Blooming in the Whirlwhind

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September 15, 2011 a project of CharityFocus This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind. - Gwendolyn Brooks - Blooming in the Whirlwhind "'Conduct your blooming in the noise and whip of the whirlwind.' Strange message in a stranger place. I don't know who said it, but this pronouncement suddenly appeared on a huge wall of the 59th St. subway tunnel connecting the Lexington Avenue trains to the N and R lines. For many months I'd passed the area, which was roped off and covered over with heavy paper -- reconstruction in progress. What else is new in NYC! Then one fine day the plastic barrier was cut and the brown paper pulled down. There, gleaming in vivid colors, was a giant mosaic mural with a great scroll of a message running through it in a waving line that ran up and down from ceiling to floor and back." Author Patty de Llosa shares this timely reflection on finding freedom within our constraints. { read more } Be The Change "Learn to posses all things -- your time, your pace of work, your moments of rest, your privacy -- all." Pierre Pradervand, from 'Letter to A Friend in A Hurry' { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 25 Reasons to Embrace Criticism The Mathematics of Being Nice 8 Weeks to a Better Brain The Inner Landscape of Beauty DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 109,140 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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How To Build A Beautiful Company

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September 14, 2011 a project of CharityFocus In a painting you create beauty with the addition of each brush stroke. In a company you create it with the addition of each talented, engaged person and with each thoughtful act. - Bill Witherspoon - How To Build A Beautiful Company In the early 1970s, Bill Witherspoon lived for months in a school bus parked in the Oregon desert. A hundred miles from the nearest town, he spent day after day painting the sky and the clouds. He later sold his work for tidy sums. Witherspoon would spend the rest of his life alternating between painting and launching companies. When Witherspoon, then 60, launched The Sky Factory in 2002, he wondered, Was it possible to create a company as beautiful as a work of art? A beautiful company, in Witherspoon's mind, starts with the elimination of hierarchies that impede and repress the expression of people's natural curiosity and creativity. The Sky Factory's organizational structure is as flat as its creator's beloved desert. There are no employees, just owners, and everyone cares deeply about doing what is best for the group. { read more } Be The Change Do something today that adds beauty to your workplace. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News 4 Reasons To Keep a Work Diary Not Enough Time? Try Doing Nothing A Law for Cooperation OneSeed Expeditions: Traveling for Good DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 109,113 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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Feeding the World From A Garden Shed

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September 13, 2011 a project of CharityFocus If we can conquer space, we can conquer childhood hunger. - Buzz Aldrin - Feeding the World From A Garden Shed The corrugated tin hut crouching in the undergrowth, dwarfed by dripping firs, looks like a wartime relic nobody could be bothered to clear away ... a sign reading "Mary's Meals" has been stuck above the doorway. To Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow, his father's shed in Dalmally, Argyll, has acquired a talismanic significance. It's where he stockpiled food and clothes for Bosnian refugees in the 1990s -- an amateurish humanitarian mission that eventually led him to sell his house, give up his job and concentrate on the much bigger project of feeding poor children in developing countries. Today his efforts provide over 550,000 children with a daily life-saving meal. { read more } Be The Change Watch this inspiring video about how Mary's Meals work. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Inspirational Graduation Speech by Autistic Student Today You, Tomorrow Me Dalai Lama: A Professional Laugher? Family Finds $45K -- And Returns It DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 109,099 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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Planning & Other Paths To Less Stress

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September 12, 2011 a project of CharityFocus True life is lived when tiny changes occur. - Leo Tolstoy - Planning & Other Paths To Less Stress A recent survey by psychologist and self-help author Robert Epstein found that 25% of our happiness hinges on how well we're able to manage stress. The next logical question is, of course, how best can we reduce our stress? The stress management technique that worked best, according to the survey: planning. In other words, "fighting stress before it even starts, planning things rather than letting them happen," says Epstein. "That means planning your day, your year and your life so that stress is minimized." This Time magazine article shares more. { read more } Be The Change Try incorporating one of Epstein's relaxation techniques in your own life. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Four Ways to Respond in an Argument Secrets to Longevity Why Gratitude Is Good Does Thinking Make it So? DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 109,083 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 Ripple Effect of Kindness

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September 11, 2011 a project of CharityFocus Once you begin to acknowledge random acts of kindness - both the ones you have received and the ones you have given - you can no longer believe that what you do does not matter. - Dawna Markova - The Ripple Effect of Kindness "Over the last few years, I've become a big proponent of Smile Cards. The premise behind these small cards is simple: do an anonymous act of kindness and leave a card behind, inviting the recipient to pay-it-forward. If he/she does, the chain keeps going, resulting in "ripples" of kindness radiating out. Smile Cards are wonderful in ways I cannot count. Small, simple, humble -- yet powerful, because one act of kindness can be the start of a long chain. But for all these reasons, the main reason why I use them is the subtle change that has begun to occur in the way I think." So begins this reflection on how the ripple effect of kindness leads to change -- both externally and internally. { read more } Be The Change Do a kind act, leave a smile card, and start a chain. Download or receive a gift of pre-printed smile cards here. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Kids on Love Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time 5 Classic Commencement Speeches A School for the Homeless In Las Vegas DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 109,036 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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