Our Quality of Life Is All That Matters
In our nod to Peter Drucker’s insight that the answers to life’s immense quest reside within the questions we ask, the qualped life dances around three questions:
- What most matters in our life?
- We discover this through our searching absorption of the canon of Man; the theological, literary, scientific, and classic writings of the ages and generations, with the goal of cultivating an educated imagination
- What it means to be a human being?
- With an educated imagination, we explore what we believe is possible for us as human beings, through and in language, words, social space, and semantic experience
- What kind of future could we create?
- Out of the possibility that arises from using our educated imagination to visualize, and believe in, the future that best suits us, we invent, create, generate tomorrow to be according to our dreams, visions, and desires
We as a company delve into these questions and the resultant lifestyle, and out of this deep dive, manage a lifestyle system for any person to plug into.
We invented the qualped life system.
When we say the qualped life, we mean our cultivation of a habitual lifestyle that is aligned to a certain, particular value, a benchmark for our life, a single-minded pursuit. We mean one singular goal for any person practicing the qualped life. That goal is one’s quality of life. That is the only thing that concerns us; an individual’s quality of life. We’re not concerned with material comforts, or physical glory, or mental acumen, or artistic flair, or career success, or money and profits, or anything most people live for today. The one and only thing that matters for us, which is our message to the world, is that what matters most to the human being is our quality of life.
We exist and operate the Qualped Life Corp to spread this message across the world, that the only thing people should aim for, life’s main goal, should be one’s wholeness, one’s quality of life. What the best quality of life looks like? We experience quality of life when daily as human beings, we feel and embrace full human dignity, and enjoy a noble recognition in society of our existence, and when we feel aptly rewarded for our efforts and contributions to the world and our environ, and when we feel appreciated and valued within the whole of society, at every level of country and the world.Â
For these values to become real for every human being on this earth, we need a fundamental paradigm shift in what it means to be a human being, and we need to devalue the currency and value and potency of Economics, money and materialism in life. We need to acknowledge money and material things for what they truly are; mere trappings and external adornments, like accessories and fashion and the aesthetics of culture. Economics is nothing more than Culture is, or Science, or the Arts, or any sector of life. The Industrial Age became warped when Economics got vaulted in our consciousness as the most valuable thing for a human being. That idea, maybe stemming from Adam Smith and the great Economists, became the god after which all Mankind bowed and worshipped and dedicated our every energy towards satisfying.
The qualped life is a system of tools, teachings and technology that train and empower the individual to use Edward de Bono’s design-thinking habits to cultivate his or her quality of life, with the goal of impacting the future, to shape tomorrow.
The values that underpin the quality of life pursuit are creativity, compassion and good conscience, care for community (as opposed to getting customers), and living with the aspiration to be the best that we could be.
We could gain insights into what it looks like to be the best we could be as individual persons if we study the works of thinkers who meditated on this idea. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s The American Scholar, and the lives of Biblical men in the Bible, and Vannevar Bush’s essay As We May Think, Doug Englebart’s thesis Augmenting Human Intellect and Ray Kurzweil’s idea of exponential growth to singularity, these are all worthy excursions into what it looks like to be the best we could be as individuals.
Individualism is a cornerstone of the qualped life, as opposed to the sociological approach to humanity that stereotypes people into statistical and psychological and mass-behaviour groups, groupthink, deterministic, conformist creatures.
Founder of the qualped life system, Shaun Michael Samaroo, invented the lifestyle system in 2007. In the midst of a week of prayer and fasting and biblical and literary study, he got an epiphany to develop the system. In 2007, he had just been married, with his son Prince a new-born baby, and him and his new wife having recently bought a condo and car, and him receiving his Canadian permanent residency status, after a 10-year wait as a temporary resident. It was a momentous time in his life, and he felt called to fast and pray and meditate on what kind of future he would like to embark upon as a Canadian. Out of this quest, the qualped life idea was birthed.
The word qualped represents an idea, and is also the brand of the idea. That idea is that any human being could design his or her quality of life. Quality of Life Personal Designer: qualped.
This is the idea that is the qualped life, that any person could design their quality of life, to be whatever he or she desires.
However, how to go about this mission, of designing one’s life? The world did not have a systematic process and methodology to accomplish this. Hence, the Qualped Life Corp. developed tools, teachings and technology, all coming together to form the platform for any person to be able to have ready access to the tools, teachings and technology that would allow for this process, the designing of their quality of life.
