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WHAT IF your top 5 personal ideas met collaborative action, write here. A TED BUCKET LIST of ideas worth spreading w/ angels in the wings.
Are you open to hook up with someone who can place action to ideas... ? Collaboration > Ideation > Action...
Whether you need a hand, or can lend one, together can we map our dreams, make them happen... personal ideas worth spreading with angels like you who can help make them fly... [dreams for you, for earth or for your children]
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Closing Statement from Terry Torok
IF we could see and hear each others dreams and desires, we might be able to connect with humankind in a more peaceful and productive way... placing our dreams "out loud" may give us a chance to reach them and help others reach theirs.
Do you know what your best friends dreams are? Does your best friend know yours?
Thanks to all of you who share your dreams... it's an amazing list... With someone's help, I hope to bring it to another level. These are all perfectly possible, sweet dreams, Terry Torok
Terry Torok 100+
Thank you Aaron... good luck with potluck... i like where your are going.... something like stone soup... great food for thought... as the pendulum swings back slightly from our digital obsession we can hunger for and appreciate the human touch.
Thank you Kate for your heart to reach out and provide more access of rich content in underserved communities... and reminding us all to be better listeners...
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[www.themoreweshare.com]
Kate Fry
Brick and mortar Libraries are a place to go to for books, magazines, community information, and increasingly, computer access.
For those who are computer literate, digital Libraries are growing at an exponential rate.
So much information is available for those who can get to a Library, for those who have access to a computer and the Internet.
My wish is to take that information and access to it, to the people.
Think of a bookmobile concept, but change it to be a mobile digital learning environment and information access point. Traveling E-Mobiles would make technology and the information age available to as many people as possible.
Visualize a digital command center on wheels, with staff able and willing to teach people how to use technology, or how to use it better.
Helping patrons learn to differentiate between fluff and authoritative information. Digitizing of community information, resources, and history could also be a part of the traveling information mobile.
The opportunites for those who have limited (or no) access to computers and information could be life changing.
My wish is also for people to learn to critically think about what information and ideas they are exposed to. Once literacy is achieved, and access to information is available, cognitive skills need to be developed.
An intelligent, informed, rationalizing population of the world is perhaps our key to survival as a species.
Major wishes aside, my personal dreams would be to become a better listener, a better wife to my husband of 20 years, and earn a masters degree in library science. I always hope to keep my mind open to the vast and wonderful possibilities and people around me.
Thanks for listening, have a great day!
One more thought.... "outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend, inside of a dog, it is too dark to read." attributed to the late, great Groucho Marx
Aaron Heideman
"Where social spheres mingle in real life."
It will change the context of social networking, and ground the way people interact with their communities. It will break down hierarchies and renew social trust. It will spark a new renaissance and a new romanticism, uniting the modern and post-modern worlds, and it will reinstitute the human body into the social sphere.
Planet Potluck is a real-to-life social platform that will engage local communities on every level of humanity through open food-sharing events. There are two ways you can use the platform:
1. Host a potluck. Choose a location. Pick a theme. Meet your neighbors and surrounding community around food. Anyone is invited. It's always free.
2. Attend a potluck. Search by theme or interest (art, music, business, hobbies, neighborhoods, religious beliefs, causes, etc). Bring food or donation if you can.
Potential benefits of an open food network:
1. Reduce collective apathy through human connection.
2. End hunger in your community (break the provider/client mentality of inner-city soup kitchens)
2. Find new business prospects.
3. Make new friends or find a date.
4. Renew the physical element of social networking.
5. Change the way you interact with strangers. See eye-to-eye with all of humanity.
Accountability:
1. Each potluck attendee is rated by the potluck host.
2. Each potluck host is rated by attendees.
3. No discrimination is allowed except for use of the rating system (all potlucks are open public events).
4. Hosts that are not comfortable inviting strangers into their homes may choose a public place instead. Others may choose to host potlucks in their homes at their discretion.
Goal:
Communities become stronger and more conscious as social problems get reduced locally, through intentional engagement. Crime goes down in cities, prisons empty out, business gets a new platform for connectivity, and the human spirit gets a renewed sense of trust, all through relationships.
Terry Torok 100+
Charity McDaniel 1 horseback ride on the beach. 2 meditate at Jokhang Temple in Tibet. 3 build a house with Habitat for Humanity. 4 Sing with a rock band. 5 Write and publish memoirs
Cate Carson 1. To become a respected actress in major motion films. 2.To get a VW bus, travel to all 50 states making a documentary about the American lifestyle. 3. To renovate and restore a beautiful old home 4. To start a unique activity place where children from poverty/domestic violence can come play, learn, and have fun free 5. To start a movement that brings back the sense of the "neighborhood" as a means of lowering crime rates and helping people
Linda Bardes 1: I am walking the AZ Trail or the Pacific Crest Trail. 2: I am growing my wedding vows and ceremonies web site into a $50,000 or more a year Internet Marketing site and giving successful seminars. 3: I own my own home with an income to support it and myself lavishly. 4: I am growing my Charitable Trust into a mega giving machine. 5 I am writing a best selling book.
