Hi, I’m Derrick, founder of the DuckboardsAndStilts (DAS)
Worldwide Community Ecosystem…
Welcome to our community.
The mission of the DAS Worldwide Community Ecosystem is to help as many people as possible live a better quality of life whilst on this planet, so that they, in turn, can help as many people as possible, and they can help as many people as possible, and so on…
Self-improvement is the guiding principle of our community, because self-improvement is the means by which we discover our purpose in life. A fact we all have to face is that life presents us with a challenge at every level, and a person’s lifestyle typically reflects his or her attitude in responding to that challenge. What most people do not know is that we all have the ability to get everything we want out of life. Every one of us has the power to accomplish great things simply by using the power of our minds.
Starting from where each of us stands today, with a little effort, we can raise our physical and mental energy by actively embracing self-improvement, and in so doing, put ourselves in a position to attract more success and abundance to our lives.
Duckboards and Stilts
I am guessing that as you read this page you are probably curious as to the significance of the title of our platform. What, after all, has self-improvement to do with Duckboards and Stilts?
Well, I have to admit to having borrowed this idea from a self-improvement text I read some years ago…I forget where. The idea stuck with me and has been my guiding principle ever since.
Imagine we live on a farm. The grounds of the farm are covered in the muck and filth one normally finds on a farm, only on this farm there is so much filth that we had to build our farmhouse on stilts to keep it above all the muck. Around our house we constructed duckboards, which allow us to move in and out and around the house, whilst staying above the muck. But, because we live on the farm – this is our calling – we sometimes have to leave our haven on stilts and attend to the work that has to be done on the farm. We then find ourselves covered in all the muck and filth of the farm again. Even on our days off, which we spend in and around the house, we sometimes find ourselves sitting on the edges of the duckboards, with our feet dangling in the muck and dirt beneath us.
In the above vignette, I make a distinction between, on the one hand, the muck and filth of the farm, which represents the daily grind of Life, and on the other, the house and duckboards on stilts, which represent the condition of one who is spiritually at peace with himself; which condition derives from having enough wealth to not have to worry about the financial problems that afflict the majority of ordinary people, a deeper knowledge of One’s Self, and from having a purpose in life. By the daily grind of life I mean not only the daily work we have to do to put food on the table and a roof over our heads, but also having to cope with such as ill health, broken relationships, bereavement and all the other familiar problems that Life throws at us.
Some of us, indeed the majority of us, spend more time totally immersed in this “muck” of Life. The purpose of the DAS Worldwide Community Ecosystem is to provide the means by which we can make the changes we need to make in our lives to enable us to spend more time enjoying the peace and tranquility of the house on Duckboards and Stilts.