1. Learning - starting with the more detailed but short, concise and easily readable documents associated with this website
2. Reflection - taking the time to absorb and consider.
3. Direct Communication - talking with the other Live Persons involved.
4. Discussion - Dialog - about your level of Participation, and this means taking about:

• Your Needs, Goals, Long-Term Objectives
• Your Commitments, the Investments that you can make
• Your Particular Valuations of those Investments and those Outcomes you Want

This is not going to be as simple as just deciding, "OK, I would like a 20% return and I will put in $50,000." No way. Why do you think the Impersonal, Abstract, Now-Conventional system of securities tradfing and personal investment evolved and got to be the way it is? People were looking for easy, simple, hands-free, pay-no-particular-attention, and be-less-involved. People wanted to just do their thinking on the abstract level of numbers and not in terms of their actual tangible assets - their home, car, land, time, labor.

But what is in GREY WOLF is about all those more tangible assets and Real Personal Capital - more difficult, it may seem, more taxing on your brain, but more secure, more stable, more sustainable in the end. And also, by the way, less taxing in terms of the tax man! That is a point to be remembered well.

Now, please reflect here on the difference between the list you just read and that from the "Situations" page, the list of what we are facing as a gloval society and economy, the list of the problems that make some people want to give up altogether, or to hand things over to a totalitarian decision system, belief system, or bureaucracy:

Global Recession, Long and Deep.
Infrastructure Decay.
Climate Change with adverse economic impacts.
Traditional Financial System doesn't work.
Global Conflicts over Resources.
Central Governments Unreliable.
Widening splits among Classes, Countries.