From Early Morning Buddhist Inspirations

So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person.

~Thich Nhat Hanh

Change is Coming

I am now part of a collective called Godhooks that emerged from the belief that all humans are born with the potential to reimagine themselves at will.

As individuals with the capacity to grow and change, we don't have to stay trapped by pain, trauma or our own past choices. It is our birthright to learn from where we are, no matter where that it is, and to use this knowledge to create lives of joy.

The members of Godhooks work together to bring individuals and communities the opportunity, support and safe space in which to embrace transformative change. We love what we do, and what we do is help people reconnect to the Divine and their own inner wisdom.

We'll be presenting at five gatherings this year. We'll also be offering weekend workshops of our own that guide small groups through an intensive process of change. When you leave our workshops, the world will have opened up before you and your feet will be planted firmly on the path forward. This will happen not because of who we are, but because of who you are.

Change is coming.

http://turtlehillevents.org/godhooks/

www.godhooks.com

Manifest your Chosen Career/House/Apartment, Part 1 (An exercise for making things happen)

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Part 2 will be posted in about two weeks.

For those of you looking to move into a place that suits you better: instead of writing a description of your perfect work day, write out a description of your perfect new home. Where is it? What does it look it look like, smell like? Who are your roommates? How much is the rent?

Write a description of how you found it. Where did you go about looking for it? What happened when you met your landlord or the person who showed it to you? What did you love most about it as you walked through it and looked at each of the rooms? How did you know this was the place you were looking for?

What, if anything, is challenging about it?

Once your description is written, follow the instructions above.

More next week.

EDIT: If you really want to move, start culling your possessions immediately. Ever day or two, go through some of your belongings and get rid of what you no longer need. Then start packing. If you want something new, you have to start letting go of what you already have. You have to start making room.

50 TED Talks a Year: Daniel Pink on motivation

#1 - Aimee Mullins redefines what the body can be, referred by onyxtwilight. (9:59)

#2 - Daniel Pink on the surprising science of motivation, referred by vgnwtch. (18:37)

"Career analyst Dan Pink examines the puzzle of motivation, starting with a fact that social scientists know but most managers don't: Traditional rewards aren't always as effective as we think. Listen for illuminating stories -- and maybe, a way forward."

My comments: From minute 1:00 to 12:00, Pink reviews the many studies demonstrating that traditional incentives (like bonuses) actually worsen the performance of creative tasks. The meat of the talk starts at minute 12:00, when he explains what works: building jobs around opportunities for increased agency, mastery and purpose rather than using carrots and sticks.

50 TED Talks a Year: Seth Godin on the Tribes We Lead

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#5 - "Seth Godin argues the Internet has ended mass marketing and revived a human social unit from the distant past: tribes. Founded on shared ideas and values, tribes give ordinary people the power to lead and make big change. He urges us to do so." Referred by vgnwtch (17:23)

My comments: Seth Godin explains what I've felt for a long time: we transform our world through the connections we forge with our tribes. Yes, yes and yes! Each of the groups I am working with right now is in the process of doing exactly this.

Godhooks collaborators: watch this video!