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Good News for Humankind 🌏 The world's latest milestones for climate, justice, freedom, peace, health, and more January 13 2025 C.E. REMINDERI am transitioning to a new email address: [email protected]. To make sure you receive these newsletters, please add this new address to your contacts list. Gmail users can learn how to do so here. Outlook users can learn how to do so here. This will help me establish trust and credibility with Google, so is much appreciated! #1 Thailand bans imports...

Claim your change agent archetype Many of us who strive to serve as purpose-driven leaders or change agents (note: I use these terms interchangeably) have adopted what we might call the heroic view of social change. We believe meaningful progress on the greatest issues of our time relies on some superhuman hero taking extraordinary action. But in the real world, change isn’t the result of one or a few special “heroes” doing something superhuman and extraordinary. It’s built on the backs of...

Good News for Humankind 🌏 The world's latest milestones for climate, justice, freedom, peace, health, and more January 6 2025 C.E. REMINDERI am transitioning to a new email address: [email protected]. To make sure you receive these newsletters, please add this new address to your contacts list. Gmail users can learn how to do so here. Outlook users can learn how to do so here. This will help me establish trust and credibility with Google, so is much appreciated! #1 Kazakhstan’s snow...

Good News for Humankind 🌏 The world's latest milestones for climate, justice, freedom, peace, health, and more December 30 2024 C.E. REMINDERI am transitioning to a new email address: [email protected]. To make sure you receive these newsletters, please add this new address to your contacts list. Gmail users can learn how to do so here. Outlook users can learn how to do so here. This will help me establish trust and credibility with Google, so is much appreciated! #1 Finland becomes...

Good News for Humankind 🌏 The world's latest milestones for climate, justice, freedom, peace, health, and more December 16 – 22 2024 C.E. #1 China completes historic 1,800-mile “Great Green Wall” China has finished a 46-year campaign to encircle the Taklamakan Desert with trees, part of national efforts to end desertification and curb sandstorms. Efforts to enclose the desert with trees began in 1978 with the launch of China's "Three-North Shelterbelt" project, colloquially known as the Great...

You can skip the Hero's Journey When we feel the call to purpose, we quite often want our individual impact to be as big, important, and lasting as possible. We want to be the leader of a large, innovative organization; the one with the megaphone at the front of the rally with such charisma; or the inventor of some paradigm-shifting philosophy, methodology, or technology. In short, we want to be the hero. We want to be great. We want to be the one who made change possible. The Hero’s Journey...

Good News for Humankind 🌏 The world's latest milestones for climate, justice, freedom, peace, health, and more December 7 – 15 2024 C.E. #1 ‘Disappeared’ Syrian dissidents emerge from Assad’s prisons after regime collapse As Syrian rebels led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) captured city after city on the road to Damascus, forcing Bashar al-Assad to flee the country, they also opened the doors of the regime’s notorious prisons, into which upwards of 100,000 people disappeared...

The magical harmony of inner purpose and outer purpose The two dimensions of purpose We often associate purpose with outward contribution and impact. We can think of purpose as the intentional, ongoing life path through which we contribute to the greater good and infuse our lives with meaning. To be purpose-driven is to have our life and careers be propelled forward, in part, by a desire to serve something beyond ourselves. But while this outward-facing dimension of purpose is essential,...

Good News for Humankind The world's latest milestones for climate, justice, freedom, peace, health, and more November 25 – December 7 2024 C.E. Hi beautiful people, The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson this week, presumably by a disgruntled customer or employee, shook me. On one hand, health insurance CEOs are among those I have the least respect for. In my mind, the health insurance industry and the healthcare industry as a whole in the U.S. is an absolute travesty of justice....

Purpose, Passion, and Peace: Three Ingredients to a Thriving Life Practicing purpose can infuse our lives with a profound sense of fulfillment. For many, it’s an essential part of leading a thriving life. Yet, we can also overprioritize purpose. We convince ourselves that our lives cannot be meaningful unless we are in a constant state of service, unless our contribution is the only thing we care about. Or we feel the need to constantly make our purpose bigger, more impactful, or more visible...