Freedom - Happiness - Adventure: All are one.

Freedom - Happiness - Adventure: All are one. At http://www.campaignforadventure.org I have entered a short discussion and a poem by Nichola Davies in which we both agree that Adventure, Freedom, and happiness stem from the same wonderful place and are, in so many ways, one. The poem is available for 25 days at Does anyone feel this is clearly correct, clearly incorrect or only sometimes right? Thanks, Ian

We are all in this casino together....

6.7 billion in one beautiful living casino....

Each action from every thought is the casino chip we place on the betting table of future life. Not just our own life, but those of our children and their children, too. Win/lose possibilities are endless, and concern all humankind and all of nature, not just our progeny. Three of many such outcomes might be: A: Nothing Changes B: Our children can repair the effects of our actions C: Our children are unable to repair the effects of our action. Of course many sub-possibilities exist. In A, for instance, what changes makes no significant difference and therefore the change does not matter. In B, some repair is possible and the change is rendered irrelevant possibly for generations and then becomes significant. In C, whilst our children cannot repair the effects of our actions, the damage is repairable in time to save some future generations, although significant change to life-style, good and/or bad occurs. The point made is simple. Would a £5 bet placed on such an outcome at the point of taking each such action seem such a strange cultural norm? £5 for making a road trip? £5 for using a crop-spray? £5 for investing in a low(environmental/other)-ethic company? £5 for buying rainforest palm-oil? If not £5, how much? To whom should we pay each bet and how long might they need to keep it before paying whom out? It is a simple point to make (that every action has consequences). It is only slightly more complex to consider which (known) consequences are acceptable. Knowing the right level of stake for each and every action is both a personal and a global issue when we take some actions - betting on outcomes such as A, B, C or who will ever know what? Perhaps it is as simple as placing a levy on the unknown but possible negative, and a subsidy(win) on the known positive actions? It is a beautiful casino.....

Glipworld = vastly enhanced creative statepersonship, or Higher, but not highest, Leadership...

Ian Lewis on Brexit - which is a cry for a changed Remain... Brexit - the true analysis of exemplary statespersonship. King Boris, King Farage, Queen Angela, La Pen, Putin, Jean-Claude Juncker, et al - Love use of king participle - defines the mindset perfectly whether it's faith, fashion, fanatical or fantasy. Also love to identify the many ways back from what is strongly believed to be a test (of the system), an indicator of disatisfaction (of the UK masses), an opportunity for dissatified other Europeans to come out of their closets and/or some brilliant if potentially risky brinkpersonship which more clearly says 'We really do mean it!'. All this is pure and great statespersonship very rarely seen in the last 70 years, at least in symptom - I just hope the underlying intention is there, too. Whilst always a strong advocate of risk and edge-living, confidence that any of this is intentional, even strategy, remains low....but this super-strategy is to so loudly complement all on their wise and courageous walking and testing of the tightrope towards a better, much-needed-and-changed EU that their Kingness is relentlessy attracted to claim intention and brilliance in the face of what is far more likely cockup and conspiracy. Whom do we know to filter these opportunistic suggestions/observations into so they are un-owned and therefor available as straws potentially saving some very poor swimmers in turbulent, only possibly unintended, waters....?

FILLING THE VOID – MEETING THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE

