Meet my best teachers. They are advocates of all cultures that learn, teach, model and show how to get more abundant supplies of food, energy, learning and health, along with cultures that cultivate access to opportunity to maximize potential for all groups and individuals.
Over the past 3 years, I have been learning from these community heroes who are modeling a new culture of solving age old problems with new tools.
These cultures all share one set of universal principles:
1. They are honest with a tendency toward one set of rules and shared mutual understanding and goals.2. They emphasize FIRST STEPS. This means they are ruthless in evaluating where they are and what they have before they make any plans.
3. They use an "Apollo 13" mentality of making the best use of what the group does have, rather than itemize what the group doesn't have only to get lost in fighting over why that is.
4. They have a clear imagination of exactly what the goal of their mission is.
5. They make decisions based on the clarity of that imagination not in response to available or lost objects.
6. They use mission-based hierarchical structures to plan, brief and execute tasks. But the more power you wield in the hierarchy to more you are expected to serve the mission.
7. They use communal, egalitarian structures for mission analysis and debriefing before and after each plan, brief and execution.
All of this is definitive to any true problem-solvers culture.
Failure to have a good first step can result in jumping out of a plane without a parachute, building a bridge without any nuts and bolts, or planning a political reform that treats symptoms, not roots. It is the most important step, before planning or execution can begin.
The people in this playbook have been some of my best teachers the past 3 years and I believe their culture of thinking represents a clear success in achieving security, abundance and individual and collective freedom.
The best community heroes use a "mission" culture. This best defined in the Marine Corps, a surgical operating room, or while engineering a bridge, road or factory.
I believe that if we teach, model and show good first step practices -- which are being shown to us by our "Greatest Generation," returning war veterans, youth and countless civilians -- a true renaissance is closer than we realize.
I am thrilled to share this Community Hero Playbook with you, featuring some of my most valuable teachers, and ask you to help me expand on them.
Here's to the story of our lifetime!
Dylan
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perhaps you are the problem, and not the solution. the problem never sees itself as the problem.
Y'all have a great plan.
It's way past time someone(s) are willing
to act to save America and the American Dream!
Joni Mitchell had it right. With Dylan Ratigan leaving his perch on MSNBC, that is going to leave a void that I don't see being filled anytime soon.
I never always agreed with Mr. Ratigan, but I was fascinated by his intellect, his honesty, and his solution-oriented approach. He was not a panderer, he actually cared about what he spoke about.
My biggest regret is that I did not watch him more. However, I just bookmarked his blog, which is truly a treasure.
Dylan, the members of Congress, The Senate, former Presidential Cabinet members and other noted citizens who spoke out publicly on his program were only able to reach less than 1% of citizens with their message, because 99% of media failed to carry their words to citizens. Citizens must recognize that it's not our Supreme Court standing between us and needed change, but a media ownership makeup that's unwilling to give up their opportunity to use wealth to gain Legislative favor for the many business entities which they also own. I suggest that The Court would succumb to overwhelming public opinion and media is preventing citizen awareness to the words and actions of those working toward change in order to prevent gathering of such opinion.
If American citizens want change, it is up to American citizens to take the necessary steps.
For a nation that was in two wars, a dying auto industry, a banking system collapse, a housing implosion, and high unemployment, apparently America wasn't that motivated to change.
The Presidential Election of 2008 had less than 60% voter turnout.. about the same as that of 2004.
If people wanted change, there is NO WAY that less than 1% of America would be dictating to the rest.
Do you know..
How many people STILL think Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11?
How many people cannot name their Congressman?
How people can't name one piece of legislation that has been voted on in the last ten years, much less how it may affect them?
Laziness, when coupled with a lack of knowledge will not allow for change.
If you wait to be acted upon, you will be acted upon.
Libyans, Syrians, Iranians and billions of others would appreciate and take advantage of the rights and opportunities Americans so casually throw away.