Marketplace’s Purpose & Mission

The Global Ideas & Sacred Living Marketplace

  • An Innovative Social Enterprise Serving the Millennial Shift in Culture & Commerce, 
  • To Purpose-Driven Customers with Life-Enhancing Products & Services,
  • Stewarded by a Triple Bottom Line: People, Planet, Profit.
  • Created first on-line and then built on-land.

Rough Draft, 11/26/2011, Last Updated 4/16/2016

Dear Explorer,

Welcome and thank you for your curiosity in exploring these aspirations to make a difference for us all. There are three parts of the Purpose each covering unique aspects of the ‘Marketplace’ motivations and intentions.

Part I. Context – Business Model at a Glance – Introducing this Social Enterprise’s Purpose

Part II. The ReSource Center’s Purpose – A Matrix of Transformative Initiatives

Part III. A “Tipping Point” Purpose – Supporting the Quantum Cultural Shift

 Part I. Context – Business Model at a Glance – Introducing this Social Enterprise’s Purpose

Something Good in Store – Showcasing Possibilities Providing Resources & Tools

 Introduction _____________________________________________________________________

The intention is to offer products and services of such high value, meeting needs and helping resolve problems that customers become clients and in turn participants and patrons. Each increasingly equipped to realize their aspirations and more empowered to manifest their Life Purpose: inner and outer.

While the products contribute to our lives, they mutually benefit their imaginative creators especially the artisans and organizations whose intent it is to enhance others lives. Some of the products are part of community and indigenous organizations who through ‘compassionate shopping’ are improving disadvantage lives.

The core examples of resources and tools for sale are:

  1. Books, DVDs, CDs: local authors products are featured along with the most recommended by experts
  2. Gifts, Accessories, Décor, Furnishes… : that support local and regional ‘social enterprises,’ artisans…
  3. Wellness resources
  4. Healthy Foods
  5. Sustainability resources
  6. Art: local artists are feature and culturally authentic art is carried from villages around the world
  7. Music: local & world musicians

This “Tipping Point” model addresses millennial shifts in commerce and culture.

More than creating bridges between seemingly disparate socio-economic-cultural trends this model seeks to interweave them into a visionary tapestry of solutions. This models provides a tipping point in moving towards cultural coherence and cohesiveness. The underlying concepts are tools to create a cypher, a Rosetta Stone for comprehending the current global transformation and its quantum paradigm shifts. The products sold and services offered globally (and eventually locally) are the resources for creating fulfilling and meaningful lives while making a world of difference.

Every aspect of this model supplies customers and serves clients in order to explore and support their aspirations along the full spectrum of personal to planetary commitments. While this model begins with global resourcing it is dedicated to create locally accessed centers.

A great mind posited that problems are solved at a higher level than where formed. There answers reside in the next higher octave where seeming opposites are intertwined and a blended benefit is achieved: Local v. Global; Imports v. Exports; Social Networks v. Local Gatherings; Simplicity v. Complexity…

Overview: This Marketplace of Ideas & Sacred Living provides ready access to a ‘World of Good.’

  • The products for sale all are connected to the deeper purpose of the store/center.
  • These products are intended to make a ‘world of difference’ for participants and additionally have the appeal of ‘compassion shopping.’
  • Many products are connected to organizations helping empower social entrepreneurial projects and people overcoming challenges. Theses cause and co-op marketing alliances help promote the products and the store/center.
  • Every branded grouping of products, noted below, have inspirational themes connected to them. So each store-within-a-store has its purpose, causes and alliances.
  • On-line there will be related blogs, articles, & linked organizations. Eventually in the on-land centers there will be brochures and flyers on their shelves and of course downloadable materials on the related part of the webstore.
  • Customers are buying a product and buying into something that makes a difference. Each of these branded components has its own cause identity, participants, patrons, supporting organizations, affiliated authors. You can purchase a gift and alongside of it are books that support the customers understanding and possible participation in exciting projects.
  • At the on-land centers our customer’s/participant’s interests along with local authors and innovators will hopefully will evolve a unique array of new products, programs and services.
  • Customers initially buying products can become clients utilizing services referred through the local center. This becomes another way of integrating the community with clients while creating other income streams, i.e. marketing or referral fees.

