Explore " five year plan" with insightful episodes like "Five-Year Plan (240110)", "Navigating Ministry Without a Five-Year Plan", "Dad's Road To Restoration w/ Nanyu Barbosa", "The Soviet Ordeal Ep. 6 The Holodomor" and "The Soviet Ordeal Ep. 5 Collectivization and the Ukrainian Genocide" from podcasts like ""721 Live Talk Radio", "Spiritual Hotspots: Stories From the Field", "Think Like a Dad", "Savage Continent" and "Savage Continent"" and more!
I was renovating houses when I turned forty-five. I asked myself, “Do I want to be doing this when I am sixty-five?” The answer was a definitive, “Not no, but absolutely no!” But let me drill down a little more on that question, with an eternal perspective in mind: “Do I want to see myself in five years as the same “spiritual Sam” I am now?”
In this episode of "Asked and Answered," join Ron and Charis as they delve into the fascinating world of Empower Ministries and the absence of a traditional five-year plan. Ron shares his unique perspective on how he relies on the guidance of the Lord to navigate the ministry's path, leading to unexpected blessings and growth. Explore the transformative power of faith and adaptability as Ron reveals how Empower Ministries thrived during the challenging times of the COVID-19 pandemic. Discover the incredible resources and support that Empower Ministries provides to help individuals and communities flourish in their spiritual journey. Get ready to be inspired and encouraged to embrace the unknown with unwavering faith!
What happens when two dads come together to discuss the challenges and joys of fatherhood in today's fast-paced world? Join me and my dear friend Nanyu as we share our experiences and the lessons learned on this journey through parenting, family life, and chasing our dreams. We reminisce about our brotherhood formed during our time volunteering at our church and how it has shaped our lives as fathers.
In this heartfelt conversation, we explore the importance of allowing our children to fail, learn, and grow, while reflecting on our own experiences with our fathers and their provider roles. Discover how we tackle unexpected expenses and find strength in our faith during tough times. We also emphasize the significance of communication, setting boundaries in our relationships, and taking action on our finances and goals.
Nanyu shares his experience involving his wife in their financial decisions and how it has strengthened their marriage, while we both acknowledge the power of faith and prayer in overcoming adversity. Don't miss this insightful and inspiring episode as we delve into topics that resonate with every parent trying to balance family life, careers, and personal dreams.
Episode Chapters:
(0:00:01) - Balancing Fatherhood and Pursuing Dreams
Nanju and I discussed balancing family life, pursuing dreams, brotherhood, fatherhood, family support, and adjusting to new realities.
(0:13:15) - Parenting and the Provider Role
Nanju and I discussed balancing family life, allowing children to fail, managing unexpected expenses, and pursuing dreams.
(0:17:40) - Allowing Children to Fail and Learn
We discuss failure, tough love, love and support, and nature's butterfly cocoon analogy.
(0:22:02) - Confident Parenting in Sports and Life
Nanyu and I provide love, teach mistakes are okay, use God for strength, allow failure, and reflect on Nanju's childhood.
(0:35:50) - Overcoming Job Loss and Financial Struggles
Nanyu and I discussed communication, faith, prayer, tough love, and support to cope with life's hardships.
(0:49:07) - Faith, Family, and Healthy Boundaries
Nanyu and I discuss faith's power to provide strength, growth, boundaries, and courage.
(0:56:57) - Family Planning Hustle and Communication
Nanyu and I discuss healthy hustling, communication, five year plans, being role models, and the power of prayer.
(1:02:42) - Taking Action on Finances and Goals
Nanyu and I discuss taking action to pursue dreams, strengthening marriage through finances, setting goals and boundaries, and the power of faith and prayer.
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Stalin's plan to Collectivize the Soviet Union was finally in full swing. Peasants everywhere were being forced to abandon their antiquated bucolic lifestyles and become modern proletarians on large agroindustrial farms. Marx’s dream of “labor armies” in the countryside was finally coming true. "The worker's paradise is upon us comrades!!" Well... not so fast. The pushback against this plan was widespread and determined... so much so that even Stalin had to publicly admit it simply wouldn't be possible to forcibly coerce 100 million people to voluntarily become cogs in the colossal wheel of Soviet socialism. It was time for plan B. ``What if we made it impossible for people NOT to join the collective farms? What if we taxed anyone that didn't give in so hard they would be begging for mercy?" As it turned out, plan B did work... sort of... but then a new problem arose. These farms were simply not producing enough food to go around. Socialism wasn't working. Uh oh… So did he back off? Try a different plan? You know that's not how Stalin rolls. It was full speed ahead. “Damn the torpedoes.” Millions of people might starve but it was all for a good cause right? The Soviet Union had to meet those export targets. They needed a lot of hard cash to build those shiny new factories and there was no other way to get it but by selling grain on the world market. If that meant people at home had to go hungry then so be it. “They should have worked harder,” he would say. Of course, the epicenter of this very predictable disaster would be Ukraine. Stalin had an almost pathological distrust for non Russian nationalities that refused to wholeheartedly submit to Soviet power. And of all the nationalities that had resisted his rule so far, none had been more troublesome than the Ukrainians. What he did there in the years 1932-3 has been declared a genocide by 16 countries (inluding the United States). The man who invented the word "genocide" even declared it a genocide. At the famine’s height, a territory the size of France, consisting of 30 million people would be hermetically sealed off from the outside world and its inhabitants left to die a slow, lingering death. Inside the death zone, to even grab a handful of grain from a field could get one executed or sent to the Gulag for a decade long sentence (which was just as good). Many would go insane. Others would become criminals. Some would even resort to cannibalism. No one who survived these years would ever be the same again. Stalin once said "It is ideas that matter, not the individual." Well how about 4 to 5 million individuals? How many eggs do you need to break to make this omelet? Seems like a lot of eggs to me. It would later be called "The Holodomor '' or "death by starvation," and increasingly, historians see it as a deliberate act of a totalitarian regime to break the will of an entire nation. If you want to know why the Ukrainian people of today would be willing to fight with such tenacity to defy the will of a dictator in Moscow, then look no further. After listening to this then you'll get it. Or don’t listen to it. Putin wouldn’t want you to anyways. You know… “fascist” propaganda and all.
