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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten

ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN
(a guide for Global Leadership)

All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sand pile at school.

These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out in the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands and stick together.
Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: the roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere. The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation. Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.

Take any one of those items and extrapolate it into sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your family life or your work or government or your world and it holds true and clear and firm. Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out in the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

[Source: "ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN" by Robert Fulghum].

Problem Solving People:: Severn Cullis-Suzuki

At 12 years old, Severn Cullis-Suzuki stood up and spoke at the United Nations in Rio at their Earth Summit This is leadership in action all at 12 years of age. Very inspiring.

http://www.skyfishproject.org/

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Monday, March 2, 2009

Addis Birhan & Intercept Poverty Problem Solve



Addis Birhan Programme, Educates Youth at Risk about HIV/AIDS prevention and gives Life Skills. Intercept Poverty.org partners with Addis Birhan to gain financial support to expand the program.

This program problem solves and intercepts the trajectroy of life and death situations through youth education. It trains local African nationals, to teach others who teach others and so on. www.interceptpoverty.org

We are inspired at this Problem Solving Initiative on the ground in Addis Ababa, the brain child of our parnter, Connie Dandy, an Australian woman whose been living in Addis Ababa for 20 years.