Blogging changes: simplicity desired

I will stop updating this blog and continue writing on my passion for the good customer experience at Steve's 2 Cents. The full reasoning and explanation behind this change can be found here. I thank you for your readership and conversations. I hope you'll continue the conversation at Steve's 2 Cents. Subscribe to Steve's 2 Cents here for RSS or here Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz The passion for good customer experience hasn't ended. It just evolves and adapts to the world!

7 Wonders of Learning

The countdown begins! Join us in our big, hairy, audacious goal to Saturday, 07-07-07 and Listen, Laugh, Learn, Link, Love, Live, and Leap to Wonder Listen — welcome new ideas and every teacher, listening fully opened Laugh — with the positive and uplifting joy others are ready to give you Learn — with childlike curiosity and in a collaboratively jubilant way Link — use others’ lessons learned as a springboard for your own, sharing your knowledge freely Love — tap into your passion for learning, and be of loving heart in your new bonds with others Live — be a shining example of the Lifelong Learner; “Be the learner you want to see in the world” Leap — to a new experience, stretching past the familiar, accepting leaps of higher intuition. Allow learning to transform you, and to bring you to Wonder. This is the BHAG we are leaping toward: On 07-07-07 we are determined to collect at least 777 Learning Links, possibly more. This is a shout-out to all Joyful and Jubilant Learners, readers and writers alike. Will you help us reach our goal? This is what you do: 1. Between now and Saturday, July 07, 2007 take your personal leaps of wonder: - Listen, Laugh, and Learn as much as you can from the collective wisdom online. - Link to this post and spread the good word for us! - If you blog, feel free to grab the smaller banners in our right sidebar to promote the event on your own site, and proclaim yourself as a JJL Contributor. You will be Loving, Living, and Leaping to wonder as you take these first steps! 2. On (or before) Saturday, July 07, 2007 return here, and enter your favorite 7 Learning Links in the comments. They can be from your own site, or from others. Along with each link, designate which of our JJL Learning categories you feel they best fit into, for we will be compiling them on this master page by category: Compilation: 7 Wonders of Joyful Jubilant Learning Our only rule: Keep it positive and clean, in the spirit of our 7 Wonders of Learning, and the aloha spirit this site was founded on by the Ho‘ohana Community. This will be a Learning List for all ages. We only need 111 comments to achieve our goal ... think we could push for 777 contributions? WOW! That would be 5,439 Learning Links; 5,439 leaps to wonder... Let’s go for it!

Rapid Fire Learning - March 2007

It is not an excuse, just a reason, that I am late partly because there has been so much going on. without further ado, here are the five things I learned this March: 1 - The list of books I should, or now want to, read has grown tremendously this month. Usually I'll pick up at least two or three, sometimes four books during the course of a month to put on my list. This month primarily due to the Love Affair with Books, I have exceeded my reading capacity for the next several months. This is a GOOD problem mind you, I am not complaining! The conversations for many of the book reviews were very interactive and insightful. I won't need to keep a separate listing of what to read, it is already provided for. If you have not stopped by the Joyful Jubilant Learning blog, I think it would be worth you while to do so. 2 - I figured out how to officially create a podcast. The audio blogging I had done previously was a good learning experience. A necessary step in the direction of the creation of my podcast for Passionate Runner. You can benefit from my 30 plus years of running experience by tuning into this podcast. Will I stop there? No, a new podcast for my poetry is on the schedule for April. 3 - From several corners, I had come across The Power of Play by David Elkind and it jumped to the top of the reading list. As I got into the book, I realized that a lot of what I had experienced as "good learning" was really nicely explained by David. So much so that I have a series of postings expanding upon several quotes from his book. If you are into learning, and how to learn, this is a good book to read. 4 - I was fortunate to finally meet Phil Gerbyshak in person. After almost two years of conversations, via email, blogging comments, and a few conference calls, we met when he had the opportunity to come to my neighborhood to speak at the local HDI chapter event. I thoroughly enjoyed "taking the blog off the blog" and learning how to "make it great" in person. If you get a chance to connect with Phil, do so. It will be great. Inside tip, be prepared to play a good game of cribbage! My wife will attest to Phil's card skills/luck. And while they were picking on each others cards, I managed to scoot ahead to victory by the barest of margins. 5 - Last but not least, I'll go back to a concert at the Circle of Friends Coffeehouse where we got to hear Garnet Rogers perform. The chorus that still sticks in my mind has a great message for all time. Give your love and never count the cost Lose your heart and never call it lost May your love be your shelter to the ending of your days love is all that is, all that ever was The full text of "All that is" can be found here. Enjoy!