Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time

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September 3, 2011 a project of CharityFocus What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know. - Saint Augustine - Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time "'Time' is the most used noun in the English language, yet it remains a mystery. We've just completed an amazingly intense and rewarding multidisciplinary conference on the nature of time, and my brain is swimming with ideas and new questions. Rather than trying a summary (the talks will be online soon), here's my stab at a top ten list partly inspired by our discussions: the things everyone should know about time." This intriguing Discover Magazine explores Time from the standpoint of science. { read more } Be The Change What does time mean to you. Reflect here with other readers. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 10 Keys to Happier Living Top Ten Kindness Stories for the New Year An Experiment in Generosity 82 Hour Hunger Fast DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 108,765 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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An Accidental Activist

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September 2, 2011 a project of CharityFocus We never know which of us will start the chain reaction. But one of us will. - Colin Beavan - An Accidental Activist "So many of us have good ideas for helping the world. But we tuck our ideas away. I did. I'd tell myself that if the idea were any good someone else would have already done it. That I'm not capable of making a difference. I'd sit on my ideas, get on with my 'life,' and then feel angry at the world because the problems I cared about didn't get solved. I had that fear of going first. Then I took my first hapless step into what I call accidental activism. In 2006, I started a project where I lived as environmentally as possible for a year -- with my little family, on the ninth floor of an apartment building in the middle of New York City -- to attract attention to the world's environmental, economic, and quality of life crises. I had no experience as an activist. Yet suddenly my project caught fire." { read more } Be The Change Take one small step towards one of your ideas for serving the world. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Human Spirit Rises to Meet Japan's Tsunami Secrets from 17 Years of Silence Pilot Holds Plane for a Dying Child 'Barefoot' Grandmothers Electrify Rural Communities DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 108,739 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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The Best Goal is No Goal

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September 1, 2011 a project of CharityFocus It is not the road ahead that wears you out -- it is the grain of sand in your shoe. - Arabian proverb - The Best Goal is No Goal "These days, however, I live without goals, for the most part. It's absolutely liberating, and contrary to what you might have been taught, it absolutely doesn't mean you stop achieving things. It means you stop letting yourself be limited by goals. Consider this common belief: 'You'll never get anywhere unless you know where you're going.' This seems so common sensical, and yet it's obviously not true if you stop to think about it. [...] Goals as a system are set up for failure. Even when you do things exactly right, it's not ideal. Here's why: you are extremely limited in your actions. When you don't feel like doing something, you have to force yourself to do it. Your path is chosen, so you don't have room to explore new territory." Leo Babauta shares his counter-intuitive perspective. { read more } Be The Change Try out not having goals in some domain of your life, and notice the effects. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The Most Vital Lessons for Starting Over Can You Teach Emotional Intelligence? The Mathematics of Being Nice A Change of Heart Changes Everything DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 108,687 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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The Doctor Who Would Not Give Up

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August 31, 2011 a project of CharityFocus He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how. - Friedrich Nietzsche - The Doctor Who Would Not Give Up Dr. Richard Olney is racing to finish what is almost certain to be his last research paper. The 63-year-old neurologist is considered one of the country's top clinical specialists for ALS, popularly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. ALS is also the reason Olney is in a hurry to finish his paper: He was diagnosed with it in 2004 and now has almost no muscle function left. But Olney's most enduring contribution to the ALS field may have less to do with the details of his final study than the commitment he has shown, relentlessly attacking a disease that will soon kill him. It's a lesson of persistence and personal bravery that clearly has impressed his own doctors. "I think about it every day," Lomen-Hoerth said. "How he continues to work, his will to work." This inspiring article shares more. { read more } Be The Change Is there something you've been meaning to give the final push to? Work on it today. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News The 'Before I Die' Project Rappin' to Be the Change A Neighbor's Kind Act 82 Hour Hunger Fast DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 108,644 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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School Superintendent Gives Up $800k

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August 30, 2011 a project of CharityFocus Love is more than a noun -- it is a verb; it is more than a feeling -- it is caring, sharing, helping, sacrificing. - William Arthur Ward - School Superintendent Gives Up $800k Some people give back to their community. Then there's School Superintendent Larry Powell, who's literally giving back. As in $800,000 -- his expected compensation for the next three years. Until 2015, Powell will run 325 schools and 35 school districts with 195,000 students, all for $31,000/yr. "How much do we need to keep accumulating?" asks Powell, 63. "There's no reason for me to keep stockpiling money." The man who started his career as a high school civics teacher, who has made anti-bullying his mission, wants to ensure that his pet projects survive, and hopes his act of generosity will help restore faith in the government. There's even more to Powell's story: he contracted childhood polio, leaving him with lingering post-polio syndromes. But his view? "It's the most spectacular thing that has happened to me in all my life," Powell said. "People stepped up to help me be successful." { read more } Submitted by: Sharon Krause Be The Change Do you have something in excess? Share some of it today. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News A 15-Year-Old's Bucket List Goes Viral But Will It Make You Happy? Thinking Outside the Human Mind The Man Who Stopped A Nuclear War DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 108,555 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other CharityFocus projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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