That development of the platform took a long time, ongoing today, having started with the idea in 2007. AT first, Qualped Corp launched out to build a physical ebook, like Kindle and Kobo. This did not work out. Then, the firm set out to comprehensively research how to execute the idea of the qualped life, of people being able to design their quality of life. For ten years, up until 2017, the company spent its efforts in Research and Development, consulting with innovation specialists in Toronto, university professors at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University, and in perusing technology and innovation writings from global thought-leaders. Out of this in-depth study, the firm decided that the future is all about digital assets, and not physical products. Hence, the company developed a new digital format for long-text documents, such as books, and coined the brand simsbook for this new technology – an upgrade of the ebook format, and a re-imagination of the device that we call the book – what is the device we call the book; what is it capable of in the digital world? We answer with the new device, simsbook.
Now, we could use this new device, simsbook – simple multimedia smartbook, to empower any person to design his or her quality of life.
In 2017, the firm became a client of Spark Center, the tech innovation hub for Durham Region in Ontario, and also signed a deal with the School of Graduate Studies of Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario, to develop post-grad thesis documents into simsbooks.
The engagement with Spark Center failed to generate startup seed capital or technical expertise to kickstart the technology into an enterprise solution. By 2018, the firm realized that Spark Center would be of no value to its future. Seeking to generate cash flow to develop simsbooks, the company launched a magazine in 2019, and opened a multimedia studio operation for photography and video shoots and other creative solutions offered to the community. Albeit, covid19 hit in 2020, and all those plans, including a printed version of the magazine, had to be halted, including the studio. Since then, for the past year, the company has been re-positioning all its operations to be purely digital in nature.
Thus far, the company has established 12 enterprises within its group of company, all of it designed first and foremost to cultivate its main goal, to teach and equip people worldwide to design their quality of life – or to live the qualped life.
The qualped life includes cultivating a sustainable natural lifestyle, like planting a garden, for example. So we operate a company for that, called SILs Homes, incorporated in Canada. The qualped life involves reaching out to the world from a stage to deliver your unique message, and so the Future Stars Media Enterprise exists for that, also a Canadian incorporated company. Under Qualped Life Corp, the firm operates an online college for its courses, an online newspaper for inspirational leadership stories, a headline site to always be au fait with the state of the world, an e-commerce platform, a section for seminars, workshops, masterminds, conferences, and events. There’s also the Qualped Club, a global membership society for people who write simsbooks, as a group for authors of the future. All 12 enterprises are listed on the website, qualped.com
 Our mission is to go to the entire world and inspire each person to write and publish their own ebook, and then to convert their ebook into a simsbook. This is the simple idea that is the qualped life, albeit grounded in profound research and a scientific system.
The qualped life exists only and solely to generate the idea across the global village that the only worthwhile goal in this life is to design one’s quality of life – as a wholesome person. And the tool to accomplish this is to become author of one’s future, through developing, designing, and deploying one’s own simsbook.
The firm walks you through the training program, lasting one year. It involves a three-step journey of self-mastery, mentorship, and monetization, using a formula called the (CM)3 method.
The three steps are:
- Using Northrup Frye’s book, The Educated Imagination, as a textbook, we explore what’s possible for you, with keen focus on Resourcefulness
- Having drafted out one’s Possibility, the training program develops an action plan for your Performance, using the textbook Three Laws of Performance by Steve Zaffron and Dave Logan, to outline the way Rendition of your message to the world would happen.
- Once the Performance Plan is ready, we embark on the Production or Profit we’re aiming for, the Results. For this, we use Peter Drucker’s book as text, Managing For Results.
The qualped life is a highly scientific arts program that teaches and trains each participant to live the qualped life, which means developing one’s quality of life as the only goal to live for, while using the process of development, design and deployment of a simsbook as process, methodology, and tools and training platform.
Over the past 100+ years of the Industrial Age, global society zeroed in on Economics as the fundamental and even sole goal in life, that if Mankind takes care of his economic well-being, everything else would fall into place.
Hence, people lived to acquire money, as a means for exchange that would satisfy every human need, want, desire and aspiration.
Man constructed the world on the ideas of the employer-employee relationship, the buyer-seller equation, the landlord-tenant transaction, the haves vs the have-nots, the poor vs the rich, the prosperous vs the poor.
Everything in life became about how much money one accumulated. Money determined status, quality of life, comforts, and even fueled confidence and happiness.
But as the 21st century got underway in the early 2010’s, people became disillusioned with the economic system and its grinding routine, the mundane rat race and monotone lifestyle – wake up, commute to work, spend eight or more more hours doing work that we were trained for as specialized productive units, spend and pay bills as consumer units, then flop down tired on soft sofa cushions in front of a square TV to watch elite super millionaires on the screen in movies, comedy shows, sports, or reality drama. Repeat the cycle the next day.
