Valuable Advice . . . Taken With Discernment

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Invent Your Future: Starting With Your Calling

Paul David Walker, Highpoint Executive Publishing, New York, USA, 2015

Valuable Advice . . . Taken With Discernment

Always looking for more material for a workshop I lead intended to help people of faith find their unique “significance” in service, I agreed to review this book.  To that end, I found it served a most worthwhile purpose but I could not swallow all the advice hook, line, and sinker.

Author Paul David Walker has tons of experience in helping professionals succeed. And the material for this book flows out of his strong ability to integrate a process he very much believes in with testimonies from some of his highly successful clients.

Much of what he recommends each of us aim for is most necessary for success (and significance). As clearly stated in the Foreword by John King, author of Tribal Leadership, Walker is also trying to address, “in the background . . . the spiritual quality of leadership in the individual.”  For example, we do need to Know Ourselves. We need to realize that the greatest strength of a hurricane comes from its eye – the very element that is the most still in the entire phenomenon; and thus we must remain calm in our reactions and decision-making, operating from strength.

While he does not call it a formula for “Inventing Your Future”, he does give us five critical steps – Know Yourself (about ‘becoming your calling’ and discovering your gifts and passion), Find the Answer (about mastering the present, embracing wisdom, and using intuition), Paint Compelling Pictures (about conceiving the future and creating high-impact statements), Building Commitment (about inspiring everyone, seeing and feeling possibility, and tapping into imagination and intention), and Responding to Reality (about responding to present reality, cultivating intention and purpose, and gathering the courage to act). A sixth step is really one that is fundamental to all the others and is undertaken simultaneously and throughout the process, namely Mastering Inner Stillness (about achieving ‘command presence’ and getting into the zone).

While most of the book’s other reviewers couldn’t say enough nice things about it (as I tried to), I felt to be true to myself (something Walker himself insists we do), I had to make some different comments.  For example, I found his section on ‘wisdom’ and the need for it very long and not that helpful.  Wisdom is very important and great if you have it, but my experiences tell me you can’t just go out and get it as he suggests.  That is, it’s not a commodity, as knowledge is.  Many people do find their calling without a lot of it, since wisdom is a gift, not a product one just decides to order up a healthy serving of.  Walker seems to require wisdom and its creation, along with wealth and wellbeing as what must be priorities for all who “invent their future”.  I think these criteria may fit many a capitalist today, but they are no longer the majority in our society.  I would have preferred he kept more with the idea of ‘getting knowledge’, which he refers to, rather than expecting all readers to become ‘wise’.  Wisdom is something that would provide us with a definite edge providing it comes from its true source, God Himself, something that the book’s Foreword writer possibly alludes to when he speaks of the ‘spiritual quality of leadership’.

Secondly he spends time talking about working on our consciousness and connecting with our ‘genius’ that Roman mythology defines as our “guardian deity or spirit that watched over each person from birth”.  Walker redefines it as follows: “collaboration with the natural flow that extends from the present, and from the knowledge, intention, and consciousness of an individual or group.  It is achieved through Integrative Presence, which enables you to integrate all the realities of the flow of the moment while simultaneously combining them with the intention of your genius.” It sounds very ethereal to me, at least, and readers that are not into mysticism may find some of it a little hard to swallow.

The section on ‘knowing ourselves’ has some interesting and very true quotes, not the least of which are two by Tony LoRe, Founder, Youth Mentoring Connection, which state, “A person’s gift is just behind their wounds” and “I don’t believe I can burn out if I am always in my purpose.” Walker does a great job of expanding on these thoughts.

Walker also provides us with one of the best discussions on ‘using intuition’ I have read in a long time.  He quotes Don Ross, Chairman and CEO, New York Life, as saying, “Whenever I have gone against my intuition, I have regretted it.” Walker gives us lots of good examples in this regard.

The book is full of very insightful snippets for those of us who want to be better at our purpose and life in general. And for those who are prepared to follow exercises and other recommendations the author suggests at the end of each chapter, there is no doubt one can well improve their chances of ‘inventing their (own) future’ by reading this book.

    -- Ken B. Godevenos, Accord Resolution Services Inc., Toronto, Ontario. 15/10/30  

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Cry, Our Beloved Greece. I had a hard time watching this.

Pretty thorough reporting. Pretty gut-wrenching if you are a Greek, or if you love Greece, and even if you've just enjoyed Greece. The future is just not there right now. Take a look.  Some are predicting a civil war.  I blame the Greek politicians of the last several decades.

