Making Ripples

There is a vital necessity for networking in spite of the reputation it has gained from misuse. Finding new friends and linking up with them for our mutual benefit is how I have supported myself since I left the mothership, (Sun Microsystems) back in 2001. When I occasionally used the dreaded word “networking”, it was not unusual to see the beginning of an eye roll or a curl of the lip as “networking” has been downgraded for many people to an exchanging of business cards at job fairs or business mixers.

The truth of the matter is that an independent business person selling directly to customers is always networking whether he delivers music lessons, custom framing, or handling bankruptcies. It is an attitude one creates that makes customers want to refer others to you for services.

It is an attitude that you carry with you of wanting to help others. If you truly want to help others, it shows in your conduct and it prepares you to discuss what you do at the drop of a hat.

When you meet someone, one of the first questions that get asked on both sides is, “What do you do?”

If you are in the business of helping others and making a living by doing that, your first words are to describe what you do in a way that might be attractive to the other person.

If the person picks up on what you have said, you will probably have a chance to discuss some potential business with them. If they don’t pick up on it, let it drop and discuss areas of mutual interest.

If, as in the case of many people in rural communities like Floyd, VA, they have several different professions and you have to ask a few questions to get an idea of what the person is doing in life and what projects he is working on. It usually only takes a few minutes to find out what tasks he is trying to do that you might be able to contribute to.

Once you communicate that you can help him with his computer system, his garden, his kiln, or his website, you will probably find that you have other areas in common and you are on your way to establishing a relationship that will pay dividends for a long time.

In many of these relationships, the exchange is far more valuable than mere money. I helped an artist with his website and he helped me with my firewood. I helped a neighbor with his computer system and he provided me with machinery and services that I could not afford otherwise. In some cases, I did custom framing for neighbors in return for services that I could not get elsewhere.

These exchanges brought us closer and improved our quality of life at the same time. These people also recommended me to others who purchased my services. I looked for opportunities to recommend their services or products to others in turn.

Now that I live in a large city in North Carolina and deliver spiritual counseling sessions online, the opportunities for exchange are different but the same rules apply. I work with clients to improve their lives and I take every opportunity to offer to help them with their businesses and relationships as well as their spiritual welfare. I consider them friends and they respond by recommending me to others who need help with their lives.

In many cases, I follow up with their progress and their problems long after they have received their counseling sessions. I try to ensure that they continue to use the spiritual technology I developed to handle life’s problems as they arise. I find that working with a client for a few months establishes a bond that keeps me informed of their spiritual health and if they run into spiritual difficulties. This lets me send them a short message to let them know I am thinking of them and am willing to help them through whatever they are encountering.

Working with someone spiritually develops a connection that is like the bond of close family members. There is a lingering awareness of their location and their emotional state. You can maintain that connection by continuing your communication with them or you can quietly ignore them if they desire privacy. This is actually no different than working with someone on a project to improve a community as your cooperative efforts forges a bond that lasts for years.

Whether you are helping a neighbor or volunteering to help a community, you are developing trustworthy relationships. If the activity is voluntary, you are building relationships and friendships that are more valuable than you can imagine. In today’s world, we often end up in places where we do not have an established family. Our ability to find new friends and link up with them can determine our state of security as we age. Whether you are a self-employed business owner or are quietly retired, you benefit from having friends to share your life with.

In times of financial and global uncertainty like these, it seems that people are extra careful and want to spend their time with people they know and trust if possible. One can never have too many good friends so you should never stop networking.

One of the most important decisions you have to make is in selecting employers who will make effective use of your talents and will recognize and reward you for what you can contribute. If you can effectively predict your future with this employer, you can possibly enjoy years of a productive relationship which will leave you richer in experience and in a better position financially.

This is not an employer you should work for

All this will occur when you intend to perform work of a particular type in sufficient quantity to receive a handsome salary with adequate benefits AND you connect up with an employer who is looking for a person with your particular skills and work ethic and is willing to pay for your experience.

