Just a quickee

Just a stream of thoughts today I'm afraid.  I've been so busy lately and when you are working as basically your own boss, sorta, the time really does start to become the most valuable commodity you have. It reminds me of why my work with the Flow Campaign is so important.  I have really taken the lessons I've been learning from this work to heart.  Time is the premium.

Yesterday I did some initial shooting of a site visit for the Sustainable Rain project for Sustainable Seattle.  The location was on the corner of MLK and Union in a formerly vacant lot that was overrun by blackberries, brambles and broken furniture.  Across the street is a Grocery Outlet, a cafe espresso stand, and a series of houses with no fences, dogs and comic book readers who flip through superhero hijinks while taking drags off of early morning cigarettes.

The neighbors are all behind the new project that is being lead by a fiscal sponsoree of Sustainable Seattle, Green Plate Special.  The project is all about teaching youth about healthy eating, cooking and urban agriculture.  It takes youth who have not had the training and examples of a well rounded diet or even the baseline knowledge of where food comes from or what it takes to bring that food from farm to table.

The Flow Campaign 3/20-3/27 Issue 2

                                   3/20-3/27            Issue 2

The Time Balance Question The Happiness initiative is in full swing and some of the results from the general survey in the Seattle area are now available on our website. The most glaring result was in the domain of Time Balance with the general survey results showing our lowest score.  The most challenging of the nine domains seems to be how to spend the time we have.  So today we will focus on some ideas and actions that will free up some of the most precious of our resources: our time. Americans spend the majority of their waking time at work.  We spend on average nearly nine and a half hours in some sort of connection to work.  We sleep an average of eight hours and the rest of the time we spend in various ways.  The non-work time of six and a half hours is cut into eating, relaxing and such with the largest amount going to watching TV.  We on average watch twenty eight hours of TV a week.  That comes out to about four hours a day. 1.     Give the Television a rest.  Do not have the TV on as only background as we get drawn in.  Only turn the TV on when there is something you wish to watch in particular. 2.     Do some morning routines at night before bed: coffee, showering, laying out clothes, make a to-do list for the next day.  All these activities will free up your morning. 3.     Plan ahead.  This includes making grocery lists, to do lists, and setting goals.  For every minute of planning we can get five additional minutes of work done. This week’s organization to check out is www.crosscut.com This week’s book recommendation is Jane Goodall’s Reason for Hope a memoir that chronicles Goodall’s journey towards peace. Sign up for the weekly newsletter here.		David Brooks Time Balance, Community www.townhallseattle.org Monday, March 21, 2011 | 7:30 – 9pm Lecture: What if everything we thought we knew about human nature is wrong?  The Responsible Business Material, Community www.sustainableseattle.org Thursday March 24, 2011 9:00 AM  - 5:00 PM The Responsible Business is about a new and strategic approach to doing business that holistically integrates responsibility. Congressman McDermott Citizen Chat Governance, Community www.sustainablewestseattle.org Saturday March 26, 2011 10:00 AM  - 11:00 AM Congressman McDermott will be holding constituent coffee hours in coffee shops around the city, and he’s decided to hold his first coffee hour in West Seattle.