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This is a photograph of a piece of art I helped midwife into creation.

Other co-artists include: Lynn Rodosevitch  from Mandala Studio www.mandalawithlynn.com, Bekki Levien of  BLDesigns.biz, and Murray Lein, my beloved husband.

Whose art is this? Does it matter? I was for sure the Project Manager, but I could never have completed this art on my own. We can’t do it alone, and we don’t have to do it alone – this is the message I keep receiving.

Here’s the story of how I listened, let go, let love, and let art be born into the world. It’s a recipe anyone can use.
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On this anniversary of the attack on September 11, I’m thinking about trust and what happens to us depending on what we trust.

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Mantra:  Today I trust today.

Books mentioned:

The SPEED of Trust – By Stephen M.R. Covey | Amazon.com

The Gift of Fear: Gavin de Becker: 9780440226192: Amazon.com …

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Turning what you think you should do to be happier into something you really want to do.

Why do we resent doing what we know makes us feel better?  It’s science.  We are suspicious of solutions that seem sentimental or forced.  Even though expressing gratitude, appreciation, and committing acts of kindness makes us happier, we shrug these activities off as too simple, too easy.  We continue to do what we have always done and feel as happy as we have always felt.

The solution:  a game!

A game of benevolent assassination.  Really.

Cruel 2 B Kind – a game of benevolent assassination

You can put this game to work in your place of business, your school, or your community.

It’s free!  All you need is mobile communications tool:  texting, tweeting. We can change the world as we get happier.

Watch the game developer, Jane MeConigal, in one of her TED talks.

Jane McGonigal: The game that can give you 10 extra years of life | Video on TED.com

I’d love to hear back from you if you try this out.  Even if only two of you place, you will start a revolution.  People will want to know what you are doing, I promise.

This ceos from the book I’ve been listening to that I could not recommend more highly, Jane McGonigal’s Reality Is Broken: How Videogames Change the …

Learn Whatever You Want; Teach Whatever You Know While Serving the World

Think of someone you know for whom the current educational system is not working.  Now imagine designing a customized educational experience for that person. For right now, you do not need to worry about money, transportation, or anything else that would get in the way of your creating a system to unleash her creativity and maximize her potential.

Imagine combining online education and games with activities in your communities.  Imagine your student being able to follow any thread of learning as far as she wants to and finding support anywhere along the journey.  Imagine great Coaches, either in person or virtual, who know how to motivate and support your student as she faces the inevitable challenges of any worthy venture.

Imagine that your student gets to be of service.  She gets to decide if she wants to do the service in person or online.  She could read to little kids, proofread documents for foreign English speakers or help weed in a community garden.

Any interest she has she can follow.  She can also teach anything she knows to anyone in the world who wants to learn what she knows.  It does not matter how old she is or where her student lives.

Now imagine that this process is all very, very simple.  She fills out a profile that is fun, inspiring, and helps her know herself better.  She chooses what she wants to learn and how she wants to learn it. Her choices, such as wanting to design a skateboard park, lead her to study subjects she never considered before, like engineering and math.

Now imagine this process continuing for a lifetime.  Your student could earn multiple graduate degrees if she wants or she could start her own business or NGO.  She continually gives back as she learns, both by teaching what she knows and serving in her community and all over the world.

Now imagine that all that is needed to make this dream come true for your student, and for everyone in the world, is a software program, an elegant algorithm that connects those who want to learn with those who have something to teach. Those who want to serve can easily find those who need help.  Philanthropists can easily find projects they want to finance, and great ideas can be incubated and implemented by people who love doing just that.

Imagine an emancipation of creativity all over the world.  Solutions to problems of energy, environmental healing, racism, depression, cancer, and blindness are discovered in cooperative games, in engineering camps, through entrepreneurial projects, and in people’s garages..

Imagine genius flowering all over the world as it has never before been allowed to flower.

Until now. Until Global U.

Want to become part of this idea to change the world?  Contact Vicki at vicki@outrageousvisions.com and let’s see what we can do together to make this dream come true.

”It’s not fair!” we cry, or “I had a different plan!”  Once we learn to say an unconditional ‘Yes’ to what IS, we can start moving toward a solution, and we get to be fully alive and present to everything that happens to us.

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