Unless both of you are looking for you to produce a professional level of effort with an adequate exchange, it will not happen. Your intentions and the future employer’s intentions need to match in order for a satisfying relationship to develop. This will not occur if either of you is untrustworthy.

Let’s make this painfully simple. If you actually have to jump through hoops to sell yourself to this new employer, you are in for a difficult future. Either your qualifications do not meet the person’s needs, or you have not presented them clearly enough for them to be recognized. Or, you have not asked enough questions to understand what the job really entails.

If you are the right person for this job, you will have already asked why this job opening has occurred, especially in a management position. Is it a new position or was someone let go? If it is a new position, do these people really know what it involves? There is no challenge like being the first engineer working for a company that has never employed an engineer before or being the first sales manager of a company that is still selling through door-to-door salesmen. Or being the first purchasing agent for a company in which the president bought everything himself.

If you do not know why the previous occupant of this job left, you will be flying blind until you get this information and understand it fully.

When you discover a job requirement being presented by a person who understands your value to him and presents his needs in an unambiguous way, you have the potential for a job experience of a lifetime! All you have to do is to determine fully what is needed and wanted and continue to deliver this in abundance. This will keep your intentions and your employer’s intentions in alignment and satisfaction will occur on all sides.

It is not enough for you to want the job and sincerely intend to do the best you can. You need to be able to understand the job requirements, both written and unwritten if you are to succeed in the long run. You may find out that what the employer says the job is like bears little relationship to the working relationships within the company. If you do not have enough experience to determine what the exact situation is before signing up, you are not the right person for that job.

If you are not able to ask awkward questions about working conditions and compensatory time before you start, you are hosed when they expect you to work through weekends without any compensation. Getting to work on cutting-edge technology and breaking all sorts of barriers is no compensation when you find you have spent years and lost your family chasing technological dreams with 70 hour work weeks and months away from home.

When your intentions and your employer’s intentions match, you will gladly work under the most aggravating conditions because you have certainty in what is expected and the rewards you get match the risks. When the trust is broken, your sanity and your health suffer and you may take years to recover.

This situation can occur in a startup venture where you are given a piece of the pie and you and a few others engage in the creation of a viable enterprise based on a new technology or business arrangement. You all trust each other in the beginning and you work impossible hours and somewhere along the way the intentions of some of the executives change and the company is no longer the same, even though nothing has been stated formally or publicly. The original trust is gone and with it, the confidence in attaining a bright future disappears. It is now just a matter of time until the organization collapses under its own lies and either goes out of business or is bought out by a competitor.

The reason I bring up this unfortunate situation is that you can perceive the shift in intentions when they occur and if you are wise, you will make your preparations to seek another situation before the final bell rings. Any time you see that you can no longer trust those you work with or live with, it is time to seek a new relationship. If you cannot trust someone, you have no way of creating a future with them. If you cannot create a future, you have no way to bring it about.

There is no need for an intensive set of counseling sessions if you are being plagued by an upset stomach that won’t go away or a sense of impending doom about paying your bills this year. You have managed to accumulate some spirits who are really worried about your future and their fears and worries are interfering with your natural abilities to deal with these situations. You are like the bus driver negotiating a tricky bit of mountain highway with passengers screaming in fear at every turn in the road. Your spirits are not helping you, no matter how loudly they scream.

Spiritual Rescue Technology helps separate you from the worries and fears of your troubled spiritual companions and lets your calmer spirit guides work with you to negotiate the difficulties of life. With a little Spiritual Rescue Technology counseling, you begin to separate YOUR feelings from THEIR feelings and you can deal with life as a confident manager of your life and career.

