Getting Along in the World Where We Live

I don’t mean to get too heavy here, but it does raise the ques­tion of how we suc­cess­fully nav­i­gate this maze of oppos­ing views in our daily lives. Is the answer more lawyers, PR firms and lob­by­ists? Isn’t that what’s going on now? I’d like to hope there’s a less adver­sar­ial way we can get along together.

As we tell our chil­dren, our actions can often have consequences—positive or neg­a­tive. We have the power to poten­tially increase or decrease the qual­ity of some­one else’s life. That’s a big respon­si­bil­ity. Remember the Golden Rule we all were taught? That wis­dom was passed down for gen­er­a­tions as a way of help­ing us eval­u­ate our actions by sim­ply putting our­selves in the other person’s shoes.

If we real­ize that nearly every per­son, every cor­po­ra­tion and every coun­try believes they are doing the right thing even when dia­met­ri­cally opposed to others, we begin to see the mag­ni­tude of the prob­lem. Somehow we all have to get along, and the room is get­ting more crowded by the day.

In the nat­ural prod­ucts indus­try, we under­stand the value of think­ing holis­ti­cally. We real­ize that the whole, work­ing syn­er­gis­ti­cally, is greater than the sum of its parts. It’s those organic con­nec­tions that are the key to nature’s amaz­ing heal­ing power.

Despite the con­flicts played out in the daily news, I believe the world is mov­ing in a pos­i­tive direc­tion. I think this new course is moti­vated by a global recog­ni­tion of cli­mate change. Necessity serves as a cat­a­lyst  for think­ing beyond our own self-interest and open­ing our hearts to our fel­low humans, as well as respect­ing our plants and ani­mals and car­ing for the soil, air and water of our liv­ing planet. 

I’m encour­aged by the numer­ous intel­li­gent and heart­felt peo­ple who are becom­ing part of the solu­tion in their per­sonal and busi­ness lives. Technology has dra­mat­i­cally increased our abil­ity to con­nect and to express our­selves. I feel opti­mistic that we can learn to work together in har­mony with each other and with nature.

What do you think? Email me at ken@organicconnectmag.com.

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