Cindy Mehallow of Triple Pundit has put together some excellent insights about CSR reporting including some great work being done by FedEx and Gap.

Please read Cindy’s blog with the links here.

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Ian
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On the 12th November The Charter for Compassion was offically launched. I encourage you to join me and thousands of people (hopefully millions) in affirming the charter and living its words. It’s just one page. Please read and affirm here.

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Ian
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I came across the following at Persistence Unlimited.com

"80 percent of success is just showing up" —Woody Allen

"I often think about that quotation. It may sound easy to shrug off, but not if you look a little deeper. It doesn't just mean show up for job interviews or to work for an 80% increase in success. Showing up also means ... starting.

"For instance, did you show up at the gym today? Just showing up means you're 80% of the way to a good workout. The hard part of fighting yourself to get dressed in workout gear, dealing with traffic and the worry about pain you might experience is over. Now all that is left is to just do the workout. Pretty simple, huh? Even a child could do it.

"Same thing with opportunity. It's easier to make significant progress on a project if you simply show up to do it. Candidly, one of my hardest tasks of the day is 'showing up' for development Visual Studio. It seems simple enough ... just double click on an icon. But if I think too much about the seemingly 10,000 things I have to do once I launch it, I am much more likely to 'accidentally' launch my web browser or fiddle with e-mail.

"But once I'm in there, the work is typically easy and fun. Some days I can knock out more tasks than I planned. And I feel like a success at the end of the day.

"You can be or do whatever you want just by showing up. If you want to be an author, show up to write your manuscript every day, show up to writing classes, show up to phone calls to editors. Doesn't it make sense that someone who arrives at the door of opportunity has more success than someone just sitting at home?

"So increase your chances by 80%. Show Up!"

I have reflected on this a lot in the past few weeks where I have really been focusing on how I show up and my mantra has been to show up joyful. This has made an incredible difference to my life and work. I agree showing up is a key to being successful. I am firm however that the attitude we bring to our showing up is the real key.

How are you showing up?

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Ian
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I'm currently working and touring the United Kingdom. Compared to what I am used to it is very cold here. The temperature this morning is 7C in Bristol which is cold, when you live in a City (Brisbane, Australia) where it rarely gets so low. The thing is I have been greeted with nothing but warmth from my hosts and business contacts along the way.

I am travelling with my wife Debby and we have been made welcome at business meetings and into people's homes for meals and overnight accommodation. Is this just a UK thing? Is it normal to be made welcome in every place you travel, well in my experience it's not.

I believe the reason is that we have been embraced by our community, our friends in the community and our business colleagues in the community. The amazing thing is that we are currently staying in the home of a business colleague we have never met before. She and I own a Referral Institute Franchise licence and this common interest has brought us together and helped us forge a growing friendship.

We have already shared so much good information with each other, with lots more to come. Community it works!

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Good.is magazine is inspiring reading. Their good 100 is brilliant. I’ll bet you want to go and do something good as a result of reading about their best 100. And I hope you do.

My favourites are
Hilliary Clinton

Ideo and their social impact program

Bundanoon Australia

Bulldozing cities

Cash for grass

Women are the key to development

TED X

Cowpooling

Check out the full 100 here.

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Ian
Founder Differencemakers Community
Partnering passionate people to change what’s normal for the good of people, our planet, and for profit.

Labels: Ian, Innovation, role model