Happy Soul Food Friday!

Maya Angelou would have turned 90 years old last week, but the wisdom of her words will live on forever:
Here are some profound quotes to remember Maya by…
https://www.facebook.com/georgehtakei/videos/207601989854934/

What do 90 year olds regret most?
Their responses contradict popular research on aging and happiness
…Put simply, when I asked one person, “Do you wish you accomplished more?” He responded, “No, I wished I loved more.”
https://medium.com/s/story/what-its-like-to-be-90-something-368780082573

Words of Wisdom from Ken Ravissa:

The Passing of Dr. Harry Weinberg Educator Extraordinaire:

 Dr. Harry Weinberg  also passed away in the last week.

Harry, as he preferred to be called, is a bright light in the education community and in our region and will continue to be that through his impact on so many individuals.

While he was the Valley Center Superintendent, he worked with Steve Lilly, the Dean of the College of Education at CSUSM.  Together they created the Distinguished Teacher in Residence Program at CSUSM.  This provided great teachers an opportunity to work and learn with college faculty and to provide excellent instruction to pre-service teachers at the university.  In addition, Harry worked with Steve to create the North County Professional Development Federation (NCPDF) 27 years ago.  The group started with CSUSM, SDCOE and five districts and has grown to include 28 districts, 5 charters, Palomar and MiraCosta Colleges, UCSD and CSUSM.  These collaborations between K12 schools and districts and CSUSM proved to be very beneficial to our area and are a testament to some of the great work that Harry and Steve led.

Harry went on to become the Superintendent at the San Diego County Office of Education.  He was known for his leadership by walking around.  He talked with all employees on a regular basis and really knew the people in the organization.  He retired and began teaching at CSUSM, supported districts in their recruitment of superintendents and was a frequent guest speaker for a wide range of groups.

Harry was also known for his quick wit, thoughtful reflections and genuine passion for students, teachers and administrators.  He has long been viewed as a legend in the education community and is very deserving of that title.  He touched many lives, and he will be greatly missed.

There really are no words that I can put together that are up to the task of recognizing Harry and the impact that he has had, so I will just say that he had high expectations for educators, and I feel fortunate to work with a group of individuals who would make Harry proud.

(from Brenda Hall)

Please see the message that Valley Center Superintendent Ron McCowan shared about Harry below:

Dr. Harry Weinberg’s Legacy to Valley Center-Pauma Unified School District

So many who worked closely with “Harry” as they referred to him, recall how his management style, integrity and work ethic turned around Valley Center Union when he took the helm during difficult financial times.  Harry was not only successful in making the district fiscally sound, but he also was instrumental in developing an awarding winning academic, music, agricultural and dual language program that was revered by his San Diego County counterparts.  Dr. Weinberg was one of the longest standing superintendents with a 14 year tenure when the average superintendent lasts only 3 years. Dr. Weinberg’s ability to gain the trust of teachers, staff and board members was how he kept moral high and when asked about his management style he indicated, “is such that I try to persuade people rather than order them.  If you persuade, they’re with you for the whole war.  If you order they’re just with you for the battle.”

Dr. Harry Weinberg’s legacy will always be how much he was respected, admired and loved by teachers, board trustees, and superintendents.  Dr. Weinberg was instrumental in making a tremendous difference in the lives of so many in his role as the Superintendent of Valley Center Union School District for 14 years (1977-1991) and as the San Diego County Superintendent for 3 years (1991-1994). Board members had only accolades when describing Dr. Weinberg with his reputation that was known county-wide.  This stellar reputation was why Dr. Weinberg did not have to apply for the San County Superintendent job, but was offered the position after the San Diego County Board had interviewed 10 finalists from 100 applicants.

Dr. Weinberg continued to strive for excellence in schools after his post from the San Diego County Office by assisting Districts in the recruitment of superintendents.  He later continued grooming the next generation of administrators during his tenure in the Department of Education at California State University at San Marcos.  During his multiple careers he never deviated from his pursuit to develop excellent schools, teachers and administrators.

