Kindness Daily: Running To The Record Shop
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Archive for 2011
Toss Productivity Out
Life where you’re always doing something you love is art. — Leo Babauta
~~~~ Tip of the Day: “For at least a couple of years, Zen Habits was one of the top productivity blogs, dispensing productivity tips for a nominal fee (your reading time). I’d like to think I helped people move closer to their dreams, but today I have different advice: Toss productivity advice out the window. Most of it is well-meaning, but the advice is wrong for a simple reason: it’s meant to squeeze the most productivity out of every day, instead of making your days better. Imagine instead of cranking out a lot of widgets, you made space for what’s important. Imagine that you worked slower instead of faster, and enjoyed your work. Imagine a world where people matter more than profits. If any of that appeals to you, let’s look at some traditional productivity advice, and see why we should just toss them out.” http://premiere.whatcounts.com/t?ctl=169C85E:C3009629A010612CDFED6200AA579BC1B4B847859706E37D&
~~~~ Be The Change: Experiment with your own day: is there a balance between uber productivity and tossing productivity out?
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A Year of Dancing with Life – Week 6
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InnerNet Weekly: Pilgrimage to Nonviolence
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First, it must be emphasized that nonviolent resistance is not a method for cowards; it does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly nonviolent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardice is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight … The method is passive physically, but strongly active spiritually. It is not passive nonresistance to evil, it is active nonviolent resistance to evil.
When Generosity Meets Venture Capital
You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you. — Ruth Smeltzer
~~~~ Good News of the Day: What happens when someone who has spent much of his life on volunteerism and generosity keynotes an event for venture capitalists and entrepreneurs? “My instructions for the talk were: don’t be humble, talk about scale. I actually laughed out on the phone, when I heard that, only to realize that it wasn’t a joke. The other keynote was a billionaire, who had invented 33 medical devices and held 150 patents. And I was warned that this will be an audience of hyper-alpha-males. 🙂 I like entrepreneurs because they are always looking to broaden the pie. The best of them don’t hold a scarcity mindset but rather focus on creative expressions for creating new value in the world. […] Unfortunately, what was also run of the mill was a singular focus on money. Greed. People cheered when a speaker spoke about unethical behavior to get ahead, as if that was truly heroic.”
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~~~~ Be The Change: Today, do something for someone for which you can’t be repaid.
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Smile Newsletter: Celebrate World Kindness Day Today
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“Yesterday I was out walking while carrying shopping bags and my keys. My keys slipped from my hand and fell to the ground. The problem was that because of my back I couldn’t bend down to get them. I was just thinking of how to get around this when two teenage girls came up beside me. Without even speaking to me, one of the girls just reached down, picked up my keys, handed them to me and went on her way. While it was a small gesture and she couldn’t have known that I was in too much pain to bend down, it meant a great deal to me at that moment.” –amer
Celebrating World Kindness Day
Shine one corner of the world — just one corner. — Shunryu Suzuki
~~~~ Good News of the Day: Today is World Kindness Day, and we thought you’d enjoy this real-world story of spreading smiles. “‘Right on. This is my kind of protest,’ he says while going past me. I hadn’t thought of it way before. But perhaps it is a protest — for lack of smiles in the world. About 15 of us gathered earlier today to create poster boards that we would proudly hold up on busy street intersections of San Francisco. The posters would say simple things like ‘Smile’ or ‘Smile Anyway’ or ‘Spare a smile?’ or ‘Smile, it’s Free.’ We weren’t doing this as a part of any organization but rather as friends and well-meaning citizens of the world. After our morning creative sessions, we split up into teams of four and spread out over various intersections on San Francisco’s Van Ness Road.” http://premiere.whatcounts.com/t?ctl=169C48D:C3009629A010612C011A608A92CD4C03B4B847859706E37D&
~~~~ Be The Change: For World Kindness Day, do your bit to shine your corner of the world. Ideas: http://premiere.whatcounts.com/t?ctl=169C48E:C3009629A010612C011A608A92CD4C03B4B847859706E37D&
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The Power and Benefit of Circles
We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows. — Robert Frost
~~~~ Good News of the Day: One of the oldest, most widespread, and effective tools for creating personal and social change is the Circle. This organizational form is used for an array of purposes and appears under different names in a variety of contexts and cultures in countries around the world. In the United States, millions of people form self-organized literature circles, otherwise known as book clubs. In Japan, hundreds of companies like Toyota and Honda invite employees to join quality circles, a kind of self-managed work team. And in India, NGOs and banks regularly create lending circles to deliver financial services to the poor and to encourage community development. This article delves into the beneficial power of circles and how to leverage them. http://premiere.whatcounts.com/t?ctl=169C3F5:C3009629A010612C04127C9C9A99FA34B4B847859706E37D&
~~~~ Be The Change: Take a moment to reflect on the circles you are a part of in your own life and their impact on you.
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Dalai Lama Quote from Snow Lion Publications
Dalai Lama Quote of the Week How to Become a Receptacle Suitable for Cultivating the Paths. Concerning this, there are two types: those who merely enter a mandala and those who enter and receive initiation, of which there are two types. The former are those who cannot hold the vows of the five lineages but who hold the Bodhisattva vows; only the initiation of a student is granted to them. However, to those who can hold both Bodhisattva and mantra vows the full initiation of a vajra master is granted.(p.78) –from Yoga Tantra: Paths to Magical Feats by H.H. the Dalai Lama, Dzong-ka-ba and Jeffrey Hopkins, translated and edited by Jeffrey Hopkins, published by Snow Lion Publications Yoga Tantra • Now at 5O% off |
Kindness Daily: Gratitude for our Caregiver
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Sangha of Auspicious Companions 