The unhappy truth is that you are surrounded by spirits 24/7 and SOME of them are extremely troubled and fearful, so when you run into difficulty, they freak out and recall all of the disasters they were involved in and you feel their fears and anxieties as though you had experienced them yourself

Spiritual Rescue Technology helps separate you from the worries and fears of your troubled spiritual companions and lets your calmer spirit guides work with you to negotiate the difficulties of life. If this sounds like something you could use, you can contact me at srtcounseling@gmail.com

A product or service is as valuable as it satisfies a perceived need. The value is not intrinsic to the product or service. Its value comes from what can be accomplished by using or owning the service or product.

There are thousands of elegant products and services which have never taken off as valuable additions to today’s technology. They may perform the function they were designed for but their use caused social or personal disruptions that made their use problematical or embarrassing.

A head-mounted camera/computer may sound like an elegant and futuristic solution to gathering data and making recordings for commercial use, but in today’s society, such data gathering runs up against privacy and security concerns.

This suggests that developing a successful product or service might start with identifying personal and public needs that have never been successfully satisfied, instead of taking some elegantly designed device or service and trying to find a market for it like the camera shown here.

When you look for a need that has never been satisfied, you also need to look at ALL of the implications of introducing this new product or service into the existing economy. If it is a disruptive technology that will affect everyday activities, like a smartphone that influences every activity you are engaged in and requires an extensive network of towers and transmitters, and satellites to extend the service to all possible customers, the preparation for release goes far beyond the design and production of the device itself. It is possible that society itself will need to change before a new product is acceptable for common use.

When we look at services that involve communication modes that are far outside the “normal” physical universe constraints, we are likely to run into security and privacy concerns that have never been successfully dealt with by regular society. There are many of us who can communicate telepathically with other spirits. This is considered imaginary by people who are rooted in more mundane belief systems where they believe we are all meat bodies and live once and then die for good.

What this means is that increasing a person’s awareness eventually allows them to perceive what another person is intending and act upon this information. Long-married couples develop this ability as do people working closely with others. However, people studying spiritual communication can gain this ability without working with anyone else.

Those of us who use this ability in our counseling find that it helps us to uncover problems that are not visible to our clients and lets us bring matters to a satisfactory conclusion in a caring way in far less time than can be done with random questions or a prepared list of questions.

More and more people are becoming aware that telepathy is real and is actually useful, but there are many implications of using this ability that need to be addressed if it is to become a commonly accepted part of social interaction.

Those who can use this ability have a major advantage in all social interactions. They can perceive positive and negative intentions, They can predict the course of future events by looking at the intentions of those involved in the event. If they operate in a manner to instill confidence in their integrity and purposes, they can be a tremendous force for good. If these talented people use their ability in ways that scare people, they will be the target of activities that will bring ruin in on them.

Is telepathic communication valuable? I feel it is and use it in a positive way every day. I think that the positive uses of this form of communication should be widely known and that trusted users should be available for assistance by those who need that service. The more people who can recognize and use telepathic communication, the safer the world will be. What you need to realize is that there are criminals who already use this ability to run scams and do criminal acts, so there is no point in pretending the ability does not exist.

I feel that classes in telepathic communication should exist and certification programs should be created so that a skilled telepath can state what his skill level is and be compensated accordingly. As recognition of telepathy as a known skill increases, there will be adjustments to certain educational practices like exams. We will eventually have telepathic exam proctors and attestations on exam sheets that no telepathy was used to gather information from other students.

Education may change dramatically when more people develop their telepathic skills because you can draw upon people who are not currently animating bodies for information.

If governments feel that telepathy is bad for civilization, I foresee bootleg telepathy training schools appearing and underground internet groups supporting the dissemination of telepathic training methods. Is telepathy valuable? I think so.

Introducing telepathy widely into society is going to take some work, but I think it will happen in the next five years. We can start looking at the implications for society now as there are thousands of side effects this will cause and it is better to be prepared than to try to wait and see.

Suppose some government officials with too much to hide decide to ban telepathy as a public menace and a criminal activity and decide to freeze your bank account because you are a telepath? They are already doing this in Canada for supporters of the truck protesters.

It is better to use your telepathic ability while you can and prepare for what is to come. It is quite valuable, but you have to use it.