What has fear got to do with your life?

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Joe Bailey ,rocked our world last night during the VisionHolder Interview, speaking of the relation to the two sides of fear - as a weapon and as a tool. Best know for his best selling Slowing Down to the Speed of Life and the The Speed Trap, Joe said that he was born to write his new book, Fearproof Your Life. Fear... most of us don't even know we're living with it as a continuous state of being. As he said we are   “being trapped in the prison of a limited life of narrow thinking and awareness.” We'll be posting some comments from those that attended the call last night soon. in the meantime, list to the audio to the right and let us know what gets stirred in you.

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Wake up. Day calls you -- Pedro Salinas

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Wake up. Day calls you
to your life: your duty.
And to live, nothing more.
Root it out of the glum
night and the darkness
that covered your body
for which light waited
on tiptoe in the dawn.
Stand up, affirm the straight
simple will to be
a pure slender virgin.
Test your body's metal.
Cold, heat? Your blood
will tell against the snow,
or behind the window.
The colour
in your cheeks will tell.
And look at people. Rest
doing no more than adding
your perfection to another
day. Your task
is to carry your life high,
and play with it, hurl it
like a voice to the clouds
so it may retrieve the light
already gone from us.
That is your fate: to live.
Do nothing.
Your work is you, nothing more.

~ Pedro Salinas ~

(My Voice Because of You, translated by Willis Barnstone)
Thanks to Joe Riley http://www.panhala.net/Archive/Day_calls_you.html

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Marilyn Tam

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A woman of passion with a mission for the world!!

Born in Hong kong the eldest of 4 in a traditional Chinese family. tough life. came to the US, excelled in school found her way into the corporate system and rose through the ranks to senior leadership roles at Nike, Reebok and Aveda...how did she do it? what drove her to achieve at a game not usually open to young asian women?

So here are her life priciples that have been the guidepost along the way.....

Tell the truth:  easier said than done, but life is so connected, that if i don't tell the truth, things will implode around me
Make partners:  pushes to think bigger, work collaboratively. makes us look at our values.
Make big mistakes:  when we make mistakes, we're taking a risk. "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" attitude means we'll be stagnant. otherwise, taking a risk means we do our homework, are planful.
Die by your own sword:  a graphic way to know what we stand for vs. what we're told to stand for.

What are your guiding principles and how are you applying them in your life and work? let us all know what you think. simply hit the comment link below and type away.

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Dr. Mark Albion, VisionHolder

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Whats a former Harvard Business School professor, radical organizer of MBA candidates and author who torments himself with questions like ""How can I be a Marxist and still own a Jacuzzi?" doing running around the country with a new business book.

Well, we found out last night during our VisionHolder Interview.....

Meet Mark Albion,who answered the question above saying ""We are all angels with one wing, able to fly only when we embrace each other."

Lots of changes since Harvard, starting several businesses, raising a family, godfather to the largest MBA on campus club in the country, which happens to be focused on creating businesses that add value to society, the earth and make a profit..how radical!

Mark has tirelessly crisscrossed the country for a decade organizing campus's, interviewing the bright lights of the socially responsible business movement...now writing his second book, where he's wrapped it all together around how to be true to your values and leading or being in a values based business.

He spoke of the "New Business Leadership Values" of Transparency, Sustainability and Responsibility and the 3 C's of Competence, Compassion and Commitment in rapid fire sequence to an enthralled group of listeners from across the Hemisphere.

So, what do you think are the core values for the new leader? what is the role of Compassion in your life and work? how can we bring more authenticity to one another and the workplace. listen to Mark on the audio link at the left and send your thoughts by clicking on the comments button below.

Craig

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Imagining ourselves into a world that works

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What do we need to do to change the world?

Imagine ourselves into the future: imagine a vision for a world that works for most of the beings on the planet. Imagine that an ever-larger network of people each with an ever-larger network, can all connect to bring this vision to a critical mass.

It’s about waking up to see each other and take action together. It's about each of us finding our vision and bringing it to the world. Vision in action.

It's about relationships, connectedness, seeing no separation. We - can - do - this. Read this story to learn more about imagining as a tool to bring vision to action.

What are your imaginings, your stories, for how we will imagine ourselves into the future? Add your comments below!

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Connecting the Dots

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Friend Steve Borsch of Connecting the Dots stopped by yesterday. Steve, a visionary of those trying to get their heads around the future of Web 2.0, has been musing and seeking to understand the cultural and societal impacts of the next generation internet. The interest is to use "societal software" to create a "participation culture." The local and global connections are coming fast and furious. Sites, products, and people all want your attention. Where does discernment and collective wisdom enter into the conversation?

Within this emerging culture, there is the opportunity to recognize and nurture the concept of essential conversations--conversations that matter, that bring people together in dialogue not debate (see post below), bring people to true presence, which brings the conversation to purpose.  A book that we've been recommending for a while is Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future (Senge, Jaworski, Flowers, Scharmer). Understanding the view of creating wholeness in each venture, conversation and exchange, can create the field for completely new understandings of organizational structures that create the interconnectedness needed to move humanity forward to sustainability and a shared future of health for the majority of people on the planet.

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