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“David and Goliath in heated debate about the Law Of Attraction”

There was a Tweet recently by John Reese saying not to waste time complaining. He also said strange how only the small guys whinge, never from anyone better than the accused. (my paraphrasing – sorry John).

I don’t have my own answer for this, just a few observations;

In business, absolutely, the golden rule is NEVER to bash your competition. It just makes you seem small and makes them out to be important. Plus as you are competition, no one will believe you any way. So it falls in to the any PR is good PR, even if it is negative. A “clever” company will either ignore it (thereby nullifying the importance of your opinion and making you out as one of the 2% of trolls) or make a positive reaction saying, it’s not as bad as you make out, but we take it on board and are improving it as of now, thanks for bringing it to our attention.

I guess the metaphors are sweeping it under the rug and framing it on the wall.

But as a person, human, member of society, can we afford to live in a vacuum?
Can we allow torture, wife beating, child abuse, drug punchers, the mafia, racism, bulling, harassment, global warming, to go unchallenged, just because we should be doing better things in our business or personal business?

This brings me back to the post that John Reese kindly commented on about real people identities in the web0sphere.
AFAIC we actually all probably have at least 3 “GENUINE” identities. So only having one on the web doesn’t really fit. Neither does mixing those 3 together.

1. We have a professional work/business persona.
2. We have the (hopefully) loving, caring and friendly nature of relationship (husband, wife, father, son, best friend).
3. We have the member of society and the community and part-time caretaker of planet earth and humanity.

The last one may not seem that important, but come war time, you are even expected to drop 1 & 2 and fight for your country and/or your beliefs. If we were invaded by “nasty” and/or “bullying” aliens from planet Zarg, you would probably take time off to go slap one.
Running my own company, or John as a CEO, sure we can represent our companies as figure heads. And I accept that

Or does a company on the web these days, need to be a real person, but one living in a vacuum of I mus focus on only me?

I’m really not sure of the correct answer for me. I have no idea of the correct answer for you!

If success and money means you don’t have time to worry about other people and the world, what use it?

I “think”that a company can live in it’s own vacuum to achieve what it needs to do. Even that that needs to be balanced with society, and the art it plays in the community. i.e. jobs, pollution, ecology, ethical practices, taxation to feed the government, etc..

As individuals I don’t “feel” we can afford to neglect our humanity. We need to speak out. We need to act.

Now when injustice in business appears, maybe your business can’t speak out, but maybe as a person you can.

But when the two are closely linked, can either of you afford to?

You’d hope a business would speak out against torture or slave labour. But we know seat shops still exist and we probably still buy and benefit from it, even if unknowingly. We know that the business behind them can;t speak out, or their company would suffer (and they’d personally get sacked). But as a person, they probably have some good karma somewhere and may be do what they can. Probably the same as we can all achieve, which is just to help 1 other person at a time, in some (small way). Like a smile. A courtesy. An encouragement. It costs nothing, does it…

It seems strange that 1 persons success, generally relies on other peoples failure. A rich person relies on there being less rich people, called poor people. But if there was no benefit or no reward to working harder or thinking smarter, then why would any one bother? Communism and Utopian equal societies don’t appear to work as a concept.

I think the challenge is in degrees. As always it’s about balance. How much richer, or how much poorer should the other people be? Starving and poverty surely is going too far. Does everyone have a chance to get out of their cycle. Can they, or even should they, be given a helping hand? How and who decides who is top of the list? This seems to be something that even the concept of the God, can not solve. Mother Nature itself seems a harsh master of “survival of the fittest”. How or how becomes the fittest, I’m not sure what determines that. Maybe it is just will power. If the little chick had just given one extra push on day 1, to get the feed, it would not be dead today. Who knows…

There are massive questions here. I certainly don’t have “the” answer, probably not even any answers.

This is my “personal” blog. I can (and probably should) talk like this. Should it change whether you want to buy from me or not? I hope not! Because your view of me is probably negative

I ruin the blog status quo by talking about elements of my business sometimes, which are (thankfully) largely anonymous and unconnected. Being someone who has been depressed or who is currently having life goal issues, is not the best image for a CEO.

Or at lest it didn’t used to be. Maybe I am too old to understand.