BBC News - A look at Greece's financial crisis from the inside

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Why We May All Need an "Apple" to take to School.

I'm passing on this article because I want all parents and grandparents to take notes. This is important stuff. It looks like the Big "Apple" -- no, I don't mean New York City -- I mean Apple Inc. is a pretty shrewd business. Now, they have set their eyes on the "electronic textbook business" and they've got deals with three big publishers that handle 90% of textbooks sold in the U.S. That's big.

Everybody at school will need Apple iPad and then they'll need Apple i-texts to use for their courses; and no, you can't sell them to your kid sister when she takes the same course next year. (Smart of Apple.)

The world is changing. So think about what you're spending your money on . . . when it comes to your kids and grand-kids. They about their educational needs down the road. Think about how this will transform your world and theirs. Think about what all this means for children living in the third world. Here are the details. Would love your views.

Apple iBooks 2: Can Apple revolutionize textbooks? - thestar.com


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US Census: There's Three Times More "90 Years Old Plus" Seniors than there were in 1980. Now 1.9 Million and growing.

Here's your demographics tip of the day. But there are also implications for other aspects of life. For example, the pressures on the traditional "sandwich generation" grows. In fact, the 'sandwich generation' itself is getting older and likely averaging out at age 65. Then there are the implications for medical costs, euthanasia debates, insurance, seniors' care, relations between elders and their children, grandchildren, and even great-grandchildren, and so much more. Take a look at this link for some fascinating data that should get you thinking about how this impacts on you, your parents, your family, and life in general.

News from The Associated Press


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1 Good News Long-term Trend for Dems; 5 Bad Ones. Oh oh, Mr. BO.

My son-in-law sent me this from the US. And it's a most interesting analysis of the implications of some current trends unfolding before our very eyes. Although some of us may be long gone before they hit America fully. But the train has indeed left the station. Take a look. For most of us, it's good news, but not fast enough.

5 Long-Term Trends Working Against The Democratic Party - Page 1 - John Hawkins - Townhall Conservative

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Why Muslim Americans are most optimistic religious group -- Another Look at the Data.

The following article in regular print is a direct copy of what was published by CNN on the website on August 2, 2011 at 10 a.m. ET.   Interspersed in the article in red italics I have added my comments and thoughts as I read this.  Feel free to comment once you read it.

Muslim Americans are most optimistic religious group, study says

By Alan Duke, CNN

-- right away, my reaction was, "well, of course, they're winning more and more freedoms and getting their own way in so many decisions while everyone elses faith and freedoms are diminishing".  Only CNN would put such a positive spin on these results.