Stalin had big plans for revolutionizing the Soviet Union and nowhere where those plans bigger than Ukraine. 90% percent of the population in the republic were small time farmers who worked the same plots of land their ancestors always had. He wanted to dispossess all of them and force everyone into large industrial plantations where they would become employees of the state. Convinced that that the "fascist" Western democracies were itching to invade, he wanted to take the agrarian Soviet Union and turn it into an industrial superpower capable defeating the "capitalist encirclement" in just 5 years. However, to do that he needed money... lots of money and the Soviet Union would have to export grain... lots and lots of grain to get it. But what if his own people didn't have enough to eat? In that case the industrialized "proletarian" regions would be fed and the backward agricultural ones would have to do without. He reasoned that to create this new bulwark of Socialism the peasants would have to be "sacrificed." Lenin had said that peasants "need to do a little starving" now and then and this would be no exception. The "Worker's Paradise" had no use for these vestiges of the feudal past and if some of these were lost it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. But he also saw Ukraine as a hotbed of "counterrevolutionaries," "kulaks," "wreckers," "Petliurists," and about a dozen other hidden "class enemies." They were all threats to Soviet power and had connections to "fascist" Western democracies. These were people that needed to be taught a lesson they wouldn't soon forget. What followed would be one of the darkest man made catastrophes on Earth but it would happen systematically, in deliberate stages. Stalin would later confess to Churchill that he had to "destroy 10 million." It would be known as the "Holodomor" or "death by hunger." It doomed the population of Ukraine to a slow, lingering death. Ultimately, 13% of the population perished in less than two years. Nonetheless, a sympathetic New York Times reporter from the time would say "you have to break a few eggs to make an omelet." Do the ends always justify the means? Today, the United States, along with 18 other countries officially recognize it as a genocide. Unsurprisingly, Putin's Russia is not one of them. They do not teach it in schools and still deny it ever occurred. If you want to know why every day people would be willing to fight to the death in the streets of Kiev to repel a Russian invader, look no further.
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I create an annual plan every year and a quarterly plan every quarter for the past 10 years. That is 50 plans...YUP! And after creating 50 plans, I’ve learned a few things.
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Deborah and Jack unpacks the details and highlights of China’s latest five-year-plan, the most basic and authoritative document that charts out the country’s strategic vision, covering policies, measures and targets on domestic social issues, to the environment, to education and economic development.
The document is meant to mobilize the nation’s officials and state-owned enterprises to work jointly across the sectors and ministries on implementing the goals from the central to the provincial level. It is also a window into China’s policy formulation process and how their leaders are responding to complex domestic and international challenges. Today, we have two doctoral candidates in political science who have followed closely the 13th Five Year Plan that was recently ratified in Beijing. They will share with us their analysis on the significant policies in the plan and what story it tells us about China’s recent challenges and its hope for its future.
Deborah Seligsohn is a PhD candidate in political science and international relations here at UC San Diego. Her dissertation focuses on air pollution regulation in China and India. From 2007 to 2012 she was the Principal Advisor to the World Resources Institute’s China Energy and Environmental Program, based in Beijing. Deborah is a twenty-year veteran at the US Department of State, working on energy and environment issues in China, India, Nepal and New Zealand. Her most recent position at the State Department was as Environment, Science, Technology and Health Counselor in Beijing. Deborah has a master’s degree from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy, and a BA from Harvard University in East Asian Studies. She blogs regularly at ChinaFAQs, ChinaFile and the Huffington Post and has been published in the New Scientist, the Financial Times and the South China Morning Post.
Jack Zhang is also a PhD candidate in political science and international relations at UC San Diego. His research interests lie at the intersection of international political economy and security, with a focus on contemporary China. Jack’s dissertation investigates the impact of interstate conflict on multinational firms operating in belligerent countries as well as the political strategies that these firms adopt to influence the policies of home and host governments. Jack argues that firms play a crucial and understudied role in commercial peace theories. His research seeks to explore their role as strategic actors in the politics of war and peace. Prior to coming to UC San Diego, Jack worked as a China researcher for the Eurasia Group in Washington, DC. He was awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Grant to conduct fieldwork in Beijing on the economic effects of political crises on China based foreign multinationals during the 2014-2015 academic year. He also serve as senior advisor to UC San Diego’s China Focus Blog and can be found on Twitter @HanFeiTzu
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State-media Infographic:
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China 21 is produced by the 21st Century China Program, at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy. This podcast features expert voices, insights and stories about China’s economy, politics, society, and the implications for international affairs. Learn more at china.ucsd.edu
This episode was recorded at UC San Diego Studio Ten300
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