At the end of this video there is a quote by the great anthropologist Margaret Mead:
Never doubt, that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. In fact it is the only thing that ever has.
I first read this Mead quote in the mid 90´s on one of my first journeys to the USA. I loved eating “Ben & Jerry´s Ice Cream” and read through their company brochures in one of their parlors in Georgetown Washington D.C. I still have and sometimes read their brochures about their concept of “caring capitalism“. The second proverb I remember from my visit to their shop is: “If it´s not fun, why do it?“. It was very popular among me and my friends at that time. On one of my later journeys I visited the Ben & Jerry´s factory in Burlington, Vermont including a cemetery for Ice Cream Flavors no longer produced. Today Ben & Jerry´s is no longer owned by its founders. They sold it to Unilever. So there Vision is just a brand of onoe of those multinationals.
A brand is not a mission. But that is a different story.
Ein Video passend zum Gandhi Zitat vor einigen Tagen. Am Ende des Films steht ohne Quellenangabe: “Never doubt, that a small group of thoughtful committed people can change the world. In fact it is the only thing that ever has”. Dieser Spruch ist von Margaret Mead. Das wiederum weiss ich durch einen Besuch in den Eiscreme Salons der beiden Vermonter Freaks Ben & Jerry. Vor vielen Jahren in Washington DC. Ein spannendes Konzept, ihr “caring capitalism“, was sie leider nicht daran gehindert hat, das Ganze an Unilever zu verkaufen, wo die Vision der Gründer doch arg zu blosser Markenpolitik degeneriert.
Vor einigen Wochen bin ich mit meinem Sohn zum Abschiedsmatinee des Burgtheates von George Tabori nach Wien gereist. Taboris Witwe, Ursula Höpfner-Tabori sprach den letzten Beitrag.
Die zehn Lieblingsworte dieses grossen Theatermagiers:
Leben,
lieben,
lachen,
liegen,
warten,
hoffen,
kommen,
flüstern,
schreien,
Wir
We all suffer from information overload. So we only skip the headlines of many of our emails. Today I was fortunate enough to open an email that usually I never would have read. Best wishes for 2008 from TrafficHoopla. Have a look at their website, it is a great help if you build traffic.
But this has nothing to do with their new years greeting. I could not even find it on their page. I will shoot them an email to find out whether these traffic wizards really expressed their own thoughts or used some ancient source. Stay tuned and now without a further a do:
Holy Grail / Fountain of Youth?
Many people who came before you searched for success and never
found it. They genuinely thought of it as the Holy Grail or the
Fountain of Youth - something to be captured at the end of a long
quest. Some believed it was a relationship to be won. Other
supposed it was a desired position to be earned or an object to be
possessed.
However, success is none of those things. It’s not a destination to
be reached. It is a process - a journey to be taken. Moreover, you
do it one day at a time.
It needs most people some time to discover what they were created
for. If you are willing, you can explore the world and constantly
learn more about your purpose every day. You can engage in
activities that gradually help you grow a little more in mind,
body, or spirit. In addition, you can perform some act - large or
small - that generously helps others.
Success is knowing your purpose in life, sowing seeds that benefit
others, and growing to your maximum potential.
The door to your potential is waiting for you. The key is to be on
the journey. Keep at it day in and day out. If you are, you’re a
success today. Furthermore, you’ll be a success tomorrow.
