Saving the World - New Perspective

Saving our planet and societies, in my opinion, comes down to an adjustment in perspective for the majority of humanity. We need to better understand the consequences of our actions and to better love and understand our fellow human beings. It helps a great deal if we understand that we are all one.

My current focus is on creating daily digital artwork and on teaching Taoist Tai Chi to people living in or near Billings Montana. This is a somewhat small contribution to saving the world, but every little bit helps.

I believe if you can take a moment to appreciate the world around you, including artwork, you may be able to escape the lesser world your brain keeps trying to trap you in.

I believe that if you practice Tai Chi regularly for a number of years your heart will be more open to the understandings mentioned above.

Feel free to contact me if you have questions or would like to make your association membership entries available to a controlled population of administrators.

Happy Days, Weeks, Months and Years to you all.

International Instructor Workshop in Tallahassee

Taoist Tai Chi™ March 2010

I had a wonderful experience at the 5 day workshop in Tallahassee. It was lead by Sean Denison, Karen Laughlin and Andrew Hung with a lot of help from other international instructors. We started out with a lot of donyus and toryus. But spent most of the week working on better balance in our set. We had the most amazing 10 course Chinese New Years Banquet complete with wine. As one of the first shift serving/dishwashing crew, I didn't get to eat until most of the tables were done. The bonus was that we got more than our share of the wine from the left over bottles. My balance must have improved some during the week because I felt balanced in the after dinner set even with a slight buzz.

We are constantly looking forward to the next workshop or intensive. Great to reconnect with people we know from previous events. Doing Tai Chi with more than 100 other students is an experience you have to have to appreciate.

You may not know that the society is a non-profit. We volunteer to teach and there are only a handful of paid employees in the world that help to support the 40,000 or so members. These workshops help to support buying permanent locations for some of our more active branches.

The testimonials of all the good Tai Chi has done for attendees at large workshops are a strong incentive and feedback for me to keep teaching and practicing Taoist Tai Chi™.

Recommended Reading and Study

http://www.academicearth.org/ Free online video courses from leading universities. (Get a better teacher no charge)

I picked up this tip from reading Bill Gates annual letter at http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annual-letter/2010/Pages/bill-gates-annual-letter.aspx

If more of us would take the time to broaden our perspectives, many of the world problems mentioned in Bills letter will be solved in our life times. Publish Post

Creating FileMaker Value

I attended a seminar the other day on value based billing by the author of Measuring what your Customers Value Most. If you are a forward looking business, you will also be looking for measuring the things your customer values most.

I am in the business of helping you automate those measurements. I am also interested in providing you value based on what is most important to you and your business. The difficulty I am struggling with is how to put a price tag on those measurements as well as determining what those measurements are.

Airlines have found that simply measuring their on time arrival, lost luggage and missed connections can be a key predictive indicator of their future sales. If they are doing well in these areas, their sales are relatively optimistic.

For my consulting practice, I believe responding to client requests in a prompt manner is one of the keys to my continued success. Another is my ability to add features to their database that they believe will make their business more efficient and profitable.

I am interested in hearing from any reader who had deeper insight into value based pricing and how they have arrived at actual numbers in advance for projects.

Cheers,

Joel Bowers

We can get along together

If you are interested in advancing any solutions to world or community problems this TED talk is a must see. It explains why we need both the conservative and liberal viewpoints and may help you find ways to combine our strengths.