(CNN) - Muslim Americans are more optimistic about their future than members of any other religious group in the United States, according to a Gallup report released Tuesday.
"They have generally optimistic and positive views about government, its agencies and the future of America,
-- which government -- the one they want to eventually bring about, complete with Sharia law; is it possible they see America as having a bright future as a host site for a whole new  Islamic State of America?
but they report a significant level of prejudice and discrimination," said Ahmed Younis, an analyst for the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center.
-- and of course they do not like any opposition to their plans and their Islamization of America; they see it all as prejudice and discrimination.
Nearly half of the Muslim Americans surveyed by Gallup said they have experienced racial or religious discrimination in the United States, according to the report, which was compiled by the Abu Dhabi Gallup Center from two years of polling.
-- let me tell you who this group is from their own website: "The Abu Dhabi Gallup Center is a Gallup research hub based in the capital of the United Arab Emirates. It is the product of a partnership between Gallup, the world's leading public opinion research firm, and the Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi."  Consider the source and the agenda.
"The American Muslim story is the American story in many ways," said Younis.
-- Really?  I didn't know.  I think "Uncle Tom" and "Tom Sawyer" and "Abraham Lincoln" was the true American story.
The report assessed the group's perceptions and attitudes and those of other religious groups toward Muslim Americans a decade after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
Polling of Americans of other religions supported the Muslim American perceptions of prejudice, Younis said.
"The opinion of Americans is still divided and the perception of loyalty of Muslim Americans is still questioned by a considerable portion of Americans," he said.
They express loyalty to the United States, but face distrust from a significant minority of other citizens, the report said.
-- Please define 'loyalty'.  Expressing loyalty is no measure of loyalty.  Loyalty can only be said to have existed when one has to go against something that would otherwise not be natural for one to oppose unless they were loyal to something new.  e.g. Greeks in America are loyal to America -- but let the U.S. go to war with Greece and see how many Greeks remain loyal to America.  Another way of putting this is -- loyalty when only be noticed missing when one goes against the entity they expressed loyalty to.  e.g. an employee remains with a company through many ups and downs for ten years or more -- he thinks he's loyal and so does his boss; then he leaves -- was he loyal?  Of course not -- it's just that it suited him to stick around until he no longer could or until he could get something better.  Let's not fool ourselves with our ability to measure 'loyalty'.
The polling found that 69% identified strongly with the United States
-- see above
while 65% said the same about their faith.
"Muslim Americans are thoroughly American in their allegiance and identity and don't see a conflict between that and being thoroughly Muslim," Younis said.
-- let's get real; if the Islamic leaders of the world aim to take over America as they say they intend to, of course, there's no conflict -- they get both America and Islam and an Islamic state complete with Sharia law.
Ninety-three percent of U.S. Muslims said they believe other Muslim Americans are loyal to the country, while significant minorities in other religious groups doubted that loyalty, the report said.
Thirty-seven percent of American Protestants and 35% of Catholics said they didn't agree that Muslims living in the United States were loyal to the country.
Nearly all Muslim Americans, 92%, said they believed that Muslims living in United States had no sympathy for al Qaeda, the terror group responsible or the 9/11 attacks.
-- Agreed, probably true.  But let the terrorists jihadists gain prominence in the United States and see which Muslims stand up to eliminate them or to turn them in.  I don't believe you'll find any if we can go by how much moderate Muslims stand up to jihadists and terrorists in Arab countries.
They are, as a group, critical of counter-terrorism measures imposed since the terror attacks and a large percentage distrust the FBI, the report said.
There is evidence of "a big friction" between Muslim Americans and federal law enforcement, Younis said.
-- do you think?
Just 60% of Muslim Americans said they have confidence in the FBI, compared to 75% or more of Americans of other major faiths, the report said.
While 81% believe it is not possible to profile a terrorist based on demographic traits,
-- what a surprise!   Maybe we should have asked them if they thought that Israelis or Zionist Jews living in the Gaza Strip or the West Bank would more likely be terrorists against the Palestinians than Muslims living there would be?   Let's see what they would say then about profiling.
just 49% of other Americans agree.
"There's a significant percentage of Americans that believe racial profiling is an efficient way of conducting law enforcement activities," Younis said.
Attitudes about racial profiling are also reflected in what Muslim Americans say about prejudice they face. Sixty percent of U.S. Muslims say other Americans pre-judge them based on their ethnicity.
-- I do not believe that anyone should be pre-judged based on their ethnicity.  But I do believe that Islam is not just a religion -- it is a political movement and a religion combined.  The only way for a Muslim in America to not be pre-judged is to "declare him- or her-self openly being against the elimination of any other race and the murder or hatred of any other religion".  Sign that public list in the United States or elsewhere and then demand and get full American integration as a Muslim.  I'd be the first to help many acquire that status.  I would also expect a Christian to sign such a list and to the Christian list.
"At 48%, Muslim Americans are by far the most likely of major faith groups surveyed to say they have personally experienced racial or religious discrimination in the past year," the report said. "The next most likely are Mormon Americans, although less than one-third of U.S. Mormons say this."
Just 63% of Muslim Americans said they feel respected when they practice their religion in public. Eighty-one percent of all Protestants and Catholics and 85% of Mormon Americans said they felt respected.
"There is still a little bit of hostility in the public square as it relates to Muslim Americans and their place in society," Younis said.
Muslim Americans generally feel better off and more hopeful in 2011 than they were in 2008, when a similar Gallup report was produced. While 60% said they were thriving, about the same level as most major religious groups, they are the most optimistic about their lives in five years.
Americans overall rate their future a 7 on a scale of 1 to 10, but Muslim Americans rate theirs at 8.4, the report said.
Jewish Americans ranked as second most optimistic at 8.0, following by nonreligious, atheists and agnostic respondants at 7.9.
Mormans' optimism was rated at 7.8 and Catholics at 7.7, while American Protestants were the least optimistic about the future with 7.4, the report said.
One explanation for their optimism is that Muslim Americans were hurt more than other major religious groups by the recession and have experienced more improvement in the recovery, the report said.
The election in 2008 of President Obama, a Christian with Muslim roots, may be one factor in their optimism, the report said. They give Obama's performance an 80% approval rating, the highest of any religious group. President Bush's approval rating among Muslim Americans was just 7% near the end of 2008.
-- surprise, surprise, surprise
With the exception of Jewish Americans, all other religious groups rate Obama below 50%, the report said.
Muslim Americans represent the most racially diverse religious community in the United States, the Gallup report said.
"For instance, Asian Muslims are easily the most likely in America to be thriving," it said. "Black Muslims report more financial hardship than do white Muslims, and black Muslims are somewhat less likely than other Muslims in the U.S. to be satisfied with their standard of living."
One "intriguing finding" of the analysis is the indication that "frequent mosque attendance might lessen stress and anger," the report said.
"It also takes away from the theory that mosque attendance stokes Muslims' anger and radicalizes them," it said.
-- it all depends which mosque one goes to, doesn't it?
"Rather, Muslim Americans are no different from other major U.S. religious communities who appear to draw peace of mind from their faith."
The Abu Dhabi Gallup Center is a partnership between the opinion research firm Gallup and the Crown Prince Court of Abu Dhabi.

