When I read 4HWW, one thing that I was not sure about was outsourcing. It’s been a while since I have taken a look at your book, and for some reason, I’ve been drawn to the material again as well as your blog.

Since first reading your book, my perspective has changed. Watching this episode on your blog has helped give me some more to ponder. I have been drawn to materials that talk about the law of attraction (i.e. Think and Grow Rich, The Secret, Ask and It is Given). It makes sense in my own life when I see how certain thoughts tend to multiply or see the direct correlation between patterns of thinking and what manifests in my experience, recognizing that we all have the ability to “create our own reality.”

I had previously been involved in various social services. I also live in a town with many people who have a social cause to fight. I was one of those people, but then fighting for or against something just got plain exhausting.

For the past year I have been reading a lot and focusing on financial education and business building. In these pursuits, I have come across the belief that pursuing wealth or abundance of time and money is unethical or unspiritual, and that rich people steal from the rest of the world. The perspective is always focused on those other people who are making my life miserable. This is really an excuse for not doing anything for myself to change my own experience or perhaps a way to feel safe in the midst of being uncertain about how to create that change. From the perspective of the law of attraction, complaining just brings about more complaining. Whoops! It’s time to tell a different story!

I imagine that the positive outlook in light of stark conditions is like focusing on what I want rather than on what’s not working. I see this clearly in the video, I recognized it while reading The City of Joy, and when I reflect on it, I also witnessed this in the years that I grew up in the Philippines. When so many people here in the United States have been complaining about their jobs and situations, focusing on negative news, and feeding on doomsday gossip while at the same time people in India, the Philippines, and China are shifting their perspective by focusing on hopefulness and possibilities, it’s no surprise that there’s a big move to outsource to those other countries.

The beautiful thing about all of this is that there are two ways to look at what’s going on economically: an apocalyptic doomsday approach or realizing that what is happening is a powerful opportunity to see that we’ve been focusing on what doesn’t work and choose instead to focus on opportunity. I’ve lived both ways, and I prefer the latter perspective. It helps me sleep better at night.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/56907/30-days-outsourcing

it reminds me of the two movies client eastwood had made on the american/japanese war

letters from iwo jima

and

flags of our fathers

Both these films are exceptionally made and show both sides of the war…