An American doctor who survives the Tsunami disaster in Thailand returns to bring the healing power of laughter to help rebuild the spirits of the survivors.

I RODE THE TSUNAMI AND RETURNED TO HELP

200,000 souls perished. "I was lucky, I survived," Dr. Daniel C. Susott, wrote to me. Daniel Susott MD, my good friend and fellow social activists story gives us a unique perspective from one who not only survived the catastrophe but one who has returned to make a huge positive difference.

Daniel Susott is not your typical medical doctor. He's an extraordinary adventurer with a lust for life and an insatiable appetite to conquer new worlds as he tirelessly strives to elevate suffering wherever there's a need. I know his remarkable work first hand since we have been collaborating on various humanitarian programs all over the world: summer camps for at risk teens in the USA, providing support for orphans and women in Cambodia, and now on the biggest disaster, the tsunami (

 Business and Heartbreak

By Marilyn Tam

“Violence is what happens when we don’t know what to do with our heartbreak… learn how to allow your heart to break open to embrace the lessons with compassion, not broken into sharp shards that hurt others as well as yourself”

-                     Parker J Palmer, author, educator, and founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal. 

Dr. Palmer directed the above quotation at leadership and democracy, but I think it applies to how you should manage your business and life too. Violence in business and life thankfully does not usually degenerate into physical force, but the above concept is instructive in how we deal with all our challenges. 

When we have a life or business challenge, do we narrow our focus to how we can get out of the immediate circumstance, or do we expand our vision and strategy to learn how we can improve the results for this and other situations?

With a challenge is looming in front of us, it is easy to fall back into a reflexive mode. We want to make the problem go away immediately, but a decision made in haste or from anger is less than ideal. The flight or fight instinct is activated and to respond aggressively or retreat without full consideration of the options, often prove to be worse than the initial situation. 

UPDATE:

We received alot of positive feedback to our posting of Guy Kawasaki's Spring, 2013 talk at the UC Berkeley Startup Competition (Bplan).

The former chief evangelist of Apple and co-founder of Garage Technology Ventures is such a good speaker that you wanted to hear more of him.  He was the keynote speaker at the first Donald W. Reynolds Governor's Cup Business Plan Competition at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond in 2005, and its timeless. 

You can click on the top blue headline to the full story and his video or