Cost as a Principle
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Costs is a Principle of Business
§ Cost is an absolute Principle of Business, true for every Business without fail. In other words, you cannot be in Business without having Costs. In the Global marketplace, there is always Space, Energy, Matter, Time and Exchange, No Exceptions!! This an Objective Reality.
I have for the last 3 years been pounding on the thought that Cost is one of the principles of doing business. I know that most HU-Beings really think they understand the thought of cost.
Take the Time and ask the question….What is Cost?
I’m always amazed when I ask that very simple question by how many HU-Being look at ME like, “What are you stupid? Everybody knows what cost is”. I know who I’m really talking to by their answer to my simple question.
Sales people, Bankers, Store people, Wives, Husbands, Coaches, Teachers, Educators….. no matter who I talk to, I get a very different HU-Being reality. More importantly, the way a HU-Being answers is far more important than the words they use. Even more important is the way a HU-Being’s physical appearance looks when they answer the question.
Let “ME” explain from my experiences of my last 10 years. I have been on a personal quest to understand how as a HU-Being I learn and what it is I can be my best at.
Side Bar: I don’t believe in Right and Wrong, Good or Bad, Winning or Losing. These to “ME” are moments in Time that are in the past. What is Right today seems to be Wrong Tomorrow. “Oh, that is Good for “ME” today”. “Stop. That is bad for ME tomorrow. I Win something today only to Lose it tomorrow”.
We live in an Environment that is Dynamic, always in motion. Here now, gone later. Life is about Space and Energy, living in a dance of Feedbacksand Exchanging loops of Energy and Space.
I can say very clearly that the most important lessons of 10 years of asking the questions:
How do I learn?
And
What is Important to “ME”?
Are……
· Life is always “IN” a Space (ENVIRONMENT)
· Energy is always in Motion, Exchanging with Energies in Motion, creating…..
· Matter that dances for moments in Time and becomes something else over Time
· Feedback loops are everywhere (Invisible-Visible-Invisible), always Distributive Exchanging, coming together and then moving apart.
· Space determines Capacity; Movement determines Capabilities
· HU-Beings have limited choices to create their own Futures within the G.O.D. (Great Original Design)
· Universe is greater than ME. No Space of Universe = NO need for Energy in Motion
· The greatest gifts from the G.O.D. for Omni-HU-Beings are Awareness, Presence and Choices to Increase our Capabilities inside the Earthian Biosphere.
We, as HU-Beings, have an ability to Create Futures by Design
Cost is Part of the Great Original Design
On my journey of self-realizations, I have found that life is full of struggle (hence the name Struggledork) as part of the design of Universe. I’m not a Darwinian (survival of the strongest or fittest). I believe that by Design, Universe demands the BEST of Omni-Energy sources and is very indifferent to results. I must always be my BEST whether or not I am the Best. To qualify for a future….. what difference do I make? Am I worthy of my thoughts carrying on into the future? (For any HU-Beings reading this…… our bodies are long past being important for HU-Beings’ survival on planet earth).
The future of HU-Beings’ survival is in the realms of invisible Brain/Mind=1 connections. Technologies have made the physical being live on the borders of redundancies. The idea of a physical job of labour is becoming a relic of yesterday. Your HU-Being ability to Feel, Think and make Decisions is far more important than how fast you move or how much weight you can lift. Your thumbs control more Space than you whole body. Linked to the internet, your thumbs are connected to a nuclear ENERGY FORCE of Action, Reaction, Resultant. To top it all off, the Globe has far too many Thumbs. Like it or not, even your thumbs are redundant.
The world Must Have Empathic HU-Beings who can:
FEEL-THINK-DECIDE-ACT-MONITER FEEDBACK LOOPS
CORRECT
REPEAT the PROCESS
I’m sorry for my directness in this matter. I think it is time to take a stand on what I know and live or die by taking a RISK or a Position of Created Futures.
For years, I have seen stupid actions and sat on the fence.
Stupid: regarded as showing a lack of intelligence, perception, or common sense
Stupid is the only word I can think of that describes the behaviours that I observe. Perhaps the leader of the stupid pack is “ME”. (That is why I understand the Power of the word).
For the last 5 years, I have been cleaning out all the mistakes I have made. I’m happy to say that I at the other end of my own stupide. My only saving Grace is Judy and our family, who have been totally supportive, of both my great and my poor performances.
5-6 years ago, I was working with a company that was considered to a leader in what it taught. The people in the company really taught winning and losing, right and wrong. I was right in the middle and being my best at the idea. Before I decided to join the company, I was very good at what I did…. Really, that is why they wanted me to be part of their global plan. I worked very hard at the idea, with all my energy. I took my Being away from what I was best at and became part of someone else’s idea.
I was always told, “Fake it to you make it”. Stupid at its best, “Tell yourself a lie and hope like hell the lie works”. For “ME”, the lie did not work. It was very costly…..nearly killing “ME” with the shame of my volume of mistakes. (NB from Judy: The cost was much more than just money. We lost our reputations, our credibility, our credit, trust, relationships, time, energy, flow etc. It has taken a lot of time, energy, focus and follow-through to re-build our reputations and credibility, which I am very happy to say we now have).
John: It was also very expensive…. I lost USD $ 3.5 million USD of my family’s wealth which had been created over many years. It is funny what my ego did for “ME”.
This week, I was IN Laredo Texas correcting my mistakes. We have a great Business in Texas that for 2 years been under-performing. I had to decide to either walk away or face my mistakes. Judy has always been my gauge of realities. Judy keeps “ME” honest to myself.
Net Score…. We owe USD $23 K in Cash Flow and don’t have the money. We own outright USD $ 300 K of stock and machinery, all under-performing. The equipment and stock looked like shit…. Dirty and uncared for. Simple…. John, just make some sales and problem solved. That to “ME” is faking it until you make it. If it looks like shit, it is shit…..Marketing 101. Everyone that comes within 10 mile of the brand knows it looks and smells like it is dying….stay clear. I have just spent 2 weeks cleaning, every day. Not just the workshop, but agreements, relationships, processes etc.
I did not make one sales call outside the shop…(okay, just 1). Funny thing is that every day as we cleaned, we started making sales. We set a record for sales on the 3rd day I was there. If you care and love what you do, everyone can feel what is happening. The long and the short of it is that the Ethos of a business is the most important aspect of business. All businesses have a spirit or an Ethos that always is revealed by the character of the energy that sets the Quality and Standard. I have been lacking character, hoping to fake whilst I make it.
I will keep writing about Cost and give very clear examples over the next few lessons. The cost of poor decisions far out-weighs physical work practises.
Costs are:
ü Space: Family, Communities, Marketplace, Suppliers, Bankers, Tax, Governments, Customers
ü Energy: Distributing HU-Being Doings, Selling, Buying, Making, Supplying, Recording
ü Matter: Products, Materials, Locations
ü Time: a Measurement and Calibrator of increased returns IN OUT BETWEEN AROUND OMNI- Directions of a Marketplace
ü Exchange: Money = a way of Value Distributions Between Businesses
Until next week
JDS OUT
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