@Erin I suppose I’m always looking for the balanced perspective, how any change can be both beneficial and harmful. And adaptation is good for the brain ; )

@Mark Great to see you here Mark! And I’m happy to plug Lateral Action, it’s shaping up to be some really good stuff. (Mark is one of the co-founders, along with Brian Clark and Tony Clark, who I know from TeachingSells. Aparently I’m a sucker for anything they do )

@Robert Thanks for inspiring the post, Robert. You’re right, of course, about the importance of intentionally engaging those values. And you DO need a big red Engage button, don’t you?? I wonder what I did with my development files from making my blue one in the sidebar? ]]> http://www.mindtweaks.com/wordpress/?p=999&cpage=1#comment-30405 whizmo Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:19:48 +0000 http://www.mindtweaks.com/wordpress/?p=999#comment-30405 Ah Social entreprenuership. Its all the buz in Canada. I googled it about a year ago and got several pages of web sites who do this. Companies who've set up divisions specifically to give back to the world. They create seperate organizations and use the creativity of their staff to create these organizations. Some of them have big bucks BUT I have read a few stories about people who started out with nothing and created something HUGE with no personal gain. Very inspiring. You just have to change your perception, and hence your brain. You see what you see, you do what you do and if you always do what ya always done you're always gonna get what you always got. Ah Social entreprenuership. Its all the buz in Canada. I googled it about a year ago and got several pages of web sites who do this. Companies who’ve set up divisions specifically to give back to the world. They create seperate organizations and use the creativity of their staff to create these organizations. Some of them have big bucks BUT I have read a few stories about people who started out with nothing and created something HUGE with no personal gain. Very inspiring.
You just have to change your perception, and hence your brain. You see what you see, you do what you do and if you always do what ya always done you’re always gonna get what you always got.

You made such a great point with the topic of creativity. I’m finding that I am much more adaptive than I previously thought. I’m also finding myself using much more creative solutions to my daily issues and problems now that my resources are a bit tighter.

It is a shift.

Thanks for pimping Engage but even more thanks for the great article.

The following words can be re-ordered to form a sentence: on, it, the, hit, head, the,nail.

Indeed you do.

We are rapidly sliding , effortlessly I could add, into quiescent acceptance of economic change BUT have still got to press the red “ENGAGE” starter button in our brains to begin making earnest efforts to engage all our known values. We need to redefine them to support us going forward and rediscover new values to see us through what will be a challenging future.

I enjoyed reading you say, “Stop fighting your moral and ethical instincts,and start working with them, and let your mind adjust to this developing social and business environment”.

Thanks