Two Christmas Gifts for You

Good Evening, World Heroes and Heroines!

Are you feeling motivated tonight?

I know that I am!

Merry Christmas! May the Lord's peace and blessings be upon you.

On behalf of The 400 Year Project to demonstrate how improvements can be made at 20 times the usual rate, I want to share with you two remarkable new resources to help you.

Dr. Burra Ramulu has just completed a new Web site as a resource to explain how to teach others to make 2,000 percent solutions. He kindly asked me to alert you to this information as a Christmas gift. You can read the Web site by going to:

http://hstrial-rburra.homestead.com/about.html

He recounts on this Web site how he was able to lead a team of volunteers to assist 60 people in his home village of Kasimpet in India to gain four powerful 2,000 percent solutions in just a short period of time (20 times more income, 20 times more net worth, 96 percent less debt, and 96 percent less interest costs).

This approach could be repeated with ease in almost any low-income community throughout the world. I hope you will have a chance to apply it.

If you contact him by e-mail, he will be pleased to answer any questions you have.

The second resource is a new book that I've just coauthored with Bishop Dale P. Combs, Lisa Combs, Jim Barbarossa, and Carla Barbarossa to describe an application of how to accomplish 400 times as much (a 2,000 percent squared solution) by increasing the Christian witnessing activities through a church's congregation.

Whether or not you are a Christian, you will find much valuable information in this book for expanding important knowledge.

You can read a free copy of the book online by going to either:

http://www.jubileeworshipcenter.com/feature_detail.asp?id=106

or

http://www.step-by-step.org/witness.html

May God bless you, your family, and all you do in the name of Jesus!

With best regards, much appreciation, and all good wishes,

Donald W. Mitchell
Chairman
The 400 Year Project

Copyright 2009 Donald W. Mitchell

Help Reduce Poverty with Your Ideas for a Global Contest

Good morning, World Heroes and Heroines!

Are you feeling motivated this morning?

I hope so. I know that I am!

Because of the current global economic issues, I wanted
to do something to help poor people. While recently
reading a book called Crowdsourcing, I was struck by the
opportunity to launch a new kind of contest to create
better solutions for reducing poverty.

Traditionally, online contests have provided a period
of a few months to propose solutions. The best solutions
then gained prizes and recognition . . . and were
publicized for all to use.

The new idea is to start a contest by publishing some
outstanding solutions and inviting people to propose
improvements on those solutions. The list of published
solutions would be continually updated to reflect the
best solutions received to date.

Entrants would have the opportunity to use parts of
already proposed solutions for their entries.

In this way, someone might make a small change that
would provide a large improvement in a fine idea and
turn the result into something much better. And then
the process repeats itself as someone else adds
another valuable small change.

In the contests that were reported, the eventual
winning solutions were approximately 1,000 times
more effective than the first leading solutions that
were received.

I am interested in doing something like this by
beginning with the best solutions for eliminating
poverty that any of my students have generated. I
would publicize these on all of my blogs and put
out a press release about the contest.

What are your thoughts about this kind of contest?

How could it be made better?

How could it be made more interesting to you?

What prizes and recognition do you think should
be offered?

How should the winning entries be publicized?

Thank for your consideration of this request
for help.

I look forward to hearing from you.

You can send me e-mails at
save_more_souls@yahoo.com

If you want to learn more about the 400 Year Project, register for free to read about this work at http://www.fastforward400.com/

May God bless you.

Donald W. Mitchell
Chairman, Mitchell and Company

Copyright 2008 Donald W. Mitchell