Dr. Weinberg began his position as superintendent of Valley Center Union in 1977 when it was a K-8th grade school district with 2300 students. Before that he was an assistant superintendent in the Sanger Unified School District near Fresno and taught at the elementary, junior, and high school level. He received his bachelor’s degree from UC Santa Barbara in 1957 where he also played varsity basketball. In 1961 he received his master’s from San Francisco State College and in 1973 he received his doctorate from the University of the Pacific.

His work is still reflected in the day to day operations of many school districts who continue to follow his sage mentoring and guidance to strive for excellence. Hats off to Dr. Weinberg and may he always stay with us.

Harry’s Homilies:

It’s what you learn after you think you know it all that counts in life – John Wooden

• No one ever learned anything when they were talking
• You can learn a lot from people who disagree with you
• Slower is faster
• Persuade – Don’t order
• Don’t tell – Ask
• Don’t major in minors
• Exit interviews = Continuous improvement
• If it’s not monitored, it’s optional
• Remember to say, “Thank you.”
• Don’t teach a drowning person how to swim
• Listen, then speak
• Don’t get your honey where you get your money
• Never do anything you wouldn’t want to read about in the morning papers
• Tell me and you have a friend, let me find out and you have a judge
• Make the right things easy, the wrong things difficult
• Do not command what you cannot enforce
• Tell the truth, it’s easier to remember
• Leaders listen, learn, and affirm
• Show up
• Leaders don’t take other people’s monkeys
• Bad news is additional information
• Letting a mistake bother you is a mistake – correct it and move on
• It takes three cups of tea to build a relationship
• Knowledge is power
• Leaders are the thermostat, not the thermometer
• Leaders ask, “What do you think?”

Unfortunately, we have to live most of our life before we learn to get the most out of our life.

© Dr. Harry Weinberg

 

If you are local…

20^th Anniversary of the Cause Conference Early Bird Tickets Are On Sale and I am Proud to Serve as a Co-Chair Again This Year:

Get ready to collaborate with San Diego’s purpose-driven community representing leaders across the business, nonprofit, investors, government, and education sectors. The 20^th annual Cause Conference^™ is set for Friday, October 12^th at the beautifully renovated Town & Country Convention Center in Mission Valley. Get ready to collaborate with San Diego’s purpose-driven community representing leaders across the business, nonprofit, investors, government, and education sectors. The 20^th annual Cause Conference^™ is set for Friday, October 12^th at the beautifully renovated Town & Country Convention Center in Mission Valley, with a pre-reception event the night before at National University.
http://sdama.org/events/2018-cause-conference/

Take Advantage of This Hometown Offer:

Refer a Friend—now with more options!

Now your friends and family can earn $40 when they open any one of these services and meet the promotion criteria:

• Checking Account
• Credit Card
• Auto Loan
• Personal Loan
• Mortgage Loan
• Home Equity Loan

And, you’ll earn $40 for referring them to Mission Fed!

Refer a Friend

Tell your friends to open an account by September 30, 2018!

Make sure your friends and family take advantage of this great offer and have them bring the coupon from our website with them when they visit the branch. There’s no limit to how many people you can refer!

Plus, all year long we are rewarding members with our $1 Million Mission Fed Money Match. Are you next?