I think this is valuable information gathered by this group -- but let us be careful in how we interpret the results and also how we use them.  Clearly there is a leftish social agenda here that cannot and should not be missed.

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Arab Spring Augurs Global Winter

Some of us tried to warn you. Some of us predicted that the Muslim Brotherhood was lying through its teeth when it said that it had no plans for taking over and leading Egypt. And of course, Egypt was going to work towards true democracy. Not.

Take a look at what's really going down in Egypt and be concerned that western leaders are missing the forest for the trees. No one is keeping score. Take a look at the world map and see how much of it is turning to Islam -- not just to the religion, but to the political philosophy with an anti-west, anti-Israel, anti-Christian agenda, with which they aim to rule the world.

The West needs to think further than the "one-year to go to London's Summer Olympics!" and life goes on merrily attitude they seem to have now.   They need to think what kind of world their daughters and grand-daughters in particular will live in, as they now sit idly by and do nothing.

Thousands demonstrate for an Islamic state in Egypt - The Globe and Mail

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The Rest of the Future Brought to You by CanadianBusiness

We were taking you through eight categories or areas that CanadianBusiness magazine (March 14, 2011) made some predictions about concerning your future.   (See an earlier blog.)  Now on with the rest of the story:

D. On Water and Thirst: Watch Water Standard -- they build desalination ships that produce fresh water with little environmental impact and less energy than shore-based facilities needed; and watch Clearford Industries from Ottawa -- this company improves waste water reclamation by offering an innovative sewer architecture that separates solids before effluent streams hit treatment plants.

E. On Hunger: CanadianBusiness suggests we watch Nelson and Pade from Wisconsin -- it makes aquaponics systems that allow fish and plants to grow together in a soilless, mutually sustaining environment; and watch Plant Impact from the U.K. -- they're developing environmentally friendly technologies that boost crop nutrition and health while improving yields.   And watch science bring farming indoors as we run out of arable lands.

F.  On Videogaming and Business: Companies will work hard to add rewards and levels to all aspects of your daily life to make them more fun and at the same time more addictive.  Buyer beware.  They'll continue bridging the online world with games.  Watch what the restaurant chain Buffalo Wild Wings will be doing to get people involved; take a look at Groupon.com if you haven't already; clothing retailer Moxsie is allowing followers to follow designer meetings by Twitter and is giving points for their input; and watch Microsoft Office with a downloadable add-on (Ribbon Hero) that helps users learn the program's features using challenges and points, and it's integrated with Facebook so you can show-off and compete with friends.   And by the way, did you know that FB's Farmville now has 70 million people (I think that's what they are) addicted to watering virtual crops.  Insanity.

G.  On the Old (Aged): The big news here is remote health monitoring that will, according to CB, help keep seniors in their homes, and costs of care from skyrocketing.  Here are the companies to watch in this category:  Proteus Biomedical (U.S.) -- developing 'smart' pills embedded with sensors to record how one responds to medication and help ensure seniors take pills in proper dosages; Fitbit will track physical fitness including how long it takes to fall asleep, show the data on charts and predict trends for the user; Entra Health Systems makes a Bluetooth-enabled blood glucose monitor that sends data to a mobile device and reminds you when to take a reading; Sensiotec out of Atlanta makes a bed (for hospitals) that records vital signs through the mattress, checks for movement to prevent bedsores, and notifies staff via mobile alerts; and Intel is researching apps that track ones moods and emotional health and send you prompts with stress reduction tips.

