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Start the Work that Matters!
It’s time to do more of the work that means something to you, stretches you and makes a difference. In Michael Bungay Stanier’s Do More Great Work you’ll find fifteen ‘maps’, practical exercises to help you identify how to find, start and sustain more Great Work. Amongst other things you’ll learn:
* Where to find clues to your own Great Work. (They’re all around you.)
* How to locate the sweet spot between what you want to do and what your organization wants you to do.
* Tactics to best manage the overwhelm.
* How to double the likelihood you’ll do what you want to do.
There are also original contributions from leading thinkers like Seth Godin, Dave Ulrich, Michael Port, Penelope Trunk, Leo Babauta and Chris Guillebeau on how to do more of the important stuff. To do more Great Work you need focus, you need courage and you need resilience.
Give a listen to the Do More Great Work Interview Michael did with me recently- Listen! His enthusiasm & passion for this topic is undeniable!
Got Passion & Purpose?!
22 August 2009 in Berlin. (AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL)
Monaco, 13 October 2009 – On the occasion of the 19th Georges Bertellotti Golden Podium Awards in Monaco, “Peace and Sport L’Organisation pour la Paix par le Sport” unveiled the 2009 winner of the Peace and Sport Image of the Year Award in an ‘avant-première’ announcement.
This prize rewards the best image of fraternity through sport. It is awarded in partnership with SPORTEL Monaco and the news agency, Agence France-Presse.
The 2009 winner is a photograph of the granddaughter of the German athlete Luz Long and the granddaughter of American champion Jesse Owens, with IAAF President Lamine Diack during the medal-giving for the long jump at the 2009 Athletics World Championships in Berlin.
The presence of the two young women in Berlin for this major sporting event carries on the courageous and unforgettable friendship that their grandfathers began during the 1936 Olympics.
This video is adequate (at-best) when sharing the amazing passion, purpose, intention and commitment of my new BFF, Lewis Gordon Pugh - The Human Polar Bear. Environmentalist. Explorer. Swimmer.
I met Lewis at the Beyond Sport Summit & Awards event in London a few weeks back. Watching his video on Day 3 of the Beyond Sport Summit & Awards was inspiring, emotional and left me in awe of the human spirit and our capacity to endure seemingly insurmountable challenges/obstacles. Lewis’ video was a tremendous reminder to me of how courageous we can be - even a diminutive, fast, 6 year old boy in 1964.
According to a wise man: Courage is shown in acts, not in words; it is not bluffing, arrogance, or madness. A courageous man or woman is the one who dares to do what he or she finds is right, and bears the consequences of his or her acts – whether they are political, social or individual.
Got COURAGE?!
All of those clandestine tweets that I’ve been posting over the past 6 weeks referring to my cello, were leading up to a BIG moment for me at MIS09 - I played a little bit of Coldplay’s Viva La Vida with the MIS09 house band led by Danny Dukes for my intro!
The 30 seconds was an unbelievable moment (and a bit of a emotional blur) of producing a jazzy cacophony that was hopefully pleasant to the audience’s ears.
I can honestly say that all of the work I put in to play the 30 second piece was challenging, uplifting, necessary, enlightening. Here’s a few of the valuable lessons I took away from my experience with the “soulful” instrument:
Practice, Practice, Practice! - 30 days of intense cello instruction with my long-time teacher, Dorien de León, was amazing and rigorous.
Gimme 20! - a cellist truly uses different muscle groups to properly play the “BIG fiddle!”
Cellist Down! - a serious bout of elbow tendonitis flared up in my preparation and I gained a greater appreciation for musicians and overuse injuries.
Got Courage?! - I experienced many days/moments of doubt about being able to play the cello in a public venue. After all, my last public performance was my 9th grade orchestra stint in ‘73.
BIG Thanks to:
Dorien for her instruction and guidance - she’s Magical.
Danny Dukes and The Band for welcoming me and lettin’ me jam with your jazzy-n-playful MIS09 band!
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