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DIGNITY DIGNITY
Dignity is more important than wealth. It’s going
to be a long, long time before we can make
everyone on earth wealthy, but we can help people
find dignity this year (right now if we choose to).

Dignity comes from creating your own destiny and
from the respect you get from your family,
your peers and society.

A farmer able to feed his family and earn enough
to send his kids to school has earned the respect of
the people in his village—and more important, a
connection to rest of us.

It’s easy to take dignity away from someone but
difficult to give it to them. The last few years have
taught us just how connected the entire world is—

a pr******te in the slums of Nairobi is just an
important figure in your life as the postman in the
next town. And in a world where everything is
connected, the most important thing we can do is
treat our fellows with dignity.

Giving a poor person food or money might help
them survive another day... but it doesn’t give them
dignity.There’s a better way.

Creating ways for people to solve their own
problems isn’t just an opportunity in 2015. It is an
obligation.

Jacqueline No.Grata is the founder of the Acumen Fund and
author of the Blue Sweater.

We all need dignity, you can give and receive.

STRENGTHS

Forget about working on your weaknesses —> Focus on
supporting your strengths.

I worked on my weaknesses for 40 years to little avail.
Still “needs improvement,” as they say. Why? Easy. We
hate doing things we’re not good at, so we avoid them.
No practice makes perfect hard to attain.

But my strengths – ah, I love my strengths. I’ll work on
them till the purple cows come home. When we love
what we do, we do more and more, and pretty soon
we’re pretty good at it.

The beautiful thing about being on a team is that,
believe it or not, lots of people love doing the things
you hate. And hate doing the things you love. So quit
diligently developing your weaknesses. Instead, partner
with someone very UNlike you, share the work and
share the wealth and everyone’s happy.

Relatedly, women are rather UNlike men and often
approach problems and opportunities with a different
outlook. Yet books and coaches often encourage us to
adopt male strengths and, lacking understanding, to
relinquish our own. the irony is, studies show that
more women in leadership translates unequivocally into
better business results.

Wouldn’t it make more sense for both men and women
to appreciate each other’s strengths so we all work on
what comes naturally?

Marti Barletta, speaker, consultant and author of Marketing to
Women and PrimeTime Women;see her current book,
Attracting Women: Marketing Your Company to the
21st Century’s Best Candidates

More thoughts from the book "What Matters Now" by Seth Godin and Friends
What strengths do you have and what weakness would you like to get someone else to do? My strength is meeting new people face to face and making them into customers. Love to team up with tech people. Leave your comments.
Wayde Johnston

ENRICHMENT
We are all on a search – a search for more meaning
in our lives.

Through choosing to enrich other people’s lives,
you add meaning to both their life and your own.

Some simple steps to follow:

1. Commit: Commit to lifetime of relationships that
span events, companies, causes and geographic
boundaries.
2. Care: Care for the concerns of others as if they
are your own.
3. Connect: Aim to connect those who will benefit
and enrich each other’s lives in equal measure.
4. Communicate: Communicate candidly. Tell
people what they should hear rather than what
they want to hear.
5. Expand Capacity: Aim to expand people’s
capacity to help them give and get more from their
own lives.

The Litmus Test: If you are truly enriching
someone’s life, they will typically miss you in their
past. They think their lives would have been even
better if they had met you earlier.

You are only as rich as the enrichment you bring to
the world around you.

Rajesh Setty is an entrepreneur, author and speaker based in
Silicon Valley. His blog is Life Beyond Code.

Another great idea from Seth Godin and friends book "What Matters Now"

What are you committed to?

GENEROSITY
When the economy tanks, it’s natural to think
of yourself first. You have a family to feed a
mortgage to pay. Getting more appears to be
the order of business.

It turns out that the connected economy
doesn’t respect this natural instinct. Instead,
we’re rewarded for being generous. Generous
with our time and money but most important
generous with our art.

If you make a difference, people will gravitate
to you. They want to engage, to interact and to
get you more involved.

In a digital world, the gift. I give you almost
always benefits me more than it costs.

If you make a difference, you also make a
connection. You interact with people who
want to be interacted with and you make
changes that people respect and yearn for.

Art can’t happen without someone who seeks
to make a difference. This is your art, it’s what
you do. You touch people or projects and
change them for the better.

This year, you’ll certainly find that the more
you give the more you get.

Seth Godin is a blogger and speaker.
Read his new book "Linchpin"

How are you being generous in today's world?
This is not bragging, it responding with kindness
to a world that doesn't look that way.

Pass this along or leave a comment.

WOMEN
We live in a world that is owned by men, designed
by men and managed by men, and yet we expect
women to participate.

But did you know …

1. Women dominate higher education.
Most college and university campuses across
North America are 60-40 female.

2. Approximately 70% of all American females
work outside the home, and women make up
nearly 50% of the total workforce.

3. During the recent recession, 82% of job losses
befell men, and mothers are the major
breadwinners in 40% of American families.

4. The earning power of women globally is
expected to reach $18 trillion by 2014

If you’re a man running a business, and if the
power and influence females wield hasn’t
completely registered on your radar, well, then,
what we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.

If your store, restaurant, bank, hotel lobby, mall, or
other public space or amenity doesn’t acknowledge
the female factor; if it doesn’t invite women in and
make them feel at home, at ease, safe, hygienic,
respected and in control, if it doesn’t take into
account what women want and expect
(which is different from what men want and expect),
well, then, it’s bad business.

Paco Underhill is the CEO of Envirosell and the author of
Why We Buy and What Women Want.

Posted with permission "What Matters Now" by Seth Godin

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I’M SORRY
I’M SORRY
There’s never really a great way to apologize,
but there are plenty of terrible ways.

If you’re at a coffee shop, and you spill coffee on someone by accident,
what do you say? You’ll be horrified and say
“Oh my god, I’m so sorry!”
When you mean it you say you’re sorry - it’s a primal response.
You wouldn’t say “Oh my god, I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused!”
But that’s exactly how most companies respond when they make a big mistake.

Mistakes happen.
How you apologize matters.
Don’t bu****it people - just say “I’m sorry.”
And mean it.

Jason Fried is a founder of 37signals.
He has a blog and is the coauthor of Rework.

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