Pete Carroll Live Work & Play Like a champion

As the football season starts we can get some ideas for life from the sporting world.
Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion

10 tips on writing

As thought leaders our ability to write and share our ideas is critical. Some good ideas here.

10 Tips on How to Write Less Badly - Do Your Job Better - The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Most academics, including administrators, spend much of our time writing. But we aren't as good at it as we should be. I have never understood why our trade values, but rarely teaches, nonfiction writing.

http://chronicle.com/article/10-Tips-on-How-to-Write-Less/124268/

Benjamin Zander Classical Music with shining eyes

Conductor Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us realize our untapped love for it — and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections. (Recorded March 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 20:46.)

Simon Sinek How Great Leaders Inspire Action

I watched this video from TED and wondered what is the answer to the question "Why Unity/" as we begin our branding initiative.

Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? | Video on TED.com

Derek Sivers: Weird, or just different? | Video on TED.com

Check out this video by Derek Sivers. It's just a few minutes long and makes a great point that the opposite may also be true.

Enjoy.

Walking on Water (Liquid Mountaineering)

Hi Friends are you ready to walk on water?

check out this 3 minute video you might find it inspiring and fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe3St1GgoHQ

Rewriting Your Future

This is a 5 minute video of a presentation by Dave Logan discussing our default future and how to change it.
Enjoy it and share it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z3r9dw_Jso

Unity of Gulf Breeze Prayer Request

Please join us in prayer for Unity of Gulf Breeze:
Unity of Gulf Breeze is a family size church located on the road between Pensacola and Pensacola Beach. Yesterday the oil landed on our beautiful white beaches, there is no swimming allowed now due to the oil and other toxins that have washed in. While we are affirming a solution, we are experiencing first hand the loss of the lives of so many beautiful creatures . We need your prayer support. I am asking that you send written prayers to us words from your hands and heart are very powerful. We will post them on the walls of the church to lift us up. Many of us have completed the training to qualify as volunteers and are on standby. See us empowered by faith not constricted by fear. Help us with this process. We know the church walls will be filled soon. We will provide meditation and prayer services and recreational activities for the community. There are many church communities impacted by this event we affirm we are all surrounded by love and strength.
In Love and Grace
Beth Boilott
Spiritual Leader

Please mail to:
UNITY OF GULF BREEZE
#26
913 GULFBREEZE PARKWAY
GULFBREEZE FL 32561

Unity Convention 2010

Enjoy the video promo for the Convention next year. You'll see Linda Lowery, Licensed Unity Teacher and member of the Board.

Enjoy!

Creativity where does that special spark come from?

"Eat, Pray, Love" Author Elizabeth Gilbert muses on the impossible things we expect from artists and geniuses -- and shares the radical idea that, instead of the rare person "being" a genius, all of us "have" a genius. It's a funny, personal and surprisingly moving talk.

Link here.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA

Prayer call of the soul

Heard this today. enjoy a swami's view of prayer.

Now there's Church on Facebook

now there's Church on Facebook

Not to be confused with the book titled "The Church of Facebook" by Jesse Rice, as of this weekend, there will be two churches that are on Facebook, with their own Facebook apps, hosting worship services there -- Flamingo Road Church and Northland Church. [links go to their Facebook apps]

read more

The Spiritual Journey of Charles Fillmore

Have you read The Spiritual Journey of Charles Fillmore: Discovering the Power Within?
It's a great look at Charles's Journey. I came across it while looking through my books.
I plan to do a review in June.

How do we explain what Unity is?

Check out this video by Dan Heath the author of  Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die and Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
How do we explain what Unity is in a compelling way? if Netflix is like blockbuster +... or a car is a horseless carraige... You get the idea.
Enjoy Click here if the video doesn't show up.

Brain Rules for Presentations

Check out this presentation for some ideas on improving your talks & lessons  It is based on the book
Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School   Enjoy & I hope you get a few ideas you can use.

John

Brain Rules for Presenters

View more presentations from garr.

4 Stages of Economic Development.

Here's a handout for your next prosperity class.

Vision

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Vesak (Buddha Day) – Buddhist

Vesak – also spelled Wesak - (pronounced way-sak) has come to be known as Buddha day. Vesak, which is named for the month of May, is generally acknowledged as the most important holiday of the Buddhist year.

In many ways similar to Christmas in the Christian faith, Vesak is a celebration that commemorates the Buddha’s birth. Additionally, in the United States Vesak has become an occasion for a common celebration to unite all Buddhist traditions and schools: Asian and non-Asian, immigrant and convert, Theravadin and Mahayana.
This year a majority of Buddhists will celebrate Vesak on May 9th; however, in any given year the exact date of Vesak varies according to the differing lunar calendars used in the various traditions.

Vesak day is a time to honor the Buddha, the Dharma (his teachings) and the Sangha (his disciples) . . . and to rededicate one’s self to the Buddha’s teachings and to practice.
Much as there is no one universal way in which Christmas is celebrated, the ways in which Buddhist’s celebrate Vesak vary widely. In most cultures, devotees are directed to make a special effort to avoid killing of any kind and to partake of only vegetarian food. Additionally, simple gifts are often exchanged on Vesak day . . . and gifts to the disadvantaged are particularly encouraged. Visits are often made to orphanages, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, blood banks, and other places of need.

While not necessarily universal, here are a couple of practices which we found particularly engaging:
In some traditions thousands of birds, insects and animals are released in a “symbolic act of liberation” – giving freedom to those being held in prisons or otherwise being held captive against their will.

Some temples display a small statue of the baby Buddha in a basin which is decorated with flowers and filled with water. In what serves as both a reenactment of the events following the Buddha’s birth and as a symbolic personal cleansing of bad karma, practitioners pour water over the statue.

Traditional Greeting: Happy Vesak! Happy Buddha Day!
Adherents.com places the number of Buddhists at 376 million and ranks Buddhism sixth, based on number of adherents, among the world’s religions.

On Vesak day, all Buddhists are reminded to live in harmony with people of other faiths and to respect the beliefs of other people as the Buddha had taught. On this, the most important celebration of the Buddhist year, we suggest that we each join with our Buddhist brothers and sisters in reminding ourselves to live in harmony with, and to respect those, whose beliefs differ from our own.
Shalom Salaam Peace Kay & Dave Corby, FoundersCommon Tables

This Prayer's For You

Check out this Silent Unity Video
Know you are in our prayers.

In Unity

John

Music for Holy week

Unity Teacher & friend Richard Mekdeci has some beautiful music from different artists for you on his Unity.fm show this week. Click here & enjoy the variety of music.

Blessings

John