Branded Components’ (On-Line/On-Land) Products and Services

All the on-land products are available on-line for global purchasing. Where possible the books and CDs can be downloaded from the website. The products can be ordered on-line and drop shipped to customers or to their gift recipients. Where there may be only a few sample products in each category at the physical store there can be many, many more available on-line. End-destination customers who visit from around Southern California and tourists can return home to purchase on-line more of what they love any time they wish. Tourists who include this very unusual store/center in their San Diego trip can purchase and ship back home. Then continue purchasing from home and supporting the mutually beneficial themes and causes. The revenues generated through the website will be have the lowest margins but by volume the highest returns. Eventually the web store will become large enough to be a cyber-mall with thousands of products.

Each of the groupings of products below becomes a branded component of the store/center. Each is a store-within- a-store with its own space on the website, its own themes, causes and alliances. Branding is everything as each of these concepts generates local and on-line sales, customer sales and loyalty. There are pages of descriptions of these but this is simply a summary of their Purpose. In the larger stores these components will expand from a booth or corner to their own room or possibly a store in our millennial style mall.

There are three major components to delivering our products & services: Clicks, Bricks & Quicks

Reaching and serving new people locally & globally, uniting and building community

“Clicks:” On-Line Presence, E-Commerce “Mall”, Coop and Cause Marketing Alliances – Building a Global Community Center. If there are 10 products in a category available in the on-land store/center there could be a 100 choices sold on the website.

“Bricks:” There are local facilities which include at each location: a multifaceted world gifts store, a leading edge bookstore and resource center, an event space, café and gathering space.

“Quicks:” a local outreach program and regional marketing campaign utilizing City Events, Street Fairs, Mall Booths, Expos … to reach and serve potential customers/clients.

These three components of outreach will hopefully expand to create replicate-able regional models.

The “bricks” side of the business development model intends to add store/centers regionally so different populations can be comprehensively reached, i.e.

  • small pocket stores in highly visible locations
  • to larger stores/center in high-end villages/communities
  • on through expansive facilities in (end destination) commercial hubs
  • or that are near universities.

The regional store/center network will facilitate the coordination of outreach in the “Quicks” by facilitating intra-region team have a presence at local events. Eventually sales will justify the outfitting of a vehicle with products and literature that can set-up and engage potential customers/clients.

Interweaving polarities, blending disparities ____________________________________

1) The Center/Marketplaces intention is ever the interplay of Local & Global: Regional &National

A core component of the business model is attracting customers by selling very unique products that make a difference in their lives as well as around the world. The concept is to provide the best products from around the world as part of addressing the disparities of local v. national v. global. There is always an emphasis on blending the benefit of both, featuring locally produced goods, national favorites and resources produced in villages around the world. Building bridges and making a whole world of connections is the intention. Connecting customers to locally gifted talent and to the best the world has to offer. Local experts can offer events in the store/center. Customers can connect with the villagers to appreciate their artistry.

Through the Center’s/Markeplace’s global website products can be purchased and drop shipped creating international purchasing of local goods. A whole world of resources is brought to the store/center and local resources are promoted globally.

2) Another goal of this social enterprise is to interweave the polarities of Imports v Exports

Importing village made goods, especially those that are connected to community endeavors and social entrepreneur projects. In this way buying something the customer wants makes a real difference with the integrity of village families, rural cultures and urban cooperative communities. This compassionate shopping is central to our deeper purpose. In the section below on ‘Branded Components’ you will see how diverse and useful is the range of culturally authentic imports.

Exporting Art: native, folk, autistic, disabled…

The corollary part of blending this polarity is exports. The store/center and its website will serve additional US artists and artisans, with special needs. We will identify, sell and export: autistic art, disabled artist works, veteran art, as well as folk art, native American goods… Creating a gallery and catalog on our website will create another form of compassionate collecting.

3) An additional key interplay of seemingly divergent millennial developments is ‘clicks’ v ‘bricks’

Downloads v. Hardcopies: books, music, videos

Book and music store chains have felt the impact of this major consumer shift. The recent popularization of downloaded music and books to portable electronics has forever changed the retail model.   Bookstores that are doing well have boutique themes or are have mini-cafes. This is why the on-land Marketplace and ReSource Center will have a beverage counter and hospitality cart with healthy, tasty treats. Customers who like owning and giving physical copies of books and music as well as being able to thumb through a book before buying it. Our model supports exploring books, CDs and Videos easily and then if they wish, by simply logging in to the store’s Wi-Fi supported website they can download the books or CD’s. Customers know that their purchase through us makes a difference as the proceeds help achieve the store’s purpose and our foundations mission.

