{"id":1901,"date":"2021-02-28T18:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2021-02-28T18:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T22:00:05","slug":"good-governance-and-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/2021\/02\/28\/good-governance-and-sustainability\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABILITY \u00e2\u20ac\u201c BASIL SPRINGER COLUMN (FEBRUARY 22, 2021)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d -\u00c2\u00a0Proverbs 3:5<\/div>\n
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The leadership charged with the authority to govern a country or organization (policy, actions, outcomes) is responsible for introducing best practices to achieve sustainable success.<\/div>\n
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In the 21st<\/sup>\u00c2\u00a0century, leaders have the resources of people (body, mind, soul), machines and businesses at their disposal.<\/div>\n
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If these resources are nourished well, the synergistic impact of their added value will lead to very positive outcomes; otherwise, the achievement of sustainable success will be frustrated. Let us address the nutrition of these resources in turn.<\/div>\n
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Human beings are our most important resource.\u00c2\u00a0A balanced diet of good food, sleep, exercise, peace of mind and hugs is the recommended menu to give us the energy to achieve our full potential.<\/div>\n
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Recently, I found that my energy levels were lower than I had experienced a year ago when I comfortably passed an executive medical checkup. What is the matter? Is it the COVID-19 shut-in environment, am I mentally stressed, is it a diabetic, prostate, cardiac or other problem?<\/div>\n
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I went for my biannual preventive medical checkup with my general practitioner. The assessment? Ageing, cabin fever, dehydration, belly fat, weakening leg veins, interrupted sleep, irregular pulse rate. The advice? Pace yourself, positive thinking, drink more water, regular outdoor aqua and walking exercise, reduce sugar laden snacking, semiannual blood tests, regular blood sugar and blood pressure monitoring, compressed stockings, sleep regulation, ECG. We must all feed and monitor our physical bodies and contribute proportionately to the national pool of energy.<\/div>\n
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The human mind needs to be stimulated so that it too can achieve its full potential. It must be continually fed with knowledge on the journey in search of wisdom. My partner and I have just resuscitated a daily practice of reading inspirational books together. This has been very stimulating and a foil against the impact of cabin fever. Let us continually feed our minds and contribute to the national pool of wisdom.<\/div>\n
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The challenge of life is about finding solutions for a continuing wave of problems. Some problems may be solved in the five sensory space (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch) but for others we need to shift to the soul in a multisensory spiritual space. May I remind you of\u00c2\u00a0renowned author\u00c2\u00a0Wayne Dyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the biblical verse \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Trust in the LORD with all thine heart;\u00c2\u00a0lean not unto thine own understanding\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0God is Love and love is the food of the soul.\u00c2\u00a0Let us feed our souls with love and become naturally empowered to expedite the national problem-solving process.<\/div>\n
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The industrial (machines) and information (computers and\u00c2\u00a0internet) revolutions\u00c2\u00a0have increased the productivity of the human being. Let us continue to feed\u00c2\u00a0energy\u00c2\u00a0(preferably the renewable variety) to these devices\u00c2\u00a0and contribute to the national pool of efficiency.<\/div>\n
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Lastly, there are businesses with diverse value propositions which invest money, create jobs, market\/deliver their products and services,\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0generate profits from which\u00c2\u00a0they\u00c2\u00a0pay taxes to governments. Governments\u00c2\u00a0in turn deliver regulatory and service functions to the populace. This demonstrates the circular flow of money in a society. Let us continue to feed a diet of sound management to businesses and governments, to generate profits and inspire user-friendly enabling environments, respectively.<\/div>\n
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As we navigate out of the pandemic, it is important to feed our efforts with a sensible diet, which produces good health, good governance, and lasting sustainability.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The challenge of life is about finding solutions for a continuing wave of problems. Some problems may be solved in the five sensory space (sight, hearing, taste, smell, touch) but for others we need to shift to the soul in a multisensory spiritual space. May I remind you of\u00c2\u00a0renowned author\u00c2\u00a0Wayne Dyer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and the biblical verse \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Trust in the LORD with all thine heart;\u00c2\u00a0lean not unto thine own understanding\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0God is Love and love is the food of the soul.\u00c2\u00a0Let us feed our souls with love and become naturally empowered to expedite the national problem-solving process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1902,"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions\/1902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stluciasimplybeautiful.com\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}