Comedy Break :o)

Really looking forward to getting our laugh on tonight at the South Bend Morris Center :o)

Green City

A tiny pocket city built from scratch next to a crowded urban center could alleviate some of China’s crowding and pollution problems. A Chicago-based architectural firm designed a master plan for the city, which will be built within eight years and host 30,000 families, or roughly 80,000 people.

Great City will cover just 1.3 square kilometers, or 0.5 square miles. This is about 245 football fields of space. That is not a ton of space for 80,000 people. And that’s the idea--everything is supposed to be so close that you can walk anywhere within 15 minutes.

Here’s a breakdown of land use:

•Total site: 800 acres

•Urbanized area: 320 acres

•Buffer zone with natural landscape: 480 acres

Within the urbanized area:

•15 percent of land reserved for parks

•60 percent for construction of buildings

•25 percent for infrastructure, roads and pedestrian streets

Achieve!

"Show me a person who never made a mistake and
I will show you somebody who has never achieved much."

   

- Joan Collins

Change Resistance

Why do cultures resist change?  Because they are successful.

Why are they successful?  Because we hold onto practices that make us successful until they become habitual.

Why don't we try new practices?  Because it takes energy to learn a new habit.

Why do we need habits?  Because to compete successfully, we must able to instantly respond to the environment; we cannot take the time to think every time before acting. The faster we can react, the more likely we are to survive when confronted with danger.

When do we create new habits?  When we confront a situation where existing habits don't work, we conclude a new habit is needed, and we have enough time to create one.

Why does it take a long time to change habits?  Because if we change immediately every time we encounter a new environment, we will constantly spend energy on changing — energy that we need to survive. And whenever we encounter a new environment, our first reaction is fear. It has to be fear because before we take any action, we must ensure that we can survive. We use this fear to keep us safe.

Sunday Silliness - Underachievement

Err

"To err is human, to forgive divine."

   

- Alexander Pope

Who Knew?

Effort

"He only is exempt from failures who makes no effort."

   

- Richard Whately

Let the Healing Begin

I am not one to gloat, so this will be all you see from me on this.  I am pleased that our President has been re-elected.  I hope that we can start to heal the divide that is so evident in our nation.  I hope that those of you that disagree can agree that we need to heal and come together, this election has surely shown that that is needed more than ever.

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