Using the Pareto Principle to Change the World

01/24/22 • 6 min

Cosmic Revolution with Karen Curry Parker

You are a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event. To find out more about how to continue your dreams and make a difference in your world, visit Karen Curry Parker at quantumalignmentsystem.com

Produced by Number Three Productions, numberthreeproductions.com

My husband is an architect. He is 71 years old and still likes to design spaces by hand. His office has several large drawing boards covered with paper that he uses. You can find him most nights hunched over a board, mechanical pencil in hand, drawing and designing.

He has BIG (negative) feelings about computer software programs that do the designing and drawing for you.

Part of why architectural computer programs frustrate him so much is that he feels like they disconnect you from what you’re doing. The ease of moving design elements and pushing buttons takes you out of the core essence of the design process and the physical experience of using a pencil to access more than just binary options. Computer designing disconnects you from the impact of your creativity and your actions. Computer design makes it easy to stop responding to the needs of your clients.

I feel the same way about journaling with a pen versus writing with a computer.

If you look up the word “architect” on the internet, you’ll find that the term now applies more to the digital world than to the deliberate and conscious design of spaces in the material world.

To “architect” is a term now more commonly associated with software design than building physical places. The internet uses words like “site”, “space” and “place” as if there is a physical reality to software design when there is not.

The gap created between physical and virtual realms is the difference in the way we treat one another. No reasonable and good human would communicate with another human the ways trolls treat each other online or with the ease at which we can text and email each other terrible things without much thought.

Physical reality grows from virtual reality. When we speak to each other in the physical world the way we speak to each other in the virtual world, we’ve crossed into a different reality where internet troll behavior sometimes becomes acceptable in the physical world.

It’s easy to think that the virtual world represents physical reality and certainly in the past few years, as the stress of this transition we’re in has held us all firmly in its claws, it seems that our outer world is a representation of the careless use of the influence of the virtual world.

And yet...

I’ve marveled over the past few years at how, when I go out into the physical world and actually connect with people, how people are, by far, overwhelmingly kind and loving towards each other.

We recently purchased a house in a small farming town in Wisconsin. It’s an unusual town, a mix of hippies, co-housing communities, food activists, organic farmers and climate refugees from California who coexist with traditional dairy farmers and the Amish.

We bought a house here because it’s an incredible place that truly embodies the energy of “community.” Even though I’ve met a lot of people who are nothing like me at all, I’ve been met with nothing but kindness, loving curiosity, and a desire to be good neighbors.

My point is this. A small percentage of the people in the world are affecting a large portion of what we are experiencing and our consequent perception of reality.

If we look at the world through the lens of math, 80% of the resources of the world are controlled by 20% of the people. 20 percent of your efforts in life net 80% of the results.

This is called the Pareto Principle or the 80/20 Rule. The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes, often referred to as the “vital few.”

Our experience of our outer reality is being influenced by 20% of the world. How much of what we see in the world - the news, social media, movies, TV - is influenced by a disproportionate perspective of a minority of people?

What if the world and her inhabitants are actually, by far, wildly good, kind, generous, caring, desirous of change, future oriented, concerned about their children and grandchildren and about other people’s children and grandchildren?

What if our actions ARE actually significant and powerful?

What if we can change the world simply by making small, incremental changes in 20% of our actions to generate 80% more growth?

What if we don’t have to transform our entire life, just 20% of it, to begin to experience the effects of these small changes?

Think of it like this. Making conscious, deliberate, and targeted shifts in your thinking and actions can be ...

You are a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event. To find out more about how to continue your dreams and make a difference in your world, visit Karen Curry Parker at quantumalignmentsystem.com

Produced by Number Three Productions, numberthreeproductions.com

He has BIG (negative) feelings about computer software programs that do the designing and drawing for you.

I feel the same way about journaling with a pen versus writing with a computer.

If you look up the word “architect” on the internet, you’ll find that the term now applies more to the digital world than to the deliberate and conscious design of spaces in the material world.

And yet...

I’ve marveled over the past few years at how, when I go out into the physical world and actually connect with people, how people are, by far, overwhelmingly kind and loving towards each other.

My point is this. A small percentage of the people in the world are affecting a large portion of what we are experiencing and our consequent perception of reality.

If we look at the world through the lens of math, 80% of the resources of the world are controlled by 20% of the people. 20 percent of your efforts in life net 80% of the results.

What if our actions ARE actually significant and powerful?

What if we can change the world simply by making small, incremental changes in 20% of our actions to generate 80% more growth?

What if we don’t have to transform our entire life, just 20% of it, to begin to experience the effects of these small changes?

Think of it like this. Making conscious, deliberate, and targeted shifts in your thinking and actions can be ...

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The Most Important Thing You Can Do to Heal the Planet Right Now

What’s rarer than the hope diamond? More precious than any gem? You.

The pandemic has brought us some interesting gifts and contemplations. Many of us are beginning to redefine abundance and success. We’re asking ourselves how much is enough and realizing that the complexity of having too much is stressful.

We are moving towards a new Global Cycle that will start in 2027. We’re already deep into the edges of this theme that promises to help us redefine abundance. This Global Cycle is rooted in the mastery of faith as our most powerful source of creativity.

We are learning to trust Source, to know that we are fully supported and to excel at the art of emotional alignment as our most creative power.

I have long said that the term “abundance” is up for re-definition. Our culture correlates abundance with having a lot of things and money. We measure the “net worth” of a person by how much money they have and the value of their assets.

When we measure value with how many “things” we own and how much money we have, we are using a metric that is exclusive, competitive, and rooted in an outdated evolutionary theme that implies only the “fit” survive.