FILLING THE VOID – MEETING THE NEEDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE There can be little doubt that this country is in the grip of a profound malaise. The August riots should come as no surprise after decades of descent into levels of greed, envy, corruption, criminal activity and violation of the natural environment which have gradually permeated so much of life in Britain. While a symptom of this descent, the riots are also a manifestation of the wider global or World Shift transition which is taking place at this time (Breakdown or Breakthrough). The media tends to focus on negative aspects of life, since scandal and celebrity trivia sells newsprint. The media has also been accused of “demonising young people” as Sir Al Ansley Green, the first Children's Commissioner, put it in addressing a national NCVYS conference some years ago. The public are therefore generally unaware of the number of excellent initiatives that are taking place in the UK where young people, despite the existence of a high level of ‘generational apartheid', are inspired to live differently. They are choosing to live by higher values and being aware of their potential, are willing to work towards a better future, and also act as role models to others on the verges of society. Such young people must be empowered and have their voices heard and acknowledged. However this must all be seen in a wider context of 'consciousness raising' and the need for a whole person development approach addressing the inner or spiritual dimension of life with the outer, which appears to be linking an increasing army of people together in this Soul purpose. The August riots resulted in a torrent of comment and reaction but a few stand out - “The need for a moral compass” (David Cameron) and “A cry for Help” (Prince Charles). “Spiritual impoverishment” (Telegraph). Dianne Abbot and Ken Livingstone both stressed that the young people involved clearly feel they have “no stake in society”. With the extreme focus on the economy and finance, we are in grave danger of continuing to be blind to the fact that young people are the greatest asset and resource of any society or culture. In less so-called 'developed' cultures, the youth are ensured a structured 'rites of passage' process, yet we leave our young to their own devices in the fragmented, dysfunctional and chaotic situations in which many find themselves. Apart from the basics of Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs, children and young people need Hope, Aspiration, a sense of Belonging, and Love, yet many are, as Camilla Batmanghelidjh of the Kids Company puts it: “struggling to survive their childhood”. • The UK spends more than any other European nation on social problems. • 16-24 year olds in the UK have the lowest levels of trust and belonging anywhere in Europe. • The UK could save £486 Bn over the next 20 years by switching to a preventative system of care for children and young people. (New Economics Foundation) • A 2007 UNICEF child well-being report placed the UK at the bottom of the league table and new research has shown that children in the UK feel trapped in a “materialistic culture”. Yet - “While so much seems to be going wrong in this world, so much is going right. Let us recognise and link up with the vast, diverse and joyful movement for change which is all around us and growing ever more creative and spontaneous and courageous. If we squander all our attention on what is wrong, we will miss the prize: in the chaos engulfing the world, a hopeful future resides because the past is disintegrating before us”. (Paul Hawken - Blessed Unrest) Meeting the needs of young people Making the transition from youth to adult has always been difficult. Some of the milestones - to worker, parent and home owner, for example - have been delayed. A rich 'youth' culture occupies those transitional years, in which identity is built around music, fashion, transient relationships, consumption, education and leisure. During this time young people need to explore and experiment, reject the norms of society and the oppression of adults and seek out roles in which they can express their individual talents and beliefs. In order to discover their role within their community, they also need an engagement with role models. “ Denying or proving the spiritual needs of adolescents may end up creating a void in their lives that either devolves into depression and self harm or is filled by other forms of questing and challenge, such as drinking, unbridled consumerism, petty crime, sexual precocity or flirtation with violence” (USA National Commission on Children at risk 2003) How do we meet those needs? Families and the work environment play a large part in supporting young people and meeting their needs but there is also the potential for the community to be involved, both to support and sustain the fullest aspects of our culture and to assist the development of the young people. As it ‘takes a whole village to educate a child’, there is a need for the wider development of youth activities, volunteering, mentoring and other inter-generational opportunities as part of this process. Informal educators can play their part by supporting active engagement in the community and environment in a way that helps young people to find their own directions in social, moral and spiritual terms. The central belief in working with young people is the potential of young people to transform their personal and social circumstances and so make an important contribution to society. Yet, at a time in our society when the period of youth has extended to 25 years and beyond, policy directs funding largely at young people as - 'students', 'labour' or 'problem'. Stoneleigh Report, 2004 The needs of society “Leaders for Tomorrow's Society”, published as long ago as 1999 by the then Industrial Society, now the Work Foundation, called for new approaches and 'liberated leadership' built on interconnected networks, mutual trust, values, integrity, shared beliefs and strong relationships, which allow for real progress in personal and organisational achievement. “British society as a whole, and many groups large and small within it, face rising alienation, cynicism and exclusion. Without a new, values-based approach to leadership, the risk of social disintegration is both real and urgent. The roots of the latent crisis lie in our failure as individuals, in organisations and communities, to realise our potential. This is sometimes because people don't recognise their own capabilities, sometimes because they are prevented from exploiting them. The result is a growing number of people who have lost their identity, purpose or framework for living. In addition, the response to global competitive pressures is a gradual decline into the realms of the unethical; in the absence of shared visions society is increasingly focusing on the short term and the narrow values of consumerism reign instead of values based on human dignity." “Campaign for Leadership” In Conclusion “It is the nature of the ‘new’ to be carried and expressed by the young, since they are the ones who are least defended against the spirit of the time and the ones most deeply, if not always consciously embedded in it. This is why we should pay close attention to developments in youth and popular spirituality because in and through our young we see most clearly the stirrings of the Zeitgeist”. David Tacey, 2004 References: worldshiftcouncil.org nef@theneweconomics.org www.kidsco.org.uk www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk

