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“We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.” Barack Obama

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AUTHOR: ROB HENDRIX

PUBLISHER:  CANNABIS LAW REPORT

  Happy Sunday. I have to be brief as the AFC Championship game is due to begin shortly. And while I am NOT rooting for the Patriots to make to the Super Bowl, AGAIN, I am however a fan of anything or anyone who achieves excellence. And excellence must be admired even if begrudgingly.

When we opened our retail Cannabis shop in my hometown of Ellensburg, Washington back in August 2014, I didn’t have many admirers, in fact there were many who were quite upset. I set about almost immediately to win them over with excellence. Our mission statement was and still is, “To Be The Model Recreational Cannabis Shop in the State of Washington”.

This is still a misunderstood and therefore a controversial industry. I have worked very hard to honor and abide by my mission statement. And excellence ladies and gentlemen is how we will turn people’s negative opinions around. Excellence in how we run our store, excellence in how we understand and welcome and endeavor to deal effectively while being empathetic to with people’s fears. Excellence in how we work with government at all levels in creating a regulatory environment that is fair and workable and sustainable for all, especially frankly those who are concerned about Cannabis in society. Excellence in our hiring, training, managing our employees, always insisting our employees be respectful to all at all times.

The pursuit and, hopefully, the attainment of excellence is always admired. Excellence also means accepting responsibility to run your Cannabis business with not just high standards but the highest standards. We have to be doing it all better than any other industry. Let me repeat that; we need to be doing it better than any other industry. Fair? Probably not but it is the way it is. Accept this as fact and work, plan, hire, advertise accordingly. If we take this approach we will change people’s opinions, maybe very slowly, maybe only one person at a time. But given this constant effort, never yielding to short cuts or lapses in judgement and commitment to be the best, we will ultimately win.

Make the decision today if you haven’t already done so to be excellent in everything you do. That attitude is contagious and will permeate throughout the entire business. Lead from the front, be a leader in your store obviously but be a leader in your community, at the State level and at the Federal level. Never shy away from this, your sacred responsibility. We have decided to enter this controversial world, no one forced us to do so. We owe it to ourselves, our families, our communities and our industry to be the absolute best we can be.

Rob Hendrix, owner Cannabis Consulting Nationwide, LLC

www.cannabisconsultingnatiowide.com

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Follow the Gandhian path to overcome intolerance

A whole book can be written on how Mahatma Gandhi’s ideas are relevant today. He was a visionary and possessed a very powerful mind and hence thought deeply and wrote on basic human issues and problems facing India in those times. Those issues are as relevant today as they were in his time.

I will touch on the area of intolerance which is dividing our society and tearing into our social fabric and show how Gandhi’s teachings can help us.

Gandhi was a compromiser par excellence. He would always consider other party’s point of view and come up with solutions acceptable to all parties. Both in his legal and political work he brought in parties together for resolution of their problems.

The ability to compromise comes only when we are very tolerant to the other’s point of view and do not impose unilaterally the majority’s point of view. This ability comes to an individual when he is secure in the knowledge that the compromise solution leads towards general good for all the people.

Gandhi, who was fearless and hence a very secure human being, always had the general good of all Indians in his mind whenever he offered solutions to knotty problems. Devoid of any personal ego and always looking for long-term solutions, he appealed to warring parties to keep in sight the higher purpose of life and achieved great success. Since he practised what he preached, his message had great effect and achieved the desired results.

Today we see all around us intolerance and catering to special interest groups which is resulting in bans on various things and creating social tensions. This is an outcome of fear in the ruling politicians that if they do not do so they will not be elected — little realising that if they keep on working for the general good of their constituency they will be elected easily and with much bigger margins.

Fear comes from insecurity which is an outcome of a brain which cannot resolve the issues after taking into account all eventualities. This inability to evaluate all outcomes transcends caste, creed, or economic situations. Thus most of the people, no matter whether they are rich or poor, suffer from insecurities — for the poor it is the insecurity of their future and for the rich it relates to increasing their wealth and keeping it safe. The removal of these insecurities by a powerful brain can rid us of fear. Yoga helps in developing such a brain through meditation and focus on a single thought for a long time — called Sanyam by Patanjali.

Another way to get rid of fear is to be thankful for whatever we have and count our blessings. If we do that continuously, it gives us a sense of contentment and happiness since our burdens and insecurities are reduced by the thought that somebody will be there to help us and everything will be okay. This also has the ability to sublimate the greed impulse.

I also feel that the fear of missing out and the insecurity of what will happen in future is what produces greed and, in turn, corruption and corrupt politicians. These corrupt politicians then become egotist and intolerant and hijack the agenda of India’s democracy for their selfish reasons.

Gandhi practised both these things in his life — his regular and daily meditations and his deep belief in God and higher forces to whom he was grateful for everything that he achieved. This helped him become completely fearless.

Devoid of fear he was able to chart new paths in tolerance, taking everybody’s opinion and carrying all the people together to give us independence and make this nation better.

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