This spring, the first class of young women to earn the rank of Eagle Scout has been making national news. It’s a major accomplishment for them, and at least on the surface, a major step for gender equality. The response however, reveals just how much pervasive sexism still exists in our society.
Being out in front is amazing, but it’s also exhausting. A lot has been written on avoiding burn-out, on work-life balance, and on self-care. I find a lot of that useful – particularly advice about being out in nature and getting exercise and sleep, but in my experience it isn’t enough. So how do you keep momentum when it’s you that you are following?
"Unless you have courage, a courage that keeps you going, always going, no matter what happens, there is no certainty of success. It is really an endurance race."
― Henry Ford
You can’t be an entrepreneur unless you can play pretend. You have to be able to see what no one else can, what could be. We could see a Transition®, wings out, ready to fly.
It’s easy to let your bylaws be a bunch of legal boilerplate that doesn’t seem particularly relevant to the daily functioning of your organization. But they can also form the underpinnings of either dysfunction or of the authority and process that can mature and streamline things for years to come.
I didn’t march because I’m in the middle of potty training my toddler, and I think that about sums it up. ...in the broader context of my life, I made the decision I thought best at the time: I stayed home and chanted “We pee in the potty”, no signs necessary. Since potty training is at once all-consuming and incredibly boring, I’ve had a lot of time to think. So here are five of the reasons I think we as a society still have so much work to do.
We have a chance to choose compassion or hypocrisy. Blue has been asking Red to show compassion and respect for those not like them. Demanding, really. Saying that if they don’t, they are stupid and bad and undeserving of political power. And not surprisingly given that setup, they didn’t do it, but that dosen’t make their fears any less real. ... They are still people worthy of being treated as people. Everything we stand for is hollow if we can’t extend compassion now.
There is work left to me, inherited by me because I am American, because the woman we are here to honor did not have time to complete it, because it is never done. It is my strength, my breath, my blood that must do the next thing. Then she will not have died — and I will not have lived — in vain.
4. Employ one meaning per word and one word per meaning.
My husband is a truly brilliant man, capable of great feats of observation - he can tell you the type of aircraft flying overhead with a casual upward glance, or the make and model of any number of cars on the freeway - so why can’t he see dirt? My answer: because he’s not a housework chicken sexer.
The light in me recognizes the light in you. The light in me recognizes the light in the people doing the harm as well.
One of the first steps is creating a company is creating authority. The more “out there” the idea, the more important it is to pay attention to this step.
Having a birth plan, particularly a natural one, seems to be a punch line. Only naïve, first time moms would ever pretend to have a document that lays out how you want what is perhaps the single most significant event in two (at least!) people’s lives to go. Having a birth plan is cast as demanding, foolish, and maybe just a little much. Well, I had one, I was passionate about it, I did everything I could for months to increase the odds of things going the way I wanted them, and I got it, in all the ways that mattered.
From that moment on and with each breath and blink that follows, you will be more and more you. More and more responsible for your own happiness, your own destiny, your own success and failure. Of course I will be here. Of course I will do everything in my power to give you a good foundation, to teach you what I can, to be the best example I can be. But it will be up to you.
Recently, the FAA released its V1.0 vision for an urban air mobility (UAM) airspace access concept. Essentially, the FAA is proposing to have a series of “aerodromes” connected via “corridors” in which UAM aircraft can operate largely separately from the rest of the national airspace (NAS). Within those corridors, UAM aircraft would be in contact with a Provider of Services for UAM (PSU) which would subsequently be part of a network of PSUs, facilitating the data channels necessary for deconfliction and communication with and between UAM aircraft. Also within those corridors, operations would be governed by Community Based Rules (CBRs), which the FAA intends to approve but not to write. The whole system is intended to accommodate a progression through “crawl”, “walk”, and “run” phases in which the industry is increasing both the frequency (or “tempo”) of operations and the extent of autonomy that is present on the aircraft.