I have learned over the years that the best way to get to where one wishes to go is to understand and believe in the value of this statement, “I need help.” It consists of only three words, but when put together in that fashion great things can happen. And quite honestly, “I need your help.”
It has to do with giving people in need the tools they can use to create a life that mattes and the belief that they can create their own futures. It has to do with empowerment. It has to do with creating opportunities for change and for hope.
There is a training that is going to take place in Kenya that will be powerful and will create opportunties for change within those that want it. It is a training that will create empowerment and a belief that one matters and that one can create change. It is a training that will point to the bridge within each that can connect everyone to God, the divine, or the Universe. It is a training that will create hope and a knowing that they are not powerless and individuals can make a difference.
I want you to be a part of what is about to happen. I want you to choose to be a part of something bigger, that in the end will create the seeds of change in the world. I wish for you to choose to join me so together we can experience something that reaffirms in each of us a knowing that we too made a difference. If this is something that resonates within you, please go to:
http://www.leaderdevelopmentgroup.com/special-kenyan-project/
If you choose to help, we will be in partnership as I will find a way to get there and do the training for free. You will give the participants the ability to get to the training site. And together, we will make a difference.
Blessings to each of you this day,
David
UPDATE!!! Dollars are coming in and so far 22… make that now 45 women will be able to attend the 5 days of training…and with your help that number will continue to grow! I am deeply humbled and thankful that so many are choosing to be a part of what is going to be created with this project. Together we truly are going to make a difference. And once again I humbly thank each of you… David
I was reading a dialogue string within a wonderful group of leaders this morning on LinkedIn (LCF or the Leaders Foundation Café). There was a comment by Kwai Yu of the United Kingdom that I responded to there, and I write of here. The overall issue was the world’s economic crisis and that maybe the best way to learn and to create better systems is to, when they crash, let them crash so they can be rebuilt in a better way. Yet it was acknowledged that this would be very painful to millions so in the end, maybe it is best not to let those systems crash when they are in trouble and to do what we can to keep them going while fixing what we can. So it was within that context of “pain” and of our trying to minimize the pain our systems create at times for people that the following comment was made:
“…Perhaps … we should embrace Jugaad: A New Growth Formula … one that accepts pain as part of growth?”
What came to mind with the above quote was that the natural systems that surround us DO accept pain and joy, suffering and excitement… all of it for as natural systems they can be no more that they are… complete and whole. I suspect it is only in the systems we create within the natural systems surrounding us that we naively attempt to control all that is within. Don’t want to feel pain? No problem, we can manage and control that. Don’t want people to bring the emotions of home into the work place? Not a problem… we can control that through policies! Yet there is pain and because it has been ignored it can come back with a vengeance… as the pressure pot explodes when the pressures within wishing to expand cannot be held back any longer. But wait… it exploded? No problem, we can handle that! Let’s create a new policy that….
The point that came to me this morning was that the answers may again lie within us… that we first as leaders need to see, understand, and truly know who we are… and then be all that we truly are. We are pain and joy. We are suffering and excitement. We are passion, hate, fierceness, creative, compassionate, loving and a whole lot more. That maybe, if we begin to create systems that reflect all of the knowledge and balance found deep within each of us, we will be able to create systems for the benefit of all that are also in sync with the natural systems that have always surrounded us. I make up that if we can do this, then instead of fighting nature to make it what we wish it to be, we will be a part of nature (the universe) and from there become creators of what we were always meant to be. Then again, that is probably just a dream. I’m sure there is a policy or concept that can control that…
That’s my share for this morning or afternoon or evening depending upon where you are at this moment! As always, my best wishes to you all!
David
