Gathering & sharing viewpoints

For the past 2 weeks, I was trying to write a new post for this blog, but I could not focus on a single topic. There are just so many things I want to write about and so many extremely, both important and interesting things, happening around at the moment that I failed to narrow my post down to one issue.
Eventually, I decided I would today share some information sources that I value, and some pieces of info that I believe relevant, all that being a patchwork of what is around nowadays.

On Toni's blog,(amazing Aiesecer from Macedonia) I found out about the annual EBBF Conference, from where I learned about the EBBF organization. In short, it is a community of people looking to develop ethical values, personal virtues and moral leadership in their work.
To give an example of the mindset, here is a quote from one of the EBBF members in the latest newsletter "If at the end of my career all I had to show was money, then I would know that I had failed."
That is

Dreaminder is a website where you input, today, a dream that you have. Something you would like to realize, or witness becoming reality, some time from now. You also input your email address, and a date.
On that date, the website will send to your email address what you wrote.
Yes, you got it, it is a reminder of your dream.
I did iin late 2007, when I was still job-hunting, and received my dreaminder on Xmas 2008, exactly one year after starting my new job.
The great thing, you totally forget about it. Then suddenly it is brought back to you, and your thoughts navigate between that past moment, those past expectations, and the present. And you can assess if you have acheived what you had set yourself to.
Or it will also simply remind you of what dreams you had, and serve as an encouragement to always go towards the realiszation of those dreams.

the 1% for the planet project is a US-based initiative for organizations to donate 1% (or more) of their annual income to support environmental causes. It uses the principle that, even in 2009 with a global economic slow-down, the "western world" is able to survive using 'just' 99% of its income, and giving 1% to issues in dire need of funding.
Personal note: you dont have to join that particular project. I encourage you to apply that principle to yourself and donate to causes that are important to you.
Come on, do you really, really need that cream on top of the big cake?


A good friend of mine based in Bangkok, that I had the unexpected luck to see last week, told me that people can be classified in their relation to information: some are gatherers, some are analysers/synthesizers, some will focus on becoming experts in a topic... I'm looking forward to know more about that (Vincent, si tu m'entends...). Today, I act as a "gatherer": I share in a single place information from very different sources. I like doing that, because of the impact it can have on people by broadening their horizon. My next step will be to learn to structure what I share. I think you'll agree I need to work on that ^_^

playlist while writing this post: some Nadasurf, and the "Eye to the Telescope" album of KT Tunstall.