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The soccer president from the tiny island nation of Curaçao says divine intervention has brought his team to the World Cup and, in turn, to the United States and in front of President Trump.The executive's faith is also what has him confidently saying that everyone involved will lead with love, including the president.'President Trump will make sure that this will be a World Cup that will not be [forgotten].'Gilbert Martina, president of the Curaçao Football Federation, humbly avoided bragging about his hard work that turned his nation's soccer program around. Instead, he credited a long but fruitful "divine journey."In an interview with Blaze News, Martina spoke in detail about his many run-ins with divine intervention, including his trip to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., in December.There, at the World Cup draw, he sat just a few yards away from Trump and came to believe that Trump will act with love and grace to make it the biggest World Cup in history."We are all spiritual beings, and we have to take care of each other, and we have to globalize love," Martina passionately decreed. "And football unites. That's the slogan of FIFA. So I'm sure all stakeholders and even President Trump will make sure that this will be a World Cup that will not be [forgotten], ever, because it's the biggest on this planet."RELATED: Unpaid bill has Foxboro refusing to grant license for World Cup games at Gillette Stadium Your browser does not support the video tag. Divine interventionThe former insurance director and CEO of a medical center attributed most of his accomplishments to his divine journey with spirituality and faith. This starts with daily gratefulness, prayer, and meditation before preparing for what is ahead, Martina said.Persistently pointing to this divine journey, he said he always believed his country would qualify for the World Cup. He offered no other explanation as to how such a small nation could unite in under a year for "a greater purpose.""With the universe, with God, with the cosmos, whatever name we want to give it," his team started "co-creating beauty," he explained. "Then the magic happens."Martina also said there were too many instances and overlapping themes to ignore. On the very day he got the job as president of Curaçao Football Federation in April 2025, he predicted to his wife that his team would make the World Cup."There is no coincidence," Martina declared.RELATED: Seattle plans World Cup 'Pride match' — and two countries that prosecute gays will play in it ANGEL BATTA/AFP/Getty ImagesPutting in the workWhat the executive also explained — without giving himself the proper credit — was how he brought his country out of the Stone Age in terms of organization and formalities.Before his election as president of Curaçao's soccer federation, the tiny country of about 150,000 had a program that was in shambles. Hotels and travel were not organized, players were not paid on time, and soccer teams within the country were at odds."Too much distraction," Martina said, expressing the stress of the job. "There's so much things that we had to professionalize, and so that was the focus."He continued, "Because if they're not focused [on qualifying] ... you will have too much distraction."After Martina became president, Curaçao went undefeated in eight matches (five wins, three ties) and qualified for the World Cup. There, the team will share Group E with Germany, the Ivory Coast, and Ecuador, with its first game against Germany on June 14.Message for othersMartina compared his approach to life, and to a successful nation, with a hummingbird."A hummingbird isn't going to a garbage nest at KFC or Pizza Hut. A hummingbird always goes for the best nectar, the best flowers, because that's the best of the best," he said, mirroring advice he gives in his book, "Healthy Minds, Healthy Nation."Martina insisted that people should strive for the best, whether it is in performance, organization, or even nutrition."That's a powerful message. ... When we are able to convert that into our daily life, purpose, and intention, beautiful things happen."Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!...Read More

 
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It’s known as the Easterlin paradox.Though rising wealth at early stages in the lives of individuals and countries fosters greater happiness, perpetually rising wealth does not make individuals or countries perpetually happier. At some point, economics Professor Richard Easterlin of the University of Pennsylvania and USC discovered, more wealth engenders less happiness.Private capital mindfully allocated can both do well and do good.This paradox may be best illustrated with U.S. data. Total U.S. household wealth exceeded $182 trillion at the end of 2025, up 466% from an inflation-adjusted $39 trillion in 1980. Yet in 1980, 82% of Americans described themselves as satisfied versus only 44% of Americans today — a decline of nearly half. Similarly, in 1980, only 20% of Americans described themselves as lonely. Today, it’s 40%.Paradoxically, more American wealth has made Americans less happy and fostered an epidemic of loneliness. Why is this, and what can be done about it?According to the Human Flourishing Program at Harvard University, happiness and life satisfaction are only partly material in nature. Work and basic housing, health care, and material attributes are important, of course — but no more so than family relationships and friendships, community engagement, and religious affiliations.These factors are best promoted through nurturing homes, quality education, and supportive work environments. Character formation is essential for personal meaning and purpose.Harvard scholars clearly derived much of their insight from Aristotle. In his “Nicomachean Ethics,” Aristotle observed that multiple civic virtues were essential for eudaimonia (his term for flourishing or happiness). These include temperance, magnanimity, courage, generosity, modesty, proper ambition, sincerity, and justice.Inculcating these virtues throughout society requires commonality of purpose, excellent education, strong families, and enlightened leadership.One way wealthier people could foster greater happiness — their own and that of others — is to use a portion of their wealth to promote greater human flourishing.. The best way to do this is to invest in companies and funds that authentically support and multiply greater inclusivity, wholesome products and services, and higher civic virtue.RELATED: Right-wing billionaires are barking up the wrong tree IsoLab/Getty ImagesIn short, private capital mindfully allocated can both do well and do good — that is to say, earn reasonable risk-adjusted returns while simultaneously resolving humanity’s material, educational, environmental, social, and inclusivity challenges.Fortunately, a lot could be accomplished with relatively little. My research shows that all of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals could be achieved in under a decade if ultra-high-net-worth investors allocated no more than 1.6% of their total investable assets a year to verified impact investment strategies; the other 98.4% could continue to be spent or invested however they wish.Replacing material-driven misery with abundant happiness is an idea whose time has come. If wealthy investors spent a little more effort understanding what their investments could do as opposed to only what financial returns they make, they would help co-create a world of optimal wealth, purpose, and fulfillment. And instead of being a partial cause of their growing discontent, successful investing could become an integral part of the cure.Material abundance can directly foster rather than undermine human flourishing.Editor's note: This article was originally published by RealClearPolitics and made available via RealClearWire....Read More

 
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