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What is life?

What is life?

I’ve decided today to talk about what life is, in my opinion. Life is like a game of choices, each choice will lead to a certain result and consequence and a brand new batch of choices. Each game has a time limit, and when the time limit is up, we all just fade away from the world. [...]

December 30 2010 | Posted in Articled & Opinionated Stories, Headlines | Read More »

The poetics of pictures

Chris Orwig is a celebrated photographer, author and teacher. He is on the photography faculty at the Brooks Institute in Santa Barbara, CA and he is the author of numerous best-selling books. More importantly, Chris brings unique perspective, creativity and passion to all that he does. As a photographer, he subscribes to Marc Riboud’s observation [...]

December 30 2010 | Posted in Videos | Read More »

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Be the change you wish to see in the world.

It’s amazing how day by day nothing seems to change but when you look back everything is different. A lot of things can change our lives – sometimes forever or at least leave footprints, like if someone close to us dies or our friendship with someone ends. Sometimes the things we can’t change end up changing [...]

December 30 2010 | Posted in Inspirational Stories | Read More »

Work Life Balance is an Ongoing

Nigel Marsh is the bestselling author of “Fat, Forty and Fired” and “Overworked and Underlaid” and the Regional Group CEO of Young and Rubicam Brands for Australia & New Zealand. Finding the balance between work and life is an ongoing battle. Link to this post!

December 30 2010 | Posted in Videos | Read More »

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind.

William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer joined us at TEDxSMU in Dallas to tell William’s incredible story: The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. About William: William Kamkwamba was born in Dowa, Malawi in 1987 and raised in Masitala village along the central plains. One of seven children born to sustenance farmers who grew maize and tobacco, [...]

December 29 2010 | Posted in Videos | Read More »

Stories Worth Gold

Stories Worth Gold

// Stories worth gold! With narrated stories of courage, nobility, honour, spirituality and benevolence Ancient Tales of Wisdom is the epitome of harmony in audio form. Living inside each story is an insight into the timeless understandings of what is truly right and what is truly wrong. Link to this post!

December 29 2010 | Posted in Podcast | Read More »

I WISH I HAD A GENIE

I WISH I HAD A GENIE

I wish I had a genie My genie fair And I, her sire Like Midas, I, a king I would imprint my name in the sky With blazing silver, huge letters bold I would be a Rich man, with my pockets full of gold She would bring to me My genie fair, hidden diamonds from [...]

December 29 2010 | Posted in Poetry & Spoken Words | Read More »

life is a climb, but the view is great.

life is a climb, but the view is great.

Suddenly everything was changing, I looked around the room and it has changed, already. I heard steps going down the stairs. I stood up from bed and looked through the eye of the doorknob, it could probably be the last time I would see my dad, he was in the door packing the pickup truck [...]

December 29 2010 | Posted in Friend-Family-Parent-Child Stories | Read More »

Kick out the ladder

Kick out the ladder: inspirational short movie Link to this post!

December 28 2010 | Posted in Videos | Read More »

Journey to Brilliance

In this talk, Bruce McIntyre shows how a new model of education is helping kids tap into the 90% of our brain we don’t use. Bruce McIntyre started Macpac, which became one of New Zealand’s early export success stories, at age 19 in 1973. Today, its innovative, high quality products can be found in shops [...]

December 28 2010 | Posted in Videos | Read More »