Purpose Inspired #43

PICTURE OF THE WEEK - LIFE AND DEATH        

POST OF THE WEEK - #PSYCHED        

Sustainability requires sacrifices, right? Right. And wrong. If we keep selling sustainability as a burden, we will lose the battle for hearts and minds. It does require sacrifices – in time, money and effort – but psychology research (from Simon Fraser University, La Trobe University and London School of Economics and Political Science) all show that life satisfaction is enhanced by these very sacrifices. The message is clear: rather than droning on about everything we have to give up, personally and as a society, we should be celebrating how working for the bigger causes of sustainability enhances wellbeing and life purpose.

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK - #GROWTH        

“What happens in nature is that quantitative growth is always superseded by qualitative growth”

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ARTICLE OF THE WEEK - UNDERSTANDING MULTI-CAPITAL        

/ In reaction to shareholder value and inspired by the social, environmental and stakeholder movements, the 1990s saw the emergence of “new economics.” In fact, we can go back further to the early pioneer economists, such as E.F. Schumacher and his landmark?Small is Beautiful?book in 1973, subtitled “economics as if people mattered,”?and Kenneth Boulding who wrote about the “cowboy economy” – where resources are assumed to be infinite, like the open plains of the Wild Western Frontier. Boulding contrasted this with the call for a “spaceship economy,” where production and consumption are designed in a closed recycling system with finite resources.

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PODCAST OF THE WEEK - STAKEHOLDER ENGAGEMENT        

In this episode, we begin to explore the process of unlocking change through stakeholder engagement. In particular, the episode includes the following topics: Moving Social Media Beyond a Marketing Channel; Growing Use of Crowdsourcing as a Stakeholder Engagement Tool; Transforming the Power of Connection into the Power of Collaboration; Hyper-connectivity Makes Responsiveness More Possible.

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POEM OF THE WEEK - A DREAM TO BE PAINTED        

It is time to pause, to breathe, to savour / As the wheel of life spins in your favour / It’s a moment to rest, to gather, to reflect / To look back, to look forward and to accept

This is your season of fruits, of growing / After long years of ploughing and sowing / It’s a change in the rhythm, the motion / A new moon waxing to the sway of the ocean

It’s a time of rebirth, of conceiving / From a lifetime of giving, now receiving / It’s a fresh white canvass, a future untainted / New palette and brushes, a dream to be painted

Poem link | More travel & tribute poems | Life in Transit (book)

BOOK OF THE WEEK - ICARUS        

This creative collection, now in its 2nd edition, brings together love poems by Wayne Visser. The anthology traces love’s agony (“Broken Dreams”) and ecstasy (“Galaxies Cart-Wheeling”), from first blush (“Almost Strangers”) to full bloom (“Say ‘I Do!’”), as we fly to love.?

You’ve given me the gift of golden wings /?The endless sphere of blue imaginings /?The chance to rise above the silver clouds /?The will to cast off untold ghostly shrouds / Don’t fly too high / Don’t rise too fast / Don’t tease the sky / Don’t taunt the past / You’ve given me the hope of warmer days / The blessed kiss of the sun’s fiery rays.

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THOUGHT OF THE WEEK - NEW EYES        

Whether we have a life changing “Damascus” experience, or simply a refreshing “a-ha” moment, our world is suddenly different. We see things in a changed light; our perspective is somehow profoundly shifted. Then, looking back, we realise that we are not seeing new lands, but seeing with new eyes.

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THRIVING FEATURE - BETTER WORLD LEADERS        

What will it take for our world to?thrive? Are there any examples of the kinds of things we'll need being demonstrated right now? And what are the pathways for all of us to contribute to scaling, sharing and?systemically?transforming?into a world-wide adoption of these practices? I explore answers to all of these questions in?Tim Collings?Better World Leaders?podcast. Tune in now wherever you listen to podcasts, or via the link below.

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