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Bill Strickland at TED: Rebuilding America, one slideshow at a time.

You have to watch this. Touching, heartfelt, educational, hopeful.

Following Bill’s humbling slideshow–accompanied by long-time friend Herbie Hancock–I have a challenge for you.

The challenge:

1. Find a new home for your doubt.

2. Realize that the surest road to happiness is to imagine the world you want to live in and create it around you.

3. Surround yourself with support and inspiration.

4. Get to work.

5. Enjoy every minute of it.

Any questions?

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  1. Love it.
    Especially number 2, pure Law Of Attraction ;)

    1. Catriona on January 25th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

  2. Thanks Trina. Really glad you like it. Let’s report back to each other on our progress in a month or so.

    Hmmm…..Law of Attraction….? I guess I was thinking a little more MLK Jr. and a little less Oprah; ya know a little more “Dead Poets’ Society” and a little less “Celestine Prophecy,” perhaps I just mean a little more “Get up and do what you were born to do!” and a little less “Let me sell you the ‘Secret’ to life (and a host of other products you probably can’t afford).” I know I’m way too cynical, but I have such a hard time with pop self-help.

    Don’t worry. The gods will have the last laugh on me ’cause I’ve always sensed that I’m destined to write a cheesy, feel-good handbook of my own:-)

    2. Steven Nishida on January 25th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

  3. Very ‘ Field Of Dreams’ too ;).
    I don’t really see LoA as being ‘pop self-help’,
    I see it more as the entire meaning of life the universe and God, but I feel sure I will never convince you of this but thats okay.I have a feeling that if you create the world you imagine living in around you, your way, and I manifest (a little LoA speke for your pleasure) mine my way, we’ll find ourselves living in the same town, and it will surely be THE place to live my friend.

    3. Catriona on January 25th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

  4. Catriona: Yes, you are right. Our slightly different approaches will surely lead us to the same neck of the woods. We share mostly the same values from start to finish.

    I didn’t mean to disrespect something that has proven helpful for you. I just have issues with the commercialization of spirituality and personal development.

    4. Steven Nishida on January 29th, 2008 at 5:05 am

  5. Saw a quote recently (on another blog site) by Ghandi:

    “We must become the change we want to see”.

    I will try to live it every day and see how it affects my life and personality. Will the people around me notice and be affected as well?

    It seems like it is a slow process, especially in L.A., CA but I will try.

    5. Jeanne on January 29th, 2008 at 8:15 am

  6. I love that quote Jeanne and I think it is spot on.
    I am also trying to ‘be’ that each day. I have come to the conclusion the my thinking has been backwards, always assuming we have to ‘do’ something in order to ‘be’ something, now I think it is the other way round, ‘be’ something first and the ‘do’ will follow naturally.

    6. Catriona on January 29th, 2008 at 11:05 am

  7. Thanks Catriona. It has been nearly a month since I started living the change I wanted to see in my little corner of the world. At first it was hard not to react, respond and think in the same way I always had.
    My behavior has been routine in the last week. I no longer have to think about being that serene person I wanted to become. I have also noticed some things and people changing a bit around me. My manager at work, whom everybody hates because of his uncontrolled temper, either has calmed down a great deal in my presence, or he just doesn’t bother me at all anymore! lol
    Either way, the change is happening.

    7. roxanne.katt on February 25th, 2008 at 3:43 pm

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