Today, on NBC nightly news with Brian Williams, I saw the ‘making a difference’ segment that presented a family in Florida being helped by a family in Texas. It was simple and powerful. How is it simple and why is it powerful?
The story of the family in Florida got aired when both the bread earners lost their jobs and their home came under foreclosure. With future bleak, the family was going down the spiral of, possibly, no recovery. However, when their plight was viewed by a family in Texas, they came to the rescue with a promise of $2k check every month for two years or till they can find their jobs once again.
This was simple for Texas family to do. However, the courage to do it shows the human spirit prevailing over all others . This family in Texas had experienced that same despair once before and had recovered from that to be able to connect with the Florida family’s plight.
Just imagine how powerful this simple act is when we know that there is almost two trillion dollars sitting in banks not being invested for the fear of no one being able to buy either the goods or the services. This downward spiral thinking will continue for the business and for their growth unless something like this gives a newer meaning in investing. Otherwise, the downward spiral equates to more unemployment and for those who are on long-term unemployment list more heartache.
The all-powerful C-quadrant of the COL made a statement that collaboration is possible even without knowing the other party or person just based on the story heard from the trusted source. For collaborative efforts, the possibilities are growing exponentially. However, applying one-self to do what is needed takes a powerful faith in the human spirit of giving.
My father had the saying on his wall that always amused me as a kid. It seemed to be simple math of giving, but I never understood how it worked mathematically. It said “give a dollar you get back ten, give ten you get back hundred, give hundred you get back thousand”.
Even though I understood the mathematics of getting back ten times of what you give, how that could happen was a mystery to me for many days. After seeing and hearing several stories like the one today, I believe there is truth in it to the extent that it has to be a Trusted Giving to achieve that. Trusted giving really means that the one who receives is qualified to receive that gift of life and the giver fully understands the fact the he or she may never get back what has been given. I am certain that when the family in Florida gets back on their feet, they will be ready to give ten times what they received.
This might be the first time I have heard it in US. However, I am sure that in the history of human kindness, this is not the first time. We need such co-operative gestures to put politics of giving and taking to dust. Making money is good, is sweet and is satisfying but, only when the process is not abusive to those who are on the other side of the equation.
Most often than not, in this complex world of doing business and to do business quickly and efficiently, mistakes could be and would be made. They are pardonable mistakes. However, when the process knowingly commits the sinful act of robbing the hard-working through hype or misdirection or fine prints of tens and hundreds of pages, there is something wrong in the system that promoted it, and, it is unpardonable.
Here is where the Circle of Learning must interact with Circle of Trust to produce the market conditions such that the regulatory practices become redundant, the business processes efficient and the mistakes negligible.