Matthew’s Blog

New Wordle Resume

Original version available at http://www.matthewrochte.com/resume
Done some tweaking of the resume since I last did a wordle on it. Now it seem more representative.

Wordle of my OpportunitySustanability.com website for sustainability consulting. Cool that it came out in a leaf shape.

Just read an amazing interchange regarding what PR executive said via Twitter on a trip to Nashville to visit his client FedEx. What was originally a post about being careful what you publish via social networking has some interesting twists and turns. The comments are perhaps more of the story than the story itself. Hold off on your assumptions about the article and the comments until you read through them all. In particular read #31 from “Lawyer Dude.” Fascinating.

http://shankman.com/be-careful-what-you-post/

Networks can be seen:
- Horizontally as a support network - to help us bounce back
- Vertically as a ladder - to help us reach new heights
- Diagonally as mutual support society or introduce us to new ways of thinking
- or as I like to see it - a 3D sphere where everyone and everything is interconnected ~ like sustainability. Whatever I do effects in some way what you do and you vice-versa.

My Love of sustainability has overwhelmed my passion for coaching. It is leading me on to manage, lead, teach, and work with a company to see the opportunities in being green, being sustainable. I look toward my network for inspiration and opportunities toward this endeavor and I know that my work will ricochet throughout my network and beyond.

I am looking for a senior sustainability position to call my next home.

Call me for chat, see what I’ve been up to, and to shake our 3D network. Let’s see how we can inspire and help each other.

Take the 16 minutes to watch this film.

A charming, delightful reminder of the impact we have on others.  And, it is a choice.

Validation: A film about the magic of free parking.

Spiritual Cinema Circle has picked it up and is sharing it on their website as well.

As I transition my life this week, this quote seemed apropos.

Life isn’t about how to survive the storm,
but how to dance in the rain.

~unknown author

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real.

It is by the real that we exist;

it is by the ideal that we live.

~ Victor Hugo
found scrolled around top of the
Nelson-Atkins Museum in Kansas City

In the past two days I have just been amazed by talent.   Two remarkable dance performances and one  Montreal street guitarist.

The first dance came from Pilobolus who I was first introduced to several months ago the same way many others did - on Conan O’Brien show or on YouTube - Summer In the City - The shadow play performance.   Shadows of full busloads of people, Statue of Liberty, and even a bust of Conan.

Well, yesterday I was surfing TED for interesting green ideas when I saw their name and had to investigate.  This performance was mesmerizing.   I like dance, but I’ve never seen synergy like this before.  And I love that they were part of the TED conference because of course art belongs in the same category as business and technology.  It is all about innovation and maximizing the human potential and delighting in the world of possibility.  Take a look

Today I was amazed by a Swan Lake performance presented by the Great Chinese State Circus.   The intro is charming as four frogs delightfully romp/leap around the stage.  The swan dance then seems like any other performance I’ve seen and then I take note that she is dancing on top of someone.  At one point she is piroetting on his right deltoid.   AMAZING strength and fluidity.

Lastly, for now at least, on the same website that brought us the Swan Lake performance an incredible guitar tapping musical performance by Erik Mongrain, a Montreal street performer with a critically aclaimed album.

Wow what incredible and beautiful paradigm shifts.  Take artistic standards and their expectations rotate them 90 degrees literally and figuratively and discover a new art-form, a new style, a new awareness, a new thinking.