Next months meeting is about finding your inspiring, motivating, passionate life purpose. This web site is an excellent resource
Get Inspired.... Watch Jacqueline Novogratz
We each want to live a life of purpose, but where to start? In this luminous, wide-ranging talk, Jacqueline Novogratz introduces us to people she's met in her work in "patient capital" -- people who have immersed themselves in a cause, a community, a passion for justice. These human stories carry powerful moments of inspiration.
Why you should listen to her:
One of the most innovative players shaping philanthropy today, Jacqueline Novogratz is redefining the way problems of poverty can be solved around the world. Drawing on her past experience in banking, microfinance and traditional philanthropy, Novogratz has become a leading proponent for financing entrepreneurs and enterprises that can bring affordable clean water, housing and healthcare to poor people so that they no longer have to depend on the disappointing results and lack of accountability seen in traditional charity and old-fashioned aid.The Acumen Fund, which she founded in 2001, has an ambitious plan: to create a blueprint for alleviating poverty using market-oriented approaches. Indeed, Acumen has more in common with a venture capital fund than a typical nonprofit. Rather than handing out grants, Acumen invests in fledgling companies and organizations that bring critical -- often life-altering -- products and services to the world's poor. Like VCs, Acumen offers not just money, but also infrastructure and management expertise. From drip-irrigation systems in India to malaria-preventing bed nets in Tanzania to a low-cost mortgage program in Pakistan, Acumen's portfolio offers important case studies for entrepreneurial efforts aimed at the vastly underserved market of those making less than $4/day.
It's a fascinating model that's shaken up philanthropy and investment communities alike. Acumen Fund manages more than $20 million in investments aimed at serving the poor. And most of their projects deliver stunning, inspiring results. Their success can be traced back to Novogratz herself, who possesses that rarest combination of business savvy and cultural sensitivity. In addition to seeking out sound business models, she places great importance on identifying solutions from within communities rather than imposing them from the outside. “People don't want handouts," Novogratz said at TEDGlobal 2005. "They want to make their own decisions, to solve their own problems.”
In her new book, The Blue Sweater, she tells stories from the new philanthropy, which emphasizes
sustainable bottom-up solutions over traditional top-down aid.
"Acumen Fund is a not-for-profit group (but not a charity) that is supported by investors (not donors) who want a good “social return” on their capital."Try TED Women Inspiration woman talking about a wide range of topics. Start your day with something meaningful!
This inspiring quote by Marianne Williamson is from her book, A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles, Harper Collins, 1992. From Chapter 7, Section 3 (Pg. 190-191). Famously pinched by a speech writer for Nelson Mandela's inaugral speech. I guess you can't be too fussed about copyright when famous people use your words! Imitation is the greatest form of flattery.“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
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Cathy recommends the following;
The Law of Success in Sixteen lessons - Napoleon Hill
It can be read here for freeThe Law of Success in Sixteen Lessons answers every question you could possibly have about what it takes to be successful.
It has over 1,100 pages of success secrets from 500 of America's most successful people of all time. It took 20 years to write.
Commissioned by Andrew Carnegie and given personal introductions to the likes of Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, John D. Rockefeller, Alexander Graham Bell and hundreds of others, Napoleon Hill's research and study of successful people made him the best-selling success author of all time.
Of all of his works, none have ever matched his landmark. First published in 1928, these sixteen lessons became the world's first comprehensive philosophy of personal achievement.
In Napoleon Hill's own words: "The purpose of the Law of Success course is to enable you to find out how you may become more capable in your chosen field of work. To this end you will be analyzed and all of your qualities classified so you may organize them and make the best possible use of them."
Endorsed by two U.S. Presidents and countless leaders of business and industry, it's as powerful and effective today as it was 75 years ago. For dedicated students of success, there is no better primer. This is just the tiniest portion of what you'll learn from this remarkable "Encyclopedia of Success"
Love the Life You Live - Anne Hartley
Ten steps for happier Living - a life coaching process
I found this book very useful. Written by an Autralian woman whose life's trials include the death of her toddler son in a fall, divorce and financial ruin she is well qualified to talk about finding your way back to happiness after the depths of despair.
"I learnt from my son's death that I had choices. How I allowed this event to shape my life was up to me. I chose to grow through the experience."
The 10 steps are the bones of any self development/awareness journey and supported nicely by her own stories...
1. Break free from the influence of the tribe
2. Know who you want to be
3. Choose what makes you happy
4. You create your life with your thoughts, words actions
5. Face your Fears
6. Create from Within
7. Success lies in your Daily habits
8. Allow no doubt
9. Love and respect yourself
10.You can have everything you want when you don't need it
I bought 5 of these books and gave them to all my firends and I re-read it often because I'm forgettful and it contains such sensible, practical advice that has daily application. Cas
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Being in Balance - Dr Wayne Dyer
9 Principles for Creating Habits to match your Desires
"One of the huge imbalances in Life is the disparity between your daily existnce, with it's routines and habits, and the dream you have deep within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way to living." So opens Dr Dyer's book. Nailing it in a nutshell..... ha.... our deepest desires and their realisation against the background of washing dishes, going to work and matching socks.
This book has a rather dreamy style of writing and sometimes I had to labour to understand the meaning. But it contains the wisdom of ages and I pulled powerful insights from its pages. This was a book my mother-in-law asked to borrow! It contains such a rich vastness of information that again, it should be re-read often. It is one of those books where the message is different every time you read it because you are in a different place and able to understand a new level.... Dyer is one the guru's of the self development industry with a vast following and collection of material. This is a small book, packed with wise words and a nice way to start getting to know Dyer's take on life.
