10 Ways to “Get” Co-Active : Coaches Training Institute : Transforum

So how do we “get” Co-Active? How do we grow and develop our own ability to be Co-Active in our lives?

  1. Develop a relationship with your life purpose, understanding that you are here for a reason provides a foundation for action from meaning, from deep inside oneself.
  2. Learn to live in the question. Practice wondering rather than knowing.
  3. Grow your ability to act with certainty and clarity without attachment. In the beginning, it’s kind of like patting your head and rubbing your belly… and your facility will grow over time.
  4. Understand that every single person in your life is there to teach you something. Stay wildly curious about what that might be. Practice gratitude and appreciation of that teaching, even when and especially when you don’t like what that person is doing.
  5. Open to your emotions. They are the gas in our engine. They connect us to ourselves and each other and provide the fire to move forward in expansive ways.
  6. Becoming comfortable with the dramatic tension between choice and knowing that there are infinite possibilities.
  7. Learn to listen to the wisdom of your heart and follow its whisperings.
  8. Practice being fascinated by people and by life.
  9. Connect with nature. Everything we need to know about Co-Active already exists in the natural world. Spend time being in nature and notice what is unfolding all around you.
  10. If things get tangled, return to relationship and context. Usually things get off kilter because we’ve forgotten about the being. When we are connected to why we are doing things, the things we are doing flow clearly.

via 10 Ways to “Get” Co-Active : Coaches Training Institute : Transforum.

Inbox Journalism  | American Journalism Review

The e-mail interview has become an increasingly popular technique. It eliminates endless rounds of phone tag, and it gives sources a chance to provide well-thought-out answers rather than top-of-the-head responses. But critics warn that it’s hardly a substitute for real-time conversation and may be a recipe for sterile journalism.

via Inbox Journalism  | American Journalism Review.

Nous voulons être délivrés… AdS-E

Nous voulons être délivrés. Celui qui donne un coup de pioche veut connaître un sens à son coup de pioche. Et le coup de pioche du bagnard, qui humilie le bagnard, n’est point le même que le coup de pioche du prospecteur, qui grandit le prospecteur. Le bagne ne réside point là où des coups de pioche sont donnés. Il n’est pas d’horreur matérielle. Le bagne réside là où des coups de pioche sont donnés qui n’ont point de sens, qui ne relient pas celui qui les donne à la communauté des hommes. Et nous voulons nous évader du bagne (…)

Il est deux cents millions d’hommes, en Europe, qui n’ont point de sens et voudraient naître. L’industrie les a arrachés au langage des lignées paysannes et les a enfermés dans ces ghettos énormes qui ressemblent à des gares de triage encombrées de rames de wagons noirs. Du fond des cités ouvrières, ils voudraient être réveillés. Il en est d’autres, pris dans l’engrenage de tous les métiers, auxquels sont interdites les joies du pionnier, les joies religieuses, les joies du savant. On a cru que pour les grandir il suffisait de les vêtir, de les nourrir, de répondre à tous leurs besoins. Et l’on a peu à peu fondé en eux le petit bourgeois de Courteline, le politicien de village, le technicien fermé à la vie intérieure. Si on les instruit bien, on ne les cultive plus. Il se forme une piètre opinion sur la culture celui qui croit qu’elle repose sur la mémoire de formules. Un mauvais élève du cours de Spéciales en sait plus long sur la nature et sur ses lois que Descartes et Pascal. Estil capable des mêmes démarches de l’esprit ?

Terre des hommes – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

One Step Ahead: Ubuntu


The weekend that ends was dedicated to moving to a new system: Ubuntu Studio. Since computer time occupies sometimes +8 hours a day, I thought leaving the old XP was something to look into.

So I dove into this as a complete noob and came out dry. No dual boot, Linux all the way. What came as a great help where the more experienced users on Ubuntu Forums. Their answers came within hours and I received their support all the way.

I now run Ubuntu Studio and, to be honest, have no doubt I will keep this platform for the future.

Here are some links you might want to read if you consider switching:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toO-WbLppl0 –  installing programs

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-software-linux.htm – an updated software list of 10 pages, all free-ware

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-ubuntu-studio-11.10 – detailed installation guide for Ubuntu Studio

http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/04/manual-disk-partitioning-guide-for-ubuntu-11-04/ – manual disk partitioning guide

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/mounting.html – mounting drives in Ubuntu

Why You Won’t Quit Your Job – Daniel Gulati – Harvard Business Review

But I’ve found that a sharp focus on incremental gains could also lead to “premature optimization.” Instead of surveying the landscape and climbing the highest mountain possible, we’re too busy scaling the first peak we happen to stumble upon.

via Why You Won’t Quit Your Job – Daniel Gulati – Harvard Business Review.