My mother-in-laws brother is in his late seventies. He and is wife travel a lot in a modified utility that is their home away from home. The caravan part of the ute is made mostly of recycled stuff. The vehicle runs on oil from fish and chips shops! My “uncle” buys the oil from your average fish and chip shop owner whenever he needs to. Mostly he gets it for free. He then cleans the oil and puts it in the ute. These entrepreneurs made a trip recently of several thousand miles for a cost of $25!
Sustainability can be really simple. It just requires your entrepreneurship, some ingenuity and particularly not listening to the naysayers. My “uncle” had plenty of people telling him he couldn’t do what he has done.
The great author science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke had some great insights into what can happen with ideas. My paraphrase as follows:
people tell you that it is a crazy idea, and it will never work.
Next people say your idea might work, but it’s not worth doing.
Finally people say I told you that it was a great idea.
“Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, and wisdom is not foresight. Each grows out of the other, and we need them all.”
Arthur C. Clarke
What information do you have that you could turn into insight, then an idea and then get inspired enough to turn the idea into innovation?
Get going now. Don’t wait for anyone. Most likely you will find sustainability in your life and work very simple too.
Be the difference you want to see in the world.
Ian
I work with business owners/leaders of medium sized business and leaders of divisions in multi-national companies to lift employee performance by enhancing their gifts.
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