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That first plan our team developed took us a year to create since then we continue to do research and development (R&D) and seek out the best of the best information that is as relevant and up-to-date as we can deliver. If you are on a later Phase and find yourself back on a earlier Phase it is due to our team finding new information that will only add value to your knowledge base and make you more effective in the work you do. This is not punishment in any way. We are here to serve YOU and your most pressing needs and we do so by providing you the best information, tools and training currently available.

We have seen amazing things happen to those who progress through the phases and we feel that speaks as testimony to the efficacy of the principles and the systems we propose herein — people report all kinds of successes in their personal life from no longer having feelings of suicide, to becoming known as a leader in their region, finding people they identify with and consider their "family" or "tribe" or seeing how their social change work impacts others in a positive way.

And when you follow through Your Action Plan, there will be nothing stopping you from getting results like these yourself.

Is home a haven of retreat from the world? Or is it a place for friends to gather? Is your shared dwelling simply a place to sleep and store clothes? You don't have to be in agreement with your Home-mate(s) on this. One person may simply need a place to sleep and keep clothes, while another may host large dinner parties. This can work very well, provided all are in agreement about how the space is being used. But if one person needs quiet by 9:30 p.m. and the dinner parties usually end at 11:00 pm, with noisy comings and goings, there will be conflict. Think about what you want and need around sociability.

Sources: Sharing Housing: A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates

Contributors:  Annamarie Pluhar

Recommended Books: Sharing Housing: A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates

Purpose:

YOU establish philosophies for a better future. These are formed based on knowing how things are in relation to how you feel they should be.

Physical:

At least one of 4 scenarios happen:

• You take no action.
• You find others like yourself but take no meaningful action.
• You find others like yourself who want to take action.
• You find a means to implement action either individually or within a group.

Social:

• You, and others like you, become unsettled by the constant societal pressures of the status quo and the direction society is going.

Intellectual:

• You educate yourself on the current systems in place as well as research possible solutions.  You ask yourself, “What can be done to change our current situation?”

Diets are so personal that you are not likely to overlook this one, unless you don't have a particular diet but the potential Home-mate does. If you aren't planning to share food, the diet of your Home-mate may not make a difference, but then again it might. For instance if you are vegetarian, how do you feel about the smell of meat cooking? Can you live with it? Consider also your attitude toward food, can you live with someone who has a completely different diet from you? Can you live with someone who cooks foreign cuisines with interesting smells? Does foreignness attract you or repel you? Maybe you never eat at home and whatever your Home-mate does makes no difference to you at all.

Sources: Sharing Housing: A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates

Contributors:  Annamarie Pluhar

Recommended Books: Sharing Housing: A Guidebook for Finding and Keeping Good Housemates