Comments on: Looking over the CA horizon into 2007 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/ Citizen Agency, LLC is an Internet consultancy that specializes in developing community-centric strategies around product research, design, development and marketing. Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:40:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Harish Chauhan http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-10858 Harish Chauhan Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:49:15 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/#comment-10858 Tara congratulations on CA. I loved reading your honest posting about life as an entrepreneur - in many ways I can relate having done that for 15 years. You may recall that we spoke about 2 years ago as I was launching my controversial book Unconventional Business. Having gotten married and launching a book in the same year I did get that overwhelm feeling and derailment of the 'things that matter'. However it is all worth it as I am sure you experience on a daily basis. Again all the best to you and Chris with both your community and client work at CA! H Tara

congratulations on CA. I loved reading your honest posting about life as an entrepreneur – in many ways I can relate having done that for 15 years. You may recall that we spoke about 2 years ago as I was launching my controversial book Unconventional Business. Having gotten married and launching a book in the same year I did get that overwhelm feeling and derailment of the ‘things that matter’. However it is all worth it as I am sure you experience on a daily basis.

Again all the best to you and Chris with both your community and client work at CA!

H

]]> By: Ryan Carson http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-665 Ryan Carson Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:34:58 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/#comment-665 Hey guys! Rock on - I applaud you for moving in that direction. We have noticed a huge difference in our happiness since we forced (and that's the key word - it's still hard to keep myself from wanting to work every day) to work less. Happiness has been abundant :) Here's to a fulfilling and happy 2007! - Ry Hey guys!

Rock on – I applaud you for moving in that direction. We have noticed a huge difference in our happiness since we forced (and that’s the key word – it’s still hard to keep myself from wanting to work every day) to work less. Happiness has been abundant :)

Here’s to a fulfilling and happy 2007!

- Ry

]]> By: Happy 2007 - All together now for an optimistic 2007 » Billions With Zero Knowledge http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-646 Happy 2007 - All together now for an optimistic 2007 » Billions With Zero Knowledge Sun, 07 Jan 2007 07:54:00 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/#comment-646 [...] There are a few great links that have been occupying some of my deeper thinking about happiness and optimism that I’d like to share. My friend Tara started this with her post about happiness and the work they are doing Citizen Agency.  This got me thinking about what I’ve been reading and thinking about why I’m so optimistic and happy. The first is the great collection of answers to the question “What are you optimistic about? Why?” by some of the great thinkers (and some people I’m lucky to call friends) that John Buckman at Edge.org has put together. I’ve spent hours browsing these answers, and could put together a months worth of blog posts discussing various responses and ideas inspired bysome of the great writing here. I suspect that I will visit these in future blog posts. For now the TED blog has a great summary of some of the posts. [...] [...] There are a few great links that have been occupying some of my deeper thinking about happiness and optimism that I’d like to share. My friend Tara started this with her post about happiness and the work they are doing Citizen Agency.  This got me thinking about what I’ve been reading and thinking about why I’m so optimistic and happy. The first is the great collection of answers to the question “What are you optimistic about? Why?” by some of the great thinkers (and some people I’m lucky to call friends) that John Buckman at Edge.org has put together. I’ve spent hours browsing these answers, and could put together a months worth of blog posts discussing various responses and ideas inspired bysome of the great writing here. I suspect that I will visit these in future blog posts. For now the TED blog has a great summary of some of the posts. [...]

]]> By: Adam Kalsey http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-611 Adam Kalsey Fri, 05 Jan 2007 02:36:35 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/#comment-611 While hiring an accountant can remove some of the stress, don't take it to the extreme of not being concerned about the finances. The partners should always be keeping an eye on the money matters. It's fine to push the day-to-day stress of sending out collection letters over to someone else. But make sure you know what letters are going out, why, and for how much. While hiring an accountant can remove some of the stress, don’t take it to the extreme of not being concerned about the finances. The partners should always be keeping an eye on the money matters. It’s fine to push the day-to-day stress of sending out collection letters over to someone else. But make sure you know what letters are going out, why, and for how much.

