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How has your first quarter of 2006 been? Have you changed your job? Changed your business? Changed your life? XL Benefits Foundation had a historic month in March, with the launch of the XL Social Enterprise Accreditation Plan. Offering recognition to Social Enterprises, this plan has a target to reach $one hundred million in annual donations by 2020. In this 1st year, our target was to attain $2 million in pledges from participating organizations. Inside a week of its launch at the Entrepreneur Organization College, the System has already attracted over $14.six million in pledges from participating firms, surpassing all our expectations.
This weeks newsletter is about the origins of Wealth Dynamics, and how such magic occurs:
THE ORIGINS OF WEALTH DYNAMICS
All men are produced equal
- Thomas Jefferson, 1776
Exact same, same, but distinct
- Well-known Thai Expression, 2006
Wealth Dynamics, the profiling system for entrepreneurs, is primarily based on a standard premise that we are not designed equal. We all have innate qualities that set us apart, and it is exactly in these variations that we locate our special path and contribution in life.
Over 20,000 entrepreneurs have taken the Wealth Dynamics test in the final five years, giving them a focus on what they ought to and shouldnt be doing to follow their natural path of action and attraction. Every single of the eight Wealth Dynamics profiles has its own game with distinct rules, teams, methods, winning formulas and losing formulas. Each identifies the frequency at which you operate in life exactly where you discover your flow and tune in to your goal. These who have taken the test have found an intuitive resonance with their path.
If these frequencies match so naturally, exactly where did they come from? When had been they initial identified? And why didnt we learn all this at college?
Before we became so busy soon after the invention of such factors as TVs, combustion engines and electricity, individuals seemed to have a lot a lot more time to contemplate the world we live in. The most evolved and influential civilization 5,000 years ago was Ancient China, which, according to Chinese mythology, was ruled by 3 mythical sovereigns till about 2,800BC. The very first of these, Heavenly King Fu Xi, developed the I Ching which became Chinas Oracle for the next 4,800 years. Whilst Fu Xi was mythical, the I Ching is very real. It evolved over 4 dynasties and two,000 years prior to becoming the basis for Chinas two central philosophies, Taoism and Confucianism in 600BC. These have influenced wide ranging places to this day, from Buddhism, and Feng Shui to our formalized family, government and legal systems.
In the beginning there was as however no moral or social order. Then came Fu Xi who looked upward and contemplated the photos in the heavens, and looked downward and contemplated the occurrences on earth. He united man and wife, regulated the 5 stages of alter, and laid down the laws of humanity. He devised the eight trigrams, in order to achieve mastery over the globe.
From the I Ching.
The I Ching is an incredibly profound insight into the nature of our place in this universe. Translated as The Book of Changes, it is based on the observation that every thing flows from a dynamic balance of opposites, that time adjustments in nature as a result of this flow, and that within these ever-altering tides there is an immovable, ultimate path for each of us. (The Tao, implies The Way). The I Ching is much more than a philosophical thesis. The I Ching is an incredibly intricate study and mapping of time a mapping comparable to the mapping of DNA. After the 64 codons of DNA have been identified in the 1990s, we had the developing blocks to decode the genetic sequence of all living things. So too, when the I Ching mapped time four,800 years earlier, it gave Chinese masters a complete method to decode time.
In the I Ching, 64 Hexagrams combining Yin and Yang make up the complete DNA of time (and power). These interplay with the five elements of location (and matter): Wood, fire, earth, metal and water. The philosophy behind this code is primarily based on the well-known circular image of the Taiji: The perpetual interplay of Yin & Yang, Evening & Day, Male & Female. The universe was noticed as a constant flux, and we have the opportunity to reside in resonance with this flux by understanding it and following our path within it, or to be in a continual battle against it. (Much as a great surfer picks the appropriate wave not by riding the wave, but by reading the ocean).
As we are born from energy to matter, we take on varying qualities of the 1st 4 components, and it is this mixture that defines our variations. Wealth Dynamics follows nearly all modern day psychometric testing, which requires its roots from the I Ching with one particular quite substantial difference
The I Ching remained inaccessible to the Western Globe for the very first four,000 years of its life. This changed in 1911 when Richard Wilhelm, a German missionary and scholar in China, met Lao Nai-hsuan, a Chinese sage in the I Ching. Lao believed it was time for the Western planet to discover of the I Ching, and from 1913 to 1921 the two of them worked with each other at translating the intricacies of the I Ching into German. Lao died in 1921 as quickly as the translation was completed, and Wilhelm took the translation back to Germany.
It was here that he met psychoanalyst, Carl Jung. Jung had been Sigmund Freuds understudy for six years, and he had fallen out with his mentor over variations in their views of the unconscious. While Freud believed that we are the result of our loved ones and social conditioning, Jung believed we are born with inherent traits. When Wilhelm showed Jung his translation of the I Ching, it had a profound impact on Jung, to the extent that Jung wrote the introduction to the book and helped to get the I Ching published. From the I Ching and his conversations with Wilhelm, Jung gained a new clarity into the nature of character varieties:
For the first time this profoundest operate of the Orient was introduced to the West in a living and comprehensible style. What he told me, out of his wealth of knowledge of the Chinese mentality, clarified some of the most difficult troubles that the European unconscious had posed for me.
