Building The FGP Biggest Little Farm

Imagine a workplace culture that felt like home. A safe home, a home where you feel a deep sense of belonging. A place where you feel understood and encouraged to use the best parts of you to serve a meaningful mission. A place where you could use your unique strengths to make the world around you a better place. A work environment that feels like a natural garden filled with different creatures shining in individual glory connected in a mutually supportive life-giving process of growth. A workplace where relationship and being were as valued as performance and productivity. A place where you could be AND do. That's what the Biggest Little Farm is...the FGP BLF. A little corner of the world where people belong and become the best versions of themselves, working hand in hand with others to make the world a better place. That is Advancing Human Capital. According to Gallup, roughly seven in 10 people are struggling or suffering. Henry David Thoreau said, "The mass  of men lead lives of quiet desperation." The work world is typically a place of this great suffering where a conversation with a boss is dreaded, and the tasks are barely tolerable. A place where Monday feels like a sentence and every Friday is a pardon. Most people report that being home sick in bed is preferable to being well at work. The Gallup corporation has been surveying and measuring Global Net Thriving (GNT), and the research has found that "what the whole world wants is a good job. People want a job that uses their God-given strengths daily with a manager who encourages their development." Their work has shown that "career wellbeing is the very foundation of building "the best possible life." Our current American work world is making most people sick. It is no wonder Americans are becoming the world leader in bad health. Our lives are designed around miserable daily environments of mutual suffering. Out at the FGP BLF, we are changing this. We are building a place of thriving.