But, always hankering behind the illusion that this made up the life of a human, accumulating stuff that soon enough we throw out as garbage, always there as an invisible elephant in the room, was the knowledge that material things did not bring us peace of mind, or that constant quiet joy of a well-lived life, and money did not cultivate kindness, goodness, godliness, nor love. Deep in our subconsciousness, a despair rankled the human being. The Industrial Age generated a global population stooped in angst, despair, anxiety, greed and avarice for more and more and more drove an inner competition to have more than anybody around us.
Mankind found that material things, products and shiny, glitzy stuff could not satisfy our most basic desires and aspirations.
Even with the philosophy of Existentialism, which Barth, Descartes, Kierkegaard and others installed as the best way to live this life, failed to soothe our soul’s quest for something more satisfying than our absorption in things, experiences, and pleasures of ownership and participation. In fact, such a way of being drove us into inner numbness, as we extended the Self into things, technology, and tools.
Economics in fact divided society into the privileged vs the poor – and this happened as an embedded value of the economic system itself. Economics breeds greed, avarice, selfishness, competition rather than cooperation, and the capital owner vs customer division.
For us to move forward as a new humanity, this economic system has become out-dated, blase, and inhumane to the extreme.
Hence, the qualped life works to reform society along the following goals:
- Mankind needs to cease the existing system of employer-employee model, and instead install a system that pays people for their skills according to valuation of their Intellectual Property, rather than hourly wages and salaries. We should encourage the individual person to see himself or herself capable to trade their skills sets on a contract basis, with royalty and residual revenue built in, much like happens already with elite athletes and professional entertainers and consultants. Every human being should be under such a system to build material wealth, with the employee-employer transaction model banned and outlawed.
- People should earn Rewards for their intelligence and knowledge and skills, being allocated shareholding status within corporations they align with and sign contracts with, again as happens with elite sports stars and professional entertainers, who are starting these days to more and more own a piece of the enterprise they partner up with to contribute their human capital.
- Society needs to incentivize people to cultivate sustainable lifestyles, both in their active lifestyles, and in how they design their home surroundings and community public spaces. Humanity must incentivize people who live with good diet and nutrition, exercise and stay fit, and who seek all-round self-development. Incentives could be wrapped in credits for preventative health care, and other such endowments.
- Mankind also needs to start recognizing its members for their ethics, morals, values, and good conscience, and endow upon outstanding souls a high status within the community, maybe as elders, or wisdom agents, or guidance counselors, and so on
Through the Industrial Age, every human got rewarded with financial status and material wealth, never mind their moral rectitude, or their sloppiness in daily living choices, or their skills level – remaining employee until old age and retirement.
Thus, money became the sole means and only goal for how people live – which caused a vast global criminal empire of people who disregard humane values and even humanity as they focused on the goal of grabbing as much money they could.Â
Were Mankind to refocus our collective energy to instead use human capital to aim for the goals of a humane life, to design our lifestyles not for material gain, but for humane values and quality of life, the world would be a better place.
Yes, definitely there’s a place for economics, as the science of Economic relates to our resourcefulness to provide for our basic necessities to live. But the bigger question is how we live, our quality of life – rather than what we own and command. Quality of life would be way better, for example, if a person spends two days a week reading literature and cultivating a home garden, and working three days a week under contract to a corporation for enough financial compensation to cover the bills. Instead, today people work for most of the day, retire to bed tired, repeat the cycle the next day, and wait for old age to retire, when the life energy is spent and done.
The Industrial Age did well to develop the system of meritocracy, allowing people to rise in status and position in society according to their discipline, hard work, and commitment to the System. However, the meritocracy system is subjected to the divisions that harm society, encouraging people to move from a lower strata to an upper strata. This ladder system is inhumane, because on top of the mountain is place only for one, or at best a few, souls. The summit is a mere point. Which is why the world of eight billion souls only has 2,000 billionaires, leaving the rest of Mankind to grovel at the base of the mountain of the system for crumbs. This is simply not right.
Like Drucker urged as he contemplated the unfolding of the 21st century, Mankind lives for our aspirations. And the Industrial Age did not even recognize such a thing as aspirations within the human heart.Â
For every person born on this earth to live for his or her aspirations, the System must be reformed and overhauled and re-designed to give each person an equal chance to play on this stage of life, rather than look up at the tip of the pyramid with an eye to conquer those heights, having to knock off anybody who is in the way on the path to material glory.
The qualped life aims for this reformed world order.
For us and those enlightened souls who quest for a reset of this world order, all that matters is our quality of life, which means peace of mind, healthy living, cultivating good values and ethics, and being able to take care of our needs, wants, aspirations and desires with abundance and resourcefulness and economic and social dignity.