Carl Jung
Jungs new insights led to the basis of Jungian psychological typing, which subsequently led to psychometric testing models such as Myers-Briggs and DISC profiling. These tests take the nature of opposites in the 1st 4 Chinese components: Wood/Spring, Fire/Summer, Earth/Autumn and Metal/Winter, and relate them to introversion/extroversion, intuitive/sensory and so on. Myers-Briggs eight pairings of sorts match the eight primary trigrams of the I Ching. To this extent, Wealth Dynamics shares a typical supply in Carl Jung. So why have to we go back to the I Ching? What did Jung miss in his typing model?
The substantial difference in Wealth Dynamics to other psychometric tests is in its relation to time and the fifth element, water. Jung discarded the fifth element as it did not fit into the Western model of 4 static components. As a result, he ended with a static model of the unconscious based on 4 components, where time just played a trigger-and-effect part in life. This was ugly and incomplete, and Jung knew it.
Jung turned his interest to the intentional coincidences and total inter-connectedness of all things that the I Ching philosophy not only allowed, but expected. This led to him developing and naming two ideas which nowadays are well known: The universal unconscious, and synchronicity (a term he used for the very first time at Richard Wilhelms funeral in 1930). He constructed this into a full theory of synchronicity in 1952, but he by no means managed to reconcile this work on the flow of time and consciousness with his static psychological typing, and he died in 1961.
To this day, Jungian personality testing treats our character traits as static elements with small partnership to levels of consciousness or spirit. By contrast, in Wealth Dynamics spirit is crucial as it is our entrepreneurial spirit that will figure out our wealth.
Whilst modern day science and spirit have constantly been divided in the West, the East has often taken a a lot more holistic view that time, matter and spirit are necessarily interconnected. While the four Greek components are primarily based on physical elements, the 5 Chinese components are not elements at all, but states of alter. Fire does not refer to fire, but the state that fire is in when it warms. Wood does not refer to the wood in trees, but the state that wood is in when it grows. The 5 Chinese components could more accurately be described as: Develop (Wood), Glow (Fire), Slow (Earth), Know (Metal) and Flow (Water). Even though Western culture has focused on a static physical world, with changes based on cause-and-effect (till the advent of quantum mechanics), Chinese culture has always focused on states of modify, where nothing at all is static and where we experience totally different realities in the context of our state of change in any moment in time.
Wealth Dynamics refers to these 5 states as frequencies. When we tune in to our frequency (and we all have a dominant frequency), we encounter a various reality, and we start to attract the right men and women, sources and opportunities as if by luck. Numerous people call this our flow. Not surprisingly, flow is what we find in water, the fifth element. As we follow the approaches to resonate with our all-natural frequency, we increasingly tune into and experience flow.
"These coincidences, which Jung termed synchronicity, are confident indicators you are in the flow Flow is a harmony of getting that has been sought following through the centuries in the spiritual traditions of the world. In the East, it has been linked to the Tao, the underlying interconnectedness of the Universe. In our lives, flow is clear in these instances when items take place effortlessly, everything falls into place, obstacles melt away, and our timing is perfect. In those instances, we really feel a deep sense of harmony and underlying order. We know we are in the right location, at the proper time, performing precisely the proper thing."
- Charlene Belitz & Meg Lundstrum, The Power of Flow
Flow is not an ethereal notion in Wealth Dynamics, but an achievable state, reached by way of a organic step-by-step path that each of us can tread - since a lot of have tread the path ahead of us. (4,800 years just before us, in reality).
The finish goal of Wealth Dynamics is not just to know your profile. It is to recognize your path, to tune in to your flow, and to fulfill your correct possible.
As far as we can discern, the sole objective of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere getting.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Uncover out a lot more about Wealth Dynamics and take the online test at www.wealthdynamics.org
AND Ultimately
You will not see Paul Newman on the list of Hollywood top earners, yet Newman has provided away over $200 million much more than most of todays most successful Hollywood actors have ever made. He didnt make that money from films. He created it from salad dressing.
He started his firm, Newmans Personal on a wager that people wouldnt purchase his salad dressing. From day 1, he declared that all profits would go to charity. In the initial year, Newmans Own was productive adequate to donate close to $1 million to charity. By 2006, the organization had reached an astounding $200 million in donations to charities.
Whats a lot more, the good results of Newmans Personal has given that catapulted Newmans involvement in philanthropy to an totally new level. Newmans experience inspired him to launch the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) in 1999. In the five years since launch, the CECP has encouraged corporate providing in America. Right now, the CECP is chaired by Citigroups CEO, Sandy Weill, and the membership list is a whos who of Americas prime CEOs and Chairmen, representing companies that gave over $7 billion to charities in 2005.
Newmans uncompromising method to producing a distinction is summed up in the slogan of his firm, Newmans Own:
Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Widespread Excellent
If Butch Cassidy can have this type of accomplishment, what can you achieve? What will you modify in the coming quarter? Modify the dressing? Adjust the channel? Alter the world?
Belief, courage, action
Roger Hamilton
Chairman
XL Group
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