Welcome to Regenerative Resource Management.
Now that you’re here I won't waste your time. Let’s get right to it.
On the Surface, RRM might seem like a system for managing your stuff, but it’s true power lies much deeper than that. You see, we live in a chaotic world. Our understanding of the material world has only just started to scratch the surface, and the more we scratch the more chaotic it gets. Our understanding of ourselves, as human beings, is no better.
I’m not making a value judgement on our lack of understanding. It is what it is. That which we do not understand is chaotic.
We've erected structures both physical and cultural to shield us from the chaos. These structures help to establish order in the chaos, but none of these structures have succeeded in destroying chaos. They’ve really only succeeded in shielding that chaos from obvious perception, but it’s still there.
When you go out into the world to make a name for yourself, you encounter chaos. You are engaging with potential in your endeavors to change the future, but no one truly knows the future.
Do you know the future?
Do you understand all of the forces that are involved in creating the future?
Is it possible to even be aware of all of the forces involved?
That’s Chaos.
No one knows the future, but that doesn’t mean we’re helpless. We’re humans, we engage with chaos, it’s what we do.
For example, when you start a business you engage with chaos. The decisions you make with the resources you have at your disposal will make or break you. You must grapple with the chaotic nature of decision making. Should we buy this piece of equipment, or use those funds to upgrade the storefront? Should we spend more time engaging with potential clients thru social media or should we spend that time following up on already existing clients? The answer to all four of these questions is the same: It depends on the context.
Contending with chaos properly requires a context dependent mindset regardless of the process that is used.
What does that mean?
Take a look at all of those business questions from the previous paragraph.. Let's examine the first two.
Buy equipment vs. upgrade storefront.
The context in which you need to depend, with your context dependent mindset, to ensure that your decision is correct is not the current context. Our dependent context is not what is happening at the time the decision is made. The current context is not the final word in the decision making process.
The current context in which the decision is made absolutely influences the decision making, but determining which decision to make depends not upon what is happening right now, it depends upon what you want to happen in the future.
You don't make decisions dependent upon your current context.
It’s already gone.
You make decisions dependent upon your Future Context.
It’s always there.
The decision to buy the equipment will lead your business down a very specific timeline toward an unknown future point. The same goes for the upgraded store front. Both decisions will change the influence you have on resources outside of your direct management that in turn will influence the nature and structure of your resources.
Perhaps the equipment purchase will eventually influence your business towards the adoption of a manufacturing business model many years into the future. Perhaps the upgraded storefront will encourage a retail focus with no manufacturing activities.
The decision you make when managing your resources isn't about what's happening right now it's about what you want to happen in the future. You make decisions based on the Future Context, specifically the Future Context that you want to bring about.
The Future that you want made manifest. The Future that you work for. That's where your decision making is grounded upon. The Future is pure potential. The Future is unknown. The Future is chaos itself. We aren’t fooling ourselves into thinking we know the Future, but we know where to focus our vision.
You see, the thing about properly putting your decision making foundation into chaos is that you need to have your shit together to make it work. Chaos doesn't suffer fools. You better know what you're doing if you're going to succeed.
Thus the RRM process. Regenerative Resource Management is a process that orients your decision making compass toward your Future Context while keeping your hand on the rudder thru the use of Testing and Management guidelines.
Guidelines that you will develop.
Guidelines that are specific to your context.
RRM is just the framework.
It's not going to tell you what to do or how to do it. It doesn't know your context. Any management system that tells you what to do and how to do it is simply trying to force an action that may have worked in one context onto every other context. It might work, it might not. Regenerative Resource Management doesn't presume to know.
RRM identifies an effective decision making structure
A structure that rides that fine line between order and chaos
A structure designed for adaptability
A structure that works
and provides strategies to help you fill it
With your goals and aspirations
With what’s meaningful.
If you are ready to start your adventure.
If you are ready to contend with chaos.
If you are ready to structure your life toward what’s meaningful.
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