Stacey Simmons
Jason Meneely
2) Don't just teach students facts and information, rather teach them how to operate and function when they don't have all the information.
3) Bring creative problem solving into primary and secondary ed.
Terry Torok 100+
Your Story forward... write here... in five easy pieces...
Chris Scott
2. Just like the idea above, this one relates to young adults again. I want a class in every high school that focuses on their opinions and wants, sort of like a debate or motivational class. I think that if this was mandatory and available in high schools it could really do good for teens and help them better understand what they want to do in life. I have seen attempts at classes like these and as a teen, I see all the flaws that make those classes not work for teens the right way. I think the students should say how THEY want the class to be ran, and what THEY want to talk about every once in a while. Teens don't need to feel forced to learn, they need to WANT to learn.
3. I know this is more than a dream than an idea...but, I would love for large food industries to get together and distribute free food throughout the nation, and hopefully this could spread throughout the world.
4. I would really like their to be a website that educates people on the different types, genres, styles, etc. of music throughout the world. Music is a beautiful thing that should be heard by all, understood by all, and loved by all. Music is the fuel and symbol of life around us.
5. Here's an idea: Make big business CEO's give away billions to charity and important research. I don't care how, just make it happen
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Terry Torok 100+
Thank you Elan... most certainly and for the this group the first point of connectivity is to share your top 5 desires or ideas you have for You... it is the context to start the conversation.... it's a way to get know know someone from the point of view of where they are, and intend to head as a human-being-human... I invite you to do this when you can , it would give context, priority and connectivity to your links... thank you Elan.
Steve Cho
2. A platform in which people can share their goals and share the steps that lead up to their goals with their friends and family, thus creating a system of accountability and motivation. It's those daily disciplines that accumulate over time and end up changing our lives for the better. This social platform (available on both mobile and web) would help people stay committed to doing those simple tasks that are both easy TO DO and easy NOT TO DO.
3. Make epic videos of me doing crazy things, like going to Thailand to train and fight muay Thai (which I've done before), going to the ashram in India that Steve Jobs went to, going to the Amazon to visit the Satere Mawe tribe and performing the bullet ant ritual. These videos are to inspire people to take life by the horns, to experience the world, and better themselves.
4. Either take my current company public or another company I start in the future public. That would be a nice feat, to just say I've done it.
5. Reinvent education for the better, particularly in countries that lack innovation. Creating a curriculum that fosters innovation, to help students discover themselves, and to ignore following cynics' advice of going the traditional way of getting a job and all that. If anything it'd be nice to change the education of Korea, China, and India, where work ethic is more prevalent -- thus, they'd become major game changers in the global economy.
Terry Torok 100+
Your number one is a clear and collaborative way to contribute to contribute to ideas... very cool... it seems like an idea starter or idea spreader that could live easily within the Ted socialsphere... it is brilliant. Could lead to collaborators coming together on an Ideation Vacation...
Terry Torok 100+
What 5 ideas are you working on or towards? Be it collaborative, desired, just for fun or your legacy !
To quote Steve Jobs... "To live before you die"
Stacey Simmons
I've started, I have a higher education platform called Omnicademy. We can inspire all people to their greatest potential. It doesn't HAVE to be difficult!
Meredith Murray
Lucas Burns 500+
Xia Zou
1) University/Academia is one of the most amazing places I've had the privilege to spend time at. The wealth of knowledge is spectacular. It can also be dense and difficult to access. I have a dream that it could be 1) Free and accessible to all, that is maybe you can't get the degree, but you can get the syllabus, see the lecture notes, buy the books, and it's all available and easy to access, so that we can all have that kind of supreme understanding, which leads to better actions, and better people. 2) That there is a second component that allows for some of the best of insights gained from research, to be shared, much like TED. Essentially, that universities adopt a TED like format to research presentations, and that these "findings" also address broader applicability issues. Essentially I'd like the world to be more connected. Artists, scholars, business people, philanthropists etc., we should be all working together, because as good as we are, we need each other to step up and to do the things that are being called to face in this new age.
2) Be a spectacular innovative artist that really touches and moves her "community"
3) Be an activist especially in the areas of environmentalism and compassionate action.
4) Be good company (ongoing, simple, but maybe the most essential thing in living). And when something else is called for, give them incredible.
5) Living more in Samadhi (or as Maharshi would say, residing in the "self").
Stacey Simmons
Terry Torok 100+
Lucas Burns 500+
1. Start an organization to empower communities to (1) develop ideas and (2) do them. Underway: http://starter.org
2. Start/participate in a political movement with the "digital native" generation that (1) admonishes detrimental politics and (2) seeks and applies solutions to politically divided issues through government or through social innovation -- i.e., business and organizations.
3. Help spark an educational revolution by rethinking public schools and the purpose of public education. Foster curiosity and creativity, and guide learning. Not all teachers will be great, so give students the opportunities to find their own way.
