I observed in my life that 20 percent of the people did 80 percent of the work. No matter what I was involved in, school, farming, work and charity there never seemed to be enough people standing next to me, working side by side. I found very few standing on stage or receiving awards next to me either. 80 percent of your outcomes come from 20 percent of your inputs. 20 percent of employees are responsible for 80 percent of a company’s output or 20 percent of customers are responsible for 80 percent of the revenues. 20 percent of the people will come up with 80 percent of the good ideas, 80% of income is received by 20% of the population. 20% are the movers and shakers. 20% of the people are able to navigate away from GMO food or 20% are able to build the home of their dreams. When you start to analyze and breakdown your life into elements it’s very easy to see 80/20 ratios all over the place. Personally I’m not a big fan of math beyond the basics of money counting. I work better with feelings, ideas and concepts. I am, however, really into "what's fair" and not a big fan of lazy folks and I often wondered how this kind of life could be sustainable.
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Jesus told His disciples: "The harvest is indeed plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray therefore to the Lord of the harvest, that he may send out laborers into his harvest" (Luke 10:2). |
In 2004, I was hired by Keiko Tamaguchi to come to New Zealand and help design, build and operate a Healing Community with over 40 Alternative Health Practitioners. By the time I arrived overseas, the project funder had backed out. Yikes. The blessing was that I did meet a Civil Engineer, Quentin, and we eventually returned together to the states as husband and wife.
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In 2012 I was hired by Tito Vasquez a Southern California Entrepreneur, to write a business plan for a Company. The twist was that the distribution factory would be built within a Sober Living Eco-Village with Homeless Shelter that would be maintained by 10% of the company profits. With a brief outline of what he wanted, for 6 months, I was given the opportunity to design an incredible Square Mile Community with operating farming complex to feed the residents. I thought here I could find my forever home. Sadly, the project funding never materialized on this project either and my dream of living in an incredible community I designed was dashed away again.
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In 2017 we moved to Alabama for a business venture and within our first week we realized that our future business partners were not a fit. We suddenly found ourselves stranded, no business, no home, no money, and no options.
We turned it over to God and of course He save us from this train-wreck and got us back on our feet. (see this page for details). |