Innovating the Priority Zone

Maine’s Priority Zones should represent the diversity of the whole community.

The other day I listened a Buddhist meditation that guides one to focus on an area of one’s life where one feels pain. I focused on leadership and organizations like Fractured Atlas, Wikipedia and nonprofits and local and state government that dismiss my family business and its assets that are my responsibility to leave in good hands to be used for a purpose consistent with Andersen Design’s historical founding.

Nonprofit organizations and government agencies frame small free enterprises as selfishly motivated, while their institutional organizations are proclaimed to serve the pubic good. Foundations distribute wealth sourced from for-profit mega businesses while non-profits participate in the free market to supplement funding from grants and donations. In the economic landscape, there is but one player to whom all the evils of capitalism are assigned, and that is the small independent entrepreneur who exists outside of and without the support of the centralized economy.

Now I am wondering, was I tuning into the immediate future, or was I creating it when I made that meditative choice?

I focused on the pain when I breathed in and on releasing those feelings when I breathed out, and then I…