CREATE: An Orchard System

Create, Produce and Distribute is not only for those in the media space. It can be used by entrepreneurs in financial, technical, health care, and education. It can always be used in business-to-business settings or in developing products and services.

CREATE — Originate Organically

Creative planning and surveying. Looking, planning and choosing suitable land, planning irrigation, soil, trees, and climate. There is a prelude stage in budgeting, understanding what kind of fruit and trees to cultivate, as well as the length of the growing season. And then there is perennial analysis. What will last beyond our idea?

CREATE — Recording and Restoration

A record of our work is a snapshot of where we are at any given time. In our community, it is important to save and restore the natural and built history of our region — this is imperative in the creative process. Things we say today are important features in where we are going tomorrow. The Orchard System in community, recreation, education, arts and media, travel and transportation, and entrepreneurship is part of the story — the unique attributes, a record of the contributions of collaborators.

CREATE — Culture and Curate Ideas

Cultivation of ideas in the community and the curating of the creative and recreative process is a constant, renewable resource in the ORCHARD System that we use in all our work. When it comes to community, it is a daily process in decision-making. A Create Community is a constantly cultivating process of launching well, learning well, and living well.

Harvesting Healthy Minds and Hearts

The Harvest is the good fruit we produce in the ORCHARD System. In community, the Harvest may look like a Farmer's Market, a Rotary Club meeting, or a graduation. How much of the good fruit do we keep and how much do we export? That question affects our future. All of these elements of a good ORCHARD System can be applied to recreation and kinetics, as well as education and knowledge. Later this week, when I connect CREATE and SUCCESS with ORCHARDS and QUALITY, we can plan daily how to leave good orchards for coming generations — starting at home, through the work that we do best, and sharing with the communities that we serve.

CREATE — Acquire and Attributes

Acquisitions come from attributes that are natural, organic, and skills acquired. Having the right planters and players in the right positions is how the Orchard System works. Hiring the wrong people — those who may not know what they do best — will put the ORCHARD System in a less productive operational mode. Skills that humans have developed through education or practice are optimal in any home, workplace, or community. Matching the right worker with the right work is a skill in itself. In the Orchard System, it is important to understand that by learning well and launching through mentorship, and by taking responsibility for who you place where in the system, you make a commitment to the quality of the work.

CREATE — Responsibility to Renew

If everyone took responsibility 97% of the time, we would have less hunger, unemployment, crime, and divorce — and we would have better creative production and distribution of good fruit. Responsibility for our homes, work, and community is better than pride of ownership. Thankfulness for responsibility breeds more responsibility — another renewable system. If we take responsibility to serve one another, the ORCHARD System works well in the communities we serve.

CREATE — Distribution and Destiny

Sharing what we create and produce is the ultimate destination for our community. Everyone plays their position; each one of us provides for our family and neighbors. Harry Chapin once said, "There is enough food to feed everyone — it is a distribution problem that needs to be addressed." The ORCHARD System is the creative, production, and distribution system that renews from its organic source, is recorded in our journals, gets cultivated into our best ideas, and gets harvested to markets. The ORCHARD System takes our attributes and what we can acquire — with responsibility to ourselves and each other — and lands well at its destination, distributed so our communities will launch well, learn well, land well, and live well.

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