Path to Personal and Business Enlightenment in 2009

The Year 2008 could well be remembered as the commencement of the convergence of crises (Food / Fuel / Finance etc) for Mankind. Therefore, there will be no better present for the New Year than the gift of Path to Personal and Business Enlightenment in 2009.

The Path to Personal & Business Enlightenment would have many steps, which could broadly be considered as consisting of the following three steep flights of stairs:

(1) Survival (Manageability of prevailing situations or Economy for Business under the Triple Bottom Line concept)
(2) Understanding (Comprehensibility of the phenomena or Ecology for Business under the TBL)
(3) Wisdom & Love (Meaningfulness of the various encounters or Equity for Business, under the TBL)

The Manageability / Comprehensibility / Meaningfulness will give us a Sense of Coherence (SOC) which is the source of our Health and Wellbeing or Wealth. This is the essence of the Thesis of Salutogenesis, the term first used and promulgated by Aaron Antonovsky in 1979, in the context of alternative medicine.

The Big Three also represents the local / global / cosmic aspects of any holistic solutions. This is also to “Think Globally, Act Locally, Connect Cosmically”.

Individually, we might have to earn our keep by making better and more efficient use of Small Office Home Office (SOHO). We might have to produce portion of our foods by having better understanding of permaculture ( or permanent agriculture, the most famous Australian cultural export, courtesy of Bill Mollison) in particular and ecology in general, including the Sun (partly through the Solar Heliospheric Observatory, another SOHO of the second kind). Corporation-wise, managers might have to get a quick grasp of the differences amongst Hierarchy / Holarchy / Panarchy, the essence of which is better understood by studying the behavior of Holons (the universal Self-Organizing Holarchic Open system, another SOHO of the third kind).

Armed and equipped with these three types of SOHO, we would then have the physical / scientific / philosophical (even spiritual) basis to strengthen our faith in face of the challenging times ahead.

Individuals and businesses wishing to know more about the three types of SOHO and how they could be used as the Path to Personal and Business Enlightenment in 2009 could join the social networking group at http://soholution.collectivex.com

What Exactly Is SOHOLUTION?

 A method of solution-seeking by Think Globally, Act Locally, Connect Cosmically.
 It has its origin in the convergence / evolution of the three SOHO’s :
* Small Office Home Office (SOHO)
* Solar Heliospheric Observatory (Sun)
* Self-Organizing Holarchi Open system (Soul)
 SOHO, Sun and Soul represent Local, Global and Cosmic respectively.
 It is also about SURVIVE / UNDERSTAND / LOVE, as SOHO is a way to earn a living, while knowing the Sun is to understand the world and Soul is Wisdom / Love, yielding true Wealth, Health & Wellbeing
 It is also about Sohominium (SOHO in condominium) / Solarization (Tapping solar energy) / Soulization (Wisdom & Love)
 Related concepts: Triple Bottom Line, Corporate Social Responsibility, Permaculture etc. etc.

More details available on Slideshare.net

Cooperative Development / Writing Project (Invitation)

The SOHOLUTION approach is still in the process of being completed (Or rather it is always on-going and never get completed?!). Contents here will be continually updated. So, stay tuned.

In compliance with the spirit expounded in the approach, cooperative inputs / efforts are solicited to expedite the completion of this project, on a profit-sharing or revenue-sharing basis, involving many trades and professions, participating as SOHOers. There will be many different activities and formats, to be carried in different towns and countries. This will truly be the Evolution / Solution of SOHOs, in its many facets. Please see SOHOLUTION Matrix for some ideas.

Brief outline of Content Draft only, not exhaustive)is available on the Power Point Presentation at Slideshare.net

Sun, Sustainability and Salutogenesis

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If you are interested, please contact erico@pc.jaring.my for details.

Skilling Up for Power-down

•The 21st Century will see the convergence of many crisis: Fuel, Food and Finance etc. etc.
•The solution places heavy demand for new skill-sets (Skill-up) and lifestyle changes (Power-down), covering the physical, financial, emotional, social, intellectual and spiritual aspects of our life.
•Skilling-up and Powering-down is in fact the law of nature.
•The Universe is a Skillup Powerdown. Are you ready to be too?

The Universe

•The Universe (and everything in it) is skilling up (getting more complex) while powering down (heat death).
•This is well described / prescribed in the Principles of Energetics and the Laws of Thermodynamics.
•How is this seemingly paradoxical situation reconciled?
•The answer lies in Dissipative Process / Structure and associated SOHO (Self-Organizing Holarchic Open) systems…. Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine
•The Holarchy and its associated Holons constituted the complexities in existence….. Arthur Koestler
•The Universe is therefore a SOHO evolution or SOHOLUTION… skilling up while powering down.

Skillup Powerdown Entity

•The Universe is a Skillup Powerdown entity
•Everything in the Universe is doing likewise:
1.Nature
2.Ecosystems
3.Mankind
4.Organizations and Corporations
5.Individuals (You and I)
•SOHOLUTION (SOHO evolution) is the Solution
•So is Small Office Home Office (SOHO) for you and I.