External resources on personal mission and finding purpose: How a Personal Mission Statement Can Help You Change; Steve Pavlina: How to discover your life purpose in about 20 minutes; Stephen Covey's Interactive Mission Statement Builder; The Five-Step Plan for Creative Personal Mission Statements; Book: Are You Ready to Succeed?
Transformation is a unidirectional and irreversible change in dominant human economic activity (economic sector).Such change is driven by slower or faster continuous improvement in sector productivity growth rate.). Accelerating productivity growth rates speed up the transformations, from millennia, through centuries, to decades of the recent era. It is this acceleration which makes transformation relevant economic category of today, more fundamental in its impact than any recession, crisis or depression.
Economic contractions, troughs, expansions and peaks are unpredictable phases of economic activity referred to as economic business cycles. The gross domestic product, or GDP, is the total market value of goods and services the country produces. As the economy goes through business cycle changes, these positively or negatively affect the GDP. During a contraction, economic output slows, usually due to decreased demand for products and services, an increase in the cost of raw materials or both.