On-Line v. On-Land Purchases

This shift in purchasing patterns includes the increasing transition from in-store purchases to on-line purchases. (9% of all purchases are now made on line.) The integrated nature of our physical stores (bricks) and on-line store (clicks) encourages customers to compassion shop through us. Why buy something from an impersonal company when you can make a difference with your purchase through us. When customers can explore purchases at the on-line store and then review many more items for sale on our web store they are more likely to feel like they are seeing a full range of possible purchases. If they are purchasing a gift from the physical store or website they can get in shipped creating seamless services for locals and the many tourists visiting San Diego. Even when the Marketplace is licensed beyond the founding store the intent and character of the store /center is focused locally even while importing/exporting globally.

Personalized and Customized Services v. Big Box stores and Internet impersonal sales.

The inevitable offspring of internet and big box – chain stores is consumers’ swing towards more interactivity, personalized attention and customized services. When on-line at home or at the physical store/center customers can create their own account, the can participate in our social media, join in on blog dialogue, add comments to books recommendations on the sites… You are a participant with your own account accessing customizable services and contributing to the mission as well as others aspirations. Our stores/centers seek to be on the cutting edge of consumer and technology shifts; even more than bridging disparities we are blending solutions that innovatively meet evolving needs.

Customers can use their Portable Electronics to log in or as in an internet café, use a Center screen.

“When at a physical store, please Use the Terminal to Log In to Your:”

  1. Bucket List & Gift Registry
  2. Source Social Network: Facebook, (Intranet Site)
  3. Commentary, Reviews, Favorites lists (See Living Legacy Travel)
  4. Down Load a Free E-Book, CD… on to your Data Stick
  5. Purchase an E-Book, CD, Program from your PC/LapTop
  6. Purchase a Kindle, I-Pad resource through affiliate programs
  7.  …

Interactive Intranet & Social Network

As part of the millennial shift noted above people are using Social Media to create connections and community. There has been a parallel desire for people to want interactivity, especially through online sites. The store/center physical and on-line sites are designed to solicit input and interact with the customer. The store/center’s physical site is all about making connections as is our social media network is about creating community. The impersonal one-way sales and interaction of typical business transactions hopefully will be transformed to offer customers personalized and customized services locally and online.

4) Community Networks: Physical Gathering Places v. Social Media Networks

As referenced above the one of biggest millennial shifts is societal participation in social media networks. As social history documents, cultural pressures in one direction elicit counter needs and trends. Immersion in social media has fostered the need to connect face-to-face and to gather with others. This is one of the reasons community coffee houses and coffee chains have seen rapid growth. The store/center has on-line social media networks and builds communities of kindred interests. It also is a gathering place that attracts customers who invited to experience the store as a gathering place and community.

Physical-store Community Events, & On-line Social Network

The on-land store is in fact a community center for supporting local authors, artists, musicians holding talks, events and showings.   Some of these events are also live-broadcasts or recorded and available on our website. Local and global communities are facilitated through this and cross fertilized through our interwoven ‘bricks’ and ‘clicks’ approach.

The next section of this Tipping Point Purpose provides more details on the Resource Center aspect.

Fostering a Community Center and Engendering Relational-Referral Marketing

  • Local Authors & Speakers, Talks & Events
  • Local Artists and Artisans
  • Local Musicians

Building a Local-Global Resource Center

Architecture of Life Bookstore & Resource Center Being the architect of your life – living your vision

EnVision & Innovation Resource Center Resources for Making a World of Difference

5) Fundamental to this innovative cause-driven enterprise is blending traditional marketing with co-op marketing, traditional publicity-PR with cause marketing campaigns.

 Interweaving Traditional and Co-op Marketing

As the ‘medium is the message’ how we reach out reflects our Purpose in the methodology. The focus is relational and referral marketing through the local authors’, speakers’ and artist’s events. As community building is central to our purpose using social media is the other major tool to reach our base. For the store/center the focus is on building local organizational alliances that wish to cross-promote: events, resources, services. In this way, organizations become partners in engaging their memberships and constituencies through co-op marketing – direct and internet.