H.  On Patience about the Future: CB has identified a problem, though, as great as all these above innovations sound.  They think we've "entered an innovation trough, at least in things that really matter."  (I'll let you read the details on their thinking there when you get a chance to read the actual magazine.)

In the meantime, you now know what may lie ahead in your future -- or at least, as part of your hospital bed when you're next in the hospital.   Speaking of that, I've got a visit there coming up real soon -- so I'll do some scouting for you.   Cheers.

Enjoy the future and pass this blog on to others that may benefit from it.

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One Magazine Has Seen The Future and We Share it With You . . .

I normally don't recommend Canadian Magazines (especially those owned by the Rogers empire) but I must admit the latest issue of CanadianBusiness (CB, March 14, 2011) is one of the most interesting the magazine has had in a long time.

For starters, I think every investor should read their excellent article on China and Its Future -- its not what we're all afraid it may be.  But it's something we should all be afraid of.   Enough said, just find a copy of CB's latest issue.

Now, to the other "FUTURES" in our life -- and I don't mean "futures" as in "futures contract as defined in Wikipedia, "in finance, a futures contract is a standardized contract between two parties to buy or sell a specified asset (e.g. oranges, oil, gold) of standardized quantity and quality at a specified future date at a price agreed today (the futures price)."   No, I'm talking about what's in the future of our lives.   CB's Special Report is well worth looking at.  The report is 13 pages long and the material is broken down into eight major categories.   Let me give you just a few highlights:

A. On Automation: It suggests you watch the player Quanser, a Toronto-area firm replicating the sense of touch through mechanical vibration; watch Dreambots, the Israeli maker of WheeMe massage robot with rubber wheels that massage you and sensors that keep it from falling off the patient's back; and watch Ilshim Global with its Windoro window-cleaning robot, using parts that work on both sides of a window at the same time with the help of magnets.

B. On Mobile communications: Watch the Dutch Layar that transforms a phone camera viewer into a local business portal by just pointing it down the block; and watch U.K. grocery chain Tesco with an app that allows users to generate shopping lists by scanning product ba codes and organizing them by store layout.

C. On the earth's Far North: Watch Arcelormittal, the steel giant that aims to become the first iron-ore mine in the Arctic with a seaport and railroad cost $4B; watch the Norwegian Hydra Tidal group that started testing its floating power plant north of the Arctic Circle that generates power from tides; and watch NTCL, the Inuit-owned shipping company that is fielding more inquiries about export shipments via the Arctic from Asia and elsewhere.

That's it for part one of this topic.  Stay tune for blog two later on today or tomorrow.

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A Day Made of Glass...

I'm 63 years old. I just came home from watching a remake of the movie True Grit -- you know the one that made John Wayne famous for his one-eyed role as a U.S.Marshal (the other was behind a black patch). This time it starred Jeff Bridges and chances are he may well be taking the Oscar for Best Actor. Anyway, I could handle that.  The movie provides some interesting insights into man's depravity when it comes to money and alcohol.  It also portryas a young 14-year old daughter out to revenge the death of her father.  WHEN I discover its redeeming value, I'll let you know.  Bottom line -- only worth seeing for nostalgic value providing your a fan of old John Wayne's. 

Then I come home and my buddy GP from FP (and elsewhere) leaves me this video that you can see in the link below. Now, this blows my mind. I knew Corning and the likes are up to this kind of stuff but as I watched it, I had to ask my self if I was really ready for this kind of future before I'm 70. I don't think I am.  Corning is pushing me though.

Take a look. Pass it on to others and leave us a note of what you think.

YouTube - A Day Made of Glass... Made possible by Corning.

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Here's What We Have to Look Forward To: Iran as Role Model

So, this is what Iran thinks of itself -- especially right now. And many are buying it -- including many in the West. We need to be aware of their intentions and what we have to look forward to.

Fars News Agency :: Supreme Leader Terms Iran's Progress Role Model for Other Nations

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Analysis: The problems Egypt still faces

Another detailed analysis from the Jerusalem Post.

Analysis: The problems Egypt still faces

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No excuse for this Suicide Bomber killing at least 52

It's so hard to understand how this happens with all the security around. As the article points out, or more correctly implies to be asking -- "will Iraq ever be able to stand on its own?" And if not, what does that mean for the United States and its allies, and what does it mean for the world? Something to think about as you ponder the future.

Suicide bombing in Iraq kills 52 police recruits - Yahoo! News

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