Mark Gehrke's Inspired Brilliance http://www.markgehrke.com Eternal optimist, creative visionary, spinning dreams into action. posterous.com Wed, 19 May 2010 19:31:16 -0700 Storm Sea Kayaking - rolling and waves http://www.markgehrke.com/storm-sea-kayaking-rolling-and-waves http://www.markgehrke.com/storm-sea-kayaking-rolling-and-waves
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I've been getting into kayaking and this video looks like a lot of fun to me. I just picked up a similar kayak and look forward to learning some better techniques. Watching this video is inspiration for me.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/145495/mark44.jpg http://posterous.com/people/4akSbygdHUAh Mark Gehrke kalalea Mark Gehrke Fri, 14 May 2010 07:23:45 -0700 Reading: The Blue Sweater http://www.markgehrke.com/reading-the-blue-sweater http://www.markgehrke.com/reading-the-blue-sweater http://blog.acumenfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/the-blue-sweater.jpg

The Blue Sweater
Bridging the gap between rich and poor in an interconnected world.

By Jacueline Novogratz
Founder of Acumen Fund

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/145495/mark44.jpg http://posterous.com/people/4akSbygdHUAh Mark Gehrke kalalea Mark Gehrke Mon, 03 May 2010 19:15:00 -0700 Nurturing Your Creative Genius http://www.markgehrke.com/nurturing-your-creative-genius http://www.markgehrke.com/nurturing-your-creative-genius

This is one of my favorite presentations on the creative process. From the author of Eat, Pray, Love Elizabeth Gilbert.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/145495/mark44.jpg http://posterous.com/people/4akSbygdHUAh Mark Gehrke kalalea Mark Gehrke Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:38:56 -0700 Pulling the Threads of Factory Farming http://www.markgehrke.com/pulling-the-threads-of-factory-farming http://www.markgehrke.com/pulling-the-threads-of-factory-farming

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Here's a powerful quote from Jane Goodall:

“Michael Pollan likens consumer choices to pulling single threads out of a garment. We pull a thread from the garment when we refuse to purchase eggs or meat from birds who were raised in confinement, whose beaks were clipped so they could never once taste their natural diet of worms and insects. We pull out a thread when we refuse to bring home a hormone-fattened turkey for Thanksgiving dinner. We pull a thread when we refuse to buy meat or dairy products from cows who were never allowed to chew grass, or breathe fresh air, or feel the warm sun on their backs.

The more threads we pull, the more difficult it is for the industry to stay intact. You demand eggs and meat without hormones, and the industry will have to figure out how it can raise farm animals without them. Let the animals graze outside and it slows production. Eventually the whole thing will have to unravel. If the factory farm does indeed unravel – and it must – then there is hope that we can, gradually, reverse the environmental damage it has caused. Once the animal feed operations have gone and livestock are once again able to graze, there will be a massive reduction in the agricultural chemicals currently used to grow grain for animals. And eventually, the horrendous contamination caused by animal waste can be cleaned up. None of this will be easy.

The hardest part of returning to a truly healthy environment may be changing the current totally unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture of increasing numbers of people around the world. But we must try. We must make a start, one by one.”

— Jane Goodall (Harvest for Hope: A Guide to Mindful Eating)

I've been vegetarian for almost 20 years.  It's one of the ways I'm pulling threads and not supporting factory farming.  If you're not already vegetarian Meatless Monday is a simple way to help shift the unsustainable heavy-meat-eating culture. 

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/145495/mark44.jpg http://posterous.com/people/4akSbygdHUAh Mark Gehrke kalalea Mark Gehrke Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:38:52 -0700 How to Start a Movement Have the Courage to Be a Follower http://www.markgehrke.com/how-to-start-a-movement-have-the-courage-to-b http://www.markgehrke.com/how-to-start-a-movement-have-the-courage-to-b


Here's a fun video about leadership, following and how to start a movement.

Have the courage to follow and show others how to follow. When you find a leader doing something amazing have the guts to stand up and be the first follower.

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Do what YOU love! It's super important to success!!!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/145495/mark44.jpg http://posterous.com/people/4akSbygdHUAh Mark Gehrke kalalea Mark Gehrke Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:30:59 -0700 TEDTalks : Dean Kamen: The emotion behind invention http://www.markgehrke.com/tedtalks-dean-kamen-the-emotion-behind-invent http://www.markgehrke.com/tedtalks-dean-kamen-the-emotion-behind-invent
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How can empathy help create new inventions? Watch how Dean Kamen became involved in inventing new limbs for our service men and women.