The website uses this same approach of alliance building and co-op marketing, but focuses on national organizations that can shepherd sales to our website with special membership incentives provided through the store.

Blending Traditional Publicity-PR with Cause Campaigns

Because the store/center seeks to become a focal point of the local community, the related causes become ours.   Local related authors and community leaders recommended books are carried at the store and community educational events are held at the store. Local related service brochure are on our Resource Center shelves. In this way local cause and organizations’ campaigns reference the store/center to buy their materials and recommended books.

Because the whole store and its resource center have Purpose related themes and causes connected to every ‘Branded Component’ it becomes a powerful platform for generating publicity around making a difference. When this is connected to local organizations’ objectives, compelling public and community relations ensues and exciting publicity results. A parallel process happens through the website and national organizations related causes.

7) This millennial business model interweaves the seeming opposites of – ‘for profit’ & ‘non-profit.’

The ReSource Center/Marketpace operates as a Public Benefit corporation and Social Enterprise.

Selling the goods from around the world that make a difference is the store’s role. Researching the best village projects to support is a sample foundation goal. Building a business that sells art of challenged US artists (like disable and autistic artisans) is a sample social enterprise service. Supporting programs in organizations that sustain these groups is part of our mission.

Parallel to the ‘For-Profit’ Services are the Foundation Programs

Customers can choose to become participants in the store/centers purpose supporting the vision and i. ts aspirations. Participants can become Project Sponsors and Program Patrons or simply help by contributing money on-line to the Foundation goals.

A Percent of Earnings of the Store/Center and Web support related local and regional projects.

An Objective of the Bookstore plus ‘EnVision and Innovate Resource Center’ is inspire and motivate customers/clients creating Living Legacies – personally & organizationally

This can be a feeder process encouraging, engaging and enrolling people expressing their purpose in alignment with our related goals.

New Financial Paradigm: Funding & Ownership Model, Social Enterprise Platform

  • The on-line & on-land includes areas for local run booths of products.
  • It is a social enterprise and in-turn is a social enterprise incubator.
  • Possibly it is also owned globally, operated locally.
  • Possibly it is Crowd source owned as a new model of social enterprise. It is Glocal social enterprise model, where it’s source financed and yet owned by the branded model licensor and co-owned by licensee.

Suppose it wasn’t started before because it had all the right content but not the right context. The correct function but an as yet immature form. Possibly the new public corporation model with Ned’s trust models is the blending.

 

Part II. The ReSource Center’s Purpose – A Matrix of Transformative Initiatives

We are building an on-line ‘Resource Center for Personal to Planetary Potential’

Facilitating Fulfillment and Full-Potential in People, Organizations and our Planet A Solution Matrix Leveraging Challenges into Opportunities

 Initially as a bookstore it offers resources for us all to better understand ourselves and our world. Its on-line platform supports the best and highest in people, projects, programs and our planet. It is like a national Community Center providing the best resources to realize our individual and organization goals. It is offering a view of Life from a higher perspective. It ever seeks to find the highest vantage point to view events and the deepest insights to understand their interconnected nature.

These Resource Center ‘s purpose is – ‘Serving You (The Customer) In The Facets Of Your Life:’

  • Your Personal Aspirations
  • Your Organization’s Destiny
  • Your Communities Potential
  • Your Enterprise’s Vision
  • You Planet’s Possibility

Through the Universal Process of:

  1. Envisioning
  2. Manifesting
  3. Transforming
  4. Sustaining
  5. Empowering

Architecture of Life Bookstore & Resource Center

Being the architect of your life – living your vision

The focus of the Architecture of Life Books and Resources is supporting ‘Your – Personal Development Aspirations.’ The on-line and eventually on-land resources are for “Individuals, Couples and Families Creating Joyous, Fulfilling Lives – Authentically Expressing One’s Purpose, Creating Wellbeing And Balance.” The term Architecture of Life means “Living One’s Vision” – Integrated, Being One’s Full-Potential in ALL Roles and Domains.

What follows are the core components of personal development resources. This framework has evolved from a lifetime of research and integrating aspects of personal development into conceptual models. These concepts are explained diagrammed in the Personal Development sections of this website. The store is organized around these personal development models illustrating how all the components work synergistically. You can zoom up or zoom down the spectrum of personal growth and get insights into what your interests are and what tools might be most helpful. Eventually these Personal Development models will be hyperlinked pathways for exploring life, growth and fulfillment.