happiness, beauty, freedom and fun, choose your best route

Being advised to stay focused is half a wise statement. The whole is “Whilst staying broad- visioned, free and observing of all possibilities by looking through the lens of happiness, beauty, freedom and fun, choose your best route.” Beware the focus controllers… we are conditioned before birth when one overhears constraining statements and habits embedded by parents, teachers, siblings and all society. This process continues through childhood and our true potential is in its death-throws as we fight total subservience to societal mediocrity in our adolescent years. We can be free, but as with all break-outs from mainstream socialisation it may feel a challenge, although for some it comes very naturally with hardships, recognition of brilliance or determination of insanity/strangeness, sometimes all of these, concurrently or consecutively. Possibly the most regularly stated foundation principle as one evolves humanity through oneself, is the simple 'harm no one and strive conserve this planet'. This is restated as few, especially those in an organisational or family straight-jacket, are bold enough to keep to foundation principles. This we must do, so just do it. Whilst Woody Allen is a visionary and makes highly valid jokes ("More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction.") yet his statement is so easily adopted we loose sight of the urgent and original purpose of this note - that we do not need to see the world through a deep sepulchral gloom, rather that we see it through our lens of happiness, beauty, freedom and fun, and we choose our best route. We have an emerging understanding through physics of superpositioning and our ability to influence multiple universes by being simultaneously present over time and space (see lifecollege.org). In the next series we look at learning to access allness and some practical superpositioning activities.

11.11.11.11.11 - Whither goest thou - Quo vadis?

Another date and time of special order where so many will look again at themselves, others, humanity and the cosmos.

Some will be reflective, some diminutive and some colossal Just be yourself and enjoy the ride of reality and authenticity...lifecollege.org

Being ourselves - let us not reflect!

Now we have started asking why we are losing the need for goods, we can move to working with owning ideas, creativity and creation itself. It has always been a non-sequiteur to me, how creation can be claimed to be created. We are not so desperate for credibility as to claim creation itself. We need it not, especially since the mere claiming of it removes us/sets us back along the track. Let us envisage – realize – a world where we celebrate creation, creativity and our true selves. And this is the essence of it all: when we enjoy ourselves as we are, thinking of no reason to be other than being, we will be our selves.

We need no reason. Why would we? It is worth a look at the world through the spectacles of 'Who is looking for what?' . The really great and fulfilled people are all being themselves, full of enjoyment, happiness and exciting inner peace – however fantastical;ly creative and inspirational inner peace is to each of us. So, where do we go with being so at one with ourselves that we just enjoy the creating and being? Knowing that we need not recognition and enjoy the fantastic beauty of feeling great as ourselves? Well, we have a place and a few words to help us. Needing external reassurance is part of a condition known as 'reflective living'. It is also known 'brittle self-esteem' and it drives such actions as self-harm, insecurity and high-risk activities, stress, personal panic, including the great antisocial issues of substance abuse and excessive defensiveness (often called gang-violence, knife & gun carrying, community & family disrupting and generally being in conflict with life, including refusing education, work and authority). Yet this still gets us no where useful, unless we see that a cultural learning environment which supports firstly each individual's esteem and then personal image is a way forward. We have many examples of success here – ironically all based on success! One's esteem and image does become sound, internally consistent and non-controlled by the external world, without doing anything, being anything - merely experiencing successes... which are, very importantly, built into all such learning programs. Surprise, surprise... Here we need only move to the great charitable and inspirational educational groups for sources and instant action, for this is what they do - and they have been doing it for years. Many family-focused charities also help, as do the 'development training', esteem-focused educational institutions. So, a better place for humanity lies in not only reducing the race for material wealth, but also in reducing the race for 'external recognition'. Surely knowing one is living a self-rewarding life, being fulfilled, happy and not chasing what others think is enough ? Happiness and fulfillment really are closer than most think - and much simpler to grasp. Interested? I'll tell you much more...lifecollege.org

BRAIN response times can be just as fast in the elderly as in the young.

