being human means being happy

Let’s look at the trend we are dealing with. The 2012 Batman shooting at a movie theater in Colorado that killed 12 and injured 58 was carried out by James Eagan Homes who is 26 years old. The 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in which twenty children and six adult staff members were fatally

Our desires are growing but not just for greater quantities of things as in the past. What we are experiencing now is a shift in the quality of our desires. So what do people really want now instead of this endless consumption? A feeling of happiness that is less and less dependent on material things.

Our desires are changing and that is why people are starting to be indifferent to things around them. At this new level advertisers cannot yet identify what they can sell to us, or how they can excite and motivate us in new ways. So the advertising industry is facing a challenge. However we need to

Leveraging all means of communication available to us properly, will allow us to access the second part of nature’s program for us. There is nothing more basic, fundamental or significant in our lives than communication. Our entire life is based on connections whether it’s our family, friends and acquaintances, and all of reality that is

It’s that time of year again when the world’s most powerful business leaders and media personalities converge in the beautiful Davos ski resort. Messages from previous years were much closer to the heart of the issue, but we see now that the confusion among the world’s elite about the current state of affairs has taken

2013 will be a year that we look at ourselves from a completely new perspective. On the outside we will look at the world as a much more integral cosmopolitan place promoting new global citizenship awareness. On the inside we will go deeper inside ourselves to discover what makes each of us so unique and

As we head into 2013 it is quite clear that not many leaders understand what is happening in the world at the moment or what our next move should be. But there is a very distinct group with certain values that set them apart from the rest of the pack. So we’ve decided to start

We are great admirers of Cisco marketing and strategy. Every couple of  years they come out with an amazing campaign that really sets the standard for the entire industry. The lastest can be seen in this Linkedin post about Cisco’s Internet of Everything concept by Cisco Chief Futurist Dave Evans where he uses water as

We are excited to announce the launch of this inspiring and insightful new film Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview by our friend Joseph Ohayon. Watch the full movie here: Crossroads: Labor Pains of a New Worldview is a documentary exploring the depths of the current human condition and the emergence of a worldview that

We have been following the Starbucks Come Together campaign very closely and see it as a brilliant and visionary move. Experts are still weighing in on whether it was smart or risky for Mr. Schultz to go out on a limb like this. Despite the negative comments online from the media, I believe this inspiring

“This spirit of connectedness and humanity is powerful; so powerful that if we unleash it, we can make a difference on a much grander scale.” Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz Dear Mr. Schultz, We don’t understand why you are focused on the fiscal cliff issue. Why you keep trying to make an impact on American politics

Despite being one of the richest countries in the world, the UK now has a significant number of its populace facing malnutrition and starvation. Rising food prices, economic decline, pay freezes and unemployment, have seen millions of people in the UK turn to food charities to survive. Many families are being forced to eat cheaper

Major corporations spend millions trying to foresee what the next big thing will be. What our next big desire will be and how they can fill it. We have gotten so carried away with ourselves though in this day and age that we even allow society to tell us what the next big thing will

Talk about creating a good environment for us all to share and interact in together! Our incredible partners over at Urban Movement Design were featured in Bettery Magazine (link to full article with diagrams). The Question and Answer article series joins two creative minds from a range of backgrounds to better understand the transformation of

President Obama is first and foremost a concerned parent as we saw in the interfaith prayer service that took place in the mourning Newtown community. He said something very profound at the end of his speech: “So it comes as a shock at a certain point when you realize no matter how much you love these

This horrible tragic event should have never happened in this beautiful American community. To these incredible and generous educators who tried to pass on good to these children.  We are trying to find answers but if we really want them we need to take a good hard look at the environment our children are growing

“Our world is being dramatically reshaped. The rules of the past no longer apply. In the 21st century, it’s no longer what you do that matters most but how you do it”  Dov Seidman We are big fans of Dov Seidman’s theories about how we need to think, behave and govern to thrive in “the

“In the 21st Century great companies will figure out how to tap into people’s hearts—their passion and their desires to make a difference through their work. Those companies that link these passions to the generation of innovative ideas will have the capacity to sustain their growth for decades.” – Bill George This approach highlights the

You might think that happiness is something ineffable, an elusive state of being that defies quantification and analysis. But over the past decade, Sonja Lyubomirsky and her collaborators at the University of California, Riverside, have conducted many studies that demonstrate that happiness can, in fact, be systematically measured.  (I think it’s safe to say that

Let’s talk about what is happening at work nowadays. Despite all the new means of communication we have all around us, people are actually feeling quite isolated in today’s world. We travel back and forth to work in hours of traffic alone in our cars, we live behind our screens, and come home feeling pretty

At the heart of the never-ending search for enhancing life on our planet is the gender issue.  Men and women are the two forces that the renewal and continuation of the human species are based on. The correct balance between these two forces will bring about fresh results in all aspects of our lives: education,

Sacred Economics traces the history of money from ancient gift economies to modern capitalism, revealing how the money system has contributed to alienation, competition, and scarcity, destroyed community, and necessitated endless growth. Today, these trends have reached their extreme – but in the wake of their collapse, we may find great opportunity to transition to

In 2008 Harvard social scientist Dr. Nicholas Christakis and his colleague James Fowler at the University of California in San Diego created a sensation with their announcement about The Happiness Effect (Time Magazine)  – a 20-year study showing how emotions can pass among a network of people up to three degrees of separation away. So what

To help our children find their way in the new global era and prevent more suffering, we must provide explanations about the new laws of life in our world, and the transformations that have led to them: 1. Our growing desire to profit at each other’s expense has evolved throughout history, causing us to become

There is an urgent need to educate the public about what is happening in the world by promoting new types of content. From this point forward nothing will ever be the same. Economic development is not possible without providing a new education along with it. Government bodies and corporations cannot continue to do all the

Famine is not caused by drought, but rather the incorrect relations in society. Unfortunately, in our current model of egoistic consumption there will always be hungry people. The same can be said about Sandy. Humans must learn the system of nature and make a conscious decision to be in balance with it. One way or another, nature will help