Tag: worth
Re-inventing how we use Money?
When you don’t have enough money, you start to question the idea of it in the first place.
Who controls it? Why? and how?
You start to wonder if the typical system makes sense or if it’s really up to any good.
I’ve often wondered why the most important work doesn’t pay well. The answers are more complicated than I can talk about here or even truly understand without a lot of research. Nevertheless, many of the answers tend to stem from issues of power, the sources of control/power, and the desire to keep things a certain way for people who have amassed wealth and power.
The capital of the United States is now the richest city in the country and awash in new millionaires and billionaires; not because these folks created important and noble things, but because they are following a gravy train of money, special favors, and power for a very few.
I don’t subscribe to all of Charles Eisenstein‘s views, but what he has to say about money and what we can do to make our relationships better and the world a better place are worth hearing.
It’s good to question the influential things in our lives. It’s smart to vet them for their goodness and test them for their true benefits. If our ways are left wanting, it’s good to re-invent how we interact and exchange with one another.
Today, I give you this video as food-for-thought. How could we do things differently?
I’m planning a webinar on April 24th with my friend Bill Fox. I’ve learned that he is beginning to use a gifting model for his work. It’s intrigued me and I’m starting to investigate it for my purposes too. More on the webinar (topics and schedule) will be coming in the next week or so…stay tuned!…
OKAY UPDATE! My newest resource is now available using the gifting system. Check out the details HERE!
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“Survey says!” (7 second Survey results of 2014)
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A few weeks ago I created this The 7 Second Survey to see who was reading this blog and what you like best.
FINDING #1
I was going to post much more heavily on the thing that brings in the $ in my “day job” this year. I was hoping to get more work and inspire other creators and writers like me.
That’s right, Marketing Communications tips and tactics. But, it appears my reader base is mostly the original one from my first blogging efforts in 2007. Overwhelmingly so.
That’s probably good news, and honestly, it surprised me.
So, I will not discard the topics and theme that started it all!
Once per week, at the very least, I will hit on a spiritual topic. It may be anything from a Christian spiritual practice, to theology, to Christian living, or personal and spiritual transformation and improvement. If that’s how you found me, and that’s why you visit, I’m glad I know better now!
Also, I will be a bit more aware of including my brand of humor, which as you may know, I have determined as “damp”. (i.e. Almost dry humor)
(Please note that unlike many “Christian author” websites, I will very rarely step into the fray of controversy so commonly seen on religious blogs. I just don’t have the stomach for it anymore…for a while now, really. I find it 95% shallow and disheartening. If you like that stuff, you have plenty of options, though, and I hope you find what you like for that.)
FINDING # 2
Another thing I learned is that I don’t have too many folks who come by to read more than once per week, even though I post 2-3 times per week. Now, I’m wondering if I’m writing too much. Maybe. Or maybe you should come back more often!
I’m guessing that there are two possible solutions, or three, to cope with that:
1. I can encourage you, my dear readers, to list the blogs you read through the super handy free reader service called Feedly which houses posts you haven’t read yet. It works like a catalogue of awesomeness. No more bookmarks and time-killing web surfing. You just paste in the websites you like, and boom, they’re all in one place. The best part, no more relying on your memory to visit a few times a week. What a relief! (Can you tell I use it?)
2. I can encourage you to get email delivery through free Feedburner service (top right sidebar)…for no more silly and random blog searches and relying on your memory.
3. Don’t sweat it.
(I’m doing all three.)
FINDING #3
The third question was open ended…”fill in the blank style”. About half of the respondents left something to answer the question:
“What would you improve at the website?”
The funniest one (or whatever) was…
“Use spellchecker.”
As if I don’t.
…Yes. This site is full of mistakes. Typos. Proofreading issues. Editing errors. Etc. I try to hunt them down. I find plenty too late and some not at all.
If you see a problem that bothers you or you’d like to help me out, please use the contact button and let me know. I do like the help. :)
Also, I’m flawed and weak human–awash in imperfections. I’m more creative than I am a good speller or editor of my own work. If I ever have the money, I may hire someone for that. But, I’m doing #3 on this. (The “Don’t sweat it” option.)
In truth, I use this site as a sandbox. I build stuff. I sculpt the messy sand of words. I don’t worry too much. I would be creating posts even if no one came to read them. I cannot help it. At all.
It’s like this:
Sometimes you’ll find a few lincoln logs from the cat of imperfection here in my sandbox, as it were,
but hopefully more often you’ll find that what you’re reading is still worth it despite the shortcomings.
Anyway–
Thank you for reading and journeying with me through these years. I appreciate it immensely.
More great things are brewing!
The next post is here. It’s about the day I turn 42. The photo will give you a chuckle!
xo
-Lisa
On concepts of communal Redemption
First, let’s start with the word deem.
The word deem has to do with regarding and considering.
Also, we often connote this word with giving something worth. It’s a verb after all.
The monarch deemed the knight fit for duty.
That’s the power of redeeming too.
Redeeming something puts the worth back in.
There is hardly anything that won’t improve with some redemption.
How does it happen? It’s not magic at all.
It pivots on the one offering redemption. That can be anyone, king or not.
Individually or communally.
Redemption reaches out. The reinstitution of worth happens after the deficit is noticed, and after the choice to correct it has been made. I should rather say put it right, but more on that in a minute.
In redeeming merit is given, or rather given again. This would presuppose that everything has inherent worth at the onset, no matter what. That’s a salient point.
Sometimes redeeming happens without the prerequisite merit–and that is grace. Redemption and grace make a lovely pair.
You may have noticed that we go around deeming things all the time.
You will deem this short article helpful or a waste before you even get to the end of it, for instance.
The real genius of the concept comes when we realize that deeming and redeeming is always available. Offering it and attaining or receiving it. It more commonly found than you think, but you have to be ready to act. You have to be more than ready, but willing too.
So, one more big point:
There is a mutuality in redeeming. And that first smacks as counter-intuitive.
Redemption benefits both parties involved. It’s a communal because of the fact that is it a restorative act. And because it is restorative, it is just.
Want to start spreading redemption? You can help by sharing this on Facebook and letting it loose in your own life in little ways.
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The Lens of Self
This (below) is audio from you tube of a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace.
Towards the end of Part I DFW refers to the cliché that has richer import: “The mind makes a wonderful servant but a terrible master.”
In Part II DFW avoids blithe encouragement and instead chooses to impart wisdom about culture and maturity, and what a good education gives a person. (Not that one can readily find this at a learning institution these days. But the ideal is worth adventuring for at any age and in any environment.)
He made this speech only 3 years before he took his own life. Chilling qualities aside, I share this with you now because his address to graduates is not the sort of thing you hear at commencements. It’s potently honest and unwraps what it means to “be taught to think”…and what adulthood is really like and other great stuff.
I think hearing it is deeply beneficial and I truly hope you enjoy it, friends.
Part II.
To read the transcript click here.
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