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One of the greatest benefits of being an entrepreneur is having the freedom to do what you want when you want… and that can be a bit daunting when you’re actually living it. With focus and proper support through the pillars of success for energy-aware entrepreneuring, you can find your way to freedom.

Following are the six pillars of successful, soul-full entrepreneuring:…

Aristotle coined a phrase – practical wisdom – to stand for the will to do the right thing and the skill to figure out what that is on a daily basis. He considered it the key to happiness, because practical wisdom is the path to fulfilling the two things that matter most – love and work.

To have meaningful relationships and to make a difference through your contribution are the essential measurements of a satisfying life. This goes far beyond mere incentives (like…

I think is possible change our minds to learning faster. How? Simple, training.... for example read about different kinds of things and choose some to study with more attention. After choosen the theme, search more deeply the cause, histories and authors, study sufficient until you obtain a knowledge to present this information for other people. When you finish, choose others things to make the same. You just earn the habit...

When I tried do this first time, sometimes I…

Everything is energy; quantum physicists are proving that daily, and that includes your business. If your business feels stuck or you know it could be better, this is vital information you can use right away. Knowing these triggers as keys to unlocking your business potential can save you time, resources and money by identifying what you might not even recognize as an issue.

Here are…

Resistance is what we experience when we’re getting ready to do something that goes beyond what we know, expect or find familiar. It’s the thing that makes us have bad hair days, get paper cuts, drop the coffee, run late or lose the phone when we’re about to make big change. The ironic thing about it is that resistance shows up even when we actually want the change to happen.

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The word ‘right’ for me means right-brain, which translates to intuitively honoring the optimal choice or investment of time and energy. The right priorities are not always the obvious priorities.

In fact, you may think you need to focus on something but find yourself drawn to something else – afterward, you realize that you weren’t in the mood to do the first one which would have meant you…

Here are some wonderful images of the World Cafe's new logo designer, Gabriel Kurauchi, being honored at the Sao Paulo gathering (where he was gratefully presented with a set of coffee cups with the new logo printed on them). The photos were taken by event co-organizer Marcela (Marxe) Urteaga.

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Today we are spending the day with people from the Wisenet consulting group from Brasil, some of their clients and some of their providers…

The last couple of days we have been opening our exploration and learning space to a broader community, yesterday we shared with a network of “friends of the world Café” exploring together with them the following questions:

1st QUESTION::: What are the unique contributions that…

Despues de hacer esta presentacion estuvimos listos para disfrutar las delicias de la gastronomia brasilenia. Y para energizarnos, Edgard nos guio durante un ejercicio de danzas circulares. Nos hablo despues de la armonia generada por la danza y la musica, como durante el baile la gente no se molesta, incluso si comete errores. Solo practica y sigue practicando hasta que baila bien.

After the introductions, we were…

Rica comida, calidas sonrisas, alegre musica y amigos de toda America... asi es como iniciamos cada dia en el Primer Encuentro de la Comunidad Latina del World Cafe.

Great food, warm smiles, happy music and friends from all the continent... that's how we start each day at the First Latin America World Cafe gathering.

Con la intencion de traerme un poco de sol en la maleta y calor en el corazon…

Here is our second update from the Latin american World Cafe gathering in Sao Paulo Brasil!

As an introduction to this gathering Juanita shared a metaphor of how she experiences what happens at the world café and also some other social technologies such as open space, appreciative enquiry, art of…

Dear World Cafe Community.

I will be doing a daily post with updates from our Sao Paulo gathering. Follow this space and join us through the internet and the power of our common purpose.

And the day finally came! The first Latin American World Café Gathering.

Here we are! We are in Sao Paulo, surrounded by nature, blessed by the sun and by the company, experiences and conversations of extremely inspiring people who together are trying to better…

Creating a positive future begins in human conversation. The simplest and most powerful investment any member of a community or an organization may make in renewal is to begin talking with other people as though the answers mattered.

– From Who Will Tell the People? by William Greider

Adapted from…

“Citizens, in their capacity to come together and

choose to be accountable, are our best shot

at making…