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For the first time ever, I've made it to the final exercises in Josh Spodek's Initiative book on bringing your passions to life. It took four rounds of going back to square one and building up a project and over 4 years, but I finally found
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For Exercise 8, the goal was to come up with a spreadsheet detailing out the financials for The Campfire (still my working title for this event!), per my visual model from Exercise 7. I started out basic and tried not to add any of the extra stuff like sound/lighting
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The purpose of Exercise 6 of Method Initiative was to get more advice, but this time from people "closer to your field." This means we're going a step beyond friends and family to people who may actually have some experience in the field of your project.
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If you've been following my Initiative exercises this time around, you might be wondering where my Exercise 6 reflection is. The answer is: I'm still working on exercise 6, since getting 10 people who can give me advice on my project takes some time. Because finishing
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The goal of Initiative Exercise 5 was to find 5 people who feel the problem my project describes and hear the problem in their words, not mine. Initially, when I started looking for people who possibly feel the problem I described, I assumed I'd be talking to just
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Project Reminder In case you were trying to remember what my newly select project was… Problem: Environmental conversations carry a stigma that hinders people from discussing their feelings of joy about nature, and horror, alarm, and grief over it's destruction. In the end, they just end up feeling
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UPDATE: I just realized I accidentally did exercises 2 and 3 together before writing this reflection. Whoops. Changed the title and graphic to account for it! For the last Initiative project I did, I was focused on trying to find something that would align with my work, figuring that if
books
Alarmed by the surge in climate-related disasters, a growing number of Americans are asking “What can I do to help?” Lawrence MacDonald’s new book, Am I Too Old to Save the Planet? A Boomer’s Guide to Climate Action offers unexpected answers for the 70 million boomers--people born from
eco living
Got milk? Heck yeah, I do. But it doesn't come from these: I mean, honestly, when you really think about it, the idea of drinking milk is pretty gross right from the start. Come on, would you drink your mother's breastmilk right now? How about your
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The goal of Initiative Exercise 4 was to ask 10 family and friends for advice on your chosen project. In a bit of a turn of events, I started to do this, but within a few interviews, I decided that my chosen project from Exercise 3 was not right for
Green Tech
Sara Turner, Sustainability Manager at Nexii Building Solutions is back to talk about how her challenge went that she decided to take on during our first recording. Was she able to take the plunge? Listen in and find out! Find Sara Turner and Nexii online: * The Nexii Homepage * Sara Turner
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Post-Exercise Reflection The purpose of Initiative Exercise #3 is to reach out to the people you are most comfortable with (and therefore easiest to ask something of) and to ask them for advice on your 5 problem/solution pairs. Also important is working on a few skills as you do: