both our household and national expen- ditures, we should give a higher priority to fresh, healthy food and a lower prior- ity to electronic gadgets, shopping, cars, lawns and even vacations. Our overall expenses don’t have to go up, they just need to be realigned with our changing values. By choosing higher quality food and supporting better ways of growing it, we also begin to reshape the American culture,” he says.


Our Community The community, rather than the stock market, is the better source of real wealth—both personal and global— maintains Korten. “Your community economy is part of the glue that binds people together. It’s the key to physi- cal and mental health and happiness.” Giving less control over our financial well-being to Wall Street and more to Main Street will help us think in terms of livelihoods, instead of mere jobs. For Korten, this equates to not only how we make money to live, but also how we live—valuing our homes, communities and natural environment.


Priceless social capital comes


from investing our time and money in local communities. Korten observes how, when freely and wisely spent, these efforts can lower crime rates, make schools more productive and help economies function better. Korten cites Oakland, California’s Well-Being in Business Lab, which works with the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley, to provide local communities with a research-based model for prosperity. In socially abundant communities and nations, individuals don’t have to earn as much money to be comfortable, be- cause their quality of life is partly pro- vided by the strength of social bonds.


Heeding the Call to Change


Finding and doing what “lights us up” will bring us abundance, claims David Howitt in Heed Your Call. The Portland, Oregon, Meriwether Group entrepre- neur who consults for consumer com- panies, maintains that finding our he- roic purpose (that heart-centered thing we feel we were meant to do) is the


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first step toward true wealth. Howitt says the secret is in one small word—and. Instead of choosing either/or, our world expands with “and”. He urges us to integrate the intui- tive and analytic parts of ourselves: “poet and professional, prophet and profit, soul and success.” It’s not just about philanthropy, but


Finding and doing what “lights us up” will bring us abundance.


~David Howitt


truly making your com- munity and your world a better place through your work, he observes. “You’re doing good in the world, and when you live that way, money follows you.”


Judith Fertig blogs about


living well at AlfrescoFoodAnd Lifestyle.blogspot.com from Overland Park, KS.


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