Being courageous, adventurous, enterprising, taking more risks and being happy, fun and living in the moment = staying young. Age is cultural, comes from cultural habits and is not time-related. To stay young, live young - just break the connections with old. If you choose your age, you will be your age. Be spontaneous and stay young. You choose - be young physically, older mentally and all ages in arts, creativity and values/philosophies. more at campaignforadventure.org

Both children and the elderly have slower response times when they have to make quick decisions in some ­settings, but the latest research suggests that much of that slower response on adults is a conscious choice to emphasise accuracy over speed. However, healthy older people can be trained to respond faster in some decision-making tasks without hurting their accuracy – meaning their cognitive skills in this area are not so different from younger adults.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/292371/Why-it-s-a-myth-that-brains-slow-with-age

Ohio State University researcher Professor Roger Ratcliff said: “In some situations, 70-year-olds may have response times similar to those of 25-year-olds. Many people think that it is just natural for older people’s brains to slow down as they age but we’re finding that isn’t always true.”

Fellow author Gail McKoon said: “Older people don’t want to make any errors at all and that causes them to slow down. We found that it is difficult to get them out of the habit but they can with practice.”

Positive TV - Postive News - Positive Life

Positive TV - Postive News - Positive Life
Not new, not benign, not always in one's own words or beliefs. Yet as an access point it is strong. If you have seen it before, ponder it again. Wrongly it suggests historical solutions. View it and be with it from the future you want. http://positivetv.tv/channels/2012-the-revolution-has-begun/

Conservatives? Labour? - Who wants work?

It is time to write about 'work'. In this essay 'work' is the activity done for someone else in return for pay. There may be other work but it seems 'choice work' - housework, car-cleaning, gardening, parenting. One chooses to have - or not to have - a family, a home, a car, a garden, and one chooses how one lives with these choices. The future will see fewer and smaller families, smaller homes, smaller gardens and fewer cars, so 'choice work' will decline and change.

The 'paid work' is both our time and our effort for which we recieve 'compensation'. This time and effort provides a benefit to someone else. If we enjoy spending our time and providing the effort, the compensation can be adjusted - but not necessarily.

'Work' is an invention which, on the whole, allowed others to benefit from our time and effort. They got their land tilled, their family looked after and their food prepared. Later this 'labour' grew into farming, then commerce/transport and then industry, now IT, politics, marketing & media are new specialisms - and work in the non-profit/public sector of course has grown, too.

It has been evident for some time that those demanding work seem to do it in order to gain money to spend on diverse things. This is not the obvious statement it seems. Surely those in the right of politics create work for others, and those on the left demand work for themselves? How simple is this?

In work - labour - supply and demand are about to become severely disrupted. People are beginning to value their time - creating healthy, loving, fun and inspirational lives. The need for 'work' by the individual is becomeing less. Yet the demand for labour expands(overall), and the demand for 'own time' increases, too.

Was the Labour Party created by the Conservatives?
Who needed workers who in an ideal world demanded and fought for work? Answers please....

Ianspirational: Consciousness Evolved

Ianspirational: Consciousness Evolved: Global Coaching Conference 10th-14th October 2011 • Generating Business • Developing Networks • Facilitating Learning • Improving Healt...

Ian Lewis - Ianspirational: Influencing Local Government - Changing Times - Ha...

Ian Lewis - Ianspirational: Influencing Local Government - Changing Times - Ha...: Quotes from above say much: "local government would be stronger if more people got involved in the whole budgeting/decision making cycle"."I...

