These lessons show what SPURT can do and how to teach it to groups.


Basic: Lesson 1:


Please get to know how we work. Get to know SPURT. Get to know what you can DO with SPURT.

I thank you all for coming to listen to what we have to say. We are really excited, for it may change the life of all of you. My name is xxxx and I live in xxxx. I am representing Sound Prosperity Social Organization, a SWISS organization with the purpose to give everyone willing to WORK WITH Sound Prosperity a better life. A Prospering life.


What does Sound Prosperity mean?

Sound’ means: showing good judgment, able to be trusted, healthy. This counts for all we do. Providing food, for example, should be sound too, meaning healthy and valuable.
Prosperity’ means: a state of being successful with money, benevolence. A state where you are no longer worrying if you can pay the bills or buy food. A state in which you can flourish.

This also means that we want all people working with us to be trusted and doing things that bring benevolence to all people. Making life better for all of you, not only for themselves.
Sound Prosperity understands that living a life in prosperity means, first and foremost, having a strong character. Most people think it has to do with having a lot of money in your pocket.
That is not true. 


Sound Prosperity states:
My own Choices and Actions each day will determine how my life will be tomorrow.
I will wisely decide what I want for my life, for I realize that MY LIFE is MY responsibility.

We will go deeper into this subject at a later time.
Sound Prosperity is working with teams. Each of you can start a Team of your own, or you can join a Team. You do not NEED to join a Team, but it is definitely helpful if you can. There will also be a Team supporting you in taking responsibility for your own life. We will have a special lesson for Teams.


SPURT

Sound Prosperity is working with digital money called SPURT. Digital money means money in an account on the internet. It is complementary money, which means it is used in addition to your money. You could say it is EXTRA money. You can buy money from other people in your community who offer services or products. You can buy the things you usually could not afford, due to the lack of Dollars. At the same time, the seller of the products could not sell the products, for there was nobody who could pay for the products in Dollars. Now the SPURT Shop opens doors for you, which were closed before.


Let’s take an example:

In your garden, you are growing tomatoes. You use them for yourself, but you have tomatoes in excess. You could sell them if you could find buyers. If you cannot find buyers, part of your land would be empty, for you would no longer produce tomatoes.
Now that you can accept SPURT, you CAN sell your excess tomatoes or even start planting beans. That is increasing the productivity of your land and is increasing your income.


What can you DO with the SPURT you received?

You can go to the cobbler who can repair your shoes. He has time in excess, for not many people can pay for shoe repair.
The cobbler now has SPURT and can buy eggs from the chicken holder.
Until the chicken holder accepted SPURT, he could not sell his excess eggs, because nobody had money to pay him for the eggs. Now he sees that he can even buy more chickens with the money he did not spend on food, for he could buy the food with SPURT from you, the vegetable producer.

SPURT is offering a way to barter the stuff you produce, or could make, and sell it. Before SPURT, you could not sell it because no money was available.


What can YOU produce yourself?

Are you NOW producing something? Could you increase your production if you knew that you could sell it? And if you can, do you see that selling more will bring you extra money in the form of SPURT?

SPURT is now available on your mobile phone, but we might also print it, so you can still use it if you do not have a mobile phone or no internet access. Until that time, there can be a registration of the traded SPURT.


How do you GET SPURT?

If you can SELL your future production to the people behind SPURT, you can get twice the value of the output. Part of it will be used to support the community and the country.
Let’s have a look at how this is working.

Suppose you produce tomatoes and vegetables. Over one year, you could sell a 500 USD value to the people. Here we are not looking at what you earn NOW, but what you COULD produce if you optimize the land you own.
You could sell this future production. You would receive 1000 SPURT, which you can use to buy stuff from other people for your daily life with the SPURT you received upfront.
Please understand that teams will ALWAYS be willing to support you with this and any other administrative thing. You do not need to understand this thoroughly!


What is future production?

Production you plan to have in the future, starting tomorrow, is always what is growing tomorrow. This means you can sell the products you have NOW to the people. You sell the future production so it can be put on the internet for others to buy.
This could mean that people in other parts of the city or the country might be interested in what you produce and can buy it.


What services can YOU offer to the people?

Perhaps you do not produce something, but you provide a service. A cobbler can sell his future production, although he is not producing anything. He can sell his service and get SPURT for that.

Another can sell the service of Teaching. Perhaps you would like to learn to read and write. Maybe you want to learn how to make calculations for your business. Possibly you are young and you missed out on school. There WILL be Teams offering this kind of education.