Cash in on the details. The new primary member must be 18 years of age, open Mission Fed eligible accounts and meet the minimum transaction requirements for the accounts they choose by 9/30/18. To be eligible, the new member may not be a signer on a Mission Fed account within the last twelve (12) months. The new member must be eligible for membership and all accounts and loans are subject to approval. The new Checking Account must have a minimum of five (5) eligible member-initiated transactions completed and posted to the account prior to the 91st day of initial account opening. A Mission Fed Credit Card must be opened with a minimum of five (5) purchase transactions or one (1) balance transfer posted within 90 days of initial account opening. New Auto Loans, Personal Loans, Mortgage Loans and Home Equity Loans must be funded within 90 days of initial account opening. Indirect auto loans, share secured loans and auto leases are not eligible for this promotion. A Savings, Checking or Money Market Account must be opened in addition to the new loan or credit card. Upon satisfaction of the above requirements, the $40 will be automatically deposited to the new member and referring member accounts on the 91st day of the new member’s initial account opening. $500 minimum balance required to earn .05% Annual Percentage Yield on Smart Checking as of 8/1/18. Visit MissionFed.com/Refer-A-Friend for Official Rules, a list of eligible member-initiated transactions and other details. No other promotional offer may be used in conjunction with this special offer. Programs, rates, terms, conditions and services are subject to change without notice. For Mission Fed Money Match, certain restrictions apply; visit MissionFed.com/MoneyMatch for Official Rules.

Thanks this week go to Hitendra M, Mehrad N, Brenda H, Glenda O as well as the Cause Conference and Mission Fed teams!

Please pay it forward…
Love,
Neville

With That Moon Language
Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, “Love me.”
Of course you do not do this out loud, otherwise someone would call the cops.
Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye
that is always saying,
with that sweet moon language,
what every other eye in this world is dying to hear?
-Hafiz

This week:

“Despite what the achievement culture teaches, dignity does not depend on what you do, how successful you are or whether your school calls you gifted.
Infinite worth is inherent in being human.
Every human encounter is a meeting of equals.
Doing community service isn’t about saving the poor; it’s a meeting of absolute equals as both seek to change and grow…”

 

Our Culture Does a Pretty Good Job of Ignoring the Uniqueness and Depth of Each Person
David Brooks on Personalism: The Philosophy We Need. Is it time for a revival of personalism?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/14/opinion/personalism-philosophy-collectivism-fragmentation.html

 

“With the exception of the French, all respondents overestimated the share of Muslim immigrants and underestimated the share of Christians.
They also estimated that immigrants were more numerous than they really are.
In US, the country where disparity between perceptions and actual numbers was the most striking, respondents put immigrants’ share of the country’s population at 36%. It’s only 10%.”

A Harvard Study Shows that Just Thinking of “Immigrants” Makes People Less Generous:
Harvard University researchers looked at the common threads between the backlash against immigrants in this and other developed countries.
Their findings, circulated by the National Bureau of Economic Research, point to misinformation and prejudice…
https://qz.com/1319538/harvard-research-shows-people-in-france-germany-italy-sweden-the-uk-and-the-us-are-less-generous-after-thinking-about-immigrants/

 

Rare Photos: The Passage of Time Gives Us Perspective
Some of these will make you pause and reflect…
Kids for Sale? WTF?
rarephotos

“Things Are Way to Urgent to Rush”

An Antidote…

The First Thing You Learn At Monk School with Jay Shetty:
Wisdom traditions focus on the root of things. Why have we moved away from them?
https://www.facebook.com/JayShettyIW/videos/2073749546272833/

 

Thanks this week go to Elizabeth D, Chris B, Marlaine C and all of ye.
Breathe…

Love,
nb

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“Unfortunately, we have to live most of our life before we learn to get the most out of life…”

This week:

Sports Psychology Loses One of Its Greats- Ken Ravizza!
“Forget the last game, forget the last play and forget the excuses.”
We could all benefit from a mental conditioning coach…
Once he said what he teaches is all yoga!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/sports/ken-ravizza-sports-psychologist.html

