The Nature of Ambition

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July 16, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace Love what you do and do what you love. - Ray Bradbury - The Nature of Ambition If you are lucky you will find something you love doing. Maybe you'll bake cream puffs or take alligators for walks. And maybe you'll find a way to make lots of money doing it. But what happens when your exotic animal walking business grows too fast and dog walkers band against you and you're faced with inner turmoil, fierce competition and self doubt? Find out in Grant Snider's insightful comic about the age old struggle for greatness and the alligator waiting for you at the end. { read more } Be The Change What motivates your work? How can you nurture that passion? COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Three Parables to Regain Perspective 27 Non-School Skills Children Need The Language of Love The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing 20 Questions for Thanksgiving Tammy Strobel's Tiny Home Have You Seen the Wizard? Advice as an Art Form DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 123,608 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Survival of the Nicest

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July 15, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious. - Martin Luther King, Jr. - Survival of the Nicest In 1871, Charles Darwin proposed that the human species had succeeded because of traits like sharing and compassion. "Those communities," he wrote, "which included the greatest number of the most sympathetic members would flourish best, and rear the greatest number of offspring." Nearly 150 years later, modern science is confirming Darwin's hypothesis -- with practical implications for how we relate to each other and do business. { read more } Be The Change Participate in a collaborative organization in your community or workplace to cultivate the intention of cooperation rather than competition. COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News A 39-year-long Lesson in Forgiveness Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time Man Builds Fairy Tale Home -- For $4700 11 Amazing Thank You Notes Can Positive Thoughts Help Heal Another? The Beautiful Fragility of Language A Moving Letter from Fiona Apple Gandhi's Ten Rules for Changing the World DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 123,583 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Making Good: The Art of Repair

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July 14, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace A creative mind sees every pile of "junk" as a jigsaw puzzle. - Steve Supple - Making Good: The Art of Repair "The 16th-century Japanese tea master Sen no Rikyu is said to have ignored his host's fine Song Dynasty Chinese tea jar until the owner smashed it in despair at his indifference. After the shards had been painstakingly reassembled by the man's friends, Rikyu declared: 'Now, the piece is magnificent.' So it went in old Japan: when a treasured bowl fell to the floor, one didn't just sigh and reach for the glue. The old item was gone, but its fracture created the opportunity to make a new one." This article navigates beyond the benefits of being thrifty, and brings light to the concept of repairing things in order to breathe new life and beauty into them. { read more } Be The Change Find a personal belonging on the verge of being designated as "trash", and apply your creative vision to transform it into a "treasure". COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News Ten Things You Might Not Know About Love Barbara Kingsolver On How to Be Hopeful 24 Acts of Kindness To Restore Faith In Humanity The Power of Self-Compassion 10 Life-Changing Perspectives On Anger The Science of Love Bill Gates vs. Mother Teresa The Difference Between Listening & Hearing DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 123,573 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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Malala's Birthday Wish

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July 13, 2013 a project of ServiceSpace I raise up my voice -- not so that I can shout, but so that those without a voice can be heard. - Malala Yousafzai - Malala's Birthday Wish It is customary to make a wish on one's birthday. On her sixteenth birthday, nine months after being shot in the head in an assassination attempt by a Taliban gunman in northwest Pakistan, Malala Yousafzai addressed the United Nations Youth Assembly in New York with a wish for universal equality, universal opportunity, and universal education. Once targeted for death because of her outspoken advocacy for her own education and those of other Pashtun girls, she now speaks on behalf of women and children everywhere. Her message is one of fearlessness and hopefulness. It is an inspiring call to justice. { read more } Be The Change Malala was an important change-maker well before the assassination attempt. Read the astonishing 2009 diary she wrote for the BBC. { more } COMMENT | RATE               Related Good News A 21-Year-Old's Solution to Homelessness The Man Who Left Hollywood For His True Calling The Body's Grace: A Paralyzed Yoga Teacher's Insights The Spirit of Gift Until I Say Goodbye From 'Dummy' to Celebrated Brain Surgeon The 29-Year-Old Stockbroker Who Saved 699 Lives Guerilla Gardener Plants Joy in Potholes DailyGood is a volunteer-run initiative that delivers "good news" to 123,571 subscribers. There are many ways to help. To unsubscribe, click here. Other ServiceSpace projects include: HelpOthers  //  CF Sites  //  KarmaTube  //  Conversations  //  More

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