Following my tradition of taking weird courses, I took a meditation course last weekend, and for the first time ever I actually had a feeling that I was meditating rather than just sitting with my eyes closed. So I’m going to meditate twice daily for a time, just to see how it works for me.
Pop quiz: Which popular home computer signalled system crashes with the error message “Guru meditation”?
I just finished reading the order of the phoenix by J.K. Rowling in 3 days, which should tell you something about how exciting it is. This book fully lives up to the promise of the previous books.
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One of the exercises we did at the DSN course I took last weekend, was to write our own obituaries. This sounds kinda morbid, but the point is to realize that one day you’ll die, and thus be able to focus more on what’s really important to you.
So here’s what I’d like my obit to be.
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Lars points to a very funny piece about the Open Space session i hosted in april for Collaboraid.
I had no idea that I do “power hand gestures”, but I kinda like the sound of it.
The newly started network for free agents have asked me to speak at their first seminar on september 4th. I’ll be talking about happiness at work, and how free agents can get it.
Money makes life easier in all the obvious ways. There’s definitely some things in it. But it does not bring you happiness, in no way shape or form. It can hurt people too. You know, if you don’t have a clear idea of who you are and what you are, and why you’re here. So money can be deadly. It can divide people. And it can make people very greedy. It can have many different effects on people. You can have money and just be really thankful, and do positive things. Or you can have money and waste it all, and die of an overdose. You know, because you don’t know who you are.
– Jennifer Aniston
When I was in Slovenia for the art of hosting seminar, Tim performed one day, rapping his way through this piece called Word to the mother. I like it!
I have spent this weekend breaking barriers at the DSN course held by the art of living. The DSN course is for people who want to create a better society. These people need to be able to rise above their own limitations, and to willingly go into situations that are unknown, uncertain, frustrating or scary.
And after three days of non-stop activity (every day the course lasted from 6 in the morning til 11 at night) I can safely say that my comfort zone has been expanded vastly. My biggest realization at the course was, that for me the fear is not in the doing – it’s in the hesitation. As long as I’m procrastinating, wondering “Should I do it? Will it work?” I’m afraid. As soon as I start actually doing it (whatever “it” is), the fear is gone. I’m already applying this in my daily work, and this makes some things easier.
I was visiting my new friend Nicolai when I glanced through his July issue of Fast Company, and whaddayaknow: I’m in it! Fast Company is an extremely cool magazine. Okay, they’ve been marked by the dismal economic trends too, and their cool factor is slipping slightly, but they’re still light years in front of any other business magazine I know.
And I’m in the july issue! Well… it’s only a letter to the magazine, but still. I wrote a comment to an article that says that we need to reconstruct business to be less vulnerable to terrorist attacks. I argue, that it’s probably better to meet your enemies with understanding and empathy than with duct tape. So now that I’ve been in the mag, I have to choose a new ambition… hmmm… Oh yeah: To get on the cover of Fast Company.
And in a totally unrelated but equally ego-flattering development, I’m now a top1000 reviewer at Amazon; I’m actually number 599, set to break into the top500 soon. Check out some of my reviews here, here and here. You know Amazon have a good thing going, when this actually means something to me. Now: Are they very clever, or am I just a pushover?
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