This week:
There is More to Life Than Being Happy (TED Talk):
Enjoy this video that outlines the power of focusing on creating a more meaningful life, with four pillars which can lead to happiness. They are 1) a sense of belonging 2) finding your purpose 3) transcendence and 4) storytelling.
https://www.ted.com/talks/emily_esfahani_smith_there_s_more_to_life_than_being_happy?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2017-09-16&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_content=talk_of_the_week_image
A Life Without Words (RadioLab)…
I Challenge You to Listen to the First Seven Minutes of this Podcast and Not Get Hooked into Listening to the Whole Thing:
Susan Schaller believes that the best idea she ever had in her life had to do with an isolated young man she met one day at a community college. He was 27-years-old at the time, and though he had been born deaf, no one had ever taught him to sign. He had lived his entire life without language–until Susan found a way to reach out to him…
http://www.radiolab.org/story/91725-words/
If you are local (on not)…
It’s National Preparedness Month: Let’s Be Prepared!
Is there an earthquake fault near your home, your workplace or your child’s school? Or perhaps you live or work in a floodplain, high-risk wildfire area or a tsunami inundation zone. If so, there are steps you can take to reduce your risk in some cases, register for emergency notifications, and to better prepare your family for an emergency. To do that, you need all the facts.
The San Diego County Office of Emergency Services developed a Know Your Hazards online tool to help make getting that information as easy as typing in an address or dropping a pin on a map.
OES write-up here: http://www.countynewscenter.com/map-shows-disaster-risks-by-location/ The last portion of the story has vital tools on emergency preparedness as well.
Know Your Hazards page here: http://www.readysandiego.org/know-your-hazards/
Are You Up for the 30 Day Compassion IT Challenge!
Hola! I wanted to send one more reminder about our upcoming 30-Day Compassion It Challenge. By making compassion a priority each day, you will no doubt experience an unforgettable month.
Like many, you may be frustrated by or even afraid of what’s happening in the world today. Heartbreaking headlines of climate change, injustices, and civil unrest can create feelings of helplessness, sadness and anger.
We each have the opportunity to create change in our world through our individual actions. Now is the time for compassion, and it’s up to you and me.
I hope you’ll sign up for our free 30-Day Compassion It Challenge. Please invite your classrooms, co-workers, friends and family members.
Learn more on our Facebook event page. Please use that page to invite others!
THANK YOU for making our world better.
With enthusiasm,
Sara Schairer
Founder
Compassion It
www.compassionit.com
Thanks this week go to Peter D and the Conscious Leaders Collective brotherhood, Enrique M from the Mission Fed team, & Sara S helping us all be Compassion IT!
Please Pay it Forward with Purpose & Know How Much You Matter…
Love,
Neville
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“The world connects not by molecules. It connects through ideas, hopes, faces, dreams, actions, stories and memories….”
– Barrie Stanford Greiff
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