Optimum Well-Being – The Wondrous Journey

Integrating Personality, Stages of Development, Transformational Living, Transcendent Being

Know Oneself and Be True – The Beautiful Discovery

Exploring Life Themes and Inner Purpose, Unique Design &Universal Nature, Your Blue Print, Goals…

Living Legacy – The Extraordinary Adventure

Life-Work Directions, Uncovering Passion-Bliss, Calling-Services,

Wholeness& Balance – The Joyful Exploration

Fulfillment and Full Expression, Love and Service, Your Opus, Expanding Career and Building Abundance and Security

Nourishing Relationships – The Shared Passage

Creating Social Wellbeing, Belonging and Community, Co-Creating Shared Dreams

Spiritual Fulfillment – The Sacred Journey

Expressing One’s Unique Divinity in Joy and Wellbeing

 

EnVision Books & Innovation Resource Center

Resources for Making a World of Difference

Facilitating Personal and Professional Aspirations to Make a Difference in all the Domains of Your Life

Your – Organizations’ Development

  • For Visionary Leaders, Institutional Architects and Non Profit members/staff.
  • Progressive Teams-Groups, Humanitarian & Service Organizations, Arts-Cultural Orgs., Public Interest and Government agencies
  • Innovators Achieving their Mission, Realizing their Organizational Destiny & Building Empowered, Fulfilled Teams.

Your – Communities Development

  • For Active Citizens & Advocacy Groups, Progressive Communities and City Leaders
  • Creating Great Neighborhoods and Building Model Communities
  • Political responsiveness; Public Safety and Justice; Livable Housing, Connected Neighborhoods, Green Communities; Sustainable Economic Development; Supporting Life-Long learning, Edutainment, Communication; Community Wellness and Wellbeing…

Your – Enterprises Development – Strategic Solutions

For Inventors, Entrepreneurs, Intra-praneurs, Innovative Executives, Investors, Loan Officers

An Innovation Incubation, Launch and Development Platform

Resources, Links to Seamless Services and Turnkey Programs, One-Stop Synergistic Development Ensuring a Triple Bottom Line: People, Planet, Profit

 Your – Planet’s Development – Global Solutions Matrix

An Innovation and Visionary Models Research and Resource Dissemination Platform

For Leveraging Worldwide Challenges, Facilitating Dynamic and Sustainable Growth    

Fostering Connectedness – National& Local Community Centers

The on-line bookstore/resource center and shops all encourage connectedness and help create community. The webstores will explore how to engender inactivity, comments, blogs, articles. Then eventually when there are local centers/shops real Community Centers will be fostered.

Supporting Interconnectedness by Featuring Local Authors Books and Speakers Talks, Holding their Events, Hosting Themed Programs

The local ReSource Center/Marketplaces features the books of local authors and the talks of local experts and creates connections with authors and readers.

As these experts offer discourses, then programs or discourse series hopefully evolve, i.e. Monday night, wellness series; Third Thursdays, Relationship program … As participants gather new these new connections engender requests, as in the Creativity talk turns into a program, with a series of topics. The Resource Center also invites people in around its themes, like Feng Shui and Creating Spaces that Nourish Your Soul and Express your Spirit. Events are planned around the calendar and national days, like Earth Day or Fair Trade Day. When the Hospitality Cart is formally set up, more discussion groups will meet at the Center. These natural connections from author talks spawn requests for a follow up application talk with participants or a support group to ground the insights.

The resource center promotes the interconnection of local authors, Experts and Speakers

Building a local-community of leaders and experts in each of our core themes

Creating Interconnections by Presenting Local Artists and Artisans, Holding Gallery Receptions, Hosting Talks & Creating Programs

Creating Interconnections by Showcasing Local Musicians CDs and Videos, Hosting Release Events Reaching, Inspiring and Engaging new people to come attend Center events and support ReSource Center’s Purpose – Themes as well as profitability.

Through the Co-op Marketing, Alliance Building and In-Store Relational-Referral Marketing around events new people are reached who are curious about a topic, author, artist. New people are reached who are interested in a topic and come to the event. The memberships of event related organizations become aware of and hopefully visit the Center. The mailing lists of authors, artists, musicians are invited to events and to buy the books, art etc. now carried at the Center.

