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Color Wheel for a Functional Wardrobe A functional wardrobe provides both leisure and luxury. Fashion preys on the the weak and insecure Think about what it means to be wealthy, comfortable, friends with money. One definition of wealth is having everything one needs. Thus, for the wealthy, clothing is functional. For nearly everyone else, it is a shield behind which they hide. Having a core of clothing that will take you through your daily activities with grace and ease

Water Cycle Parallels to Wealth You are probably familiar with the water cycle; collection, evaporation, condensation and precipitation. In nature, this means streams, rivers and lakes; heat and transpiration; clouds and rain or snow fall. Water is an entity that is constantly in motion, even beneath a seemingly still surface. The water collection system represents our income. There may be one of many sources (streams, rivers, lakes) in your personal financial ecosystem.

Today we are merging the idea of wealth building with the permaculture concept of guilds. A guild is an organization of mutually beneficial plants designed to support each other. They spring up naturally under raw conditions as those plants with symbiotic natures reinforce the presence of each other. While seedlings can sprout anywhere, only those in a beneficial location survive. Gardners use this pattern of beneficial plants in beneficial locations to increase yield or

Choose to Work When I was young, we were given several aptitude tests throughout secondary school. The thought was that if the military could figure out what you were good at, they could help you choose a career that fit your skills. this was part of the culture of refinement of the body of labor that came about in the 1960s. Then there was the 'life changing question,' what would you do if you didn't have to work for money? My answer was invariably, "well, then I would

We have all inherited a reality created by other people. As Tacitus once said, " ..you are not looking up to the laws of heaven, you are looking down, to the laws of dead men. " These dead men created not the rules, those are dictated by human nature, but the structures that control and govern the societies in which we live. They created the institutions, and organized labor to their benefit, not yours. Ask yourself this, if you were in charge of making up the rules, would