Love is not just a fairy tale.
We need to put it into action!
Love as the highest value will change our world for the better.
Love for ourselves, our relationships, families, our communities, small businesses, non profits, big business, governments, cities, countries, continents and the world!
We talk about love as romantic love and Disney idealizes love as the powerful force that makes the whole world whole. We think this is important in our dreams but we are reticent to put it into action.
Instead we make money and production and power our highest value.
We fear that love will not bring us success. We think of hippies dropping out of society.
Martin Luther King Jr. was a powerful force for love.
He believed that power and love need to work together. He said:
“Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love.”
Love is not just sentimental and anemic in the case of a successful software developer company Focal CXM which makes love its #1 core value. They share on their blog page:
“When senior management nurture , correct and treat all employees with love, fairness, respect and true concern, the effect will be incredible. That culture will ensure that the overall happiness index is high and in turn, the deliverables turn out much better.”
I worked for the # 1 home staging company in Vancouver called Dekora for 5 years. While they did not make Love the core value, many of their values are based on love: respect, support appreciation. They put into practice the idea that everyone counts and everyone pitches in, they believe that everyone has value and as a result it is a very successful business with employees who feel loved and want to do their best.
It’s not just a feeling of love but love in action that I’m talking about; helping one another to succeed, good honest service, compassion, fairness, implementing beauty, doing your best, having a strong voice and being heard.
This is a quote from the Martin Luther King Jr.’s Love your Enemies sermon:
“We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way.”
I say love is the only way!
I ask you all to bring it out of our fairy tales and make it our reality!