When I say tipping point, I am referring cycles of life that crescendo until the reach a point where they can not longer stay there and fall off, as described in the book titled, “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference” by Malcolm Gladwell. In every aspect of life, cycles are present and these cycles have points where they are so far outside of the averages that they have to head back toward balance again. A visual example of this is if you were to balance a sword on its tip, it would eventually lose balance and fall over and the fall would accelerate until hitting the floor (though usually cycles tend to fly by equal and go the opposite direction out of balance). So what am I getting at?!

I personally believe that we have reached monstrously large tipping points in many different categories of life now. If I am right, we will not recognize the world we live in within 10 years, maybe a lot less or a little more. I think it is a time for people around the globe to begin to prepare for change: to get tougher and smarter/wiser, get serious about their faith and history, to get closer to their families and friends, to really invest in networks of like-minded people.

Here are the areas that I think will be catalysts for this change:

1. Banking and money.

2. Food supply chain.

3. Governmental and personal debt.

4. Focus on materialism instead of productivity (focus on what we get out of life instead of what we add to others).

5. Crumbling of stable moral structure (especially in the Western world).

6. Cost of sick-care because of avoidance of sane solutions.

7. Lack of balance with time and focus in family schedules (people are so pressed for time they cannot become smarter or better connected, nor take the time to understand all the above issues).

8. Too many employees, not enough entrepreneurs and small business owners (true only in the Western world).

There are actually more I can think of, but these are some basic, very important ones. The key here is that they all effect each other and as some of them trigger, they will cause the others to go too. The great thing about a tipping point situation is that things will tend toward more health and they hold great opportunity. The horrible thing is that not everyone will survive this time.