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Have you had the experience lately that someone you were talking to really got you and really made the effort to understand exactly how you were or exactly where you were coming from? Most of us have not had that experience - lately. In fact, we probably rarely enjoy the luxury of someone else's undivided attention and a sincere interest in response to the unconscious question "how are you""? I must admit that I am on a constant quest to be heard, but I must also admit that I am not always all that interested in really listening without waiting for my turn to talk or without wanting to defend my position or without hoping to change the subject because I'd rather not deal. Perhaps I don't have because I do not give. Maybe if I listened more I would have the experience myself of being heard. If I slow down and reach out to provide someone else with the gift of being known, perhaps that gift might be returned. Dana DANA DELIVERED! User's Guide: 1) Open up your Dana Delivered! email. 2) Choose an article from the menu on the left hand side or just start from the beginning and read all the way through. 3) If you are reading an article and want to finish, Click on "Read More..." and you will be taken to our website. You can finish reading and while there, have a look around. Note: Dana's Dailies changes, well, daily so come back often. 4) Click on any of the words highlighted in red and you will be taken right to our site, DanaRoc.com. In INSPIRING PEOPLE: Dana talks with Novelist, Sustainability Expert and Executive Director of the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, Roger Saillant. Roger's approach to work and community are a breath of fresh air in a time when we could use a fresh wind! Read Dana's EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Roger Salliant. Take a minute to read DANA'S WEEKLY INSIGHT and make sure that you listen to the AUDIO VERSION as well. There may be someone who needs you to pass that along. Check out DANA'S DAILIES for no other reason than to hopefully smile. And come back and visit the blog all week at www.danaroc.com/dailies. The special article FROM DANA'S GUESTS: this week is Taylor Mork in a more in depth The 100 Years Project response. Check out AUGUSTE ROC'S MY TWO CENTS (For Whatever It Is Worth). There is something in it for YOU! While it may be "Two Cents" but you'll find it's worth a whole lot more. Feel free to email your comments to Auguste at auguste@danaroc.com. This week's THE GOOD LIFE : BOOKS selection is Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs by John Bowe (Editor), Marisa Bowe (Editor), Sabin Streeter (Editor). Everyday stories about the lives of everyday people often times offer the most extraordinary examples of courage and encouragement. Read it! Something useful in THE GOOD LIFE : WEB SITES this week is The Museum Of Online Museums. Check it out! And there's more so sit back, grab a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy. As always, thanks for reading! Stay cool. Be hungry. Never look back. Always reach back. Fear not. Believe always, Dana Where The Brave Dare Not Go
I have always been reluctant to rely on mainstream conversation to dictate for me what is or isn't real. Whether or not everybody is talking about something yet, has never been my measuring stick for what can or can not be. I hear a lot of people say a lot of things. As a matter of fact, a lot of people say a lot of the same things over and over, just because a lot of people are saying that same thing, so that pretty soon, that same thing that everyone has been saying over and over again, begins to determine just how high we might fly or how long we might passively comply with furthering someone else's intention to maintain the status quo. The careless talk that we allow ourselves to agree with and then repeat will profoundly shape the very reality in which we must all ultimately exist. I have always been reluctant to listen to what "everybody" is saying and I remain more than a little bit suspect of anything that "everyone" is saying, crystal clear that anytime everyone is saying the same thing about some thing, mediocrity will surely prevail. He was simply a hockey coach from Minnesota. Just an ordinary guy, living in a modest house on a quiet street, who in the winter of 1980 did, in fact, what many people said, could not be done. At a time when the United States was desperately losing faith, clinging doubtfully to a confidence that the future would be better than the past, Herb Brooks groomed a team of young men to reach for greatness and he challenged them to see beyond simply settling for what common sense and logic would predict. "There is a way. There is a way", is what he would tell those boys again and again until they finally started to believe it too. And, when they took that conversation with them onto the ice in Lake Placid, New York on February 22nd, 1980, like poetry in motion, they succeeded in doing what nobody ever expected they could -- those twenty young men, who were a long shot for a medal, who were only expected to play just well enough so as not to embarrass their country, did what couldn't be done when they beat the best team in the world. Their miraculous triumph over the seasoned Russian team, gold medalist in the '64, '68, '72, and '76 Olympics, stunned a generation and shifted the mood of a nation. Those who were there and saw it first hand, agree that it was more than a hockey game. It was -- A chance for one night, not only to dream, but a chance once again to believe. Imagine. How hard do you have to mentally train in order to discipline yourself to respond only to the sound of possibility? And how determined do you have to be to teach yourself how to hear way past the everyday noise that everyman makes? You've got to be willing to turn a deaf ear in an effort to hear - "You are destined". It would seem that Herb Brooks had always been guided by some higher calling and that he maintained his vision through an unwillingness to hear it any other way. He sustained the courage to pursue by refusing to get sucked into, and caught up with, any kind of talk that would attempt to shut him down. He thought in shades of "born to be" and spoke in tones of "because we can"! And when they routinely told him that the Soviets could not be defeated, he fought back in bold strokes - "Screw them! This is your time! Now go out there and take it!" When they questioned his methods, when they challenged his resolve, when scoreboard after scoreboard threatened to confirm what he refused to concede, Herb Brooks remained faithful to the voice in his heart. He chose to listen to the sound that transmitted above all of the noise, whispering louder than his doubt could shout - then he won. With every word that he spoke and with every move that he made Herb Brooks allowed himself to be driven by what he knew he would one day achieve. And you? When was the last time that you considered tuning out for awhile so that you could discover your own voice? How long has it been since you allowed yourself to be carried away by the sweet sound of what could be, if only you'd believe? Only you can determine what is real for you and what is not, and you are the only one who should ever measure for you how high you can fly, how far you will reach, how long you will endure, what you will listen to and what must be - ignored. Dana Have a great week!