Watch It!
The Bleeding Edge: New Documentary Film is Scathing Indictment of FDA’s Regulation of Medical Devices-A new Netflix documentary – The Bleeding Edge  – highlights a wide range of systemic flaws in the FDA’s regulation of medical devices. As always, the patient stories are truly heartbreaking (and often clinically gruesome), but what makes this documentary different is the sheer volume of clinical and legal testimony aimed so directly and forcefully at the FDA – the one organization purpose-built to protect patients from a wide range of clinical risks – including those from medical device manufacturers.
Saw it on Netflix this week and it was mind blowing! We all need to be aware and informed
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danmunro/2018/07/29/new-documentary-film-is-scathing-indictment-of-fdas-regulation-of-medical-devices/#3703b79a26b8

Speaking of Accountability…
Move Over Sustainability Accounting, Here Comes Purpose Accounting:
Introducing Purpose Performance, a new measure of organizational performance that assesses impacts relative to the voluntary commitments organizations make to provide public benefits or to generally pursue beneficial purposes of one kind or another…
https://bit.ly/2OGZKoe

If you are local and committed to creating community, advancing your purpose practice, bringing these purpose principles into your enterprise, as well as addressing some of San Diego’s most pressing issues.…

Summer Purpose Party/Conscious Culture Convening @ Culture Brewing, Next Week August 8, 5:30 to 7:30p, 629 Coast Hwy 101, Encinitas CA 92024- Discount Code Included

Conscious organizations have trusting, authentic, innovative and caring cultures that make working there a source of both personal growth and professional fulfillment.

This month join this celebration of conscious culture at Culture Brewing Company, Encinitas and join us to grow your network, get inspired and have some fun!!

Join us for the Purpose San Diego & Conscious Capitalism joint Summer Social Event!

Join us for this fun joint event with our friends at Conscious Capitalism.  Our shared ideals and overlapping communities will make this a great event for connecting with like-minded purpose-driven members of our San Diego Community!

Tickets are $15 with the code PURPOSESD

BUY YOUR TICKET NOW!

 

Thank You to Our Sponsor:

 

Thanks this week go to Mehrad N, Barbara S-B, and the rapidly emerging Purpose Ecosystem in San Diego

Play with Purpose!
Love,
Neville

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“We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.”—H. G. Wells

Happy Soul Food Monday!
After nearly a decade of Soul Food Fridays, I missed last Friday’s deadline (no excuses) so here it is on a Monday instead… 

Are You Taking Yourself For Granted? 

“Things are Way to Urgent to Rush”…
If we are intellectually honest with ourselves, reconciling the urgency of now, with a focus on long-term fundamental and systemic issues is both a challenge and an opportunity that is brutally tough to reconcile.
This piece from the Hopi Elders captures this inherent tension with timeless wisdom and a call for action:

The Dynamic Tension Between Your Fears and Your Dreams is Your Life!

Our fear and sorrow, left untreated pull us down toward entropy and negative energy, changing the set point for how we experience life.
Our dreams, on the other hand pull us up towards our highest potentiality and greatest gift, changing the frame and by extension shift our capacity to foster generative change.
We live on this pendulum, swinging between these two states and ways of being.
But what is moving the pendulum?

If you created a continuum of ones baseline state, do you find your default setting closer to the Fear-based side, or is top dead center more towards your Dreams/Aspirations/Vision?

Fear/Sorrow
______________________+______________________Dreams/Aspirations/Vision

If all we do is react to problems.
And if we react well to problems.
The best we have is no problems.
But is that the best you deserve out of life?

If emotional management Is a predictive variable (there are others) and your ability to recruit your emotional energy to shift from a fear-based model to a vision-inspired model is a key factor, are you able to harness those emotions to serve your greatest and highest need and that of those around you?

Orienting to what we want to create in life, rather than what problems we are trying to address or eliminate is a fundamental shift in attention, intention and attitude.
Hacking your own life success might well be as much about this internal condition -which we do control- and less about the external conditions over which we don’t have nearly as much control or influence.

Shift happens.
With this systems shift it might even be possible to transmute our deepest wound into our greatest gift?