But that is not the only way to get SPURT

Suppose your service is that you work for the community or Sound Prosperity. Sound Prosperity offers to pay you for that kind of work.
Suppose your son, or any other person, has a hairdresser's shop. You know you can support him by working at least three hours a week in his shop. Perhaps you can do his administration, clean up, wash the towels, etc. Your son does not need to pay you, but you get paid through Sound Prosperity.

Your son is saving money now, for he does not need to pay you, and you do not need to work for free, which you would typically do to help him.


Working in existing business and earn SPURT can be done in ANY business

Suppose you have your vegetable garden. You are expanding because you KNOW you can sell the excess of your production now for SPURT. But how do you cope with the extra work? You will need someone to help you. You do not need to PAY the other person in USD; you can request payment through the system in SPURT.
This means that you have less costs, although you produce more, and the person helping you gets paid so he can pay the cobbler. You might even give a rebate to the person working for you.

The cobbler now has a lot to do so that he might need a helping hand too. You tell your daughter to go and assist him so she can earn SPURT too. Now she is earning SPURT and can buy your vegetables. You do not need to give them for free; she can pay easily.
The cobbler is happy, for he has more profit and does not need to pay extra wages! He might allow a rebate for his service now.

Any business can be supported by accepting people to work at least three hours a week. All these businesses can flourish and incur no extra costs. This way, the whole community is supported and will start growing.


Elder people

You might be too old to work on the land, and perhaps you are not healthy enough to do that. If that is the case, you will receive a monthly amount in SPURT to pay for the necessary care and food. Perhaps your daughter cares for you, but now she does not need to do it for free. She gets paid in SPURT, which we now know can be used to buy nutrition. This way, she can save the USD she would generally need to pay with. She can use it to pay for the school of her children, pay taxes, or whatever, but she can also save it to invest in a business of her own.


Let’s resume

Probably all of you are doing something to make a living. Most of you are more or less unsuccessful because no jobs are available.
If you do not yet have a business, you might want to start a SOUND business suitable for you, your health, and your environment. People need to trust that what you are delivering has value. Your business is radiating care and interest in the clients. You start this business because you LOVE the product you are selling or the service you are offering.
If you already have a small business, you can think about how you can extend it. Do something you LIKE to do, so that your heart is in the industry.


You can earn SPURT on different manners:

1. Sell your products or services.
2. Work for any business in the community for SPURT, at least three hours a week. In doing so, you make it easier for your boss to provide rebates.
3. Work for Sound Prosperity as an administrator, registering accounts, and supporting the people to understand what Sound Prosperity offers. You might be an educator in Mindset, which Sound Prosperity finds very important.
4. Work as a teacher, teaching reading and writing.
5. A mother with small children can be paid to care for her children.
6. Older adults and people who cannot work will be provided SPURT to pay for the care and food they need.


Open a MySPURT account

You cannot just open a MySPURT account. You need to have a reason, like you know that income will be received through any of the manners above. There is a small fee for opening an account to pay for the Wifi, Electricity, travel costs, and all costs that are not yet payable with SPURT.
You will receive a MySPURT Pass. In this pass will be registered:

1. Your account number.
2. Your email address.
3. NOT your password, but you could add a word that reminds you of the password, for in SPURT, you can only get a new password if you pay for it.
4. Your Sound Prosperity membership sign-up.
5. If you are part of “SPURT Jobs”.
6. Confirmation of signing the Rules and Regulations for a Sound Prosperity Team.

You will be informed about these steps when the time comes. Keep this pass with you at all times to avoid double sign-ups.


The more people join the system, the more people can use SPURT.

There are now 70.000 people with a MySPURT account.
This in itself could be more than enough to get the system started. The education on how SPURT can work was poor, and that is why we are explaining to you now how you can start and be the shining example of what we can do for all of us.

Are you a tailor? Can you write letters to the government and fill in forms for others who cannot do that? Can you bring packages? Can you do shopping for people who cannot do that anymore? Can you sell WIFI time? Can you take care of the children of others? There are countless ways you can be part of the Sound Prosperity-SPURT community. There is an example list in the Education Blog of Sound Prosperity.


Will you be able to exchange SPURT for USD?

There will be a time when coupons in the SPURT Shop are possible, so you can buy anything you need, but for now you can only use SPURT in Zimbabwe for daily goods and services. The reason is that SPURT is much more valuable in daily life in your country. But yes, if you could only SAVE SPURT now, it would be helpful, for when you one day need to buy a bigger thing, perhaps even a house, you will need more SPURT than you can earn in a small business.


Are there any questions?

See SPURT Pass ready to print


Of course, everything we have been discussing is only available to those who signed the Rules and Regulations for Sound Prosperity Teams.

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