LONG-TERM
SUSTAINABLE
SISTER OR
TRANSACTIONBASED BETTY:
What’s Your True Investment in Your
Conscious Collective?
by Sloan Lauinger
I
f there’s one thing that will change the way you
think about & spend money, it’s community &
connectivity. Think about it, your community is
your environment; your life source & your pulse.
What you feed your life source gives it its health,
vibrancy and lifespan. Nourish the life source and
it’s vitality will be long-term sustainable. Pollute
the life source (and literal environment) and it will
become unhealthy and die.
What I challenge you to consider within this context, is your investments around & within your
community. Investments into relationships (in the
flesh and online), investments into local business’,
investments that stimulate growth, connectivity,
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and happiness. Growing up in a small Midwest
town (population 2300), that town’s heartbeat is
its people ~ supporting each other so they can harmoniously sustain the environment they choose to
occupy. The support your people mantra doesn’t
change within online communities and living in a
larger center.
I live in stunning Vancouver, Canada, and I definitely go out of my way to hit up the local farmer’s
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