It’s Friday morning here close to the Canadian Rockies. From my office I can see people rushing to get to work on time. At this time of the morning , as I watch people from my community begin their commute to work, I often wonder how many of them stop to think why [...]

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Taken from : THE IMPOSSIBLE WILL TAKE A LITTLE WHILE LONGER Paul Rogat Loeb
You Have to Pick Your Team
‘Every day presents infinite reasons to believe that change can’t happen, infinite reasons to give up. But I always tell myself, “Sonya, you have to pick your team.” It seems to [...]

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When you attach a great deal of meaning to something, like the outcome of a football game or your child’s first word, you get excited and absorbed in the event. The same is true of your work. When you have a strong sense of meaning attached to what you are doing, you bring [...]

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Participation - people taking part. Of course it is so much easier to get people to take part when they know their effort is meaningful. This is one of the reasons that meaningful participation is so important to our sense of well-being. Just like wholesome food is good for your body - wholesome (serving the [...]

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Why is meaningful participation so important? For one thing it connects the ’small picture’, where we participate in our work, with the ‘big picture’ that provides context and meaning to what we are doing. People are more likely to work on the harvest of a crop that  sow. We all know intuitively that when our work [...]

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