There is success and fulfilment and then, there is making money. Human beings are wired to seek meaning and fulfilment in life, and while hunger, lack and scarcity might prove to be a more urgent need than fulfilment, it does not actually take much to quench the hunger pangs and begin to demand for more from your life. Deep down, it is not about how much money or how much stuff you have, it is always about finding some meaning and a sense of eternal purpose in your daily living. It is a spiritual poverty every one struggles with sooner or later.

A poor person does not understand the difference between making money and striving for success, mastery and fulfilment. This is because their actions are driven by hunger, scarcity and lack. A hungry man needs food and not some “pie-in-the-sky” feel-good motivational speech, but where do we draw the line? It is important to possess the bare necessities of life, while nurturing an understanding that fulfilment in itself will not come just because there is food in the belly. Something deeply wired within you will cry for expression. Our daily living should not be about the food, drink and sleep we enjoy, it should be about the work it enables.

Our sense of success and fulfilment is tied to our productivity. We already know that there is no joy to be derived from possessions. You will get an initial rush of excitement from a new acquisition of a shoe or a smartphone or a private jet, but over time, the excitement fades off, and you begin to contemplate the next acquisition that could bring you your next wave of excitement. This is not a pattern for good success.

We do not get fulfilment for the things we get, but rather for the things we give away. This is the spiritual principle behind the phenomenon of billionaires’ obsession with charity. All the money in the world would never give one a sense of fulfilment, it is the work it enables that brings the joy and fulfilment. That is why money must never be made the central pursuit of our lives, poverty is not an excuse. You will only quench the thirst of your soul by seeking out to produce high-quality work that really justifies the nature of God inside you. That is the first step to fulfilment.

When one looks beyond the doomsday headlines, trending topics, the urgency and the fast pace we have come to associate with daily living in this century, the future always looks bleak. However, the reality is that the quality of life actually improves over time and, for all the complaints we make about the modern world, nobody in the right sense would prefer to time travel permanently 500 years into the past, in search of a better life. If you wanted a better life, we seem to understand intuitively that you move forward in time, not backwards.

Nevertheless, our world advances not merely as a function of time, but rather due to the efforts of certain people. There are people who take it upon themselves to steer the world towards a brighter future. Every progress we have ever recorded collectively can be traced back to an individual or group of individuals that challenged the status quo, redefined what’s possible and moved civilisation forward. Everything we take for granted today, from fire to writing. Electricity and self-governing nations (democracy), represented a significant leap for the human race when the ideas appeared for the first time.

People that do the work of moving humanity forward have been called different kinds of names over the centuries like: light of the world, salt of the earth, entrepreneurs, and principal agents of change. Personally, I call them the Watchmen, because they literally watch over the world. The world cannot look out for itself, it requires a higher level of consciousness to take a glance at the world and understand the next step in the evolution of the society.

That is the reason for the existence of this platform. We want to share perspectives with as many as are willing to take up the responsibility to watch the world and steer it towards a better future.

That is why they watched the world.

That is why we must watch the world.

That is why they will watch the world.

It must be done.

And now, it is our turn. Shall we begin?