We’re also gauging our worth on the material plane.

The Truth is you are precious and valuable beyond measure because you exist.

Because. You. Exist.

We are each a once-in-a-lifetime-cosmic-event, more rare than the Hope Diamond or any other precious gem.

When we try to prove our worth or overcompensate for our internal lack of self-worth by having too much stuff, we exhaust ourselves, we look at the world through eyes that reflect back to us the vibration of “not enough” and we stay desperate for more and more.

This desperation is the most destructive energy on the planet right now.

Covid is inviting us to contemplate how much is enough. We are learning to trust in our sufficiency, living with the awareness that we’ll know what we need to know when we need to know it and we’ll have what we need to have when we need to have it. This cycle promises to train us to trust in our “enough-ness” and, because we will no longer be scrapping and fighting to prove our value, our creative energy will be turned towards finding the elegant solutions to the challenges facing humanity and beyond.

We truly are standing on the very edge of a Creative Revolution.

You play a vital role in this revolution. Your own personal healing of your internal sense of your worth is THE MOST important thing you can do to heal the planet right now. When you do that, everything that emanates from you will be sustainable and influential on a deep level.

Do the work.

The planets, and the world, and the universe, and your divine siblings have their “hands” on your back. They are pushing you into a curriculum of healing that will transform your life and the world.

Do the work.

You deserve it.

I’m humbled to be on the planet with you, dear Cosmic Revolutionary, at this very pivotal time.

You are a once-in-a-lifetime cosmic event. To find out more about how to continue your dreams and make a difference in your world, visit Karen Curry Parker at quantumalignmentsystem.com

Produced by Number Three Productions, numberthreeproductions.com

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You Deserve to Have Faith, First and Foremost, in Yourself

I was in middle school the first time I heard the expression, “Knowledge is Power.”

I was the ultimate nerd in middle school. I spent my afternoons indulging in my obsession over lichens, traipsing through the vacant fields behind our luxury apartment with my magnifying glass and collection plates.

I went to a small international school in Germany where I was able to take bonus classes in the high school. All twelve grades were housed in the same building, so I only had to walk across the gymnasium to my advanced biology class where I’d absorb all the information that they threw at me while I crushed on the cute Scottish boy who sat next to me.

For most of the day I was in classes with my same-aged peers. When my teacher shared the phrase, “Knowledge is Power” with us I distinctly remember taking a good, long, slow look at the kids in the classroom and thinking that this phrase is distinctly not true.

If knowledge is “power,” then I wouldn’t be picked on mercilessly in class. The boys, who just the day before, had positioned a bucket of water in the corner of the classroom door which had unceremoniously dumped onto our teacher, wouldn’t still be here in the classroom. If knowledge was power, we’d be able to get through our daily lessons without having to stop because the class was talking too much or distracted by a completely non-sequitur topic. And I wouldn’t always be the last one picked in P.E.

I had, what felt like to me, a lot of knowledge, but very little power. Like many of you, I felt like that a lot of my life.

What Sir Francis Bacon didn’t lay out in his brilliant statement is specifically what kind of knowledge do you need to have to be powerful. Obviously, it isn’t knowledge about lichens - or - from my more adult perspective, knowledge about how to soothe a newborn baby, how to fix a hearty bowl of soup to feed your family when funds are tight, or how to emotionally prop up an anxious 12-year-old during a pandemic.

What kind of knowledge was Sir Francis Bacon actually referring to?

Over time this statement has often been used to highlight the importance of education. More recently, this statement refers to being “in the know” about conspiracy theories.

We’ve spent a lot of time exploring the idea of knowledge, which is this day and age is a highly mutable concept. What is knowledge? Who decides what is knowledge? Or, on a more frightening note, what is truth?

Maybe it’s time, instead of trying to understand what defines knowledge, we look at this statement through the exploration of what is power? In the material world and through the lens of material consciousness, power is force. Power is controlled by numbers and how much access you have to material resources. Basically, those with the most toys win.

The knowledge that defines this kind of power is the ability to know how to take seize, hustle, hoard, usurp, and steal resources. This knowledge teaches us how to play a zero-sum game and come out as the winner.

Because this is a zero-sum game, no one wins until a certain group of people have power over the vast majority of the resources. We are living on the very edge of this formula and if we continue this game a whole lot of us are going to lose.

But we no longer live in the material era. Science has shown us that the world isn’t really a material world. It’s a quantum world. The material world is simply an artifact of a quantum reality that plays according to a different set of rules.

In the quantum world, the person who “wins” and has the most amount of power, is the person who builds a big enough field of quantum information that eventually drops into material formation once it reaches a critical mass.

Quantum science has shown us that manifestation is influenced by emotional alignment. We now understand that the cosmos itself is biased towards unity, coherence and advanced states of organization and goals and intentions that are in alignment with this core bias are more powerful than those that go against it.

Our core problem with power is that we fail to yield it. We are so deeply entranced and hypnotized by the material world that we don’t allow ourselves to cultivate the faith to create anything beyond what we know how to create. We don’t dream. We don’t imagine. Some of us have even stopped hoping...

In the Quantum Era, power comes not from force, but from faith. How much faith you have determines what and how much you can create. It determines how much you can build, influence, endure, sustain and, ultimately, how many resources you create so you can share more with the world.

Faith is a muscle which is cultivated with practice. Faith, by definition, is the belief in something that you can’t see and the possibility of doing something you don’t know how to do. Faith lives on the very edge of creativity and builds the infrastructure for evoluti...