 

Sponsoring Authors, Speakers & Organizations

As part of creating connectedness and community local authors, speakers, experts, musicians, artists… are asked to sponsor a related section of the Bookstore/Resource Center. For a Sponsor (marketing or referral) cost they can have their name put next to the shelf tag indicating that they are sponsoring these related books, resources, gifts… Their top 5 book recommendations are included on the related shelf and their business card and brochure are co-located.

The ReSource Center web portal hopefully will become a consciousness project platform and large social network, inspired to be a community around their aspirations and our themes.

 

Part III. A “Tipping Point” Purpose – Supporting the Quantum Cultural Shift

The book store is truly a resource center for bringing together the best humanity has to offer. It speaks to the millennial patterns, mega trends while offering paradigm shifting possibilities from humanities most beloved leaders and quantum thinkers. This collection of books and resources in the web-store and eventually physical stores provide the best-of-the-best to gain personal-to-planetary insights, be inspired to take innovative action. It is a discovery center for organizing wisdom and supporting transformation and fulfillment for customers, their families, organizations, communities on through humanity and our planet.

The few pages that follow summarize how the bookstore is designed as a catalyst, destined to be tipping point in a movement from millennial chaos to cultural coherence. Each of the following titled paragraphs is a contributing aspect in this paradigm shift and in creating enthusiastic customers/participants encouraging local and on-line viral word-of-mouth referrals.

1.Intertwining – Cutting Edge with the Most Highly Recommended Books, Audio Programs, Educational Videos

 The Most Unusual, Cutting Edge Books

The center identifies through leading expert’s books that take new perspectives, think outside the system, look for holistic approaches and integrated solutions. These are the resources that up-level the conversation in every major area of concern and every core domain of experience. These multi-media are the cutting edge of inquiry into life, living fulfilling and meaningful lives. They are the most innovative books in exploring the full-potential of organizations, communities, institutions, countries and our planet. This is more than a bookstore it’s a center for imagining and manifesting our highest internal and external aspirations.

The “Best of,” Most Recommended, Top Picks

Every topic carries books the “most recommended” by leading local experts. “We sift through it,” so that when you look at theme of books you know that the “top picks” of national authorities are on the shelf. This is not a traditional bookstore; rather it’s a resource center for discovering the best possibilities within and around you.

2.Interweaving – Imaginative Insights into a Tapestry of Applied Possibilities

The Most Imaginative Insights into Patterns Ever Seeking Synthesis and Synergy (Seeing)

High on the commitment of this center is uncovering resources that make sense of the patterns that sub-stand surface chaos. Similarly we seek materials that reveal synthesis, like moving from looking at the disparate threads beneath a Persia rug to moving above and seeing how the individual threads are being woven together making a beautiful tapestry of possibilities.

The Most Thorough Resolutions and Applied Solutions

A companion objective is to locate those materials that help convert ideas to actions, invitations to opportunities, insights to replicable outcomes. It is ever the intention to find resources with the most creative resolutions along with the most applied solutions.

3.Combining – the Big Picture Concepts & Mega Trend with a Keep it Real, Keep it Simple Sweetie (KISS) Approach

 The Most Lofty Patterns, Powerful Trends and Biggest Picture

The center is committed seeking resources with the highest perspective and the deepest insight. The broader and more inclusive the better, the longest range view the more helpful, the comprehensively complex connections the more useful.

 The Most Simple, Logical, Common Sense, Fundamental Approach

The resource center also searches for simple truths and common sense applications. The best KISS (Keep it Simple Smartie) resources are compiled to create tools to make it easier for us all to be more capable in managing and improving life, i.e “Life for Dummies.”

 4.Joining – Sophisticated Concepts with Colloquial Language

The Most Sophisticated Concepts, Theories, Models

The center presents the most brilliant thinkers revealing the most indelible insights and incredible wisdom.

The Most Resonate and Familiar Language
At the same time we are looking for works that are written in a daily life language that ‘speaks to our listening.’ ‘The medium is the message’ is the prime directive of these materials.   We look for which books convey in our colloquial language truths in way we can understand and hear?

