So I’m becoming a lightworker

Author Tim on May 13th, 2007

We’ll after trying out both sides of the force (if you can put it that way) testing out the waters of both being a lightworker and a darkworker I’ve finally come to a conclusion (although more darkworker work may be needed).

If you’re unsure of who or what lightworkers or darkworker are, they are pretty much 2 different views on life. A lightworking kind of person is someone who gives to others without expecting anything in return, they chose to provide value to other people and help serve others helping everyone else learn and be the best they can be. A Darkworker on the other hand is one that likes to gain wealth, fame and fortune for themselves and don’t worry about how other are doing (they are merely competition), and aim to get the most from everyone else to become the best, the most powerful etc.

Although going on either path you can become rich and/or famous they both go about it in very different ways.

- a example of a famous lightworker would be Mother Teresa who aims to help and serve others, while a rich lightworker would be Sergey Brin and Larry Page of Google, who aimed to build the best search technology to help others organize their life and find information easier and faster than ever before. They did not force anyone to use Google, Gmail or any of their other technologies, they just provided the best technology out there and people came in droves to use it.

- a famous darkworker would be someone such as Paris Hilton who is the average selfish girl who wants fame and fortune for herself and cares little about others, while a rich darkworker would be someone such as Bill Gates who sees everyone else as competition to his empire. He aims to squelch competition and force companies to make programs and other pieces of software that only run on Windows so that Microsoft will hold a monopoly over the computer market.

Now being a darkworker doesn’t necessarily make someone evil, it simply means they have a different outlook on life. Bill Gates is a great person helping donate billions of dollars to charities around the world. In business however Bill Gates is probably as ruthless as they get, you can tell he sees most other companies as competition and will only seek to partner with them if it provides very beneficial to Microsoft.

A Lightworker takes a different approach to business, and often you’ll see most if not all of the top blogs on the internet are run by lightworkers. This is simply because a lightworker aims to work with others to propel both their businesses and with blogs all being interconnected and part of one giant social mass it’s a lot easier to gain more traffic as a lightworker.

A Darkworker on the other hand has much more trouble in this modern age as most of the time they are simply focussed on getting themselves traffic, making more money for themselves, and so on, never really wanting to give back to their niche market. You’ll often find darkworkers resorting to spammy or underhanded tactics in order to get more sales, not realizing if they give first they will get in return.

For greater depth and detail check out stevepavlinas blog at http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2007/03/are-you-a-lightworker-or-a-darkworker/

I’ve noticed in life recently in my finances I was using darkworker techniques, I would create websites with little to no good content aiming to make as much money out of my visitors as possible. This could have worked if I tried harder but after a while I realized really wasn’t something I’d like to do, I’d like to create sites that help others learn and improve the world as a whole rather than simply make myself rich.

As a start I’ve been doing small things to help others learn and improve and teaching others things that I know a fair bit about but have never shared. I’ve converted jeddesigns.com into a site to teach others programming in simple terms, as I’ve found in the past when I’ve wanted to learn programming every tutorial on the internet is extremely complex and doesn’t seem to be written for the average joe.

I’ve also been releasing source code for projects I’ve written at uni to help others learn from them and hopefully create something better and more powerful than I can, seeing as I don’t use these old projects anymore I don’t see any real reason to keep the source code all to myself.

The path of a lightworker really is something I’ve been working towards all my life as many of you know, my biggest dream is to help rebuild third world countries to first world status. Giving them renewable resources (solar electricity, recycled filtered water) and making them completely self sufficient, as well as providing them with access to the internet and proper teachers so that kids are able to grow up and perform the same professions that children in first world countries strive to do.

This will not only increase the rate at which the human race as a whole advances in technology and science, it will give these millions of people a fresh start on life and an ability to do what they wish to do, rather than scavenging around garbage dumps for food for the rest of their lives. I only hope this dream can be achieved before I pass away for I’m excited at what possibilities the future holds, if we could double or even triple the amount of educated scientists/researchers in the world we could invent new technologies, explore new planets, do new things faster and better than ever, its amazing when you think about how slow we are currently advancing compared to what we could do in the future if every one of the 6 billion people in the world could help improve the human race as a whole.

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