Spending several days this week with Peter Senge,  http://infed.org/mobi/peter-senge-and-the-learning-organization/ and his talented group including Mette and Roger, as part of a collective impact effort we are doing on the Oceanside Promise has been illuminating as we explored systems thinking models and archetypes, and challenged our implicit beliefs and biases about our world in general and education in particular.

Challenging orthodoxy after all is counter-conventional as Parker Palmer reminds us.

Going deep might be difficult and not the norm.
But perhaps that is where our deepest learning opportunities reside…

The Indo-European root of “to lead” leith, literally means to step across a threshold- and to let go of whatever might limit stepping forward.
Are you ready to take that step?

Here are two pieces to help us navigate this continuum, and yes by popular demand the second link is a repeat from last week, as so many reacted favorably to it and not everyone digests every Soul Food missive.

The first link is a powerful example of transmuting deepest wounds into meaningful gifts for ourselves and others:
The 10 commandments of grief are a powerful counter-cultural antidote to getting bogged down in a problem orientation
https://www.kpbs.org/news/2018/jul/26/san-diego-rabbi-explores-blessing-sorrow-new-book/

The second link reminds us of the power of our Dreams/Aspirations/Vision:
https://www.facemp4.com/video/1732996373400094

Both examples confront reality but elevate humanity!

Thanks this week go to Duane C, Nicole M, and the entire team at the Oceanside Promise as well as Peter S, Mette B and Roger B for their gifted shepherding of the process.

We ARE the ones we have been waiting for
Pay it forward with purpose!
Love,
Neville

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“If you want to change how a person thinks, give up. You cannot change how another thinks.

Give them a tool, the use of which will gradually cause them over time to think differently.” – Buckminster Fuller

This week:

Happy 100^th Birthday Nelson Mandela!

Hope You Took a Moment to Celebrate Mandela Day

“He was just a particularly fine example of humanity. The principles by which he lived his life are universal principles of love, fairness and respect for others.”
—Bishop Tutu

From Convocation to Commencement, from Back to School to Back to Work, Everyone Can Use a Little inspiration:
A lot of school district leaders are calling on me to help set the tone for the start of the school year with everything from keynotes for entire teams to small group sessions.
If I can serve you locally, just reach out to be at: nevilleb@missionfed.com

This is One Great and Inspiring 9 Minute Speech:
Courtesy of Dr. DeRoche at USD
https://www.facemp4.com/video/1732996373400094

Working with the Leadership team of the Oceanside Promise…
We were exposed to a video about Targeted Universalism produced by the Haas Institute at UC Berkeley and then discussed how it fit into what we are trying to accomplish through the Oceanside Promise.
I thought you might find it thought provoking:
https://haasinstitute.berkeley.edu/targeteduniversalism.

Breaking the Myth of the “Model Minority”
Pew Center Study shows Asians Surpass African-American and Latinos in Income Inequality:
Dis-aggregating equity shows the gap between rich and poor in Asian communities & might surprise you…
https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/asians-surpass-african-americans-and-latinos-income-inequality

Thanks this week go to Dr. DeRoche, Nicole M and all the change leaders with the Oceanside Promise & The Takeaway

Set the intention and then create your own future on purpose!
Be the Legacy…

Love,
Neville

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“Difference- The Only thing we have in Common”

We just got back from a family holiday in Greece, the birthplace of democracy and mathematics, medicine and literature, theatre and astronomy, mythology and philosophy:

• walking in the steps of Socrates at the Acropolis and Agora in Athens
• visiting the oldest western archeological sites & civilization of the Minoans in Knossos on Crete (at least 1,300 years and some believe civilizations flourished there 7,000 years BEFORE Christ)
• sailing around Santorini
• chasing Rhodes scholars
• exploring Hydra and Mykonos
• and marveling in natural wonder
• with a bonus of running into my best friend from college Ricky and his family who live in Missouri and happened to be in Mykonos at the same time we were!

There are no accidents
Awe is indeed the beginning of wisdom, especially when you walk on the earth and explore civilizations that are literally thousands of years old!