Maybe the future is 100% transparency. But I really don’t want to know if he person with his finger on the global nuclear bomb has irritable bowel syndrome, or if he masturbates, or likes dressing in womens clothing, or was abused as a child.

You can see it’s ALL about balance. About degrees. We probably need to know if he has a criminal record or a psychological problem (hmm, Bush, hmm), but past that, can we rely on him “professionally”, not as a man, not to nuke us all to a frazzle.

As I said, I think we all have at least 3 identities. I don’t think any of them sit well together. As a business owner, would I say something different? Personally, actually, no. But if I owned a company whose only source of income was a “3 way blogging with transparency widget” I’d either have to retire, or say it wasn’t a totally bad thing

Maybe it is as simple as sharing a human interest in your business customers. Like the milkman saying “how are you today Mrs Person” or the Newsagent going “what about your team Chelsea, ey”. But how does that translate to the web. Especially an impersonal, non real-time web, where you post and leave comments. And that’s what Twitter is, all said and done. And even IM (Instant Messaging) isn’t too far behind if you think about it.

It’s ALL about “balance”.

Even though Twitter.com is only 140 characters per post, from John_Reese tweets from 1 week I know this about him;

He is obsessed with games and cars, likes gadgets, hardly ever sleeps, thinks you should be transparent (?), thinks you can’t afford to not focus on your goals, and was bankrupt when he was 23. And he thinks he is at “war” as he keeps going to the war room to do “strategy” But I have no idea who he is at war with! It’s probably people like me

Does any of that help me to buy income 2 or folder 3.0, or whatever else it is?

If that was ALL I knew about him, probably not. It would probably be negatives.

By reputation I have heard he is clever “professionally”. I’ve never bought anything from him, so its still unproven in my world.

Do I know him?I’ve read his Tweets and he commented on my blog once (very chuffed) to tell me I was wrong. So does that come in to the Milkman “how are you today” territory? Probably not.

One personal 1:1 email, or phonecall, and that would be 100% different.

The difference with the Internet is that it IS remote, and it is not (largely) real time. It is uber INSTANT, but it isn’t the 1:1 business (or personal) relationships that we know outside of the monitor.

Maybe “think outside of the box” means think behind the Internet. Hmm. (SFX cold shudder).

So when somebody takes the little money I have and/or abuses me, or I see them abusing or misleading others, then I feel the need to speak out, personally. My company doesn’t book adverts in the times about it (maybe it should?) but I feel the need to say “no”.

Yes I am a nobody attacking bigger fish. Yes you don’t hear people who do have money complain. Maybe they can afford not to, or maybe they don;t get scammed in to buying cheap rubbish because they buy up-market.

Does that mean I should sty silent? Does that mean I shouldn’t try to help, warn and try to get resolved, the issues that affect people at my level and below?

Does that make me a “troll” or someone who “nothing would please you” or someone who lives his life to complain? I can’t see that myself I do seem to have been “unlucky” recently, but then I’ve only dealt with people who do Internet Marketing recently. It’s quite natural for a market to play on the “dreams” and aspirations of it’s clients. Any “enabling” purchase if embroiled with this if you think about it. The trouble with IM is that peoples lives and mortgages are at stake, as they max out their credit cards, in the vein hope of achieving that final push to success (or eating that week).

Naturally the purchasers are not blameless. Make or break desperate acts by definition can break you. But when the sales letter is basically “lies” and decpetion and had no hope of working, and isn’t working for anybody(other than the law of averages 0.2%) then it is a game with serious ramifications and responsibilities.

And if it is a war (like John Reese likes to analogise) then there will be casualties. Whose side you are, who are the enemy and what s propoganda. What s the point behind it anyway. All the usual factors.

My point?

In Law of Attraction (Abraham Hicks) and Simpleology (Mark Joyner) it makes complete LIFE CHANGING sense to “concentrate on the positive” and “head to your goals without distraction”. (my paraphrasing.) I mean if you can get this, it can totally change your world upside down for the more productive and more fulfilling better.

But in my world, life is not a straight line. Not even a zig zag.
Life is more like a circle. A circle or “pie” (apple) that contains your 3 identities.

How long you spend in each sector, probably impacts on your quality of life. But I’m pretty sure that “I” can’t live in only one slice of that pie.

Peter

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