You can find freedom from anxiety over when things will come, by discovering the freedom in nature.
When you can see that there is unlimited time to achieve your goals, suddenly you can give yourself some slack, sit back and enjoy life and where you are at right now. It really takes the pressure off HAVING to do anything. And having to do something is a sure sign your not going in the right direction.
You see impatience tends to block inspiration and realisation because it interrupts the natural flow of events as they are best to happen. Impatience is misleading because it tells you that you are ready for something when you may not be.
If you can look at what is in your life right now and see the perfection of that, see it from another angle or perspective, over time you’ll also see that each event unfolds perfectly, in the perfect time, for you to get where it is you want to go. And then life is a pleasant walk through the fields - as Stuart Wilde said - rather than a mad dash through the traffic!
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Monday, March 26, 2007
How to Make Your Business Greener
GREEN BUSINESS
1. Use recycled paper; email instead of using paper for communications/advertising/your newsletter; install energy efficient light globes; keep files on CD rather than printing out files of paper; use plant based inks; recycle ink cartridges; Get a business green audit. Move into an enfren business building.
2. Support green organisations by putting their details on the bottom of all your emails
3. Join a green business network
4. Donate a portion of your profits to green projects
5. Put green links on your website
6. Become a carbon neutral business. Follow the Carbon Diet for your business.
7. Hold minimum impact events
ETHICAL BUSINESS
8. Invest your money in green and ethical profiles; provide ethical super for employees
9. Know where your products come from, are made, who makes them etc, and if there is any link in that chain that leads to slave labour, child labour, developing world debt etc, and do something about it! There are many ways to get your products made and out there without resorting to unethical behaviour. If you need a place to start, go to Oxfam
PEACEFUL BUSINESS
10. Do business differently: link into spiritual business networks and people who are running ethical businesses. Check out employee contracts in countries such as Scandina, who’s people are the happiest in the world. Creating peace in the world by starting it yourself (within yourself first, then at home, then in business) Take up a meditation practice, take time to walk in nature, rest and play as much as you work.
For more information and links see the full article in Volume 2 Issue 7 of the Action Change Newsletter. Go to www.actionchange.com and subscribe to the fortnightly e-zine.
1. Use recycled paper; email instead of using paper for communications/advertising/your newsletter; install energy efficient light globes; keep files on CD rather than printing out files of paper; use plant based inks; recycle ink cartridges; Get a business green audit. Move into an enfren business building.
2. Support green organisations by putting their details on the bottom of all your emails
3. Join a green business network
4. Donate a portion of your profits to green projects
5. Put green links on your website
6. Become a carbon neutral business. Follow the Carbon Diet for your business.
7. Hold minimum impact events
ETHICAL BUSINESS
8. Invest your money in green and ethical profiles; provide ethical super for employees
9. Know where your products come from, are made, who makes them etc, and if there is any link in that chain that leads to slave labour, child labour, developing world debt etc, and do something about it! There are many ways to get your products made and out there without resorting to unethical behaviour. If you need a place to start, go to Oxfam
PEACEFUL BUSINESS
10. Do business differently: link into spiritual business networks and people who are running ethical businesses. Check out employee contracts in countries such as Scandina, who’s people are the happiest in the world. Creating peace in the world by starting it yourself (within yourself first, then at home, then in business) Take up a meditation practice, take time to walk in nature, rest and play as much as you work.
For more information and links see the full article in Volume 2 Issue 7 of the Action Change Newsletter. Go to www.actionchange.com and subscribe to the fortnightly e-zine.
Thursday, March 08, 2007
International Women’s Day
The human race can never advance until women take their place beside men in leadership. The world is made up of both men and women, so the world will always be unbalanced until the other half of the population is of equal right. Saying that, women do not work in the same power structures as men. We meet in homes, in the community and make decisions directly, that directly affect our lives. So trying to fit women into a male leadership structure will never work.
