Before inviting a larger group (the current Ning group, where some of you are members already even though it's been dormant for a year) into Wishadoo, I have a VERY SPECIFIC request of my ASAH peeps.
It's a request which focuses on ONE PARTICULAR FEATURE of Wishadoo:
THE WISHLIST.
I've removed test posts and we need to get real, authentic posts to start to populate it (and so the wishlist "feed" on the home page will have something in it; btw, the CRISIS, WHAT I CAN OFFER, and WISHES/DREAMS categories are what feed to the home page).
So, I'm asking you guys to please do the following...as always, only if you're so led :):
Evaluate your current situation, and the situation of those you're close to, and think about what you may need, in this moment and during this time in your life, to lift the burden in some way and/or -- miracle of miracles -- to inject joy and freedom or whatever it is you wish for yourself, your loved ones and friends, your neighborhood, your community, etc.
Do you or someone you know have a crisis that requires something specific -- "real world" specific to ease the suffering, in addition prayers and well wishes?
Please keep in mind that Wishadoo isn't limited to "stuff." Not at all. Please sit with it and ask, "What would make life easier for me right now?"
Is there something that that would make life easier or more enjoyable, not necessarily a critical need?
Is there something you can offer another, which may fulfill their dreams or ease their suffering in some way?
Surely we all have dreams; what would you love to manifest -- a connection, a resource, something -- to help fulfill some of your dreams?I ask you to put it out there. That is what Wishadoo is for...that's the intention of Wishadoo. It's a place where people -- all people who enter with respect, can connect to help make daily life more tolerable, if not more enjoyable, as we go along. If you read through the "about us" sections, you'll learn more about why we started it and what we hope it can do, realizing that it's you guys who will really create it.
There is tremendous potential for good, as the core project has a lot of love and compassion infused into the foundation (and patience! lol).
I'll be working on videos to introduce our vision of Wishadoo to those who have never heard of it as yet, but hopefully it's apparent to this group that our intention is to provide a place to reach out and connect and help one another in a multitude of ways, including ways we haven't even thought of or created as yet.
I realize that since it literally is just starting, you may feel, "Geez, who can help me with this or that? No one is there and I don't want to 'put myself out there like this'."
Yet we have to start somewhere. The more people -- especially the more people who join Wishadoo who are local to your particular area -- the more chances for needs, offerings and wishes to be fulfilled.
That will require patience, but I promise that once we're through this initial week or two of inviting people we know in and working out kinks, I'll put all my energy behind promoting it, and will be asking everyone to invite those they know in; the more people, the more potential for compassionate, cooperative connections.
Craigslist started in one city, for one specific purpose, and now look at it. Wishadoo is indeed created to be a more focused "Craigslist of Compassion."
Thank you, thank you, thank you all so very much. I started a forum discussion category of
FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS where you can chime in about what you like and don't like, what works and doesn't work for you, what you don't quite understand, what you'd like to see more of.
You're helping to create this, and I thank you tremendously for any time and attention you can give to doing so.
(We're working on the Resource Directory this week, as the final programming tweak is done, so I'll introduce that more later; for now, for this specific favor, the wishlist is the focus :))
Just so you know (as I realize it may be confusing), many of THE PIECE PROCESS ideas were originally to be incorporated into Wishadoo. However, it became apparent that it's best to have them as two separate entities -- strategic partners, for the underlying intention is the same, but separate entities.
Wishadoo is very straightforward, with basic tools for people to connect: the wishlist, the Resource Directory, and forums/groups. Boom. Simple, straightforward.
THE PIECE PROCESS is just that:
a process. This is where I can implement a variety of initiatives I've been working toward for 15 years -- and where others' ideas and initiatives can be birthed -- projects which hopefully are instrumental in creating a New Way of being in this world, indeed, recreating this world -- one step at a time.
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