I believe the Health and Wellness Industry is the “gold rush” of the millennium. Let’s venture back into history and establish a basis that leads to this conclusion. We won’t go too far back, but let’s look at the days when almost everyone was tied directly or indirectly to the land.
Most people had their little plot of land where they grew their own food and toiled out their being. They worked for themselves, and their health was usually good because they ate (what we call today) organic food. However, a time came when families wanted variety and they developed a simple barter and cash system. This way I could trade some of my peas for some of your cotton. If we couldn’t trade, I would sell my goods for cash to buy what I needed. This system allowed everyone to enjoy the basics of life.
People always want more. Even more so they wanted it fast. So inventors and entrepreneurs heeded the call thus bringing about the “Industrial Revolution.” Great industrial complexes started to develop. People stopped growing their own food. Produce became product as Agribusiness developed and began to genetically modify most foods. People stopped making their own clothes and started buying manufactured clothing. Grocery stores and malls emerged and mass production became the way of the day.
Soon people needed to get jobs in order to participate in the new way of life. They started to leave their homesteads and cluster into cities. The big Industrial complexes provided jobs, because they needed help in order to meet the great new consumer demand.
Actually people came from an environment of self sufficiency to a system of working for someone else. This became known as the “Job Market.” The system thrived and people became more and more dependent on it, until one day the bubble burst. There was a depression and there were no jobs and no money. People seemed to have lost their survival skills; they no longer knew how to make the land provide for them.
Next comes the development of social welfare programs. People looked to the Government to do for them, what they could no longer do for themselves. Wars came along to stimulate and redevelop the economy, and all was well for awhile. Government morphed into a Robin Hood that took from those that had and gave to those who didn’t have.
Eventually the string broke and the economy went awry. Banks stopped loaning money; people were losing all of their assets and worst of all there were no jobs. The period of prosperity became the age of doom and gloom. Worst of all people were getting sicker by the day, because for years they have consumed inferior genetically modified foods. But they want to maintain their youth and vitality.
What is a person to do when they have been raised in a system that teaches, go to school in order to get a good job? Even worst, none of the schools teach the skills of fending for self, and creating your own business. What is one to do?
Now we have defined the problem and its foundation. Let’s define a solution. Does it take a rocket scientist? GO INTO BUSINESS FOR YOURSELF!
