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How to Create a Winning Strategy:  

Ask any master of "us-against-them" tactics and they'll give you nine core rules:   

1)    The best defense is a good offense.   

2)    Applying only a defensive strategy makes you a guaranteed loser.   (If you doubt this,  just look at what the women's pro-choice movement is doing° and note the dismal results they are getting.)   

3)    Doing more of the same or doing  the same thing harder is another losing strategy.    

5)    Study and clearly understand the nature of both the conflict and the opposition.   

4)    In order to win, an aggressive attack at the core of the opposition is required.   

6)    The best and fastest way to win is to find and attack the opposition's weakest point.    

7)    Winning is very often a function of seeing and taking advantage of a stupid maneuver on the part of the opposition.    

(For example, without some incredibly dysfunctional moves on the part of the British, George Washington's army would probably not have won American independence.)

8)    The winner must have a clear, written, overall, long-range plan with strategies and contingency plans for whatever the adversary might come up with.   

9)    The winner must sharpen his focus and win one battle at a time.

Focus:   As an analogy, imagine Tiger Woods in the middle of a major golf tournament:   He sets his ball on the tee, and in and for that moment, he focuses absolutely and completely on one small piece of his over all goal.   His job is to forget about the present score -- to forget about winning or losing -- to forget about what  the other players are doing or not doing -- to ignore the people watching --  to ignore the TV and other cameras focused on him and recording his every move -- and to set aside his personal life off the golf course.   His focus and his only focus in that moment is on hitting that small ball with a specially designed "stick," moving it a hundred or so yards down the fairway toward a small, round hole in the ground.   In that moment his skills, his self confidence, and his mind are needle-sharp focused.   Nothing else matters.   The same is true in regard to saving the redwoods.   Focusing on one, clear, specific, do-able piece of the overall  goal at this time.

Major Versus Minor Changes:   Another applicable analogy for winning the environmental war is aptly explained in the concept called, "How to Eat an Elephant."   Symbolically speaking, one would eat an elephant,  most successfully, one bite at a time.   Actually, all activities of life follow this pattern.  It's the natural pattern for every action on the planet.   Everything in physical space requires time and proceeds sequentially.   Even those actions that seem instantaneous are done sequentially.   To go counter to that process is to face almost certain failure.   Like Tiger Woods on the golf course, the SVRP  team is applying needle-sharp focus on one small bite at a time.   Each bite is designed to move the team closer to its overall goal.   

To Fight Something Is to Feed It:   Still another factor in a winning strategy is to, whenever possible, avoid fighting.   When one fights something, one focuses his/her attention on it, and this attention actually empowers whatever one is fighting and makes it stronger.    The classic example of empowering what one does not want is the U. S. government's War on Drugs.°     The winning strategy is to focus on what will make oneself a winner.   This concept is explained in detail in the section titled:  The Vibrating Universe.°    

There Are No Bad Guys:    The traditional way of viewing a problem is to look out into the world an find someone to blame for whatever is wrong.   Life in this mode is called victim consciousness.   The universal laws tell us that there are not victims, only unconscious creators.   Of course we wouldn't intentionally create some of the experiences in our lives.   It's  not a matter of intent; it's an issue of improperly applying the law of creations.   

There are no bad guys.   Even the men running the chain saws don't want the trees destroyed.   They are simply doing what they need to do to survive.   And the men running these lumber corporations don't want the treed destroyed, either.   They are under the control of the Great God Money.   If they don't produce a profit, they're out of a job.  

Our job is to invite these people in and make them part of Saving the Redwoods Project.    You may recall the classic line about how to do that:    "We destroyed an enemy today.  Usually one doesn't brag about destruction, but today, we made this enemy our friend."   We are co-creators with "God" and with each other in the management of our environment.   

Cooperation:    Cooperation is one of the major keys to  (and a vital ingredient in) this project's success.   For any one of us alone, the task of saving the virgin redwoods  is impossible.  For a large number of us working together and using the strategies and the techniques described on this website, the task is profoundly simple and extremely effective.   Once even a minor success is accomplished, it will be easy to see that it's only a matter of time before all the chainsaws will be out of the virgin forests.   The major problem is that environmentalist don't have much time left, so cooperation is a critical factor.

The Reasonables' Save-the-Virgin-Redwoods Project, (SVRP)  will show you how to apply specific, economic strategies to winning the environmental war and to do so without hurting anyone.   The team is creating and coordinating an environmental trust.   The intention of trust is to connect with and inspire a wide variety of people and organizations to simultaneously direct their individual  efforts  in a one-pointed focus -- a focus on one small point in the huge environmental mess.   (That point of focus will be explained on the next page.)  

A Cooperation Story:    To say this by analogy, imagine for a moment,  that your friend, Sam, is  stranded in the woods and desperately needs to build a fire to stay alive, but he doesn't have any matches and he doesn't remember the Native American friction technique for starting a fire.   He does have fifty small mirrors with him, and he knows that if he could reflect the sunlight from each of the mirrors to a small area all at the same time, he could easily start a fire.   But, alas, he's alone and cannot direct enough light to start a fire, so he freezes to death.   

Now imagine the same scenario, except that in this version of the story, Sam has twenty five people with him.   He gives each person two of the small mirrors and says to them,  "Focus reflected sunlight onto this pile of dried leaves, twigs, and small branches."   In a matter of minutes, by collective one-pointed focus, the twenty-five people have a roaring fire going.   Not only is everybody kept alive,  but the roaring fire also attracts the attention of the Search and Rescue Team.   As a result of a seemingly insignificant act on the part of each person in the group, everybody's life is saved, everybody is rescued, and everybody is still available to point their small amount of light at another target and start another fire of transformation.   

Saving the Virgin Forests of 
Ancient, Giant Redwood Trees 
Continues on  the page titled:   
How Does the Project Work?°  

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