the Bottom Line

In business there is a requirement for a strong bottom line. It’s no easy task incorporating cost of goods, services, and labor into the complexities of the marketplace yielding a profit. In fact, it’s often challenging enough to just manage personal and household finances. In both cases, the simple rule in wealth creation is more must come in than goes out. Yet it is not so simple. More comes in through complexities of productivity. Time is limited, quality of life matters, work is hard, experience is expensive, team work includes real people, negotiation is challenging, and on it goes. For less to go out the same issues arise. In the financial decisions about quality of goods, services, and experiences, cheaper does not equal better. Cutting expenses must be done in strategic concert with increasing productivity and understanding the quality one pays for. The bottom line must increase.

Increase is fundamental to our survival. We cannot be stagnant and unproductive in a world where thermodynamics second law and hunger are at work. Survival requires we grow. What alternative do we have but, to like a plant, push upwards beyond gravity and prosper like the flower opening in its season.

Realizing a strong bottom line, we desired still more from our work. There is the possibility that fear, pride and greed drive one forward into a state of never enough, but there is also the dreams and inspiration which arise from contentment. In the quietness and strength afforded by success we asked, what are we accomplishing? Since the business inception we sought to accomplish quality products, genuine service, and a strong community. These results are upward. They are sustained by successful net profit; that is, the bottom line of financial success is fundamental to all the upward benefits of a company. Understanding how to manage for a net profit, whether personal or corporate is the foundation for realizing dreams and vision. This blog aims to aid in understanding wealth creation for the purpose of discovering dreams and vision. But those are subjects for other posts. In this, we now we come to the subject of this post, our discovery of a deeper more fundamental bottom line.

As stated, resources are managed in order to realize a profit that supports professional and personal quality. When carefully considered, money is not the most valuable bottom line within a company or household. Wisdom is. The net result of one’s efforts may be a deepening into wisdom. We can grow our resource for quality of life and for the realization of our dreams and vision far beyond mere money. Wisdom has a greater utility and higher value. I can value a million or billion dollars, but cannot set a value on wisdom.

Jesus’ brother James teaches that wisdom is available to all, given generously without finding fault. The necessary key being our believing. James also teaches that our faith is shown in our works. The work in front of us today has the potential to yield wisdom. King David wrote, teach me to number my days that I may present a heart of wisdom. The net result of the number of his days, the culmination of a life managing a kingdom, he hoped would be a heart of wisdom.

Why find meaning in our coffee and chocolate shops? Working in our companies is working towards a strong bottom line. This CYM Project is that. You are invited into the journey of discovering the potential of these greater profits. The bottom line is wisdom.

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