A newbie by comparison, Abraham Lincoln’s famous speech in 1863 builds on similar democratic principles as ancient Greece developed; “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. …”

One of the best known sentences in the English language, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” girths this nation’s foundation and moral compass yet…

Fast forward to 2018 and we are still engaged in a great and not so civil war, testing whether this nation or any nation can long endure, challenging what it means to be human, and to what degree we feel responsible for preserving and protecting the dignity of all human life, and all life on our tiny blue planet.

To know and not to do, it not to know…

Whether you stay home and open your mind and heart, travel just a few kilometers away from home base, or are blessed to be able to explore life and societies much further away, travel is great to provide perspective and open your mind to a big, wide world out there. It can help us adjust our ethnocentric sense of terminal uniqueness and bring fresh eyes to old challenges.

We are Rick Steves fans and I love his travel philosophy that follows, which you can apply in your own back yard too by the way…

Rick’s Travel Philosophy:

Travel is freedom… one of the last great sources of legal adventure. Travel is intensified living, with maximum thrills per minute. It’s recess, and we need it. Experiencing the real Europe requires catching it by surprise, going casual…

Affording travel is a matter of priorities. (Make do with the old sofa.) You can travel simply, safely, and comfortably anywhere in Europe for $100 a day plus transportation costs. In many ways, spending more money only builds a thicker wall between you and what you came to see. Europe is a cultural carnival, and time after time, you’ll find that its best acts are free and the best seats are the cheap ones.

A tight budget forces you to travel close to the ground, meeting and communicating with the people. Never sacrifice sleep, nutrition, safety, or cleanliness in the name of budget. Simply enjoy the local-style alternatives to expensive hotels and restaurants.

Extroverts have more fun. If your trip is low on magic moments, kick yourself and make things happen. If you don’t enjoy a place, maybe you don’t know enough about it. Seek the truth. Recognize tourist traps. Give a culture the benefit of your open mind. See things as different but not better or worse. Any culture has much to share.

Of course, travel, like the world, is a series of hills and valleys. Be fanatically positive and militantly optimistic. If something’s not to your liking, change your liking. Travel is addicting. It can make you a happier American, as well as a citizen of the world. Our Earth is home to 7.4 billion equally important people. It’s humbling to travel and find that people don’t envy Americans. Europeans like us, but with all due respect, they wouldn’t trade passports.

Globetrotting destroys ethnocentricity. It helps you understand and appreciate different cultures. Travel changes people. It broadens perspectives and teaches new ways to measure quality of life. Many travelers toss aside their hometown blinders. Their prized souvenirs are the strands of different cultures they decide to knit into their own character. The world is a cultural yarn shop. Back Door Travelers are weaving the ultimate tapestry.

Join in!

–Rick Steves

Earth is home to 8.7 million species (plus or minus 1.3 million) with approximately 1 million species living in the world’s oceans and 91% of ocean species are yet to be classified!
Don’t poop where you eat
Our interdependency with our ecosystem should not be underestimated and here is one story that underscores that reality…

Human Health and the Health of Oceans- The Science and Environmental Hazards Behind Fish Oil Supplements:
Paul Greenberg examines the effects supplements are having on fish populations and the ecosystems of our oceans while we try to boost cardiovascular and brain health…
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/627229213/the-science-and-environmental-hazards-behind-fish-oil-supplements

Stay adventurous and enjoy your summer wherever you find yourself and keep up the work on finding yourself!
Thanks to my wife Barbara for investing countless hours in curating an incredible family trip. 

Happy 27^th Anniversary Barb!

Love,
Neville

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“Difference- The Only thing we have in Common”

This week:
Working on Purpose
Many of you know I have been working, with a little help from my friends, on blending the art and science of purpose for well over a year; standing up a Chamber of Purpose, co-chairing a Purpose conference, establishing Purpose awards for our community and finding my purpose while helping others find theirs.