  Novelist, Sustainability Expert and Executive Director of the Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, Roger Saillant
What a pleasure it was to meet and to talk to Roger Saillant. It would have been easy for me to talk to him for hours. He brought such new insight and possibility into my week and I trust that he will bring the same to you! DR: Tell me about the journey that has brought you to where you are today and the kind of work that you are doing. RS: I believe that everything that has happened to me is perfect with regard to delivering me to this point. I have been very lucky to have had some hardships that, while they may not compare to the worst hardships you can have, they were pretty tough. They prepared me that you are more likely to be successful by being optimistic and by being engaging and by being truthful, then you are at being some of the other choices that you could make. I learned that lesson early on and it has really served me well in business. I operate my businesses - my business involvements - with the idea that to the best of my ability, I would tell the truth and with the belief that people want to grow, to learn and to develop. I believe that people want to be part of a community and that they want to belong to, something that is greater than they are. Those beliefs led to the organizations that I was involved with performing exceptionally well. I was able to therefore distinguish myself because of the way people responded to that. In a way you could say that I got carried on their shoulders. That allowed me to have more influence. Where I am today is that I am still trying to catalyze the best in people. Right now I have an opportunity to help people think more clearly about themselves in relationship to the entire biosphere. I think that is important and timely work. I hope that my personal philosophy, the one that has gotten me this far, will help me to help others get further and go beyond. DR: I wish that there was more of you and your philosophy in "the workplace" especially in the corporate arena where the environment can seem so hostile. It would be great if more people were treated in ways that encouraged them to do their best. What do you think about the current climate in corporate America? RS: When people feel more and more threatened or more and more challenged in some way, they cling more desperately to that which they think got them to where they are. So the frantic-ness that we see in business often translates into...
 The 100 Years Project Featured Guest: Taylor Mork
Name: Taylor Mork Age: 28 years old Where are you from: Pasadena, California Where do you live: Brooklyn, New York What do you do for a living: I own a coffee company. I am Co-founder and Co-owner of Crop to Cup Coffee Company. We import coffee from farmers, we sell coffee to roasters and we also have a roasted brand that we sell to restaurants and cafes. When you think about answering the question, "100 Years from now what do you want to be remembered for" what confronts you? Right now we are so concentrated on building a business and becoming a bigger movement - not necessarily a bigger company... Most of my thoughts are about being good to...
 Country First?
What it really boils down to is the basic principles of Math:
It is elementary and something that we learn by third grade, however it is a lesson that some have clearly not learned to employ: Applying divisive methods and tactics while claiming that what you want is to preserve the whole is hypocritical and will ultimately result in a less than result or, in other words - YOU LOSE. On the other hand, Practicing inclusive methods allows you to multiply what you had to begin with and guarantees that in the end - you'll have more than what you started out with, YOU WIN. What continues to divide will diminish and destroy. What includes serves to expand what already existed in the first place. Math 101. That's my two cents (for whatever it's worth). Auguste Roc
 100 Years From Now... Ruka Aderogba
Name: Ruka Aderogba Age: 26 years old Where are you from: Nigeria Where do you live: Brooklyn, New York Occupation: Barista and Nanny/Au Pair 100 Years from now what do you want to be remembered for: I would like to be remembered as a woman who believed in love and who believed in being a great person first. I also want to be remembered as being someone who believed that there is still good in the world, who understood that things will always get better and who was always in a good mood.  MoOM : The Museum Of Online Museums
Why I am recommending MoOM: Because it's all about art and different places to find interesting art and interesting places to find different art. From the web site:
 Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs
Because I am fascinated with intimate peeks into the lives of everyday people. There is so much beauty in the candor and simplicity of human beings and so much that we can learn about ourselves while peeking. Click here to purchase this book.
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If you give up being easy on yourself you might discover who you could become... Dig down and FIND IT so you can show up and – BRING IT!
 
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