Feel Good Friday...Random Acts of Pizza

Feel Good Friday…Random Acts of Pizza

As most of you know I am very big on random acts of kindness. As a matter of fact each of my students is required to perform and write down certain # of acts of kindness for each belt level they attain. This is really good for the world but it is really good for the student. It teaches them to be conscious of kindness and the effects kindness has on the world as well as bring forward the fact that they are kind people. It helps build self esteem and the knowledge of intrinsic rewards…doing things because they need to be done or that you just want to do them rather than only doing them for the external rewards.
This video takes the idea a little further and into a more tangible arena. Random acts of pizza…gotta love it here:
http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2484
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John
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Feel Good Friday...Sister Cyril of Calcutta

Feel Good Friday…Sister Cyril of Calcutta

The amount of good people are doing in the world never ceases to amaze me. I have to admit I have never heard of Sister Cyril. Yet she has changed 100s of thousands of lives. She has taught young people, she has taught teachers who go out and teach, she has influenced an entire city of over 50 million people. Yet we have never heard of her.

Here is her story:

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2551

Education will solve poverty much faster than money. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for the rest of his life.”

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John
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Feel Good Friday...Becoming SomeOne

Feel Good Friday…Becoming SomeOne

This short film by Nick Askew asks some very pointed questions in whimsical and fun way. You are looking for answers but you don’t know the questions! Gee I’ve never been there! You know you have to be someone but you don’t who or how to get there. Great music and a simple message:

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2545

And watch out! You may become someone while watching!

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John
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Feel Good Friday...What is HIP?

Feel Good Friday…What is HIP?

HIP stands for the Heroic Imagination Project. This project, begun and designed by Stanford psychology professor Philip Zimbrado, intends to create a process to identify and foster heroes in the world. The bad guys have ways to creat and foster suicide bombers, torture specialists, and murderers maybe we should start a process to do just the opposite. Let’s seed the world with heroes…people who won’t stand for injustice, inequality, and dehumanization.
Here is the TED talk on his project. This is a great idea. Check it out here:

http://www.karmatube.org/videos.php?id=2243

What are you going to do today heroic?

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