Posted on March 21, 2011 by davidrobinsoncreative
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Daniel locates himself and negotiates the world through sound; he “clicks” and the returning sound helps him identify his surroundings. Daniel is blind. He is an avid cyclist, a world traveler, he hikes… and he does it all through echolocation; what he calls Flash Sonar. He founded World Access for the Blind, a non-profit organization dedicated to a “no limits” philosophy “which challenges blind children (and us) to challenge what we think we know.”
What do you assume about blindness?
Using echolocation Daniel Kish teaches blind children to step boldly into their world; using sound to discover what is around them, the same principle employed by bats; he inspires children to move beyond an identity based in limitation into a life of expansive possibility.
What are the limits you assume? How might your assumptions change if you allowed yourself to walk into your limits, to make mistakes, to learn from the things you bumped into?
Daniel lives it. He teaches it. Truly powerful people are dedicated to inspiring true power in others.
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Posted on March 20, 2011 by davidrobinsoncreative
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Empowered people empower others to succeed – especially when success is understood as a way of being and not a place of arrival.
Conventional wisdom invests in the opposite idea: survival of the fittest, the exploitation of weakness, and supremacy of the few over the many. Survival is the organizing principle of conventional wisdom; community as understood through a lens of dominance: someone must lose.
Instead of organizing around ideas of win/lose, truly powerful people understand that they can only fulfill their potential through supporting the fulfillment of potential in others. Truly powerful people know that there is nothing conventional about life or yearning or dreams. Truly powerful people know that no one lives in a vacuum; individual achievement is a misnomer, growth in any form is a team effort.
What would your life look like if you were thriving?
What would your community look like if every member was thriving? What would your community look like if every member was thriving through the intention of every other member?
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Posted on March 19, 2011 by davidrobinsoncreative
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Although I am in my late 40’s I am among the youngest people on the ship. We are on a paddlewheel steamboat cruising toward Glacier Bay in Alaska. The majority of the passengers stand in a ring on the upper deck; whales were spotted. The captain has stopped the engines, 200 people stand in silence, scanning the water in reverent expectation. The late afternoon air is cool yet the sun is warm. The gulls hover above the passenger’s heads and like Protestants visiting a Catholic church, they maintain an uneasy silence, uncertain of the next steps in the human’s vigil.
Suddenly a whale breaches 100 feet off to the starboard side. And another. And another. It is an explosion of play as if the whales have decided to perform for us.
The portside passengers rush starboard; people are generous, making space for all to see. The assembly hums with veneration, witnesses to something holy.
In the midst of it all I am taken by the thought: why are we so capable of seeing the beauty and feeling awe for the whales and are so incapable of seeing the magnificence in each other? How would we be together in the world if we afforded ourselves the same reverence that we offer to the whales?
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Posted on March 18, 2011 by davidrobinsoncreative
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Truly powerful people are dedicated to inspiring true power in others. They can’t help it in the same way that they can’t help the beating of their heart.
It is a natural response.
Imagine the world you would create if you understood that your worth had nothing to do with your achievements, your actions, or your doing? What world would you create if you had nothing to prove?
Diminishing your self and others is learned behavior.
What world would you embody if your desire was not a response to personal lack but an impulse toward greater wholeness for everyone?
What would be your dedication? What story would you tell?
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Posted on March 17, 2011 by davidrobinsoncreative
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Truly powerful people inspire power in others because they no longer covet power. Truly powerful people know that power is not something that can be given or taken away.
Dictators assume they have power because the people agree with their assumption. Dictators lose the assumption of power because the people no longer agree.
Internal dictators operate and are retired using the same principle. What are your agreements with your self? To what would you agree if you understood that your power was not something to be taken or something to be given away?
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Posted on March 16, 2011 by davidrobinsoncreative
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Truly powerful people inspire true power in others without really trying.
They arouse, encourage, enthuse, motivate, stir, stimulate, invoke,… because they are not protecting anything, they are not shielding themselves against what others might see or think. They have no fear of being discovered because they have no doubt of the authenticity of their intention or motivations. They are open and available without being vulnerable to danger, real or imagined.
They are not at war within themselves so they have no need of warring with others. Imagine who you might become when you at last step off the field of battle?
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Posted on March 15, 2011 by davidrobinsoncreative
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A dark night, 90 feet below the surface of the water, I try to slow my frightened breathing so my air will last a little longer; I am in the belly of a ship that sank before I was born. This is my first wreck dive and my first night dive. “I’m an idiot,” I tell myself.
The beam of my flashlight cuts a path through the darkest dark I have ever known. Once I was in a cave and the guide turned out the lights but this is darker: the water gives weight to the black.
I see only where I point my light. And I interpret what I see in the narrow beam: beautiful, confusing, or scary. It occurs to me that this is true no matter where I am or what I am doing: I see only where I point my focus; I interpret everything I see.
In the belly of this shipwreck I began to understand power. I had my first real recognition of the power of my choices, the power of what I choose to see.
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Posted on March 14, 2011 by davidrobinsoncreative
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It is not through anything they do that empowered people empower others.
This makes sense if you stop to think about it. Really. Stop, and then think about it.
Power is not something you get from the dance; it is something that you bring to it. Power is not something you wield like a sword; power is that which does the wielding. It is not something you possess or purchase or leverage or beg, borrow or steal. No one can give it to you.
When all of the clutter is scraped away and you find within yourself the thing that you so desperately sought from others, what makes you think the same recognition is not also awaiting every human being you will ever meet? Ask yourself, “What is the difference?”
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Posted on March 13, 2011 by davidrobinsoncreative
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Truly powerful people are dedicated to inspiring true power in others because they have come to know themselves as powerful. And so, they no longer need concern themselves with power.
It’s a paradox.
When you cease seeking your power from others you have the capacity to find your power within your self. It is a simple matter of focus placement to see what was there all along.
It’s like the commercial where the guy spends hours looking everywhere for his sunglasses and finds them in the hood of his coat. What would you find if you stopped searching for your power in other places and checked your own pockets?
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Posted on March 12, 2011 by davidrobinsoncreative
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Truly powerful people are dedicated to inspiring true power in others.
It goes like this: empowered people empower others.
Think about it.
How powerful must you be to free yourself of the need to diminish others? No more reducing others to elevate your self. No more reducing yourself to fulfill the mistaken belief that, “you are not worthy.”
What if your worth was no longer in question? What if your value was no longer an issue? What would you do with all of that newfound time and energy that previously was dedicated to bullying your self or reducing others?
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The Direction of Intention 