Now that I have arrived on the blogosphere, I feel compelled to address why I'm here. Like a lot of people, I have been running fast and furious for a lot of years trying to get ahead. Though the pursuit of profit has been fun, and often times challenging and sometimes even rewarding, inevitably there were times when I would look up - usually while on a long flight or slaving away in a hotel room somewhere - and wonder what the hell I was doing. At those times it was difficult to come up with good answers. I did take heart in some of the benefits - like helping people to grow in their careers and job creation - but at the core there simply was not enough meaning.
I have often times come back to service, something that was ingrained in me from a young age and reiterated during my schooling. But working so many hours every day, it was difficult to find opportunities to serve that did not come at a cost that I was willing to pay (like time away from family). So my conclusion was always the same: I'll pursue profit now, and serve later.
With these thoughts ruminating, I began to wake up to the state of our world. The unsustainable ways in which we consume our resources. The sub-optimal decisions that are made because of how we consume our resources. These are issues that I'd been aware of for many years, but chose not to face fully. We're a resourceful people, I thought, we'll figure out a way. But when I realized that it would take 5 earths to support a population of people who live like me, it became more difficult to deny.
So the journey brings me here, to the blogosphere. I have resolved, through this and other avenues, to help build a more sustainable economy and culture. It's time to end the denial and get on with the work of building a more sustainable world.
Kent Ragen
kent@ecounit.com
www.ecounit.com
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