Grow To Sustain Yourself
SUSTAINABLE LIFE: THE NEW SUCCESS
SUSTAINABLE LIFE: THE NEW SUCCESS
Peggy Liu, founder of the Joint U.S-China Collaboration on Clean Energy says that the “conspicuous consumption epitomized by the American ‘success story’ cannot be followed by China, or the planet will be stripped bare of the natural resources to make all that the Chinese consumers want to consume.”
Know just a few trends and you will realize the sobering truth. China’s middle class of 300 million is expected to reach 800 million in a dozen years. Between now and 2020, China plans to build 225 new cities with a minimum population of one million year each. It is projected that because of Shanghai’s growth, it will not have enough water in seven years.
Yet, the Chinese way of success and it’s “success story” could be revolutionary and sustainable as it breaks the tie between income growth and rising resource consumption. Liu and her cohorts have sought to develop sustainable habits in the emergent Chinese consuming class by redefining personal prosperity, which means “not necessarily ‘owning’ better products and services, but also by ‘sharing’ so that everyone gets a piece of a better pie and everyone wins.” She continues, “the Chinese government must have a plan to steer consumer behavior toward a sustainable path, but it doesn’t yet.”
As Thomas Friedman, prize-winning author of “The World is Flat, says, “Americans and Europeans also need to rethink how to sustain rising middle classes with rising incomes, otherwise the convergence of warming, consuming and crowding will mean we grow ourselves to death.”
The purpose of my work is to connect our expanding expectations of prosperity with a more sustainable lifestyle and set of values in China and in the world. My new book, “Sustainable Life: The New Success” redefines success as sustainability. It is impossible to have a sustainable world that can survive without changing people’s expectations and behaviors. This is what my book and my work seek to do –.
grow people with a new set of skill that I call the “sustain-abilities,” which create a healthy, balanced and whole way of life that can evolve and endure.
This sustainable way of life is about quality of life not quantity.
It’s about creativity and creation as valued as the new consumption.
It’s about sharing with others, not owning.
It’s about living in harmony with nature (Nature knows how to sustain like it has for four billion years. In my work, nature is the teacher and model of sustainability).
It’s about aliveness – living well and living long, able to continuously restore, recharge and renew yourself. (In today’s demanding and changing, competitive world, my work shows you how to keep going and going successfully).
It’s about valuing your legacy in the long-term and not just short-term gratification.
The sustainable way of life is about sustaining ourselves as individuals, our society, our world and our environment and resources. We cannot have one without the other.
Now is the time.
What I Blog About… THE ORACLE LIFE
“The Oracle Life” is a way of life for seeing the future and creating the future.
This path follows the ancient adage that “everything is connected to everything” – all phenomenon in the world is mirrored within ourselves and vice versa. Everything is a sign and symbol for discovery, creation, and sustainability for us personally, professionally and planetary.
In these times of extraordinary change and uncertainty, the old roadmaps for how to live are obsolete. How do you navigate life now? This Blog explores the promise and perils of prediction and foresight that include the intuitive brain, forecasts of visionaries, inner archetypes and mythic imagination, the so-called”animal spirits” of finance, modern day tarot as burgeoning field of “folk therapy,” evolutionary psychology and sociobiology, the mystique of algorithms, socio-economic trends, startling neuroscience studies, and more.
Having seen the probable and possible, what to do and how to be? The oracular way, which dates back to the Temple of Delphi in ancient Greece, counsels self-knowing and self-creating. Investigating the principle of “self-fulfilling prophecy” and the art, science and magic of fortune creation and golden rules of manifestation, this Blog shows the various ways and means for realizing visions and dreams, from cognitive behavior adjustments, to storytelling and power of metaphor, to circles of wisdom and support groups, and to universal and activating “maps of life.”
“The Oracle Life” pays special attention to the greatest challenge and opportunity of today and tomorrow – sustainability. In a demanding, diversifying, competitive, aging, and youthful emergent world, the “new success” is how to sustain yourself – which are discussed here as a wholistic set of “sustain-abilities” for ongoing renewal. In this “as above, so below” pathway, I blog about how the sustainable life perspective – “thinking like nature” – is the key to health, work, relationships, society, and ultimately, the environment.