4. Live on 100% renewable energy.
5. Live healthy -- sugar, HFCS is literally toxic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Terry Torok 100+
Jonathon Avery
1. Figure out how to shift the human races' thinking from "me" to "us" so that we can all work together to create a sustainable future - restore our planet and our societies. We are one, let's act on that!
2. Find the resources to establish an international website/ mobile apps that facilitates collaboration to develop viable businesses with a triple bottom line (Environmentally Restorative, Socially Enhancing, Economically Viable) - and internationalize them. Not far off a model for this one.
3. Link #2 business into a charitable trust that governs it's operations on the above ethics and that re-invests in the most influential organisations/opportunities - supercharging and internationalizing them.
4. Establish education systems used by the masses that help everyone think in cradle to cradle product life cycles etc.
5. Have loads of fun, love, compassion in life and help others do the same.
Stacey Simmons
Jonathon Avery
How can I help?
Cara Salvatore
My 5 current big and small "To-Do's" are as follows:
1. Complete my undergrad in April 2012/begin my post-grad in September 2012.
2. Help develop efficient off-grid electricity systems for rural Africa.
3. Have a career with the UNDP (United Nations Development Programme).
3. Become a successful entrepreneur.
3. Continue growing as a stronger and better person.
Thanks for listening,
Cara Salvatore
Terry Torok 100+
i look very forward to understanding and communicating more with you in the very near future...
Pleasure, Terry
kristine kilburn
Everything within Steve Jobs was a Bright Flame until one day his heart stopped beating...but the passion in his soul will live on forever.Asleep in the arms of Angels.
Maria Peterson
He is WAY too smart to just die.
Son Le
1. Prove to the world that my mom, a single mom whose husband passed away when I was barely 1 year old, raised me well, contrary to other beliefs.
2. Eradicate the social stigma attached with being gay in my home country and, to a larger extent, the world.
Terry Torok 100+
Terry Torok 100+
Josh Nisenfeld
2. I would like to be instrumental in the 10 largest cities worldwide having a self sourced and sustaining food system.
3. Appear on TED.
4. Have a son named Ted.
5. Assist my son Ted in presenting for TED.
Terry Torok 100+
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Deborah Zotian
Civil discussion between parties, whether they be governmental, personal or work related
Freedom from money woes for those who have them
Time for reflection/relaxation every day
Health care for everyone, everywhere
and a trip to DIsney World (because I need a vacation :))
OK, the last one is just for me, but in truth they are all for me. However, I think the first 4 would be wonderful for the world. (not that I don't think a vacation would hurt everyone either!)
ed Manner
Mine:
1. Continually seek peace and generosity towards others- quantify on a daily basis.
2. Contribute to the artistic record my generation will leave behind.
3. Be a brother to my friends and friends with my family.
4. Finance the education of a marginalized child.
5. Facilitate art projects that raise support for underprivileged children.
Gail (Maya-G) Taylor
Thank you for inviting this question. When I imagine an Angel In The Wings, I'm inspired.
Here's the ONE thing that I would want to do:
I'd like to produce/direct an Edu-tainment Documentary series called "The Re-Union of Body and Soul" - how newly emerging practices and perspectives related to fear, pain and core values are revealing the Highest Self (and love) that we are.
What would our world look like if fear didn't impact our lives so often, if prior pains didn't continually impact the course of negotiations, and if right-wrong and good-bad thinking (including shame, guilt, punishment, etc) were replaced with presence, core values, integrated generative solutions and awareness of the value of others' perspectives?
Each episode would include 3 components:
- The current episode Topic Overview
- Applications of the episode topic to practical situations at all scales - individual, interpersonal, organization and leadership, kids in schools, parenting, relationships, politics and legislation, healthy communities, economics, etc.
- Practical do-ables that viewers could take on TODAY toward this "Re-Union"
The incremental Episode List would bring awareness to (what Spiral Dynamics refers to as 2nd Tier) topics such as:
1. Core Values Awareness
2. Type Dynamics
3. Grief work / Release Work
4. Effective Expression and Do-able Requests
5. Integrative Decision-Making (ie: win-win, system-awake solutions in a multi-perspective'd world)
6. Recognizing and Addressing Shadow (fear, pain, shame, guilt, villainizing, etc)
7. Integrating The Core Behind Fear (and 5 specific proven practices)
8. Restorative Justice
9. Subtle and Transpersonal Field Dynamics
10. Both/And Thinking (relativism and post-relativism in a mostly conventional world)
11. Revealing Highest Self - the Face of God - at all Scales
12. Recap
Inspired by this post I wrote this:
http://wp.me/paZE7-bD
If this interests you or other Angels In the Wings, let's talk!
- M
Tina Marie
2. Participate in the vital improvement of our education system's infrastructure.
3. Exploit today's communication vehicles to enhance people's lives and perceptions of life.
4. Devote more time to artistic, nonverbal expression; study and travel.
5. Resist societal pressure to be first, fastest, prettiest and perfect.
Kim Scott
Terry Torok 100+
connect your personal ideas with others, write here... please feel free to add positive comments to the list to help accelerate individual ideas into collective action... [ need a hand or lend a hand... take 5 here ]