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MANIFESTO

June 7, 2009 by mm

MANIFESTO?

When you hear the word “man­i­festo” it seems to con­jure up images of the Unabomber or some whacko, but accord­ing to Ran­dom House (which always puz­zled me as a name for a dic­tio­nary any­way), it means: a pub­lic dec­la­ra­tion of inten­tions, opin­ions, objec­tives, or motives, as one issued by a gov­ern­ment, sov­er­eign, or organization.

So, here are my inten­tions, opin­ions, objec­tives and motives as issued by a gov­ern­ment (of my web­site), sov­er­eign (in respect to all that no one has author­ity over me such as free speech and free enter­prise) and orga­ni­za­tion (my DBA in the city of Lom­poc, Santa Bar­bara County, Cal­i­for­nia, is Mesh Marketer).

Inten­tions: Ser­vice, Ser­vice and More Service

All those who read my blog, use my advice, pay me for ser­vice shall be sat­is­fied. There is no two ways about it. If they aren’t sat­is­fied, I will give them their money back. If they are still not sat­is­fied, I will ask them what I can do to make it up to them. My only insur­ance against dis­sat­is­fac­tion is to do a great job and that is my only rea­son for work­ing for oth­ers instead of myself (which ends up involv­ing oth­ers any­way unless you have fig­ured that one out!).

Opin­ions: Haters Will Drop Dead

If you’re out to cause trou­ble, you need to under­stand some­thing called KARMA. You may have seen this explained on “My Name Is Earl” but you haven’t heard it like this: It’s just not pos­si­ble for you to do some­thing bad and for it to not some­how man­i­fest some­where and in some­way and prob­a­bly in an impos­si­bly unpre­dictable way it will come back and harm you. If we live in a uni­verse that is closed (and we are trapped in time), then it’s just not pos­si­ble for you to do a sin­gle thing with­out it affect­ing you. You will reap what you sow whether in a big way or small way. You can’t plant stinkweed and get Fer­raris; you’ll get stinkweed fever!!

Objec­tives: Mak­ing Enough With­out Greed To Do It

Some peo­ple will ONLY suc­ceed if they are either prov­ing to some­one (or them­selves) that they can do some­thing. This is what hap­pens in the fifth grade between stu­dents on a reg­u­lar basis. Unfor­tu­nately, it’s not so easy to go back and change con­clu­sions and deci­sions and beliefs made (though it is pos­si­ble and maybe not so easy but cer­tainly doable–ask me how), BUT you don’t have to com­pete and nei­ther do I. I can enjoy my job, my beach-side town, my wine coun­try, my lit­tle patch of ground on this earth and so can you. My objec­tive is to make enough (enough so that I have more than I need) and to do so with­out using greed as a guid­ing force, GPS, dash­board Jesus or com­pass to get what I want in life.

Motives: Peace

Every­one wants to rest in peace when they die. I want to also rest in peace when I go to sleep at night. I know what it’s like to stay up late at night wor­ry­ing about things for which I have no con­trol; I know it’s just plain stu­pid, exhaust­ing and unhealthy to do so and yet I’ve done it at times any­way. Regard­less, I may know things but these things can get in the way of hav­ing peace, spread­ing peace and enjoy­ing peace. My moti­va­tion in life is to live such that peace is always present and that’s all.

Well, thanks for read­ing my man­i­festo. I think you should prob­a­bly also read my mis­sion statement:

On waves of pos­si­bil­ity, com­mu­ni­ca­tion and ser­vice inter­sect,
Mak­ing avail­able and pro­vid­ing what peo­ple want by design,
In a way that ful­fills what is requested, wanted and needed
Cre­at­ing mir­a­cles, wis­dom, humor, honor and love. And
Result­ing in peo­ple empow­ered by growth and satisfaction.

Joseph Dowdy