Influencing Local Government - Changing Times - Half-Leaders

Quotes from above say much: "local government would be stronger if more people got involved in the whole budgeting/decision making cycle"."It is my experience that elected members are able to have a significant influence over policy"."Residents need to identify their goals and who can deliver those goals. Then the talks can begin, hopefully leading to collaboration."

In these changing times it is a great asset to all to be fluid in our change leadership, making systems more stream-lined - innovative, significantly less process-driven and more output-evaluated. Great civil-servants fall on their swords when they set up more effective delivery.

The 'half-leaders' (those would-be leaders who are short on whole-thinking and are good at ignoring what they do not want to look at) tend to be self-interested, small-game players with limited community building, especially empowerment, strategies in their Key Result Reviews.

Surely it is this message, that local government is as effective and stream-lined as is possible, constantly seeking ever more efficient ways, that needs to be communicated in ''How the state works and how citizens can influence it".

When transparent effectiveness, efficiency and streamlining are seen to be Key Performance Indicators in local goverment, citizens' support, interest and understanding will follow. Citizens will be happy, make an effort to hear how the state works so selflessly and will contribute energetically to this.

Upside Down

This is a world which depends on values if it is to exist, yet is having its values challenged every day.

The strength of the down-grade mirrors the Hurricane Irene down-grade. 4, 3, 2 and now 1 - only just a hurricane.

The most trusted needed in society - politicians, pensions fund managers, medical and health, food and farmers, banks and finance officials, legal and law-enforcers...all under investigation at the moral level.

The politicians are benefiting at the expence of the people, the fund-managers at the expense of their clients, drug-companies and doctors at the expense of the patients, farmers at the expense of healthy food and nutrition, banks at the expense of the savers....you will know a few - Teachers & education standards? Charities & Charity CEOs? Media, News and Press honesty & integrity...?

This topsy-turvy world has to do a swift check-in on its personal responsibility levels, the place where values and demands and expectations originate.

The gaps are being ignored. Honesty is all about integrity and this covers gaps. Morality demands we are honest to the degree we fill in the gaps for those who are asking questions, that we do not only answer the questions.

The truth about how decisions on pensions investments and payments to managers must be open and clear to the degree the answers say all we need to know, not just what we ask about.

What is happening to our world? Soil? Air? Water? Three basics - that are really being messed with by profiteering and short-term gains chasing.

We can do better. We must demand better. We must hear and monitor promises.

Or we shall have a very dull life, if life at all.

Great potential for Campaign for Adventure

See the new Campaign for Adventure strategy and action list and respond to its queries for new directions...there is evn some new software to help you redistribute what we are doing for you...

Capture flash video and audio from any website to your computer

Enjoy and best wishes,
Campaign for Adventure

Spirit of Adventure for Humanity

BEING FULLY HUMAN
“The significance of ‘the spirit of adventure’, as we meet with
those who inspire us, is unquestionable. Who do we respect, who
do we admire, who do we hold high? The spirit of adventure is
always present with the visionaries, the determined, the tenacious,
the motivators and the achievers. The spirit of adventure is so
present in a realised human being it is very difficult to see how an
education system for all, in a society which wants itself to evolve,
can ignore or leave to chance, the origins of being fully human. …
As the Campaign for Adventure puts it: ‘Life is best approached
in a spirit of exploration, adventure and enterprise. Chance,
unforeseen circumstances and uncertainty are inescapable features
of life and absolute safety is unachievable.’ … Whatever happens
between my writing this and your reading it lies in that
glimmering, frightening, stimulating realm known as uncertainty.
It is no bad place to live.”
Campaignforadventure

Collaboration, Allness and the Global Order

Allness - that knowing place where One is One with All. Everyone feels it occasionally. Some exist there. others strive to get there. Others are in wonder. Yet others get diverted along who-knows-what.

This is the Year of Collaboration. We are now able to work together for the good of All. Many states are making the changes. Those that have not will need to be fleet of foot to stay the changes that will come to them.

For those that enjoyed the little Cosmic Vertigo/Dragon Surfing session, here is
a summary. For some it helps expansion into true beingness towards Allness.....

My little cosmic exercise...taking yourself into the Allness of Being....

