The High Performance society
A Global Shift society structures 21st century High Performance around humanitarian excellence with wellness and sustainable progress as drivers, not money. The Global Shift announces a voluntary and involuntary transformation towards such society placing the current speculative and manipulative institutional structures and behaviour into a historic, humanitarian reflective perspective. We are individually asked to take responsibility for our future now by breaking away from morally illicit dependencies by making fundamental choices.
The modern High Performance society shows the following characteristics:
1. Purpose driven
The values of this 21st century top evolutionary society are achieved by connecting human talent and energy with wellness related initiatives. This purpose is always related to human sustainable progress that is based on the endless human abundance of creative co-creation. This wellness is not institutionalised but structured around the contribution and responsibility of every individual member of the community.
2. Value sharing
The purpose of wellness related issues is a motivating factor and experienced as fruitful when the results can be appreciated directly by the participating individuals. High Performance starts therefor through an entrepreneurial attitude at individual level and is closely related to the value creating and sharing social interaction with the direct network surroundings of every person. We call this sharing of local values (for local wellness) “local for local”. Within the context of globalisation every geographical region can apply this and create a chain of wellness driven communities that interact again among each other. Eventually the wellness society can cover the entire planet and beyond. We call this “local for local for global”.
Money is no valuable when value is measured through sustainable progress. Change cannot be banked and progress cannot be saved nor wellness charged. It can be experienced. The ongoing process is “financed” through the investment of collaborative energy and co-creative talents within the community. If a value system has to be put in place this is to create an exchangeable system of progressive values with other local for local communities. Sharing values freely creates equality, stability and peace. Within the community a value system can be put in place that registers and values the talents and energy of the participants in order to give them continuous feedback and community status. Status is provided by the community itself and can be exchanged for usables s.a. consumables, luxury items, housing, etc.
3. Self-sufficiency
Individual and local self-sufficiency (energy, food, water, shelter, etc) is the key engine of the High Performance wellness society as wellness is not an external source of pleasure and satisfaction but an inner one. Any dependence on external securities is a potential threat to stability. This can also be a measurement for progress. Eg. when the threat of dependency arises this should automatically trigger innovative creativity for independency. Auto-determination, self-leadership and authentic, independent self-sufficiency are necessary mental and cultural conditions to be able to take responsibility for such complex issue as wellness. The column of values (individual identity of talent, energy and purpose, safety, equality, trust and cooperation) will guide the sustainable progress.
4. Applied technology and science
All current scientific knowledge, practical know-how and the technological instruments are used and deployed in locally applied innovations that contribute to the purpose driven challenge. Knowledge and tools are only of value when they produce the desired results which is a direct motivation to use them to prove their value. Sustainable progress is a never ending quest and becomes a chain of continuous results that is challenged by the ever changing environment and the intrinsic motivations of the community itself. As a consequence fragmented entrepreneurship, banking and party politics will disappear as they have no function in such dynamics.
5. Education and measurement
Wellness, sustainability and progress is educated through integral experience and feedback by providing spiritual, emotional, physical and rational meaning to behaviour, mentality and events. If the surroundings are High Performance in wellness the newcomers will be challenged to learn about it and improve it. It becomes a symbol for the “art of living” by addressing our evolution in an individual and collective way. Education never stops and wellness is always challenged through sustainable progress. Measurement of levels of progress in human values can become the teasing triggers for purpose driven initiatives.
The scientific learning processes feed our rational consciousness but this is not enough. Knowledge needs to be applied to our lifestyle to create sustainable progress through feedback. We relate with our natural environment from which we learn and that we integrate into our existence with a benefit for all involved.
Local and Global Transformation
The transformation starts with each of us, changing our role in the social awareness from money based dependence to wellness based motivations. We are ourselves responsible to create such society, starting at home, in our streets, neighborhoods and expanding world wide. The current money based systems based on institutional greed are collapsing making way slowly for the rise of the new High Performance society. But is not just money that is blocking the evolution of the human quantum leap. Also hierarchical power positions in business, banking and politics are reluctant to let go of their level of influence. They remain in place because we allow it by accepting them.
Nevertheless the new 21ste century High Performance can already be observed around us and all over the world where people become cultural creatives and create their own image of society. They are the pioneers that use or even create the openings that the recessions leave behind. In many occasions the transformation takes place on individual bases by brave confrontation with the old system, or by addressing key issues that the old system cannot deal with anymore. In any case, the new High Performance of the 21st century is slowly showing its face, breaking through the brick walls of material dominance of the 20th century. It will not be long before it can expand freely and fast throughout the human world with strength, flexibility and determination proving that no challenge is too complex for humankind, not even abolishing our past and starting with renewed energy, if the purpose and drive is right. And wellness is priceless and worth the effort.