]]> By: Austin Hill http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-608 Austin Hill Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:50:04 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/#comment-608 Happy New Year Tara. Great post. I spent some time at the holidays thinking about similar things. I reread this great article from my buddy John Perry Barlow, that I feel sums up my view of happiness really well. Not sure if you've run across it, but John's writing always hit's a chord with me. It's called <a href="http://www.eff.org/Misc/Publications/John_Perry_Barlow/HTML/The_Pursuit_of_Emptyness.html" rel="nofollow">The Pursuit of Emptyness</a>. Happy to connect anytime to continue our discussion about how to fund some community research. Best wishes for CA in the New Year. -Austin Happy New Year Tara.

Great post. I spent some time at the holidays thinking about similar things.

I reread this great article from my buddy John Perry Barlow, that I feel sums up my view of happiness really well.

Not sure if you’ve run across it, but John’s writing always hit’s a chord with me.

It’s called The Pursuit of Emptyness.

Happy to connect anytime to continue our discussion about how to fund some community research.

Best wishes for CA in the New Year.

-Austin

]]> By: Evelyn Rodriguez http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-606 Evelyn Rodriguez Thu, 04 Jan 2007 20:55:28 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/#comment-606 Dang, cannot find it on Dan Pink's blog. But I heard Pink speak at IDEO eons ago about his book, A Whole Mind. It's his abundance gap chart, and you got it right. I used to think I could either have money OR time, because I'd find myself with boatloads of one or the other but never both at same time, so I got the idea somehow they were mutually exclusive. But I've changed my tune on that and I'm very open to both simultaneously. I just stumbled into my last year being more about walking the streets and talking to people and mostly being offline. It started when I went to Thailand and Sri Lanka for two months and I found I didn't even miss the computer. I wanted to continue that experience right at home - making time for people and things that mattered to me. I find that when I gave of my time, I get time back. I am amazed how much time I had last year even though sometimes serendipitious meetings would 'blow' my entire afternoon. Maybe it's related to same effect that when we share online, we receive much more than we imagined. I dunno how it works. But I think it's related to abundance-thinking, rather than scarcity....which you guys live too. p.s. I did find: "The abundance gap." Incomes have risen dramatically since 1950, but satisfaction has stayed the same; that's the abundance gap. (When Steve Case puts $500 million into wellness, he's aiming at [the business opportunity of] that gap.) - from http://askpang.typepad.com/relevant_history/2005/04/daniel_pink_a_w.html Dang, cannot find it on Dan Pink’s blog. But I heard Pink speak at IDEO eons ago about his book, A Whole Mind. It’s his abundance gap chart, and you got it right.

I used to think I could either have money OR time, because I’d find myself with boatloads of one or the other but never both at same time, so I got the idea somehow they were mutually exclusive. But I’ve changed my tune on that and I’m very open to both simultaneously.

I just stumbled into my last year being more about walking the streets and talking to people and mostly being offline. It started when I went to Thailand and Sri Lanka for two months and I found I didn’t even miss the computer. I wanted to continue that experience right at home – making time for people and things that mattered to me.

I find that when I gave of my time, I get time back. I am amazed how much time I had last year even though sometimes serendipitious meetings would ‘blow’ my entire afternoon. Maybe it’s related to same effect that when we share online, we receive much more than we imagined. I dunno how it works. But I think it’s related to abundance-thinking, rather than scarcity….which you guys live too.

p.s. I did find:
“The abundance gap.” Incomes have risen dramatically since 1950, but satisfaction has stayed the same; that’s the abundance gap. (When Steve Case puts $500 million into wellness, he’s aiming at [the business opportunity of] that gap.) – from http://askpang.typepad.com/relevant_history/2005/04/daniel_pink_a_w.html

]]> By: Mark http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/comment-page-1/#comment-597 Mark Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:33:51 +0000 http://citizenagency.com/blog/2007/01/04/looking-over-the-ca-horizon-into-2007/#comment-597 It's all been said before, but well said. Great thinking to kick off the new year. It’s all been said before, but well said. Great thinking to kick off the new year.

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