What began two years ago as a ’stunt’ in Sydney, Australia, where the local World Wildlife Fund members rallied citizens, politicians, businesses and civic organizations to get lights turned off in Sydney Harbor for an hour, an event they called ‘Earth Hour‘, this year on March 28 grew into a worldwide event with over 1,800 cites around the world and an estimated one billion people participating. (more…)
As the toxic cloud of the Bush-Cheney era in America begins to lift, we are beginning to see the scope of the mess they’ve left us in. The boys from Delta House have been partying hard for eight years, and now we’re supposed to move in and live here like nothing has happened? The party is over the the place is a disaster. The trees are filled with underwear! The toilets have exploded! And nobody’s laughing, because it’s real, and it’s on us to clean it up.
Some of the clean-up work is so vast in scope, the banking industry shitstorm that shows so sign of abating , for example, or our crippling dependence on fossil fuels, that nothing short of a federal government strategy can begin to dig us out of it.
Every one of us, however, can find ways to support the clean-up work on a personal and practical level. Cleaning house presents us with opportunities. A chance to evaluate inventory, and eliminate waste. It can be the impetus for a much-needed remodeling.
Here’s a GameChangers checklist for what to Toss and what to Keep as we clean up and remodel an economy that has been Skulled and Boned into the pathetic shape it’s in today: (more…)
Daniel Seddiqui, age 23, is on a mission to work 50 jobs in 50 states in 50 weeks.
A gamechanger identifies and plays a productive game. Focuses on preparation more than planning. Is more concerned with getting results than in producing specific outcomes. Seddiqui could not be playing this game if he hadn’t prepared. And he could not have imagined a particular outcome. (Note that his ‘50/50/50 objective’ for the game is different from its ‘business outcomes’.) What Seddiqui trusted was that he was initiating a game that would produce results, and cause positive things to happen. New relationships would form. There’d be new experiences had. Skills learned. Insights gained. Possibilities awakened.
He is not sitting at home living the inevitable bad economy cliche, sending out job applications and getting rejected. Instead he created a game that generates acceptance in massive doses. David Seddiqui is creating a narrative in which he gets 50 job offers–and he’s going to accept all of them! Good story.
In Living the Map, Daniel Seddiqui is sending a three great big, important messages to the world:
1) All work is honorable. We should not judge a person by what it is they do, but by how they do it. Respect the work, respect the worker.
2) So what if you have 50 different jobs in your life? That’s a goal. Working in one place, at one job forever is drudgery. This is one generation telling another that it can stick the gold watch up its ass.
3) There’s work, lots of it, that needs doing. But you’ve got get out and find it, player. It is not going to find you.
