Why we don’t succeed – Simon Sinek
We need to help this amazing, idealistic, fantastic generation build their confidence, learn patience, learn the social skills, find a better balance between life and technology
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Red Beans and Rice
A moving story of how a mother’s perceptiveness and love helped her son begin his journey into the outside world.
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It’s OK to Look Back and Cringe
Having this permission of “No matter what, I’m going to get better and so I’m going to look back and cringe on my earlier work” – I think this is really freeing.
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Today you… Tomorrow me…
“Today you…. tomorrow me..” – how the kindness of strangers forced me to be more helpful on the road and in life in general.
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Have patience… Lao Tzu
Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself. ~ Lao Tzu
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Song of Myself – Walt Whitman
“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love…”
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The Greatest Gift
Today I celebrate life and 1,095 days free of drugs and alcohol…
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Planting Seeds
Teaching Art to excluded teenagers takes calm and careful nurturing of the tiny seeds of mutual trust and respect…
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Five Seconds of Zen
Five Seconds of Zen: Being One with Water
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Counting the Emotional Cost
“So – stand back and look at what it’s costing emotionally. Forget the money for the moment…”
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A Light in the Dark
“The darker it gets, the more brightly the light shines”
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The Awakening
There comes a time when you finally get it… Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on.
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What Inspires You? Part 2
What Inspires me?… people overcoming obstacles. Small ones, big ones, Doesn’t matter.
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Children Full of Life
Young Japanese children receive deep lessons in compassion and empathy from their teacher, Mr Kanamori…
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Find What You Love
Steve Jobs: “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life”
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On the Toss of a Coin
“I was tossing the coin to decide whether to buy an apple or an orange with our last dollar…”
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The Mandala Trust
Helping to promote and protect the rights of street children in the developing world.
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The lady who forgot her shopping
How can we bring mindfulness from meditation practice into ordinary life?
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Making Our Minds Up
Our decisions are always built on sand…
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