Women continue to rule the world from our homes, our communities and our organisations. It's just a shame that the male structure is seen as being the only one of validity, and that men continue to be resentful of this power that comes so naturally and without force in women. When men are able to lay their weapons and their egos down, women will again take their rightful place in history.
Men have nothing to fear from female power. We are mostly peaceful and loving souls, with the family and each other as our primary motivators. I think men may be afraid of female power because they only see themselves in others. But women have shown generation after generation that their love of humanity, and indeed their humanity, always prevails.
Women continue to rule the world from our homes, our communities and our organisations. It's just a shame that the male structure is seen as being the only one of validity, and that men continue to be resentful of this power that comes so naturally and without force in women. When men are able to lay their weapons and their egos down, women will again take their rightful place in history.
Men have nothing to fear from female power. We are mostly peaceful and loving souls, with the family and each other as our primary motivators. I think men may be afraid of female power because they only see themselves in others. But women have shown generation after generation that their love of humanity, and indeed their humanity, always prevails.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Giving up the Addiction to Worry via Poodle Sitting
I’ve been poodle and house minding for a friend in the Blue Mountains this past week, and being with dogs always reminds me how much I worry and wonder and stress about every day things.
The poodles sleep, and when they are not sleeping they play, and when they are not playing or sleeping they eat. That’s what they do. And dog is god backwards. Maybe that means that being dog-like is very ungodly, or does it mean that being dog-like is very god-like? I mean I’ve heard that a simple life is a good life, that being in the moment is grand, and that doing what you love is an excellent way to live, and it seems the dogs have it. My mind, however, has other ideas….
The dogs though certainly don’t seem to be worried whether they are following the right path in life, or stressed that the weekend is nearly over, or feeling guilty for watching the midday movie. Nor do they balk at scratching the treats cupboard until they get one, or seem to care about a walk tomorrow.
Dogs are like kids I suppose, and kids are supposed to be the closest to God. So while I sit here writing and wondering, pondering on whether acting like a dog is a good thing, or whether I’m using it as an excuse to be lazy, or whether if I did live a dog’s life (common, I know you’ve wanted it too) whether I will indeed go to hell, the poodles meanwhile have gone out into the sunny garden I can see out the window, and are chasing butterflies and each other and yapping in pure exhilaration.
And if I shut off the nagging hag in my mind, and put my hand on my heart, it’s them I want to join. And apparently my heart is my spirit, which is the part of me that is God, so by Jove, I think the dogs have it. My heart is my god and my head is the devil. If I just keep chanting this over and over to myself I know I’ll be all right. I’m with the gods…er…dogs!
The poodles sleep, and when they are not sleeping they play, and when they are not playing or sleeping they eat. That’s what they do. And dog is god backwards. Maybe that means that being dog-like is very ungodly, or does it mean that being dog-like is very god-like? I mean I’ve heard that a simple life is a good life, that being in the moment is grand, and that doing what you love is an excellent way to live, and it seems the dogs have it. My mind, however, has other ideas….
The dogs though certainly don’t seem to be worried whether they are following the right path in life, or stressed that the weekend is nearly over, or feeling guilty for watching the midday movie. Nor do they balk at scratching the treats cupboard until they get one, or seem to care about a walk tomorrow.
Dogs are like kids I suppose, and kids are supposed to be the closest to God. So while I sit here writing and wondering, pondering on whether acting like a dog is a good thing, or whether I’m using it as an excuse to be lazy, or whether if I did live a dog’s life (common, I know you’ve wanted it too) whether I will indeed go to hell, the poodles meanwhile have gone out into the sunny garden I can see out the window, and are chasing butterflies and each other and yapping in pure exhilaration.
And if I shut off the nagging hag in my mind, and put my hand on my heart, it’s them I want to join. And apparently my heart is my spirit, which is the part of me that is God, so by Jove, I think the dogs have it. My heart is my god and my head is the devil. If I just keep chanting this over and over to myself I know I’ll be all right. I’m with the gods…er…dogs!
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