All are always there. Occasionally a hand-rail reminds us we exist and play
everywhere and always in allness. Here is one such hand-rail


Sun at back ( the science = facing North and East is to your right and we are
spinning that way), fly/flow/surf with the energy to right.
Sun at front (the science = facing South, East is on your left and we are
spinning that way), fly/flow/surf with the energy to left.

assume the position....and....


now you are dragon riding....you are your own dragon...and your flying speed
is....
850kph = approximately your speed round Our Earth (in kilo-meters per hour at
the 51st parallel); 98,000kph Earth speed round Our Sun; 800,000kph = Sun speed
round Our Milky Way Galaxy; 1,600,000kph = speed of the circulation around
Sirius/Andromeda/Milky Way Galaxy 'Near Group' celestial cluster. Max speed =
2,4996,00kph… of course at times we are in relational-retro, so we can lose a
few thousand kph or so occasionally.

Now 40 million sub-atomic particles travel through each one of us every second
of our lives, each travelling at up to the speed of light, without touching
anything, and we get some idea of how energy-centric we, and everything,
actually is.

From this place, we can look at this world, our place upon it and how we should
treat it, ourselves and each other.


Please feel free to offer corrections....I've rounded the numbers!

For more Allness please go tohttp://cosmicvertigo.blogspot.com/

Leadership 4 U

Leadership......4 U

A GREAT leader makes happen anything they intend and skillfully avoids the unintended through great self knowledge. Being consciously aware of the upper and lower limits of their abilities, the skills of leadership are always applied to the self and one's leadership continues to become stronger.

The 'emotions of leadership' - actually more predispositions and personal awareness of helping motivational sources - are those of anticipation, intention, clarity, evolved impatience, passion, focus, drive, awareness, empathy, self-belief, belief in others, drive to create, manifest and evolve...to realise!

Leadership is like an iceberg....

The obvious abilities are present for all to see. Hidden aptitudes support this visible leadership. The deeper aptitudes form the greater part of leadership. In every way these aptitudes are vital to leadership. Finally and fundamentally, there are the values and predispositions which support and underpin the surface skills and hidden attributes. These deeper predipositions, are the drives and motivators which sculpt motivation, decisons and behaviours - and in the end, success and outcomes.

To learn more about easy to understand, clear effective leadership go to www.lifecollege.org


On the surface you will see these attributes in all effective leaders:
Ability to communicate, dependability, vision, confidence; the skills of planning, decision making, resource and knowledge acquisition, monitoring, setting time frames. These are the objective skills of the leader.

Under the surface, the other 90%

The deeper attributes of leaders: loyalty, due process, gratitude, respect
determination and courage to learn, change, achieve, confront, challenge. Wit all this the energy to make things happen, skillfully mixed with
empathy, judgemental, experience, strong values, commitment; yet they will be sensitive to those whose support is needed; they have a deeper ability to envision & know, to believe in self and work with and through others – which comes from self motivation, commitment, respect and the deep confidence within

But for inspirational leaders, there is more, much more. In inspired leaders all the above is supported by a confidence born of working for higher purpose (great leaders feel ‘owned by humanity’); feeling a loyalty and commitment to others which ensures effortless 'followship’ – a strong determination to support the leader; Inspired leaders move in that warm milieu comprsing great integrity, fairness, honesty, openness, a passion for humanity, the confidence to be great with and through others, a gentle yet strong self belief and a calling for a balanced greater good rather than any self-created purpose. Their inspiration generates a great internalised equilibrium; an intuitive power; a belief and a sense of being which is their source of inspiration within themselves and others whom they touch.

For personal evolution and life possibilities - a vibrant future for you, please use these connections to access free worksheets and support in becoming a creative and effective leader:

For free leadership newsheets, email ian@lifecollege.org

For support, conversations, coaching and mentoring: www.lifecollege.org - new leadership coaching and training

for debate about the origins and creation of leadership and leaders: www.leadersonline.org


For risk, adventure, change and enterprise - a vibrant future for us all: www.campaignforadventure.org

ENJOY THE FREEDOM AND THE FUTURE

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