Dalai Lama Foundation Study Circle Montreal

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. — Mark Twain

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Good News of the Day:
Design thinking is a process of empathizing with the end user. David Kelley, founder of IDEO and Stanford’s d.school design program, takes a similar approach to managing people. He believes leadership is a matter of empathizing with employees. In this interview, he explains why leaders should seek understanding rather than blind obedience, why it’s better to be a coach and a taskmaster and the effects of intrinsically motivating people. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4578

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Be The Change:
Practice being a curious, empathetic person; ask “Why?” questions to help in understanding other people’s perspective.

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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. — George Washington Carver

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Good News of the Day:
According to a 2010 United Nations report, the rate at which forests are destroyed-logged or cleared to make way for farms or mines-was nearly 20 percent lower from 2000 to 2010 than it had been in the previous decade. Huge tree-planting programs, especially in China, reduced the net loss of forest even further. But vast areas are still being slashed, mostly in the tropics, including each year a Switzerland-size area of previously undisturbed, ecologically precious “primary” forest. Most of those trees are burned, and the carbon stored in their wood literally goes up in smoke. However, a new way of measuring the carbon in forests may help keep them from being cut down. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4589

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Be The Change:
Visit your local arboretum. Sponsor a tree. Plant a seed.

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Slow travel isn’t only about the mode of transportation — it’s also about the way you travel. You settle in. You have to go to the grocery store. You get to know the people who run the cafe. It makes for a completely different trip. — Pauline Kennedy

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Good News of the Day:
After spending 18 months abroad, McMillans were inspired to return home to Scotland with as little environmental impact as possible. En route from Singapore, they journeyed across 14 countries over 85 days, using 22 buses, 14 trains, 11 boats and numerous rickshaws. They enjoyed it so much that they started a website to help others do the same — flightless travel. Aircrafts currently produce 4% of Europe’s CO2 emissions but recent research has found that aircraft emissions have up to 2.7 times more impact on the air than ground emissions due to the delicate nature of the upper atmosphere. While “slow travel” is better for the environment, Tom McMillan feels that is also a great way to engage with the world and “savour the moment.” http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4587

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Be The Change:
If you’re planning a future car trip, offer a ride to a stranger by making a posting on Craigslist’s carshare board. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4587a

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Adversity introduces a man to himself. — Albert Einstein

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Good News of the Day:
Growing numbers of attorneys are embracing some form of practice to achieve mindfulness. Their reasons for doing so are varied, but chief among them are stress management and improved mental and physical health. This is a hopeful shift, given the well-known Johns Hopkins study which found that lawyers are more prone to depression than members of any other profession. In the most recent study, Harvard researchers found that practicing a form of mindful meditation for as little as 30 minutes a day for eight weeks resulted in measurable changes in the brain regions involved in learning, memory, emotion regulation and stress. Charles Halpern, a trailblazing public interest lawyer notes that a growing openness to the practice of mindfulness “is making us more skilled and effective as lawyers, more focused, more active listeners, better at helping our clients and serving justice, and doing it in a way that is sustainable.” http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4606

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Be The Change:
Talk with a few coworkers today about how they manage stress. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4606a

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It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice. — Author Unknown

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Good News of the Day:
Joslyn Levell couldn’t wait to get to school Monday. The eighth-grader became the most talked-about kid at Suncrest Middle School in West Virginia, after scoring a date with Chicago Bears rookie J.T. Thomas for her end-of-school-year formal dance Friday. “I’m not used to the attention, but I like it,” Levell said. Joslyn has spina bifida, a condition in which the spine doesn’t properly develop, and is confined to a wheelchair most of the time. Thomas’ 7-year-old brother, Jared, has autism and rides the same bus as Joslyn and it was their bus-driver who envisioned this memorable moment. “After so many people turned me down, this was so big especially, because he asked me instead of me asking him,” Josyln said. http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=4626

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Be The Change:
Reach out to someone with a disability and do whatever it takes to make them smile!

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