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Inspiring video showing the relationship in nature and numbers

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/145495/mark44.jpg http://posterous.com/people/4akSbygdHUAh Mark Gehrke kalalea Mark Gehrke Fri, 02 Apr 2010 19:42:49 -0700 Seth's Blog: Failure, success and neither http://www.markgehrke.com/seths-blog-failure-success-and-neither-0 http://www.markgehrke.com/seths-blog-failure-success-and-neither-0
We market and work and connect and create as if just one failure might be the end of us
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A lot of creating is learning through failure. Embrace every opportunity to failure because the experience is bringing you steps closer to success if you treat it as a learning experience.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/145495/mark44.jpg http://posterous.com/people/4akSbygdHUAh Mark Gehrke kalalea Mark Gehrke Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:48:00 -0700 Doing Work That Matters http://www.markgehrke.com/doing-work-that-matters http://www.markgehrke.com/doing-work-that-matters If you pick the right endeavor you ought to be able to do work that matters - Seth Godin

You can play a lynchpin role in pretty much anything you do. If you look at your job as a platform for making a difference you're stretching yourself to leave a lasting impression.

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Today is World Water Day. I'm visualizing clean, pure drinking water for every person on the planet.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/145495/mark44.jpg http://posterous.com/people/4akSbygdHUAh Mark Gehrke kalalea Mark Gehrke Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:27:17 -0700 Joyfulness is Unconditional http://www.markgehrke.com/joyfulness-is-unconditional http://www.markgehrke.com/joyfulness-is-unconditional The meditative mind is the route to joyfulness. Joyfulness differs from happiness. Happiness is conditional; joyfulness is unconditional.

"When you depend on something else to make you laugh, the laughter doesn't belong to you. That's a conditional laugh. But in laughter clubs, the source of laughter is not outside the body; it is within us."

~ Dr. Kataria founder of the Laughter Club and author of Laugh for No Reason. Also check out www.laughteryoga.org

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/145495/mark44.jpg http://posterous.com/people/4akSbygdHUAh Mark Gehrke kalalea Mark Gehrke Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:14:55 -0800 Work Adapted by Nature http://www.markgehrke.com/work-adapted-by-nature http://www.markgehrke.com/work-adapted-by-nature

To find a career to which you are adapted by nature, and then to work hard at it, is about as near to a formula for success and happiness as the world provides.

One of the fortunate aspects of this formula is that, granted the right career has been found, the hard work takes care of itself. Then hard work is not hard work at all.
– Mark Sullivan

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Work becomes joy when in full alignment with your natural gifts, talents and interests. Harmonize these aspects of your being and you're doing is brilliantly inspired.

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The stack of paper would be way to big for all the blogs I read. I am happily using Feedly with Google Reader. How about you?

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These lessons from rock climbing can be applied to success in your life on the ground.

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/145495/mark44.jpg http://posterous.com/people/4akSbygdHUAh Mark Gehrke kalalea Mark Gehrke Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:34:11 -0800 Our Imaginations take us on Infinite Journeys http://www.markgehrke.com/our-imaginations-take-us-on-infinite-journeys http://www.markgehrke.com/our-imaginations-take-us-on-infinite-journeys

~ This quote and illustration is from Hugh Macleod

We are infinite beings on a continual quest for something to believe in.
Belief is unlimited, our imaginations take us on continuing journeys.
Our soul's calling for meaning is like the infinite movement of the ocean.
Calling us forever on.
Enjoy!

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/145495/mark44.jpg http://posterous.com/people/4akSbygdHUAh Mark Gehrke kalalea Mark Gehrke Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:23:37 -0800 Being In Nature http://www.markgehrke.com/being-in-nature http://www.markgehrke.com/being-in-nature

Nature can be a wonderfully grounding presence in us.

If you can just sit there and take in all the things around you and just take in how wondrous this place is, most of the time you can get out of your own way.

Being in nature is my favorite way for me to rediscover my creativity.

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At the center of your being U have the answer; U know who U R & U know what U want.

~Lao Tzu

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]]> http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/145495/mark44.jpg http://posterous.com/people/4akSbygdHUAh Mark Gehrke kalalea Mark Gehrke Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:17:25 -0800 Enable the Divine Purpose of the Universe http://www.markgehrke.com/enable-the-divine-purpose-of-the-universe http://www.markgehrke.com/enable-the-divine-purpose-of-the-universe 'You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are.'
Eckhart Tolle

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