The crisis towards auto-determination
The media talk again about the forthcoming global recession as if it were a worrying novelty. It is not of course. The crisis has been postponed with the many capital injections into obsolete business and governmental systems. No that these try up and China has entered its own era of capital greed the old crisis simply continues where it was interrupted a few years ago. The years and months of delay have allowed the flees to parachute off the dying mastodonts in an attempt to find another, healthier body to lean on. This is difficult now that we realise how chained up the financial world has been. If one crumbles, they all fall apart. From an individual point of view we can ask ourselves why such crisis would affect us at all?
We are vulnerable to the effects of a crisis when we are dependent on one or more of such old fashioned institutes that fall apart. Believe it or not, we are more attached then we would like. Take away money from your pockets and what is left over of your auto-determination and self-sufficiency? Nothing. Without money you have no food, no gas for the car, no house, nothing at all. We suddenly find out that we are extremely dependent on the money based systems that surround us. The supermarket, the petrolstation, the mortgage or rent, our telephone ….even the taxes.
A good crisis cleans up. It kills instantly all those massive organisation in which we have centralised all our dependencies. Suddenly we stand their and find we have nothing. When our dependencies crash we become nicely independent and need to figure out how to use that freedom. We find that we are not only surrounded by nothing but also lack all the knowledge to become self-sufficient. A good crisis hence cleans up not only our old physical dependencies but also our psychological ones. We are challenged to think again about valuables related to our own direct efforts by asking ourselves where everything comes from, how it comes about and what we really need to survive. A crisis will help us with our auto-determination instead of being influenced and manipulated by the third parties that now disappear. This auto-determination is at first highly frustrating and fearful but after a while it creates openings for new creativity, social relationships and personal entrepreneurship. We suddenly realise that we are alive, with abilities to be self-sufficient, not robots of systems that parasited on us for a long time.
A new world will open up to us, full of new opportunities.
Game over
For many decades the world economy has been much like the family game, Monopoly. This game has reached its end. Soon the winner will be known, the game will be over and can be wrapped up and saved until humanity can get another go.
The comparison with the game is not at all that strange. Monopoly is all about the importance to possess things. The only way to loose is when one has less than someone else. The people who possess streets can build houses and hotels to speculate with income from those who pass by. The obsession that is generated by those who play at that having end of the game is tremendous. Deals are closed to enable the construction of power zones where investments guarantee more income from the unlucky ones that by chance land inside the area and have to pay by the rules of the game. The only other way to go broke is when investments have been too ambitious when one hits the chance card to pay taxes for every house or hotel. Government has a say too in the game.
In real life the game of economics is no different. The bank in Monopoly plays a facilitating role while the greed of the players slowly produce the shake out until a few remain. The loosers get bored and step out in apathy, blocked to play while the winners build their power positions in exitement to see how they can outsmart the others still in the game.
In real life the bank has become yet another player that asks for interests on investments with an interest to place as much money as possible in the debt with interest system. The bank has been emptied already in various occasions but the obsession of the remaining players was so large that they filled it with fake money just to keep on going. Meanwhile the interest on debt remained exponentially in growth. This you can do once, twice, but not all the time. The amount of players left over in the game is continuously reduced but the playing board remains the same. Those who are out of the game cannot play anymore because the entire board is occupied by those who remain in the game. One can only wait until the game is over and that occurs when one has it all.
That stage has been reached in real life. We are close to global game over. America is broke and wants to get a little deeper in the red. Greece can only go further in the red if some of the previous red is cancelled. Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Spain …..are all out of the game. Germany is indecisive and France waits. China is about to pick up the chance card which asks them to pay for the consequences of excessive growth. Who is the winner?
The winners are a bunch of people where all the money goes out of interest rates, the bankers who play the game out of self interest. They do not facilitate the game but changed the rules a long time ago in favor of themselves by making money on money. But interests cannot be paid anymore, properties are all under mortgage and people are reluctant to play this game anymore as it went beyond their control. The only players left are the few people who at the receiving end of interest rates and they have started to play eachother with tricks and turns.
The game is over. The initial players are dead or out of the game. The ones left do not have anyone else left that will be able to pay for their claims, but themselves. And they do not want to play the game among themselves anymore because that would be playing with winners where the only destiny is to loose.
The game is over. Time has come to clean up, become normal people again, to liberate those billions of people who were blocked to play, the greedy forget their obsessions and return to normal human life and evolution. The non greedy will stop to pay for debts they did not make. We become humans again instead of pawns on a gameboard. We may have to learn again how that feels and works. It has been so long ago that we lived in a world without someone pulling strings on us. It will be weird to be free again……Game over? Let’s reshuffle start to play again….all of us.
