Beach Walk 725R – Deeply, Oddly, True

January 19, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Originally shared as Beach Walk 573.
We watched an episode of The Iconoclasts last night with surfer Laird Hamilton and Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder. Both are celebrities of course, and they also are living their true natures, deeply and truly. What if permission isn’t required to be yourself? What if the part of us we think is the broken or odd part is actually the truest part? Food for thought for Monday.

Iconoclasts on the Sundance Channel
Buy Series 2 on iTunes
Laird’s Book “Force of Nature”

Hawaiian Word:
Pau’aka: odd (Hawaiian as well as English has many negative connotations for the concept of odd.)

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Beach Walk 716 – Volunteering to Vocation

November 12, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

More and more brave souls are leaving their “known worlds” for life as an adventure, the kind without a job for a safety net. Decades ago the book appeared, Do What You Love and The Money Will Follow that really knocked loose some hard-formed notions. Still, only one generation has grown up with that message, so it has barely made a dent in our global consciousness. Some people are using volunteering as a step in that direction. Such is the story of my friend BJ Wishinsky who is now at Anita Borg Institute and also Joe Philipson the photographer who is helping to define a whole new sector: social media photographer.

I’d also to thank the many volunteers who helped on Podcamp Hawaii. Judi Clark was both the WordCamp wrangler and the one who helped me track and acknowledge the many volunteers on that event. Kyle Nishioka was the tech and venue manage and did a wonderful job working with our many vendors. Shane Robinson aka Secret Cameraman built the website and set up all of the live streaming, plus created a very cool desktop application that allowed attendees to fill out evaluations on the spot while watching the live stream or following the Twitter stream!

Update: Twitter friend @carakitty also got a job at a Vet office after volunteering at the animal shelter.

Hawaiian Word:
ʻAʻa; volunteer

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Beach Walk 715 – Life is not so linear pt 2

November 11, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

A good example of the non-linear-ness of the process of change is Dr. James Prochaska’s, Stages of Change Theory. He describes 5 stages of “change readiness” – each of which is responsive to certain processes or approaches. People who successfully change a behavior, will not usually progress through the stages in a straight line, but more in a spiral, relapsing some and then moving forward again.

Hawaiian Word:
Wā period of time

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Beach Walk 714 – Life is Not So Linear

November 10, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , |

It seems we are taking on more and more complexity and using tools like mind-mapping that allow us to show relationships that are nuanced than a straight line. It’s true even with business models, where there are ways to “get paid” by “paying it forward” or helping someone who then helps someone else who then buys from you. Not so easy to be sure, but our brains appear able to handle it!

Hawaiian Word:
Apo circle

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Beach Walk 713 – Thinking Makes Us Hungry

November 9, 2008 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Are you like me? Staying up late working on my computer tends to make me hungry. It seems like I am burning calories, and that warrants having a snack. Well, apparently the brain is tricking us a bit by creating a hunger connection without the usual caloric expenditure. So over time, the less you sleep and the more you are thinking the more likely you are to gaining weight! Guess it is time to use my brain to ignore what my brain is telling my tummy. This research was done at Laval University in Quebec.

Hawaiian Word:
Manaʻo Think

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