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« Previous EntriesYou Do Enough, You Have Enough, You Are Enough
Sunday, December 6th, 2009I’ve been working on the launch of my new business. It’s a event company that does retreats for women who run workshops and retreats for others. Kind of the leader’s retreat space. The way it’s designed, I’ll be working long hours during the retreats and having lots of time off when the retreats aren’t happening. Since the events are designed to be small, I don’t have to worry about spending a lot of time in the scheduling department either (plus I have it in the plan that I’ll be hiring an event planner for this task, so it’s not my job anyway).
A World Powered By Kindness
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Kindness as Currency
I just watched an Absolute Vodka commercial and while I don’t normally forward these types of things, I thought it was an interesting concept to explore today. The premise of the video is that the currency of the world becomes kindness. So you see people paying for their bus ride with a kiss on the driver’s forehead and getting credits at the bank for kisses on the cheeks of the tellers and checking out for their groceres by hugging the cashier. Absurd? A little. But intriguing.
Gender Roles And Purpose – A Macro Look at the World – Part IV
Tuesday, November 24th, 2009One of the biggest challenges facing America today is the muddled gender roles that we’ve created. Wait – that’s not really right. The muddled gender roles aren’t the root issue. The root issue is the inability and outright social unacceptability of creating your own role regardless of gender.
Women Coming Into Our Power
Monday, November 16th, 2009There is a Goddess movement growing in our country. I feel it in the air. I see it in the groups being brought forth. I see it in the workshops being taught, the topics being explored and the comments made by the learned and the ignorant. It is time for the divine feminine to come forward.
In Search of the Goddess/AntiChrist?
Sunday, November 15th, 2009OK, now follow with me here. It is well-known that when a new religion takes over, it vilifies and makes evil the old religion. This is done as a way of converting people to the new belief and getting rid of the old. In Christianity, women are very often shown as being the bringers of evil or as being inherently evil. Lilith (Adam’s first wife) was thrown aside for asserting her power and was cast into the mythos as the Queen of the Demons. Eve was the cause of humanity’s fall from grace. Even Mary Magdalene, devotee and right hand of Christ was cast as a prostitute (a “fact” which has been challenged by reputed scholars). It seems clear that in the pulling away from the Goddess archetype in religion, women were cast in the role as evil.
Think People! Figure It Out! – A Macro Look at the World – Part III
Saturday, November 14th, 2009What’s Wrong With The World Today?
The world is changing rapidly. The technologically, the last 100 years have seen more change than the last 1000 years before it. Mindsets within an established governmental structure are shifting faster than ever before in history. The ability to adapt has never been more important than in today’s world.
The Resurgence of Tribalism in America – A Macro look at the World – Part II
Friday, November 6th, 2009Tribalism – A Definition
First I want to begin with a definition of tribalism so that you have context for what I am talking about. I am not talking about “tribe” in the traditional idea of a small unit of people who live together, interbreed, and rely on one another for safety, sustenance and survival. What I mean by tribe in this context is the tendency of people to form into groups for specific purposes and to treat those groups as a type of “family-of-choice”. They do bear a resemblance to the traditional definition in that rely on one another for emotional support, sometimes they intertwine their financial lives, they might even interbreed or live together. Or they might not. Let’s look at the ways in which tribes are forming in America (and sometimes around the world) today.
Revisioning Business
Thursday, November 5th, 2009I have been having many conversations with movers and shakers in the last couple of weeks. I’ve talked to internet marketers, corporate consultants, brokerage consultants and more and all agree on one thing: the way we’ve done business in the past is no longer the way we will do it in the future. This economic downturn combined with the next generation of workers having a wholly different set of values sets the stage for massive change in the way America does business.
On Being Big
Monday, November 2nd, 2009When Will Judging Based on Weight Be “Un PC”?
I can’t wait until what is “politically correct” catches up for me. It’s not OK to judge people by their race, it’s almost not OK to judge people by their gender, but it seems that it’s still fair game to judge people by their weight. You’d be amazed at the judgments that people put out about me because of my weight.
Unhappy? Not!
They assume I’m unhappy and that I eat to make everything alright. That’s patently not true. I am in fact quite a happy person. Do I eat on the rare occassions that I am unhappy? Yep. But I eat at other times too.
Depression – The Silent Stalker
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Depression is Running Rampant
I’ve been spending a fair amount of time out and about recently speaking with people. And what I’m discovering is that quite a large number of people I know are experiencing depression. Some for the first time in their lives, others are mistaking it for a health issue, still others are greeting an old friend come back to haunt them again. It doesn’t seem to be splitting down any demographic or psychographic that I can identify and it varies from a low-grade dissatisfaction with the world to a full-blown can’t get out of bed or make any decisions attack.