| Come into the Fold |
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| James McCallum | |
| Wednesday, 07 May 2008 | |
  For the first ten years of my corporate life, I felt overwhelming feeling of uncertainty. Sure, I knew how to do what I was doing, but I never understood why.I feel it’s our lack of purpose (Dharma) that drives us to emptiness, so often we follow our peers or our parents into mundane occupations, excited as first by a sense of freedom and independence, years later to be replaced for feeling of anxiety and a lack of fulfillment, the plug-and-play dictums of everyday life. My saving grace came in 2003, when I sold my company and freed myself from my corporate rapture. I was given the luxury of at the age of 35, to sit down and decide what it was I wanted to do with my life, and although I would like to pretend I had all the answers, for all my wisdom, they were clouded by a fear that had been imprinted in me by a conditioned past. My journey to Carbon Ethics was one, not so much of logic but rather one of a deep desire for my life to mean something, and although today we have as yet not become the Fortune 100 company I have dreamed of becoming, it has opened doors for me whereby I have finally developed a sense of self, an understanding if you will of the blind madness to which we have subjected our fragile planet and one another. I’m honored to take you on a journey of understanding in respect to the state of our planet, and the challenges we will face in the future. I’m talking to CEOs, entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers and big thinkers on three continents about climate change and its challenges and opportunities as they unravel. My column ‘At the Coal face’, will connect you to this dialogue and ensure that you are kept in the fold in respect to changes in legislation, ideas, inventions and opportunities. I look forward to working with you in the pursuit of a new, better, inevitable low-carbon economy. |
This is the powerful story of the author's struggle with Multiple Sclerosis and how a healer's unusual prescription of mindful altruism - to 'give away 29 gifts in 29 days' - ignited her energy, her happiness, and invited more abundance into her life.
