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Activism and Social Change

The Change-Maker’s Guide To Using “Vision Cards” To Create The Life And World You Want

December 21, 2022 by Colin Beavan 8 Comments

A simple stack of handwritten “vision cards” that I look at and work with every day has helped me more than any other personal management tool to achieve goals in every area of my life from being a successful author to helping others to live according to their values to building an income that sustains me to living environmentally to being an effective climate change and social change activist to being a good dad. This post is about how to create and use your own set of vision cards. I hope it helps you as much as it has helped me.

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Career and Work Life, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, How To, How To Be Alive, Purpose and Meaning, Spirituality and Personal Growth

What if, instead of women leaning in, men leaned out?

November 14, 2019 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

For so long, in the cultural discourse, there has been this idea that, for women to advance as men do, women just need to be more assertive–to act more as men act. The question I have always had is: Why would women want to advance as men do? I mean, of course, women want equal pay and equal […]

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Career and Work Life, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Family and Friendship

Dealing With So Much Conflict In Life And Society

July 24, 2018 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

What if, in conflict, we thought as no person is our enemy? What if it is misunderstanding, extreme desire and anger that cause poor behavior? Then, are not misunderstanding, extreme desire and anger are our only enemies? So if we want to stop conflict, shouldnt we reduce misunderstanding, extreme desire and anger?

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, Spirituality and Personal Growth, Zen and Meditation

The science that predicts whether you will make an impact on the world

June 6, 2018 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

it turns out that, according to the science, one of the biggest predictors of whether we have potential is whether we have people around us who believe that we have potential. This post is about surrounding yourself with people who believe you will have an impact on the world.

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, How To Be Alive, Purpose and Meaning

You Are Invited To Join A Special Group!

February 28, 2018 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

Do you care about having a meaningful impact on the world? If so, this is your invitation to be part of a small intimate group of visionaries who support each other in living with purpose and finding their calling but also in self-care, abundance and balance.

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, How To Be Alive, Purpose and Meaning

Want Friends To Hold You To Those 2018 Resolutions?

February 27, 2018 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

What if you had a group of friends who refused to let you fail to achieve your vision for 2018 or any other time? With this blog post, I wanted to help you start that kind of group–a mastermind group–or, if you would prefer, to enroll in my exclusive, facilitated How To Be Alive Mastermind Group.

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, Happiness and Life Satisfaction, How To, How To Be Alive, Purpose and Meaning, Relationships, Family and Friendship

Fierce Compassion: A Workshop About Spirituality And Activism

July 6, 2017 by Colin Beavan Leave a Comment

We all know about accelerating climate change, failing democracy, endemic racism and other dire global news. Should we have hope? Should we be in despair? What, in fact, should we do? How can we respond in ways that make us feel we are taking care of ourselves while actually helping the world? That is the subject of a workshop on Spiritual Activism I’m co-leading with Lama Willa Miller at the Garrison Institute this September. You should come!

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, No Longer Relevant, Spirituality and Personal Growth

A Zen Approach To Deciding Whether To Give To Beggars (Or Anything Else)

May 23, 2017 by Colin Beavan 2 Comments

A Zen student had travelled to India and had become overwhelmed when he gave to beggars there. On the one hand, he had an intention to help in the world. On the other, he wondered if he was incentivizing begging. I did not want to give him “advice,” but instead to offer an approach to decision making that does not depend on the concepts and stories we tell ourselves but that instead arises from our True Self. The approach involves trusting our intuition and then adjusting our actions over and over as we get new information.

Filed Under: Activism and Social Change, How To, Zen and Meditation

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