This week enjoy some great links to advance your purpose agenda, both personally and professionally…

Purpose is the Ladder between Matter and Spirit:
https://medium.com/@brandonpeele/purpose-is-the-ladder-between-matter-and-spirit-75866bfb0035

BlackRock CEOs Annual Letter -from the Largest Hedge Fund on the Planet!
https://www.blackrock.com/corporate/investor-relations/larry-fink-ceo-letter

If we were to be a Purpose Sentinel City…
http://www.ensouled.life/sentinel-city-project.html

The Power of Purpose Driven Companies
https://bit.ly/2z5k6na

Purpose Metrics Matter
https://bit.ly/2EGLR3d

Threads of a New American Identity:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/threads-new-american-identity-brandon-peele/?published=t

Why Doing Good Is Good for Your Design Business https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-doing-good-your-design-business-justin-ahrens

And for our kids
5 Reasons NOT to Find Your Purpose in Your 20’s:
https://medium.com/@brandonpeele/five-reasons-not-to-find-your-purpose-in-your-20s-7d42d33eaa4

Stay purpose-filled and pay it forward!

Love,
Neville

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“There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there”
— Albert Einstein

This week: Vuja De’!
The BEST Way to Improve the World Around Us

You ARE an original.
How do you master the creative process and separate self-doubt from idea-doubt?
How do you navigate bureaucracy and solve problems others can’t?
How do you take incredible hardship and transmute the pain and suffering? How do you manifest originality in your world of work?
Does your choice of browser tell us something about your creative prowess?
The only thing worse than fear of failure is failing to try…

The Surprising Habits of Original Thinkers:
How do creative people come up with great ideas? Organizational psychologist Adam Grant studies “originals”: thinkers who dream up new ideas and take action to put them into the world. In this talk, learn three unexpected habits of originals — including embracing failure. “The greatest originals are the ones who fail the most, because they’re the ones who try the most,” Grant says. “You need a lot of bad ideas in order to get a few good ones.”
https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_grant_the_surprising_habits_of_original_thinkers

Here are a couple of powerful examples…

Feeding Puerto Rico:
While bureaucracies fumble, original thinkers solve complex problems.
Jose’ Andre’s has some 30 popular restaurants across the US, but he barely stepped foot in them after Hurricane Maria.
He and an army of chefs and volunteers were serving the people in Puerto Rico and their story is mesmerizing…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/feeding-puerto-rico-60-minutes/

The Art and Craft of StoryTelling:
Deah, Yusor and Razan- Suzanne Barakat explains how her brother, his wife and sister were murdered by their neighbor (Trigger warning: This story contains descriptions of racial violence)
https://themoth.org/stories/deah-yusor-and-razan

Being Original in Your Work:
At Mission Fed, we try to be original in our work right here in our community; blending financial performance with social purpose
Here is creative video of our annual report:
https://www.missionfed.com/report

Thanks to all you original thinkers that don’t let reality get in the way of possibility, and don’t accept the default option handed to you.
If you have a dream, bring it to reality, spread the love and pay it forward

No regrets…
The world needs YOU!
Love,
Neville

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“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.” – Victor Frankl

This week:

How do we Celebrate Beauty in Diversity and Cultural Competency Not Just Physical Appearance?

Is There Still a Place for Miss America?

Miss America has always been a competition synonymous with physical beauty. But a recent announcement from the organization’s new chair Gretchen Carlson is shaking up this paradigm. On Tuesday, Carlson announced that Miss America would drop its swimsuit competition from the lineup and would no longer judge women on their physical appearance. The swimsuit portion of the competition has been around since the very first Miss America pageant back in 1921. And cutting it entirely is just one of a series of changes for an organization that’s had a scandal-plagued year. Nina Davuluri provides her take on all this. She is Miss America 2014 and the first Indian-American to win the competition. https://www.wnycstudios.org/story/new-day-miss-america

