Never too old
Just life August 1st, 2007
Today I met Olive ….(well, over the internet). I would bet she is the oldest blogger in the world at 107. Does anyone know someone older? It would be interesting to find the youngest blogger in the world, the person blogging in the most remote area of the world, the person who has the most blog entries, etc.
Olive, you are invited to the Worlds Biggest Blog Party starting September 11th. Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
Tim Richardson is an inspirational speaker who speaks about how giving increases employee morale, lowers employee turnover, increases customer loyalty and creates higher profits for Fortune 500 companies. He is founder of the Bill Walter Melanoma Research Fund. For more information on Tim, go to www.TimRichardson.com
Tim, why on earth would you want to meet those rich people? What can you hope to find? My experiecne is that the richer you are, the more you are gated from life, the more artificial your social contacts (bedause you tend to pay most of those around you to do things for you, rather than depending on acts of kindness)
Have a look at the story we did on Olive’s blog (www.allaboutolive.com.au) on the great depression and the surprising discovery that many people were at their happiest in those hard times. A paradox? Perhaps not.
My interest in riches would be to score how much the rich each gave away. I’m not interested in giving to others particularly because that could just be a cover for, “hey give me some of your loot” but given to create things of public value like parks, pay for solar systems, etc, public good activities. That would really fascinate me.
My propostion for the rich would be, give way all that you don’t need for a reasonably comfortable life. My challenge to the recipient society would then be, celebrate this genrosity so that these people become our heroes, for at the end of the day, guess what? We all want love and apprciation more than anything else.
Also, the greatest impediment to giving is that one’s hard earned money might be wasted or ineffectual. Go into some black hole. That’s why appreciation and accolades are key.
Tim, you could set up an organization called; Thaks Ammerica, which could channel gifts to visible and impactful causes, celebrate the givers, annual dinners, awards etc, kudos, website the lot. End of rant.
Mike:
Thanks so much for your comment. Indeed we think the same way. My project to profile the richest people in America is not about those with means. It’s about those than mean well. The word rich throws lots of people. I am NOT talking about money. I am talking about internal richness that comes from sharing, giving, caring, etc. If you look at my other web site, http://www.TheRichestPeopleinAmerica.com, you will see the very examples you write about in your post. Please consider joining our project to blog for charity….www.TheWorldsBiggestBlogParty.com.
Thanks for writing!
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Tim, I tried to go to the richest people site you show but it did not work. Write to me at my email if you want explore this further. Mike
Mike, I have tried to email you and it bounces back. The site is http://www.TheRichestPeopleinAmerica.com