The Omnibenevolence Council Newsletter #20

Welcome to this twentieth edition of The Omnibenevolence Council? Newsletter!

(This edition continues to consider benevolent business anew, now from the perspective of love in organized planning.)

How To Have Love In Organized Planning, Anew?

In an oftentimes overly regulated world with laws, rules, KPI’s, targets and objectives, it can be challenging sometimes to keep a loving demeanor throughout it all.

• For on the one hand, those regulations take the form of protocols, methods, systems, or bureaucracy that takes hold of our every move and step we take in our decision making processes. This subdues us to a mere rationalized approach to behavior that hardly leaves any room for compassion, flexibility or creativity.
• On the other hand, those regulations might be of good help in supporting our processes of production, implementation, or execution of tasks in an orderly fashion and according to agreed upon standards of quality. This can assist us in having clarity of focus and coming to a notion of a shared reality in which we exchange the best we have to offer by the means we have at hand.

But even though these regulations thus give some sort of direction, shouldn’t organized planning be led by something deeper from the get-go, before it is projected into the culture of societal (economic and political) connection?

Of course there’s always an exchange and reciprocity between what already was and that which is to be accomplished. For in the present situation it comes together through those regulations, standards and perceived objectives.

So let’s consider three points of connection from where organized planning can become infused with love anew.

Laws

The first point of connection is an understanding of the primary laws that govern our world. These laws are given by nature and show themselves through seasons, forces, currents and motions.

• These primary laws have caused us to consider what it means to live and how we relate to everything about it. That has set forth human evolution and the making of societal laws by debate and dialogue.
• The attempt then to harmonize natural laws and societal laws has been a quest of ages, pioneered by philosophers, clergy, scientists, statesmen and politicians around.

It is a continuous form of conversation though, within a larger context of creation. And harmonizing all these laws with love again thus requires a new reflection on organized planning.

Which brings us to the second point of connection.

Processes

The second point of connection is an understanding of the primary processes that guide our behavior. These processes are installed by the dynamic between nature and nurture – between our natural instincts and learned habits of thought and action.

• In thought, these processes show themselves through the reception of our ideas – either fed by instinct or consumed through the senses – and the creative attachment of new thoughts by using the power of imagination.
• In action, these processes show themselves through the expression of our biology – either led by instinct or directed towards pro-creation in a variety of forms – and the productive attachment of new tools and technologies.

It is a continuous form of deliberation though, within a more specific context of calibration. And harmonizing all these processes with love again thus requires a new reflection on organized planning.

Which brings us to the third point of connection.

Decisions

The third point of connection is an understanding of the primary decisions that we have to make on a daily basis, either implicitly or explicitly. These decisions are the pivotal moments wherein the laws and processes can come together for better or worse.

• Implicitly, these decisions are about the health and well-being of ourselves within the greater whole in which we exist. They come forth from natural impulses and installed convictions.
• Explicitly, these decisions are about the wealth and well-doing of ourselves within the greatness of our potential expansion. They come forth from conscious thought and intended outcomes.

It is a continuous form of balancing though, within an increasing context of complexity. And harmonizing all these decisions with love again thus requires a new reflection on organized planning from a more encompassing point of view.

Yet, with these three points of connection we can now begin to have love in organized planning anew. Because, with an understanding and wise use of these points, we can harmonize natural causes of debate with both our instincts and desires from which we choose to create a better world. And so, Organized Planning with love could help us in co-creating Omnibenevolence.

If this sounds to you like a worthy cause and ideal but perhaps hard to implement then you’re invited to first read the seminal work on Omnibenevolence here (now available with a 75% discount on the paperback edition!). This book can truly help you create with organized planning in love anew. And then…

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In gratitude and with blessings,

Maurits van Sambeek, MA

Founder, The Omnibenevolence Council?