More On The Decision To End The Swimsuit Portion Of Competition:
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/05/617250142/miss-america-contest-to-end-swimsuit-portion-of-competition

Serena Williams Steps up As A Superhero To New Moms:
“It feels like this suit represents all the women that have been through a lot mentally, physically with their body to come back and have confidence and to believe in themselves,”…
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/columnist/brennan/2018/05/30/serena-williams-new-mom-fierce-candid/655546002/

If you are local…
As Mission Fed continues to both deepen existing bonds and build new ones where our members live work and play, we are excited to share the latest newsletter that reflects those efforts.
We hope you’ll take pride in reading about our community-driven campaigns, events and sponsorships that celebrate our community.

https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/60480547/7171-mfcu-summer-newsletter-2018-single-page

 

Conscious Connections Roundtable

Higher Purpose and Corporate Social Responsibility

Join us at WD-40 to experience a roundtable conversation with local conscious business leaders about how to stay true to the higher purpose behind our Corporate Social Responsibility activities and keep our good intentions from being co-opted for commercial purposes. This will be a real-life display of the tenets of Conscious Capitalism in action, and show conscious leaders facing the resistance and opportunity of raising organizational consciousness.

Agenda: 5:30-6:00 PM
Networking 6:00PM-7:00 PM
Roundtable Conversation 7:00PM-7:30 PM Networking

When: June 26, 2018 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM

Directions and Parking:
WD40 – 9715 Businesspark Ave San Diego, CA 92131 Parking is free and is in the adjoining building.

Pricing: Member – $15 Non-Member – $30

New Member: Become a member today and  get this event FREE! – $100

Click here to RSVP so we know how many to prepare for.

 

Thanks this week go to amazing women in our lives everywhere!

Please pay it forward…
Love,
Neville

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“The champion wins first, then walks into the arena.
Everybody else walks into the arena and then tries to figure out what to do.”
— Jim Fannin

This week:

As we remember Robert F Kennedy, 50 years after his passing, here are some memorable moments and lessons that remind us that “leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence”…

The Busboy Who Cradled A Dying RFK Recalls Those Final Moments:
In an interview with StoryCorps, Romero, now 67, remembers meeting Kennedy the day before the assassination. He helped deliver Kennedy’s room service. It was the first of two brief encounters that left Romero struck by how present and considerate Bobby Kennedy appeared with guests.
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/01/615534723/the-busboy-who-cradled-a-dying-rfk-recalls-those-final-moments

Robert F. Kennedy “Ripple of Hope” Speech:
Robert F. Kennedy‘s Day of Affirmation Address (also known as the “Ripple of Hope” Speech) is a speech given to National Union of South African Students members at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, on June 6, 1966, on the University’s “Day of Reaffirmation of Academic and Human Freedom”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jnoYOUPUkg

Looking Back On The Life Of Robert F. Kennedy, 50 Years After His Assassination
“What we need in the United States is not division. What we need in the United States is not hatred. What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness but is love and wisdom and compassion toward one another and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or whether they be black.”
https://www.npr.org/2018/06/05/617250032/looking-back-on-the-life-of-robert-f-kennedy-50-years-after-his-assassination

If you’re local…

A community conversation with Imam Taha Hassane,
Director of the Islamic Center of San Diego

Monday, June 18, 2018 | 6:00 PM

KPBS Copley Telecommunications Center

5200 Campanile Drive, San Diego, CA 92182

How can we foster more civility in public discourse? Join us for an in-person interview with Imam Taha Hassane and Mark Sauer, host of KPBS Roundtable. Then take part in a facilitated conversation about civility in politics led by the National Conflict Resolution Center.

Refreshments provided.

Space is limited – RSVP required at: www.kpbs.org/heroes

Sponsored by the Malin Burnham Center for Civic Engagement at The San Diego Foundation.

Here’s to conscious leaders everywhere!

Please pay it forward
Love,
Neville

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As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy