Sangha of Auspicious Companions

November 30, 2015

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Bus 7 and the Grandma in the Window

She was known to the children in Bus 7 simply as ‘Grandma in the window’. Their connection was forged by the daily waves they exchanged as their bus crossed her home. A connection so deep that when the 93-yr-old missed her waving ‘vigil’ the children demanded the bus driver stop. It turned out that their dear friend had suffered a debilitating stroke. While she convalesced at a local care facility, the children wanted to make sure she knew they were still there and waiting to welcome her home…Read on for the heartwarming story of what happened next. { read more }

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November 29, 2015

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My Daughter Malala

Pakistani educator Ziauddin Yousafzai reminds the world of a simple truth that many don’t want to hear: Women and men deserve equal opportunities for education, autonomy, an independent identity. In this TED talk, Yousafzai tells stories from his own life and the life of his daughter, Malala, who was shot in the head at point blank range by the Taliban in 2012 simply for daring to go to school. Yousafzai encourages those living in patriarchal societies to break a few norms to abolish discriminatory laws. In his school, girls unlearn the lesson of obedience and boys unlearn the lesson of honor. “Why is my daughter so strong?” Yousafzai asks. “Because I did not clip her wings.” { read more }

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Empower a child in your life to reach their full potential by not clipping their wings.

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November 28, 2015

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	She found a bone marrow transplant donor in Germany who was about to get married.
	In line at Starbucks, she overheard this conversation and knew what she had to do.
	His scooter broke down in a bad neighborhood and she went the extra mile to get him home.

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November 28, 2015

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The Problem of Precrastination

We all know that habitually putting tasks off for a later time can be problematic. But what about getting tasks done more quickly than is necessary? Recent research out of Pennsylvania State University documents a phenomenon called “precastination,” a tendency to hastily complete tasks in order to get them over with. This article recounts several studies that illuminate the problems with precastination and ways to counter them. { read more }

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Take an important task you have to complete and break it into smaller pieces so you can spend enough time making sure you put your best into the work.

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November 27, 2015

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Conversational Leadership: Thinking Together for a Change

If our conversations and personal relations are at the heart of our work, then how do we contribute to or take energy away from this natural process? Are we using the intelligence of just a few people instead of hundreds or thousands? What if increasing the success of efforts to cut costs and make organizations more efficient, innovative, and competitive depended on focusing on the core process of conversation and meaning-making through which we as human beings have always co-evolved new realities? The authors in this article ask and seek to answer these and many such question, and provide a very helpful framework of conversational leadership that we can each use in our daily lives. { read more }

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Consider how you might use, and support the use of, conversations to create tipping points of change — at home, or at the workplace.

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November 26, 2015

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The Way We Think About Work Is Broken

What makes work satisfying? In this TED talk, psychologist Barry Schwartz argues that there are intangible values that our current way of thinking about work simply ignores. He describes how the ideas human beings create shape human nature and that it is time to revisit our ideas about the way we work. { read more }

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November 25, 2015

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Desert Solitaire: A Love Letter to Solitude

In the late 1950s, Edward Abbey became a seasonal park ranger at Arches National Monument in Utah’s Moab desert. Between April and September, between the canyons and the pages of his journal, he found a great many of the things we spend our lives looking for. His book maps the maze of the interior landscape as he wanders the expanse of the exterior. { read more }

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Take a few minutes to wipe your mind clean of thoughts about past and future, and wait for the unknown messages the present moment will bring you.

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November 24, 2015

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Gratitude: Good for the Soul — and Heart

As we launch into Thanksgiving week, consider this: Research shows that feeling grateful doesn’t just make you feel good. It also helps — literally helps — the heart. A positive mental attitude is good for your heart. It fends off depression, stress and anxiety, which can increase the risk of heart disease, says Paul Mills, a professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Mills specializes in disease processes and has been researching behavior and heart health for decades. He wondered if the very specific feeling of gratitude made a difference, too. So he did a study… { read more }

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