means that more of the superrich are thinking about giving away their fortunes at an earlier age. Schervisch and Havens write that "a golden era of philanthropy is dawning."
Our generosity may be the best measure of our humanity. To become fabulously wealthy, to win great fame--these are triumphs not of humanity but of vanity. For the past two decades of robust economic growth, Americans have too often reveled in that vanity. We are the richest, strongest, smartest nation on earth. We have produced more millionaires (2 1/2 million) and billionaires (267) than any other nation. We have discovered more cures and launched more new technologies. But are those the measures that matter?
Perhaps what really matters is this: we give more than any other nation. We are the most generous with our time and our money. Just 13% of German respondents and 19% of French volunteered their time for civic activities in the previous year, in contrast to 49% of Americans, according to a survey by the Johns Hopkins Comparative Nonprofit Sector Project. And while 43% of French and 44% of Germans said they gave money to charity last year, 73% of Americans reported doing so. To be sure, many prosperous Europeans and Japanese pay far higher taxes than Americans, in part to finance social-welfare programs. Yet the private efforts of Americans make an impressive addition to what they do through government. Charitable gifts by Americans totaled $190 billion in 1999--equivalent to one-third of the domestic federal budget, or 2% of our national income.
That's far from a biblical tithe, but still the highest level in 28 years. Why? For many years, the multimillionaires of the booming technology industries didn't feel very secure in their newfound wealth and weren't at a point in their lives where they thought much about their legacies. Now that's changing. Silicon Valley CEOs, along with other newly rich Americans, are finally stepping up to the collection plate. And just as they've transformed American business, members of this new generation are changing the way philanthropy is done. Most are very hands on. They do lots of research before giving. They demand accountability and results. Paul Schervisch and John Havens, authors of a Boston College study on giving, cite the $41 trillion that aging baby boomers will be leaving to their heirs and charities as a philanthropic gold rush. The high-tech boom has made more people richer faster than at any other time in history--which means that more of the superrich are thinking about giving away their fortunes at an earlier age. Schervisch and Havens write that "a golden era of philanthropy is dawning."
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