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One Community is a unique environment for entrepreneurial success because we have established ourselves from day one to be self-sufficient and talent diverse with a culture of teamwork. We see people's natural gifts as their most marketable talent and we work together to maximize creativity, efficiency and success in our endeavors to share these talents with the world. Our community approach to financial abundance utilizes tried and true methods of corporate business success to bring revenue to the individual and community in an environment where money never need change hands.
There are three key principles in the success of One Community: fixed overhead through self-sustainability, maximum free time through the efficiency model, and talent diversity. The principles are simple to understand and even easier to implement but they must be implemented from the start. Proper infrastructure creation with these three principles in mind is the key to their successful foundation within the entrepreneurial model of One Community.
One Community is a unique environment for entrepreneurial success because we have established ourselves from day one to be self-sufficient and talent diverse with a culture of teamwork. We see people's natural gifts as their most marketable talent and we work together to maximize creativity, efficiency and success in our endeavors to share these talents with the world. Our community approach to financial abundance utilizes tried and true methods of corporate business success to bring revenue to the individual and community in an environment where money never need change hands.
There are three key principles in the success of One Community: fixed overhead through self-sustainability, maximum free time through the efficiency model, and talent diversity. The principles are simple to understand and even easier to implement but they must be implemented from the start. Proper infrastructure creation with these three principles in mind is the key to their successful foundation within the entrepreneurial model of One Community.
Most people today are spending the majority of their income on rent/mortgage, food, gas, and utilities. That "overhead" of just surviving adds a lot of unnecessary stress and has created a society that is struggling for the most part just to get by. Our investment model rewards the Property Owner and eliminates the largest of these expenses, rent/mortgage for our Community Members. In addition, building sustainably, growing our own food, and living where we work eliminates almost all of the other "basic needs" expenses. The result is that we have a living environment where monthly expenses are little-to-none and opportunities for building or becoming a part of an income stream are always available. Our community contribution model not only supports this but allows for select people to enter the community with zero investment, and a business plan, and the community will vote to make this their primary community responsibility and allocate others to assist.
Consider John gets sponsored because he is a musician and a painter. John is accepted because he meets the criteria for becoming a community member and brings with him recording equipment, obvious talent (contributing to principle #3), and a good work ethic so he quits his job working at Best Buy to join One Community. Now we have a new member with marketable talent and equipment that could help anyone else looking to create audio products so we brainstorm as a group to find the best way to utilize these resources and talent, and we go to work.
In putting the community in action we would allocate as many hours as everyone could spare to supporting each other. In this example, we would support John in building multiple businesses and we would market these businesses to the world through use of the internet and also to visitors of the community. For example, we would create CD's with John that would be sold on the internet and he would also share his gifts and talents by playing music for all of us in the community center. In John's free time he would be encouraged to be paint in preparation for a similar model applied to this additional marketable skill.
In putting the community in action we would allocate as many hours as everyone could spare to supporting each other. In this example, we would support John in building multiple businesses and we would market these businesses to the world through use of the internet and also to visitors of the community. For example, we would create CD's with John that would be sold on the internet and he would also share his gifts and talents by playing music for all of us in the community center. In John's free time he would be encouraged to be paint in preparation for a similar model applied to this additional marketable skill.
Key principle #2 now becomes very important for John. Because he has a marketable skill and people desiring to build businesses for themselves with his talent and equipment, he is going to need as much free time as possible, which he has, because John has zero commute and many of his domestic duties like shopping (if any is needed), food preparation and laundry are taken care of by people who are already established and have the time to contribute in this way. Until we have exhausted all options for building businesses with John, our goal as a supportive and entrepreneurial community is to invest community time and energy into John's gifts and talents, as well as all the people involved in John's businesses. Even if John leaves the community and its members still benefit (see "Model for Entrepreneurial Success").
Imagine how rewarding this would be for John and how excited he would be to contribute to this process every day. Instead of working full time just to survive, John would be spending his days doing what he loves to do with people who appreciate him and support him in expressing his gifts and talents: music and painting. John is not only doing what he loves and benefiting himself but he also still has free time to build and create even more if he chooses to.
This approach would continue until John is established in the community and his best source of community contribution is no longer business building, at which point John could then relax on a reduced work week because of his financial contribution through his businesses. Now it is John's turn to help with other aspects of the community (playing music for the community would continue as long as John was willing) until his skills and assets are required again.
It is important to note here that unless a person comes to the community with absolutely zero personal expenses or debt, building an income stream will be a necessity and their ability to do so is an important consideration for acceptance into the community. This is a good thing for the community and the individual because it increases the value of our community model and encourages participation at all levels. To make it all work, one key to our success is creating an environment that everyone wants to be a part of so we can attract more diversified talent and motivated people, thus multiplying our think tank and business options exponentially as the community grows with talented and motivated people.