Included In this wide-ranging commentary are my personal observations and experiences as the “Intrepid Voyager” traveling throughout Asia, the America’s, and Europe in my work as a consultant, trainer, coach and oracle. Of recent interest to me are China, men/women rebalancing, new media, technology and consciousness, green living, longevity, new mental and emotional pathologies, and pop phenomena such as street art, “hello kitty” strangeness, to have hair or not, films with a message, and…
James Wanless, Ph.D, Columbia University, former Political Science professor, is a futurist and pioneer of new thinking who lectures and teach throughout the world. He is the creator of “Sustain Yourself Cards” and the modern classic, “Voyager Tarot,” and author of Sustainable Life: The New Success, Way of the Great Oracle, Strategic Intuition for the 21st century, and Intuition@Work.
www.sustainyourselfcards.com; www.voyagertarot.com
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Why China (and the World) Should Embrace “Sustainable Life: The New Success” and Hire Me to Teach this Way of Life.
Peggy Liu, founder of the Joint U.S-China Collaboration on Clean Energy says that the “conspicuous consumption epitomized by the American ‘success story’ cannot be followed by China, or the planet will be stripped bare of the natural resources to make all that the Chinese consumers want to consume.”
Know just a few trends and you will realize the sobering truth. China’s middle class of 300 million is expected to reach 800 million in a dozen years. Between now and 2020, China plans to build 225 new cities with a minimum population of one million year each. It is projected that because of Shanghai’s growth, it will not have enough water in seven years.
On the other hand, the Chinese way of success could be revolutionary and sustainable as it breaks the tie between income growth and rising resource consumption. Liu and her cohorts have sought to develop sustainable habits in the emergent Chinese consuming class by redefining personal prosperity, which means “not necessarily ‘owning’ better products and services, but also by ‘sharing’ so that everyone gets a piece of a better pie and everyone wins.” She continues, “the government must have a plan to steer consumer behavior toward a sustainable path, but it doesn’t yet.”
As Thomas Friedman, prize-winning author of “The World is Flat, says, “Americans and Europeans also need to rethink how to sustain rising middle classes with rising incomes in a warming world, otherwise the convergence of warming, consuming and crowding will mean we grow ourselves to death.”
The purpose of my work is to connect our expanding expectations of prosperity with a more sustainable lifestyle and set of values in China and in the world. My new book, “Sustainable Life: The New Success” redefines success as sustainability. It is impossible to have a sustainable world that can survive without changing people’s expectations and behaviors. This is what my book and my work seek to do –.
grow ourselves with a new set of skill that I call the “sustain-abilities,” which create a healthy, balanced and whole way of life.
This sustainable way of life is about quality of life not quantity of stuff and more stuff.
It’s about creativity and creation as the new consumption.
It’s about living in harmony with nature, and sharing with others.
It’s about aliveness – living well and living long, able to continuously restore, recharge and renew yourself.
It’s about valuing your legacy in the long-term and not just short-term gratification.
“Sensory Thinking!” (Think Like a Plant!)
In our busy mind and modern world, we forget to sense. We think and think and forget to listen to the tone while we focus on the words. We view the world with names and labels but we don’t see it. We need and want to touch, but it’s loaded with assumed motives and so we don’t. We like to taste but we gorge with such speed that we don’t really savor.
And smell is “smelly,” so we seek to cover it up. Because of our modern pollution, we defend and close our senses. We block out sounds and sights and smells. And because of technology, we destroy our senses, hurt our eyes with car lights, destroy our ears with loudness, compromise our taste with fast food, and are out of touch with nature. Thus, we lose our humanity and connection to our animal being. Open your senses.
Get sensible – sense and be intelligent. Really look at things and people and nature. Really listen to the sounds. Really sense. In this pre-verbal way of sensory cognition, we intuit. Don’t lose your intuitive knowing as you try to think it out rather than feel it through.