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Daily Routine of Famous Creative People

August 20, 2014 By Gavin Richardson

Had this shared with me from the folks at Podio, a collaborative work app. They mapped out the daily routines of some of the more famous creative people in history. I see a lot of sleep and leisure mixed in with their creative work. Much of their fitness or workout times were just going for walks. Very few workaholics in the bunch.

Want to develop a better work routine? Discover how some of the world’s greatest minds organized their days.
Click image to see the interactive version (via Podio).

Drive Around Memory Lane

May 7, 2014 By Gavin Richardson

So went to a Methodist Men’s activity coordinate by a buddy. It was billed as a grill out with a chance to check out a church member’s car collection. My buddies have been working to get the UMM resurrected in this church so I wanted to be supportive. Beyond that who doesn’t like a grill out and some cars. The whole evening was a pleasant surprise. There was a big turn out for the grill out, but apparently the real experience came with checking out the car collection. I’ve never known anyone who has a car collection before & now I am probably spoiled.

Just check some of these out.

I was particular captivated with some of the 60’s cars because the interiors reminded me of my dad’s mustang (first car). We had it in the family until the 90’s when the upkeep was too much for him or my brother (I’m no help as a car fixer-upper). Many of these cars had that same interior feel, steering and dashboard layout. It was like a jump back into my childhood.

The Big Payback Today

May 6, 2014 By Gavin Richardson

Today, in Nashville, is a big day for non-profits. Non-profits across the middle Tennessee area are plugged into an initiative through the Community Foundation called, “the Big Payback“. Through ‘The Big Payback’ website you can donate to a host of non-profits doing good works in our area. We know that non-profits are always in need of financial support, at least it seems that way. The work they do is critical to our society as they fill in niche gaps that go un-noticed or ignored by government services. Without them we would find ourselves in a much less human world.

I’m supporting a few non-profits that I’d hope you might join in with me in supporting in the Big Payback.

Project Transformation is a summer (soon to be year round, fingers crossed) reading and wellness program for low-income / at-risk children and teenagers. They set up their programs in l0w-income areas and provide reading support for children and teens so that their comprehension and skills do not diminish over the summer months. In many cases they improve. This group also provides nutritious meals and other wellness activities and education for the participants.

Open Table Nashville is a outcropping of some of the work that was done with tent city, before the floods. This group provides advocacy, relational, and step by step support to our city’s homeless population. They know our homeless. Seriously, they know them, know their story and are trusted by our homeless. With that trust and relationship they work with individuals and couples to get them off the streets and into adequate housing where they can begin lives anew. It’s a beautiful thing.

Miriam’s Promise is a adoption group that provides services for adopting families at affordable costs (offset by their fundraising support). As well as working with adopting families, MP will walk with mothers who are considering putting their child up for adoption from start to finish, and even after finish. They will also do a lot of education support around the community.

Nurses for Newborns is one of those great programs that targets families at a most vulnerable stage, pre-natal & birth. Babies have a lot of needs in pre-natal stages in order to set then up for success. After birth those needs continue, they just change a bit. I’ve always felt if we had better, or more accessible pre-natal and early birth care for each mother & child we’d have a ton less societal issues in coming years. But try and get people to buy into pro-active measures versus re-active measures. It’s a chore, luckily these folks are doing this work.

Go Now and Support The Big Payback

Funny, a Labyrinth in the Middle of the City

August 3, 2011 By Gavin Richardson

So we are up in Seattle for this pest control meeting. I flew up after Youth 2011 & Erin flew in a few days early to check out the town. We are pretty much doing the tourist things in our short time here but one thing I never expected was on the outside of the ‘experiential music project’ and down the hill a bit from the space needle is a huge labyrinth painted onto the cement.

Not sure why it was placed there. They do have a lot of public art in the city. Maybe that is reasoning enough. It had a different vibe than the ones we had in all the Youth 2011 events because this was more like a playground piece with parents and kids racing through the lines.

I suppose everyone encounters a labyrinth with their own experience. It just seemed funny to me.

shalom
-gavin

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Lying to ourselves in Social Media

June 23, 2011 By Gavin Richardson

I was again amused by the publicity campaigns of BeautifulPeople.com who has made news recently for kicking out some 30,000 ‘members’ of their social media site. Last time they did that they claimed it was because people “let themselves go” after the Christmas/New Year holidays and the ‘beautiful people’ were complaining that the site had let their standards slip. This time they are claiming some virus/hack that no one has heard of has added these un-savory people (publicity stunt).

Truth is, we all lie.. and we all participate in lying at some level in our social media presence.

Case in point for me. The photo I use for all my profiles is me and it isn’t altered in any fashion (except cropping) but it is a photo that captures me in a not so fat or sloven look that many others can do. Not to mention I’m reading a book in that photo.. I don’t think I ever actually finished that book & most of the time I read off the Kindle or Kindle iPad app these days, which doesn’t look nearly as studious. Truth is, that pic is something I wish I was a little more of.

I am that at times, but most times I am a bit to heavy that if I think about it I feel less than my best. Reading & being all studious smart happens when I actually have enough energy left at the end of the day of work and parenting to do without falling asleep.. which is rare these days.

I wonder what the world of social media would look like if we all spent more time, maybe not lying, but telling a full truth about ourselves. Would social media become more of a therapy than a social setting.. Do we change the name to ‘Therapy Media?’

Maybe, we really do not want to get so involved in each others lives to handle a ‘therapy media’ culture?.. I suppose if we want that we can pick up the phone and actually talk to someone about what’s actually going on their lives..