Working together pt1

What is harmony and why is it so important? When referring to a group of people and their attempts to accomplish a goal, harmony is the spirit of unity of purpose that the group has in working together to make that goal happen.

It has been found that, two or more people working together in harmony can create results that are vastly superior to the results that those same people could have accomplished on their own, right next to one another but not working together.  Whenever a whole group of people are working together in harmony, something automatically forms as a result. It is  called a mastermind, which is kind of like an extra mind that encompasses all of the ideas and thoughts of everyone in the group. It allows for new levels of creativity and progress that can not and do not exist withing the minds of each individual. In this particular case, it is actually true that the sum is greater than the parts which make it up.

Notice above that unity is mentioned. It would seem to one that knows even the basics of mathematics that five people working towards a goal and one person working against that goal would really just count as four out of the six working for the goal due to the one negative person cancelling out one positive person. But that simply is not how things work. If even one person is out of harmony with the others, the mastermind and all of it's potential stop existing until harmony is restored.

Our federal government when it was brand new, was filled with people who were all committed towards accomplishing the same goals. There was fire and passion and drive towards freedom and independence. The results were nothing short of amazing. We quickly became one of the youngest, most powerful, influential countries in the world.

But when the circumstances changed and we were no longer under the heel of tyranny people relaxed and stop being focused so much on working together. Look at our federal government now. It has grown so large and chaotic that one hand never knows what the other hand is doing much less how to work together in a spirit of unity to get it done.

In a business, a group of ten people can not come up with new and innovative ways to solve the problems that exist within their company if they are not all working together towards that common goal. A single person out of ten can cause the whole thing to fail because their doubts and naysaying inevitably affect others and bring them down too. That is not to say that everyone needs to be thinking the same things or in the same ways. In fact, it is often better if everyone has completely different ideas in many different directions.  The key is that they all need to be committed to accomplishing whatever it is that the rest of the group is committed to and honestly and diligently working towards those goals.

Any group of two or more people working together in harmony can accomplish great things. Those that are not committed need to either be persuaded to join the group way of thinking or persuaded to leave. Whether in government, a business or your own home it works out the same. I know this from personal experience.