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How has your initial quarter of 2006 been? Have you changed your job? Changed your enterprise? Changed your life? XL Results Foundation had a historic month in March, with the launch of the XL Social Enterprise Accreditation Program. Offering recognition to Social Enterprises, this system has a target to reach $one hundred million in annual donations by 2020. In this 1st year, our target was to reach $two million in pledges from participating organizations. Within a week of its launch at the Entrepreneur Organization College, the System has currently attracted more than $14.6 million in pledges from participating companies, surpassing all our expectations.
This weeks newsletter is about the origins of Wealth Dynamics, and how such magic happens:
THE ORIGINS OF WEALTH DYNAMICS
All men are created equal
- Thomas Jefferson, 1776
Identical, identical, but different
- Well-liked Thai Expression, 2006
Wealth Dynamics, the profiling method for entrepreneurs, is based on a simple premise that we are not developed equal. We all have innate qualities that set us apart, and it is specifically in these variations that we uncover our distinctive path and contribution in life.
More than 20,000 entrepreneurs have taken the Wealth Dynamics test in the final five years, giving them a concentrate on what they should and shouldnt be undertaking to adhere to their all-natural path of action and attraction. Every of the eight Wealth Dynamics profiles has its personal game with different guidelines, teams, approaches, winning formulas and losing formulas. Each and every identifies the frequency at which you operate in life where you find out your flow and tune in to your goal. Those who have taken the test have located an intuitive resonance with their path.
If these frequencies fit so naturally, exactly where did they come from? When had been they initial identified? And why didnt we find out all this at school?
Ahead of we became so busy following the invention of such things as TVs, combustion engines and electrical energy, people seemed to have a lot a lot more time to contemplate the globe we reside in. The most evolved and influential civilization five,000 years ago was Ancient China, which, according to Chinese mythology, was ruled by 3 mythical sovereigns until about 2,800BC. The 1st of these, Heavenly King Fu Xi, developed the I Ching which became Chinas Oracle for the next four,800 years. While Fu Xi was mythical, the I Ching is quite true. It evolved more than 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 household, government and legal systems.
In the starting there was as yet no moral or social order. Then came Fu Xi who looked upward and contemplated the images in the heavens, and looked downward and contemplated the occurrences on earth. He united man and wife, regulated the five stages of change, and laid down the laws of humanity. He devised the eight trigrams, in order to achieve mastery more than the planet.
From the I Ching.
The I Ching is an incredibly profound insight into the nature of our location in this universe. Translated as The Book of Changes, it is primarily based on the observation that every thing flows from a dynamic balance of opposites, that time modifications in nature as a outcome of this flow, and that within these ever-altering tides there is an immovable, ultimate path for each and every of us. (The Tao, means The Way). The I Ching is more than a philosophical thesis. The I Ching is an extremely intricate study and mapping of time a mapping similar to the mapping of DNA. As soon as the 64 codons of DNA were identified in the 1990s, we had the constructing blocks to decode the genetic sequence of all living issues. So as well, when the I Ching mapped time four,800 years earlier, it gave Chinese masters a extensive 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 spot (and matter): Wood, fire, earth, metal and water. The philosophy behind this code is based on the renowned circular image of the Taiji: The perpetual interplay of Yin & Yang, Evening & Day, Male & Female. The universe was observed as a constant flux, and we have the opportunity to reside in resonance with this flux by understanding it and following our path inside it, or to be in a continual battle against it. (Considerably as a great surfer picks the proper 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 initial four components, and it is this combination that defines our differences. Wealth Dynamics follows virtually all modern psychometric testing, which requires its roots from the I Ching with a single quite considerable distinction
The I Ching remained inaccessible to the Western World for the 1st 4,000 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 world to find out 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 soon 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 more than differences in their views of the unconscious. Although Freud believed that we are the result of our household 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 sorts:
For the very first time this profoundest perform of the Orient was introduced to the West in a living and comprehensible fashion. What he told me, out of his wealth of expertise of the Chinese mentality, clarified some of the most challenging problems 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 initial four Chinese elements: Wood/Spring, Fire/Summer season, Earth/Autumn and Metal/Winter, and relate them to introversion/extroversion, intuitive/sensory and so on. Myers-Briggs eight pairings of kinds match the eight major trigrams of the I Ching. To this extent, Wealth Dynamics shares a widespread supply in Carl Jung. So why need to we go back to the I Ching? What did Jung miss in his typing model?
