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Can Rihanna Inspire You?

4/20/2015

I have found that it is true that you can find inspiration almost anywhere. Obviously really hard life situations can inspire... but just as obvious at times it will not. Lighter less dramatic life or death situations, moments and the arts can also inspire and they should. I feel that if you are willing you can find inspiration everywhere.
This video from RIHANNA does just that. This girl has a very Inspiring voice and not just because of the sound of her voice., although that really helps.

The images paired with the melody and lyrics of this song "Stay, to me, create a fluid inspiration that can wrap around you and truly inspire.

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Asking the right questions...

4/20/2015

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Movie Producer Brian Grazer Explains How Asking The Right Questions Will Make You A Better Boss

When you’re out on location, you can be spending $300,000 a day to make a movie. That’s $12,500 an hour, even while everyone is sleeping. When there’s trouble at $300,000 a day, you want to find a way to convince your stars to help you. You want to draw them in, not order them around.

Back in 1991, we were shooting the movie Far and Away. We had Tom Cruise as the lead. Tom was at the top of his career. He was only 29 years old, but he had already made Top Gun, The Color of Money, Rain Man, and Born on the Fourth of July.

"Can you be the leader with the cast and crew?" Grazer asked Tom Cruise. "Can you set the example?" Tom isn’t difficult to work with, but Far and Away was a challenging movie to get made. It was an old-fashioned epic, a story of two immigrants leaving Ireland for America at the turn of the last century. We shot in Ireland and the western United States. It got expensive, but it wasn’t overtly commercial. When we figured out what it was going to cost, the studio told me to find ways of cutting the budget.
I went to Tom on the set. I said, "Look, you’re not the producer of this movie. But we all want to make it, we all have this vision of a movie we’re doing as artists, a story we care about. It’s going to be expensive, but we can’t spend as much money as it looks like we’re going to. We need to hold the line." I said, "Can you be the team leader here with the cast and crew? Can you be the guy to set the example?" He looked at me and said, "I’m 100% that guy!"

Inspiring...

He said, "When I have to go to the bathroom, I’m going to run to the trailer and run back to the set. I’m going to set the pace for excellence and respect."

And that’s exactly what he did. He led. He was motivated. And he motivated other people.

I didn’t tell Tom what to do. I didn’t order everybody to work harder, to make do with less. I explained where we were. Tom appreciated that I came to him with a problem, that I treated him as an equal, that I treated him as part of the solution. I allowed Tom to be curious about both the problem and how to fix it. Asking for people’s help—rather than directing it—is almost always the smart way of doing things, regardless of the stakes.

Questions can quietly transmit values more powerfully than a direct statement telling people what you want them to stand for. If I fly to Ireland from Los Angeles and start telling everybody that we need to save money, we need to film faster, cut effects, save costs on the catering—well, then I’m just the L.A. executive who flies in with the bad news and the marching orders.

If I sit down quietly with Tom and ask, "Can you be the leader here?" it’s a moment packed with values. We care about this movie. We’ve got to find a way of protecting the integrity of the story while living within a reasonable budget. I need help. And I have so much respect for Tom that I’m asking him to help me solve this problem, to help me manage the whole movie. This is a powerful message, packed into only six words, with a question mark at the end instead of a period.

Curiosity at work isn’t a matter of style. It’s much more powerful than that. If you’re the boss and you manage by asking questions, you’re laying the foundation for the culture of your company or your group. You’re letting people know that the boss is willing to listen.

This isn’t about being "warm" or "friendly." It’s about understanding how complicated the modern business world is, how indispensable diversity of perspective is, and how hard creative work is. Here’s why it’s hard: because often there is no right answer.

That’s why asking questions at work, instead of giving orders, is so valuable. Because most modern problems—lowering someone’s cholesterol, getting passengers onto an airplane efficiently, or searching all of human knowledge—don’t have a right answer. They have all kinds of answers, many of them wonderful. To get at the possibilities, you have to find out what ideas and reactions are in other people’s minds. You have to ask them questions: How do you see this problem? What are we missing? Is there another way of tackling this? How would we solve this if we were the customer?

Questions create both the authority in people to come up with ideas and take action and the responsibility for moving things forward. Questions create the space for all kinds of ideas and the sparks to come up with those ideas. Most important, questions send a very clear message: We’re willing to listen, even to ideas or suggestions or problems we weren’t expecting.

As valuable as questions are when you’re the boss, I think they are just as important in every other direction in the workplace. People should ask their bosses questions. I appreciate it when people ask me the same kind of open-ended questions I so often ask: What are you hoping for? What are you expecting? What’s the most important part of this for you? Those kinds of questions allow a boss to be clear about things that the boss might think are clear, but which often aren’t clear at all.

Indeed, people at all levels should ask each other questions. That helps break down the barriers between job functions and also helps puncture the idea that the job hierarchy determines who can have a good idea.

I like when people at Imagine ask me questions for many reasons, but here’s the simplest and most powerful reason: If they ask the question, then they almost always listen to the answer. People are more likely to consider a piece of advice, or a flat-out instruction, if they’ve asked for it in the first place.

Imagine is hardly a perfect workplace. We have our share of dull meetings and unproductive brainstorming sessions. We do miscommunicate, we misinterpret, we miss out on some opportunities, and we push forward some projects we should let go. But nobody is afraid to ask a question. Nobody is afraid to answer a question.

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INTUITION

4/2/2015

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Below is an Inspiring post from a blog by Lindsey McKeon and a link to The Spirit Science & Metaphysics website. Exploring this info has kind of opened an area in my mind and helped me understand the feelings you get when you are around certain people. I have always wondered about this ... Lindsey draws from a new study that links social anxiety to being an Empath, which means you literally feel what other people are experiencing emotionally. I don't know if I totally believe in all this, but I don't think I have to believe in it completely. I do feel there is something to this. This has happened to me many times and I really never understand why, still don't. The insights from Lindsey and Spirit Science & Metaphysics website give you something to think about.

EMPATHY, INTUITION, AND YOU by Lindsey McKeon
Empathy, Intuition, and You. It took me a while to realize that the awkward, uncomfortable, feelings I felt around certain people and groups were not actually coming from me. Instead I was being overloaded with feeling their thoughts and emotions.
Now I am aware when someone comes into my space how different their energy might feel than my own, or how different that I initially feel around them. This awareness is a little red flag that helps to keep me feeling safe in my own space.
By staying grounded and visualizing a connection to the earth through my feet, I feel more centered. An empathic connection to others is a gift, so long as we don’t lose our own selves in the process.

Spirit Science & Metaphysics - Link:
http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysics.com/new-study-links-social-anxiety-to-being-empath/

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Can Rihanna Inspire You?

Asking the right questions...

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Author - Producer, Director & Photographer Chris Bavelles
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Can Rihanna Inspire You?

Asking the right questions...

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Author - Producer, Director & Photographer Chris Bavelles Inspired by everything.....

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Author - Producer, Director & Photographer Chris Bavelles
Inspired by everything.....