Bittner and Twisted

Vision is not seeing things as they are, but as they will be  Permaculture proverb 12 An email landed in my inbox for an event/workshop.  For the next day.  Whoops.  I didn’t  schedule it.  I can fit it in though.  Skip lunch, push a client back by 15 mins and still get to ride my bike into town.  Again. One ride closer to my zero carbon transformation. Gotta have big goals hey? Now that workshop?  Rejuvenate .  Sounds like a skin cleanser to me.  On further checking I find that I signed up for it awhile back.  It’s run by the guru’s of Social Entrepreneurs at ACRE.   Why me?  Oh that's right I sometimes get grandiose plans of being able to change the world.  Just work on changing yourself first Eric, apply those steps of Transtheoretical models of change . This Rejuvenate thing could be fun so I decided to head along but do the usual -  keep my mouth shut (hard for me to do at the best of times) and sit on ...

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