The considerable distinction 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 match into the Western model of four static elements. As a outcome, he ended with a static model of the unconscious based on four components, exactly where time just played a lead to-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 permitted, but anticipated. This led to him creating and naming two concepts which today are properly recognized: The universal unconscious, and synchronicity (a term he used for the first time at Richard Wilhelms funeral in 1930). He built this into a complete theory of synchronicity in 1952, but he in no way managed to reconcile this operate on the flow of time and consciousness with his static psychological typing, and he died in 1961.
To this day, Jungian character testing treats our character traits as static elements with small partnership to levels of consciousness or spirit. By contrast, in Wealth Dynamics spirit is essential as it is our entrepreneurial spirit that will figure out our wealth.
While modern day science and spirit have often been divided in the West, the East has always taken a more holistic view that time, matter and spirit are necessarily interconnected. Whilst the 4 Greek elements are based on physical elements, the five Chinese elements are not components at all, but states of modify. 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 much more accurately be described as: Develop (Wood), Glow (Fire), Slow (Earth), Know (Metal) and Flow (Water). Although Western culture has focused on a static physical planet, with modifications primarily based on lead to-and-impact (till the advent of quantum mechanics), Chinese culture has constantly focused on states of alter, exactly where nothing at all is static and where we experience completely diverse realities in the context of our state of change in any moment in time.
Wealth Dynamics refers to these five states as frequencies. When we tune in to our frequency (and we all have a dominant frequency), we knowledge a different reality, and we begin to attract the appropriate folks, resources and opportunities as if by luck. A lot of folks call this our flow. Not surprisingly, flow is what we discover in water, the fifth element. As we stick to the strategies to resonate with our organic frequency, we increasingly tune into and knowledge 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 after by way of 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 times when issues come about effortlessly, almost everything falls into location, obstacles melt away, and our timing is best. In those instances, we really feel a deep sense of harmony and underlying order. We know we are in the appropriate location, at the right time, undertaking exactly the appropriate issue."
- Charlene Belitz & Meg Lundstrum, The Energy of Flow
Flow is not an ethereal concept in Wealth Dynamics, but an achievable state, reached by way of a natural step-by-step path that every single of us can tread - since many have tread the path prior to us. (four,800 years ahead of us, in reality).
The end purpose of Wealth Dynamics is not just to know your profile. It is to determine your path, to tune in to your flow, and to fulfill your true prospective.
As far as we can discern, the sole goal of human existence
is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere becoming.
- Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
Find out a lot more about Wealth Dynamics and take the on the web test at www.wealthdynamics.org
AND Finally
You will not see Paul Newman on the list of Hollywood best earners, yet Newman has offered away over $200 million far more than most of todays most profitable Hollywood actors have ever produced. He didnt make that funds from films. He made it from salad dressing.
He began his firm, Newmans Personal on a wager that folks wouldnt get his salad dressing. From day 1, he declared that all income would go to charity. In the 1st year, Newmans Personal was successful sufficient to donate close to $1 million to charity. By 2006, the company had reached an astounding $200 million in donations to charities.
Whats far more, the achievement of Newmans Personal has considering that catapulted Newmans involvement in philanthropy to an totally new level. Newmans expertise inspired him to launch the Committee to Encourage Corporate Philanthropy (CECP) in 1999. In the 5 years because launch, the CECP has encouraged corporate giving in America. Nowadays, the CECP is chaired by Citigroups CEO, Sandy Weill, and the membership list is a whos who of Americas leading CEOs and Chairmen, representing companies that gave over $7 billion to charities in 2005.
Newmans uncompromising approach to generating a distinction is summed up in the slogan of his business, Newmans Personal:
Shameless Exploitation in Pursuit of the Typical Very good
If Butch Cassidy can have this kind of accomplishment, what can you accomplish? What will you modify in the coming quarter? Adjust the dressing? Change the channel? Alter the globe?
Belief, courage, action
Roger Hamilton
Chairman
XL Group
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