Shane's Uncle Bob is an educator in Nebraska and he connected us with three second-grade classrooms at Linden Elemetary School. This is a well-established school project that helps the children learn about other places and connect with people far beyond their local neighborhoods. These Flat Stanley's travelled all around the island of Oahu and are going home with aloha shirts, leis, and surfboards, thanks to help from our friends Kaile, Stacey, and Eric.
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Tags : beach, beachwalks, children, education., flat-stanley, hawaii, learn, linden, nebraska, oahu, school, travel
I did a show on the latent racist tendencies many of us have a few weeks ago, Beach Walk 707, talking about how deeply racism (and other "-isms") reside. Exploring a little further, if we resist the notion and feel guilty or go into denial, then it lingers. Maybe not feeling so burdened or responsible for things before our time can free us to notice when we are acting under the influence, and choose to act differently now.
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Tags : awareness, beach, beachwalks, change, denial, guil, hawaii, ocean, racism, rox, roxanne-darling, subconscious, unconscious
More and more brave souls are leaving their "known worlds" for life as an adventure, the kind without a job for a safety net. Decades ago the book appeared, "Do What You Love and The Money Will Follow" that really knocked loose some hard -formed notions. Still, barely one generation has grown up with that message, so it has barely made a dent in our global consciousness. Here are some examples of people who are using volunteering as a step in that direction.
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Tags : BJ-Wishinsky, Judi-Clark, beach, beachwalks, career, change, hawaii, income, love, money, rox, roxanne-darling, trust, volunteer, walk
A good example of the non-linear-ness of the process of change is Dr. James Prochaska's, Stages of Change Theory. He describes 5 stages of "change readiness" - each of which is responsive to certain processes or approaches. People who successfully change a behavior, will not usually progress through the stages in a straight line, but more in a spiral, relapsing some and then moving forward again.
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Tags : beach, beachwalks, behavior, change, hawaii, process, prochaska, rox, roxanne-darling, walk
It seems we are taking on more and more complexity and using tools like mind-mapping that allow us to show relationships that are nuanced than a straight line. It's true even with business models, where there are ways to "get paid" by "paying it forward" or helping someone who then helps someone else who then buys from you. Not so easy to be sure, but our brains appear able to handle it!
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Tags : beach, beachwalks, brain, circular, complexity, hawaii, mindmap, roxannedarling, walk
Are you like me? Staying up late working tends to make me hungry. It seems like I am burning calories, and that warrants having a snack. Well, apparently the brain is tricking us a bit by creating a hunger connection without the usual caloric expenditure. So over time, the less you sleep and the more you are thinking the more likely you are to gaining weight! Guess it is time to use my brain to ignore what my brain is telling my tummy. This research was done at Laval University in Quebec.
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Tags : beach, beachwalks, brain, calories, fat, hawaii, health, hunger, ocean, roxanne-darling, thinking, thoughts, walk, weight
I hope you'll celebrate my Dad's 85th birthday with us today. He truly merits the medal for survivor, in so many ways. I never knew what an optimist he was the past few years, and he now deals with five (yes 5) different kinds of cancer, that optimism really plays an apparent role. Let's give a round of applause for Bill Benton!
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Tags : 85, beach, beachwalks, birthday, cancer, challenges, dad, hawaii, optimism, roxannedarling, walk
It's all so common - we get stuck someplace (like Dana Delaney did) and think we are trapped or are dependent on someone else to open the way for us. When in fact, we hold the keys, and they are merely in our thoughts, not so much an external reality. Please welcome Tommy Sea as he leaps across 5000 miles to build a new home here in Hawaii - literally and figuratively. His known world is about to change.
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Tags : beach, beachwalks, change, hawaii, kaile, keys, reality, rox, roxannedarling, thoughts, trapped, unlock, walk
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