5. Promulgating – The Most Innovative & Imaginative Thinking by ‘Early Adopters’ & ‘Creatives’ and Supporting Customers Creativity and Outside the Box Thinking

Books offered in the store/center and on the web whose authors are considered the formative thinkers of our time or for all time. Along with these books are the resources that analyze what makes them great innovative thinkers. Also offered are the best books for supporting customers increase their own imaginative thinking as well as how to think outside the box.

6.Merging – the Polarities of Personal & Planetary, Being locally civic minded, nationally attentive while being a Planetary Citizen.

The store/center will be provide the best resources to understanding global trends, socio-cultural movements, plus model organizations making exemplary improvements locally and globally. Alongside this we will provide the best materials on exploring how an individual can make a difference locally to globally.

 7.Unifying – One Planet, One Destiny

A core intent f the store/center is supporting customers and web visitors explore and experience the world as evolving whole. There are numerous books that describe what is unfolding with the “global brain,” through the Gaia effect. These books by our leading scientists theorize the enormity of the paradigm shift that is happening globally. Reading these works helps promote insights into the globally positive changes unfolding.

 8.Blending – Many Cultures, One Humanity

In support of a more wise and compassionate view of humanity there are numerous resources. There are institutes that have discovered the wonderful evolving nature of humanity. There are organizations that scientifically monitor energetic shifts and show how there is an enormous, demonstrate able connectivity in humanity. There is a confluence of insights from HeartMath’s Global Coherence, through the 100th Monkey effect, string theory to quantum mechanics, the butterfly effect, global EQ… All of which contribute immensely, encouraging us as we move from being the object of global shifts to being the subject, helping author new possibilities (like this Purpose.)

 9.Extolling Ecumenism – Many Religions, One Source

An allied commitment is encouraging ecumenical wisdom that promotes tolerance and engenders appreciation.

 Many Spiritual Paths, One Spirit; Head & Heart: Esoteric & Mystical

At a deeper level of understanding differences and exploring similarities there will be books in the store and web that bridge the polarities of mystical and metaphysical, heart and head, spiritual aspiration and grounded manifestation. Customers will be hopefully exposed to new ways at looking at Life and expressing ones inner and outer purpose.

 The “Best Of,” Most Highly Recommended __________________________________

Promoting – Reading the Classic and the Current ‘Must Read’ Books (as well as Movies)

The bookstore and web carry the most agreed upon classic books of all times.   Lists of these 100 books are available in the store and can be added to your personalized site on our social network.   In the store these classic books would have white dots on them and be numbered in the most agreed upon order of recommendation. In addition the most highly recommended current books for personal development would be listed and the books coded with numbered dots. The most respected transformational leaders of our planet would have their top ten books listed.

Local Experts List Their ‘Top Picks’ by Theme & Topic

Local authors, speakers and respected experts would be invited to list favorite books related to their expertise.

 Most Respected US & Global Leaders Favorite 10

On every category of books there would be if you are going to read a couple of books on this topic the following are the most highly recommended. All these services will be available on the website so that a customer may create a reading and movie viewing plan. The intention is to support a cultural renaissance committed to personal and planetary development.

…

 Highly Respected Author Shelves

(SoCal first to create regional feel, locally there are over 60 authors of related themses.)

 

In Summary

The Online & Onland Vision

Branded Concepts & Licensable Components

We build the concept on a globally accessible website followed by a local end-destination center. The names of each component have a niche and brand-able title, descriptor/tag line and licensable social enterprise.

This vision is based on tipping point concepts, i.e.:

  • Think globally, act locally, home town and home planet – glocal;
  • Cutting edge and best of the past (books to classic art)
  • Pluralistic (many cultures, one humanity);
  • Ecumenical (many paths, one Spirit); Mega trends and micro attentiveness; personal & planetary;

Sacred Living – All aspects of full-potential and wellbeing

What if this building were a model of all the aspects of life, like a financial planning office, green real estate office, renewable energy store.

Community ReSource Center

The best globally and then featuring locally, i.e.:

  • Authors & Experts;
  • Talks and Groups
  • Musicians and Artists
  • Products from homemade jars to guitars

New Financial Paradigm: Funding & Ownership Model, Social Enterprise Platform

  • It includes a local entrepreneurs market place and social enterprise incubator.
  • Possibly it is also owned globally, operated locally.
  • Possibly it is Crowd Financed, owned as a new model of social enterprise. It is Glocal social enterprise model, where it’s source financed and yet owned by the branded model licensor and co-owned by licensee.