Powerful shorts do an incredible job of telling a story in a matter of seconds.
For the past couple years, I’ve been following The Buried Life in their journey of changing the world by getting others to dream big dreams, and they’ve become somewhat of an inspiration. These four regular guys came together with Invisible Children and Hanger Clinics to give a girl the opportunity to hug her dad for the first time, and the story is nothing short of incredible. Check it out!
I first came across the Holstee Manifesto a couple years ago and it’s still something that I come back to every couple months to remind myself what’s important. When I found out they made an actual video to go with the words, I couldn’t be happier. Check it out!
| The Holstee Manifesto is a call to action to live a life full of intention, creativity, passion, and community. The LifeCycle Film came about as a desire to bring the energy and passion behind the Manifesto to life through something we love–biking. As we seek to live mindful lifestyles that leave a positive impact on the people and world around us, biking has become a passion that is much more than a transportation alternative. It is a way of fully experiencing the city we love and all of its details.
See more here: www.holstee.com/manifesto
It’s always incredible when a video uses no dialogue whatsoever, but still manages to share an incredible and powerful message. The New York Times and filmmaker Jerome Thelia did an amazing job of capturing a man who turns garbage found around his hometown in the Congo, into a universal object: a soccer ball. In a part of the world that has been war-torn and ravaged with conflict, it’s incredible to see a side of the area that most aren’t exposed to in the media.
|“…children there still play with passion and joy – regardless of what kind of ball they are using.”
As graduation season comes to a close (high school included) I thought it was only right to share this incredible commencement speech by Admiral William H. McRaven at the University of Texas at Austin. Some tips on changing the world:
- If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed
- If you want to change the world, find someone to help you paddle.
- If you want to change the world, measure a person by the size of their heart, not by the size of their flippers.
- If you want to change the world, get over being a sugar cookie, and keep moving forward.
- If you want to change the world, don’t be afraid of the circuses.
- If you want to change the world, sometimes you have to slide down the obstacles headfirst.
- If you want to change the world, don’t back down from the sharks.
- If you want to change the world, you must be your very best in the darkest moments.
- If you want to change the world, start singing when you’re up to your neck in mud.
- If you want to change the world, don’t ever, ever ring the bell.
Really one that makes you think; that makes you reconsider some of the smallest moments of our day-to-day interaction with people. This animated adaptation of George Saunders’ Syracuse University commencement speech, really challenged me to think about every single interaction and how kindness can be incorporated. Give a gander!
This has to be one of the best (and my most favorite) TED Talks that I’ve seen! Retired colonel Chris Hadfield is most well-known for chronicling his life aboard the space station and sharing pictures of earth through social media, allowing us to connect with space in a way that we might not have ever been able to. He talks here about the idea of fear, and how by overcoming it, we’re able to go places we might have never dreamed of.
| “You can fundamentally change your reaction to things so that it allows you to go places and see things and do things that otherwise would be completely denied to you.”
Check out the TED page here!
When news surfaced of the typhoon that hit the Philippines on November 8, 2013, I don’t think anybody was prepared to take in the enormity of the situation. As days passed, more and more information came out of just how bad the situation was and how many lives were lost.
This video was a stark reminder for me of what strength meant in the face of destruction, and just how much we have to be thankful for.