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Optimum

1. The most favorable conditions. 2. The best or most favorable situation. 3. The best possible compromise between two opposing positions, tendencies, etc.

Optimum Solution

1. The solution which brings the greatest benefit to the greatest number of people. 2. The most favorable and effective method or process of dealing with a problem,

Options

A type of derivative security that gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy or sell an asset at a set price on or before a given date.

Orangezone

1. Life in the rat-race, daily grind or work-a-day-world. 2. A way of operating that is dominated by fear and security. 3. The 3rd out of 7 zones on the Optima Zones scale. 4. As a leader, the Orangezone person is tentative, uncertain, compliant and uninspiring.

Orangezone Paradigm

A reality or way of operating that produces an Orangezone result.

Out of Exchange

1. The act or instance of giving one thing and receiving another in its place of unequal value. 2. Whenever an item of value is exchanged for another, or taken without agreement both parties are imbalanced. To ensure an equitable relationship, both parties must be in exchange. 3. When one party takes more space in a dialogue, they are overtaking and the exchange is imbalanced leading to a lessening of affinity, increased resentment and eventually hostility. The party that has taken more often resorts to criticism, suppression or minimization to reduce the imbalance. Many relationships dissolve due to an imbalance in exchange. 4. A person who knowingly takes more than they are in exchange for increases their shame. 5. A person who gives more than they receive becomes resentful and begins to withhold. 6. A person who feels unworthy has difficulty receiving. 7. A person with inadequate havingness will receive but not be able to keep what they receive. They will rapidly find ways to get rid of what they received. 8. Over giving to a person who is out of exchange will turn them into a criminal and they will act more over time consistent with being a criminal. 9 Ensuring all your money, work, relationship and family interactions are in exchange leads to optimum flow in life.

Outcome

1. A result or effect; consequence. Outcomes are what come about from the implementations of plans.

Owe

1. To be indebted to the amount of: He owes me five dollars. 2. To have a moral or legal obligation to render or offer: I owe them an apology. 3. To be in debt to: We owe the plumber for services rendered. 4. To be indebted or obliged for: owed their riches to oil; owes her good health to diet and exercise. 5. To bear (a certain feeling) toward a person or persons: You seem to owe your neighbors a grudge.

Pain

1. Whatever a person is unwilling to experience. 2. Unpleasant or distressing sensations due to bodily injury or disorder. 3. Acute mental or emotional distress or suffering. 4. A warning something is wrong.

Paradigm

1. A framework of thought, a model, pattern or example used to understand and explain certain aspects of reality. 2. Includes a common set of beliefs, theories, concepts, practices, values, assumptions and agreements that constitute a way of viewing reality. 3. A model.

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