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If money was out of the equation, what would you spend the rest of your life doing?
Would you do the job you are currently doing for free? (Assuming the need for money did not exist?)
Don Anderson 20+
To me there are three rules to being charitable:
1. Don’t need it, or need as little as possible.
2. Save so you will never need it.
3. Give to those who strive to live by the three rules, and could with a little help.
Besides the common stuff for my own personal enjoyment, I build a work shop to invent and build item that would make the world better.
Plus I start a “hole in the wall” style charity http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_build_a_school_in_the_cloud.html
Start by dropping off window caulking materials and tools in old & poor neighborhoods, if they use them next year I’ll do other home insulation stuff. Also drop off herbs and spices seeds and again if they use them next year they get more herbs and vegetable plants.
Dorian Knus
Justin Hardesty
greg dahlen 20+
Colleen Steen 500+
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Colleen Steen 500+
Did you notice my response to one of your comments in this other discussion? It was so far removed from your comment, I thought you might not catch it.
http://www.ted.com/conversations/16056/can_money_buy_happiness_2.html?c=600061
I feel that it is connected to this discussion. Well......I see EVERYTHING as connected...LOL. I'm having fun today making roasted garlic bread, keeping the fires burning, and watching the beautiful snow fall:>)
greg dahlen 20+
Colleen Steen 500+
It is work/play...all a matter of perception and preference.....I LOVE it, and it's both exhilarating and exhausting:>)
I don't have to pay to go to a gym for exercise....in fact, for errands around town I bike or walk whenever possible. I also take time to bike/hike/ kayak in summer and ski in winter with my buddies. I don't have any trouble at all sleeping!!! LOL!
My life is simple and enjoyable, I don't have or need much money, I DO have a LOT of happiness/contentment. So, for me, it's a win/win/win work/play:>)
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Colleen Steen 500+
That's why I don't "struggle"....challenged....yes......struggle.....no.
I know it seems like a silly little usage of words, and I am aware that with our words, we program our mind. Change the words we use, we change our thinking, which may change our perceptions and feelings, which may change the life adventure for us...or not...it's a choice:>)
Pabitra Mukhopadhyay 30+
Colleen Steen 500+
If money was out of the equation, what would you spend the rest of your life doing?
Exactly what I am doing:>)
Would you do the job you are currently doing for free?
I am retired now, and with the exploration of the life adventure, I often did jobs for free. For example, I started auditioning/performing in community musical theater as a hobby....a way to get back to music. Within a short time, I was asked to do TV commercials and print ads, which I did for no pay, or very little pay. I was having fun.....I LOVED the adventure! Soon I was asked to audition for professional theater groups, and I did so many tv ads for nothing, I was overexposed locally. So, I went to Boston, got an agent, and made it a profession for about 10 years. It started as a hobby for fun and no pay.....ended up as a very lucrative career.
When my wasband (was my husband) and I were young, we bought several very old decrepid apartment buildings, renovated and restored them, and rented apartments for years, which I maintained and managed. I didn't officially get paid for any of that until I sold them 30 years later. We speculated that the investment would pay off in the future, but who the hell knew for sure?
I was volunteering with the dept. of corrections, when one of the staff recommended me to fill in for a person with the dept. of social and rehabilitive services who was going on maternity leave. The volunteer work (which I did for about 6 years) was not paid, the position with SRS, reviewing the cases of children in state custody was lucrative.
I liked restoring/recycling/ fixing old furniture, and while wasband and I were restoring our 1850s home, I bought, restored and fixed the furniture for the house......that turned into a little antique business.....
I LOVE gardening and give lots of plants away....well.....you know the story by now! LOL:>)
This happened throughout my life adventure....start something for love/hobby, and it turned into a lucrative career/business.
Michael McWatters
Jackson Zachariah Vaughn
I like the idea of a world with out money, Jacque Fresco developed the term Resource Based Economy which is "a holistic socio-economic system in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude". I think what this guy is doing is really cool, if it's something you want to look into you can find out more at: http://www.thevenusproject.com/
Krisztián Pintér 200+
Fritzie Reisner 100+
Krisztián Pintér 200+
Colleen Steen 500+
If you took my advice from the other conversation, you could decide exactly what mood you would like to experience regardless of circumstances!.........LOL:>)
Jackson Zachariah Vaughn
Krisztián Pintér 200+
Jackson Zachariah Vaughn
Kate Blake 50+
You could make a huge and lasting impression on them by introducing some of your passions to them in a simplistic manner. If a greeny you could get a few saplings and get the kids to help you plant them around the school, etc Think about ways you could impact on their lives and get them thinking more creatively, more community/global savvy. You have an incredibly precious opportunity, don't waste it?
Jackson Zachariah Vaughn
I have a cousin doing something called unschooling with her boys and from my understanding it's a way to put the kids in charge of the curriculum, its really cool! There's a lot of opportunity for improvement in todays education system, I feel like students should be engaged in a way, not to accept everything as it is, but to question why things work the way they do, they should be encouraged to go out and search for the answers on their own as much as or even more than they should learn in school. To be honest, I learn as much from the children I work with as they learn from me. I think that's a good thing.
Colleen Steen 500+
I'm with Kate on this.....you have a GREAT opportunity as an "assistant preschool teacher " to influence a LOT of lives every single day....HERE and NOW!
You say you want to " spur positive change throughout", and that goal is admirable. Start now, with each and every moment in each and every day:>) I like the fact that you recognize being engaged, learning, questioning, encouraging to seek answeres.
I LOVE the idea that you recognize the fact that you can learn as much from the children as they learn from you. My perception, is that we are all students and teachers in this earth school, and when we lovingly share information with respect and kindness, we all have the ability to learn from each other:>)
Jackson Zachariah Vaughn
Its seems like the internet is filled with strangers who want to make each other feel bad, yet both you and Kate Blake have really encouraged me, someone you've never even met in person before. I really appreciate everything you all have to say, I'm so thankful to have found a place like this.
Thank you so much!
Jackson Zachariah Vaughn
Colleen Steen 500+
Unfortunately, some folks have not discovered the pleasure and enjoyment that can be experienced with empowering others, rather than disempowering. It's really FUN to be encouraging and boost people in their life adventure.
Have you heard of the concept of "leveling"? People will often try to bring others to their "level" of security or insecurity. We tell each other a LOT about ourselves with each and every interaction.
I'm glad you found us too Jackson. The more encouraging, supportive people we have in our world, the better:>)
pat gilbert 50+
Krisztián Pintér 200+