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How Do We Balance the Everyday With Social Innovation?
I am a self-employed, mostly stay-at-home single father of a two-year-old boy.
My concerns are mundane: caring for and educating my son, making enough money to get by while he's little, and maintaining some semblance of sanity and self-fulfillment with the free time I have.
I worry about the world and its problems, but truth be told, it's often difficult to act beyond my day-to-day concerns, even if I can see past them.
I do believe in doing little things every day, in attempting to turn social innovation into an aspect of the mundane. I think that these things are important, but for me these things are not satisfying. Nor will they be. I can't look at the everyday problems and not see the massive underlying problems in our collective thought process.
When the majority of a your day is spent working overtime, raising children, paying/worrying about bills, buying groceries, doing laundry, etc, etc, etc... (in short, exhausting yourself) how do you get involved in changing the world in a satisfying way?
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Comment by Ayala Sherbow on March 9, 2010 at 9:57pm
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This is a question many of us wrestle with. Hopefully over the next 8 weeks we can craft some answers together.
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Comment by Milena Kocić on March 9, 2010 at 10:42pm
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I think that the governments want to engage people more and more with various activities that are not so necessary so that people won't have time to consider everything and to think about changing the system. Everybody talks about to-do lists, multitasking and seizing every second of the day, but I think that we need spontaneity in order to be able to perceive injustice and to fight against it.
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Comment by Hanna Brady on March 10, 2010 at 1:54am
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@Milena I am going to add to governments: large corporations and most places with cubicles, and hopefully not sound too conspiracy theory. I think the work place has a lot to do with the multitasking, "I'm always behind" mentality which has people racing around without time to consider the implications of a 40hr work week plus overtime.
Excellent point.
And thank you Ayala for the optimism. You're right of course. ^_^
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ps Damian - vision vote for pointing out the issue. ^_^
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Comment by Deborah Cazden on March 10, 2010 at 2:23am
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es a lot of courage to not only be self employed, but also tackling the issues of being a single parent as well. I am in the same boat. I am a single mom of 2, both with special needs, one with autism. I can relate to worrying about how to help the world while trying to keep your own afloat. I believe that is why I decided to join the EVOKE network. I was overjoyed to find a venue to be able to express my ideas on a medium I could use at my leisure. This gives me the ability to at least get my ideas out there where someone might be able to incorporate them into something that can change the world. If I cannot do it directly because of having to take care of my own responsibilities, I can at least take comfort in the hope that they will still be able to help by someone else using them who does have the time, money and energy to work with them.
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