Who Clarifies What Is Right And What Is Wrong?

Who Are We Permitting To Teach Values?

Today's education systems do not teach values.  Family structures rarely teach values to their children.  Neighborhoods do not teach core values to their patrons.  Teaching children the art of respecting high values has become a cultural antique.  Who clarifies what is right and what is wrong?

In the business world many think the movement of money clarifies how our values are measured.  If we move a lot of money it can be presumed better values are working for us than if we move very little money.  In many ways this kind of assessment holds true.

First of all, business models do not "make" money.  Business models "move" money.  Making money is illegal.  Only governments can "make" money.  They print it.  Business models cannot go to the back room and print money legally.  Business models "move" money.  Some business models "move" more money than others, however.  If your business model "moves" a lot of money it can be recognized as a big business.  If your business model moves very little money it is a very little business.  Simple concept, often misunderstood.

By the way, footnote of interest here.  If you "get" this distinction clearly understood you also get the distinction that governments not only "make" money they also do not have the ability to "make" jobs.  Not really.  Remember, in order for governments to give something away they must first print it or take it from someone else.  Period.  Governments make nothing but money and rules.  Everything else they do is a taking.  That is how governments are core designed.  Do not get confused about this concept.  It is pure.  Leave it alone but recognize its truth.

In your business model, you cannot do either of these actions legally..."make money" or "take away from others what you need."  If you develop a business model that unfairly attracts a consumers possessions without the consumers reasonable permission, it can be recognized as stealing, or cheating at best.  You cannot legally do that in your business model.  We all know that you cannot legally print money.  Those two motions of money movement are only allowed to be performed by governments.  Not you.  Leave it alone but recognize its truth.

Furthermore, since we are covering the subject of truth, you are one of the only systems who can create jobs.  Period.  We need to get unconfused about that concept.  See the clarity and you will benefit greater from the process of building your business into a system of success.  Sometimes seeing simplicity helps owners to stay focused on the "right" work they need to do.  You need to find ways to move more money so you can employ more people.  That is truly one of the missing links in how an economic system sustains itself.  Governments cannot produce jobs, but you can.  Do not leave it alone, and for goodness sakes recognize this truth.  (Sorry, that was a commercial.)

Now back to who clarifies what is right and what is wrong.

Who clarifies what is right and what is wrong?  We do.  It is our fault if the system has gone sour.  We fail when the values are failing.  We suffer when the values suffer.  We complain when the lack of values sting our daily motions.  It is truly our fault.  We are doing it to ourselves.

It Is Our Own Fault!

The values are clarified by the ones who stretch, accept and perform what is right and what is wrong.  How many times have you been in an automobile and as the lanes narrow and road signs become clearly visible lanes are beginning to narrow, someone races up from behind to get ahead of the line?  How many times have you performed that same act?  It is our value system that has gone haywire.  It is us.  We learn to justify "what gives."  If it fits better into our pattern of needs we allow it to become real and justifiable.  At that time our values will stretch themselves into becoming something we feel is right to do, at least for that moment and circumstance.  Everyone reading this knows exactly what I mean.

I once read a great piece in a devotional book somewhere that described a process a college instructor used to cover this subject in class.  He offered his students a list of fifteen items and asked them to rank them using whatever value scale they choose.  The list they reviewed, "mouse, boy, sun, angel, ant, crab, Norwegian pine, corn, amoeba, hamburger, potato, Rolls Royce, Moby Dick, Taj Mahal, and the idea of good."  He told his students to plunge in.  Develop a list of priorities with these fifteen items.

I had a couple of professors in my college days who introduced some very cool experiments.  I remember those lessons best.  I am not sure, but most of what I have read in college has long disappeared.  The unusual experiences are somehow still moving about in my mind.  I was so cool I wore slippers to most of my classes, even in the rain.  College was all about being very cool at what you individually represented.  So I am not at all surprised when someone shares an interesting system of values to me.  I can enjoy what they "see."    

I am also sure the results of that professor's list request were always kind of interesting.  The sheer fact that the students performed the task identifies that a value system exists.  This illustration proves that we all work on some type of value system.  I found that when I read that piece a few years ago, I completed making my list.  I am not smart enough to determine what my list meant but I made a list.  Obviously, I have established some sort of value system I run on.  So does everyone else.  It is with these systems we must dovetail our lives together and face the working blend among those systems we each define.  When conflicting systems of value clarification collide, trouble brews.

When someone believes corn to be more important than potato and the forces of decision require one to supersede the other, they collide.  Who determines what clarification will win?  If no system of right and wrong is in place, random rules will dominate the process.  Just in case readers get confused, random results do not work well in a profit designed center of effort.  Moving money in large volumes requires some very right things to be performed.  The rules of that road are not paved with random beliefs.  If you are a business owner and you are struggling with growing your volume of money movement, you may want to visit your value systems.  The root of your challenge may rest somewhere in the art of doing what is right instead of doing what you can circumstantially permit.

Be very aware of how you handle the art of driving into lanes of business that are narrowing!  How you choose your actions does matter to your volume movement.  You might want to discover what truly is right and what truly is wrong.  Remember, we get confused easily.  Many of us truly believe that governments can make jobs...but they cannot.  Others truly believe that a business can make money...but it cannot.

You might try the art of moving money and refuse to practice the art of deception...or stealing from yourself.

Until next time....