by Tara Joyce | Dec 31, 2009 | My Journey | What's On My Mind
\’\’Inspiration for an optimistic and growth-filled 2010. Below are excerpts from Bruce Mau‘s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth — statements exemplifying his beliefs, strategies and motivations. Enjoy and Happy 2010!
There is nothing that drives optimism more than passion with a purpose. Find your purpose.
Allow events to change you.
You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.
Take field trips.
The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic-simulated environment.
Slow down.
De-synchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.
Stand on someone’s shoulders.
You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.
Forget about good.
Good is know quality. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good… As long as you stuck to good you’ll never have real growth.
Ask stupid questions.
Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.
Think with your mind.
Forget technology. Creativity is not device dependent.
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Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.
Process is more important than outcome.
When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go where we’ve already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.
photo by: **N-Studio**
by Tara Joyce | Dec 23, 2009 | Innerpreneurship, Self/Business Growth
Thank them by donating in honour of them.
\’\’This holiday season, to thank my clients for their impact on my life, and to make an impact, I sent them a e-card wishing them a happy holidays and informing them that I donated CDN $5 to World Wildlife Federation in honour of them.
In the message, I also offered to donate an additional $5 to their charity of choice if they choose to write a recommendation for me. I thought it was a nice win-win-win way to incentivise a task that people find painful to do.
An income stream idea for charities.
Non-profits! Why not have branded holiday ecards that can only be deployed if the sender donates money? Make it easy for us to give to you and to others.
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by Tara Joyce | Dec 23, 2009 | Self/Business Growth
I love Christmas.
\’\’It is a really important time of year to me. It’s a time when I reflect and I honour all the learning of the past year. And it’s a time when I celebrate the love in my life.
I love walking the streets of Toronto at Christmas-time. There’s something really special in the air. And I revel in the feeling. Toronto’s kinda-like-the-world-holding-hands, it’s a cultural mosaic, apparently the most multi-cultural gathering of people in the world, and all around me, on the streets, I can feel magic in the air.
It’s not about your religion.
In my world, Christmas-time isn’t about Christ. It’s about love. And loved ones. And it doesn’t matter your religion, or your lack-there-of, to appreciate it.
It’s a time to praise giving and gratitude. And most people can’t argue with that. Our collective joy is infectious right now, whether we choose to follow Christ or not.
A conspiracy of love and laughter.
We, as a society, don’t celebrate life enough, but when we do, and we do it, en masse, it feels sooo good. So magical.
Hope is an amazing thing. And I love how it feels when we’re all believing in beauty and peace together.
So, please, have yourself a wonderful holiday season. Enjoy the love. And thank you for reading.
photo by: duane.scoon
by Tara Joyce | Dec 21, 2009 | Cultural Creativity
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How do you feel about this definition of happiness?
Happiness is felt when one is:
- engaging in satisfying work
- avoiding negative events and emotions
- feeling gratitude, forgiveness and optimism
Is happiness enough?
Not for Me. And I’d argue it’s not enough for You either. For our Innerpreneurial drive isn’t fueled by our lack of happiness and our desire to obtain it, rather it’s fueled by our desire for meaning.
First comes happiness, then comes meaning?
I’d say choosing to be happy — choosing to engage in satisfying work, choosing to avoid negative events and emotions, choosing to feel gratitude, optimism, and forgiveness — provides you with the ability to seek beyond the pleasant life and explore possibilities that bring you greater significance.
I’d insist that your happiness has allowed you to identify your need to be in service of something larger than your Self. I’d assert your choice to be happy is the foundation on which you’ve cultivated your belief in your Self and your value, and fostered your faith that You can create the change you seek.
They way I see it is without happiness in our life we don’t have hope, and without hope we can’t realize our desire for and our ability to create meaning.
What do you think?
photo credit: just Luh
by Tara Joyce | Dec 14, 2009 | Cultural Creativity
A way to use Twitter authentically
\’\’John Miles of Too Much White Space has inspired me to be a more conscious Tweeter with his manifesto on using Twitter in a thoughtful way.
He wrote:
- I will thoughtfully compose all posts in a state of awareness and genuine goodwill for all beings.
- I will not feel compelled to post, just to post. Periods of silence on Twitter are beautiful – enjoy them until the next idea organically surfaces.
- I will only post thoughts to Twitter that have the potential to deeply enhance the well-being of others either by laughter, thoughtfulness or sparking of new and valuable ideas.
- I will abstain from idle-chatter and meaningless posts that do not add value to the lives of others.
- I will abstain from gossip, back-biting, rumor spreading and any posts that does not bring more love to the world.
- I will always tell the truth to the best of my abilities on Twitter. Neither hiding nor embellishing anything.
Read the rest of his thoughts on using Twitter to add value to the world…