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He'll be Ok - Celia Lashlie
Growing Good Boys into Goregeous Men
How do you raise boys to men in a world where trouble beckons at every turn? How do you make sure they learn the ′right′ lessons, stay out of danger, find a path to follow? How do you ensure they′ll be OK?
Author Celia Lashlie has some of the answers. After years working in the prison service, she knows what can happen when boys make the wrong choices. She also knows what it′s like to be a parent - she raised a son on her own and feared for his survival. As a crucial part of the NZ Good Man Project, she talked to 180 classes of boys throughout the country. Her insights into what boys need - and what parents can do to help them - are ground-breaking.
In this honest, no-nonsense and best-selling book, Celia Lashlie reveals what goes on inside the world of boys, and that it is an entirely different world from that of girls. With clarity and insight, she offers parents - especially mothers - practical and reassuring advice on raising their boys to become good, loving, articulate men.
I liked this book for one take home insight "Back off Mum!" When boys get to adolescence it's time for Dad to take them over the bridge to manhood. No a job a woman can do, we lack the equipment girls and the masculine energy. We need to step back (but still be there) and allow men to step up. Following this advice, I consciously have made room in my life for my boys and Dad to make their way without feminine interference, appreciating the masculine energy and what it can bring has been a blessing. Rather than diminishing my role, it has enhanced my feminine power. Very interesting. Of course, I am blessed to have a man who has stepped up....Thanks Andrew (aka Dad) Great book for Mums and Dads of Boys. Was lucky to see Laslie talking in Canberra in 2009, and she is very funny too! in a sort of "too-close-to-the-bone" way!
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The Invitation - Oriah.
A poem that became a cult. A simple poem, writen post party expressing the frustration of our superficial conversations, created a cult following that inspired a book. The first page had me in tears as Oriah goes from serene meditation to a post shower teenage bathroom.
"This is the reality we live: aspiring to be at our best, longing for and sometimes finding meaning and connection within ourselves and that which is larger than ourselves, we are undone by messy bathrooms, traffic jams and burnt toast. I am not interested in a spirituality that does not encompass my humanness."
Link to Oriah's web site
Manhood - An Action Plan for Changing Men's Lives, Steve Biddulph
I have the 3rd Edition - a new one is out now. Steve is Australian and writes with clarity, creativity, sensitivity and love about men finding meaning and fulfilment in their lives. A must read for any woman with men in their lives, partners, sons or fathers, isn't that us all? it's The male perspective is helpful for men seeking meaning and for woman to appreciate the gender differences, allow, tolerate and accept. We can do much to help.
Link to Steve's web site
4me2realize
“After UPW I wish I could have put Anthony Robbins (AR) in my pocket and taken him home to refer to when needed, but his words kept ringing in my head, “All you need is within you now,”. 4me2realize is like my pocket sized AR, giving me the strategies AR teaches, convenience of technology and the ability to always work it out myself.”
After the “event” how do people keep the magic alive? How can they implement what they learned consistently into their lives? How do we stop life getting in the way of the life we want to create? How do you take the complicated, and make it simple? This is the problem 4me2realize seeks to solve for seekers of a better life.
Created using the strategies taught by the world’s best, Anthony Robbins, Stephen Covey, Brian Tracey and many others, 4me2realize uses proven psychology and modern technology in one neat online or PDA app.
This is dramatically different to the content rich typical self development offering because it arrives empty. “Realizers” fill it with their own life, so it is totally relevant & meaningful to their aspirations, dreams, projects, goals, magic, wisdom, stories, success, values, beliefs and insights.
It puts everything in one place with Life Purpose & Identity, Goals, Projects and Journaling, even subtle NLP behaviour analysis, all in a simple, easy to use internet or PDA accessible system.
It guides people through a structured, but not prescriptive process, where they become aware of how, what they do everyday, influences the person they become. It gives them the power to turn it around, decide who they want to be and then structure their actions consistently over time to realize their Life Purpose.
Whatever your Purpose, 4me2realize can help DIY or as a compatible online tool shared with a coach to provide an ongoing framework for self development & awareness. Many coaches are now partnering with Anti-Chaos Systems to offer 4me2realize through an affiliate program.
4me2realize starts with Life Purpose and Identity giving ultimate focus & clarity. This links with goals and project to ensure alignment. This culminates in reflection, as Realizers journal in 4me2realize, through their stories they see the interplay between what they do and what they aspire to…it keeps people aware, linking actions with goals, projects and Life Purpose. A powerful relational database, more at home running banks, hospitals and defense systems, provides unsurpassed background technology with advanced security and backup. Realizers will never lose their 4me2realize.
Imagine being able to see your WHOLE life on a page? Knowing exactly where you are with every area of your life. Know what you need to do next? What will be most effective? What you can drop and what you need to focus on? Imagine a system that made it clear, simple and easy to see your progress and behavior patterns? And Fun! The technology is truly powerful because it empowers YOU.
This is rocket boosted life design because it goes way beyond a to-do lists and goal setting. 4me2realize creates an environment where you look at your life, your thoughts, behavior and actions, with clarity. You are guided to re-evaluate and become aware of making the changes that will deliver the life you want.
Who are we?
4me2realize has been created by Anti- Chaos Systems Pty Ltd. Directors Andrew and Castaly Lombe with their committed team have been developing software for 20+ years. Phone +61 1300 344 070. 4me2realize is $89.50 a month or $895 a year and then $100 a year thereafter. www.4me2realize.com
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