April 2010

MM- Pass On Your Passion

by Action Advisor on April 30, 2010

The Mission this Month is to Pass on your Passion!

Remember the first time you held a fishing rod or helped mum bake a cake?

These moments make lasting impressions on the young often sparking a passion or helping preserve a tradition. Sharing your knowledge, experience and enthusiasm with your children can help uncover hidden talents that otherwise remain untapped.

Objective: Encourage curiosity, creativity and confidence in your children by passing on your passion to them.

Brief: Consider your passion, not your occupation necessarily but the pastime which gives you pleasure, speaks to your soul and harbours special meaning or sentimental value.

‘This is the passion to pass on and share with your child’

Making time for moments is more than a matter of shuffling your schedule the value of doing so translates to better communication and connection with your children.

Having said that, not all activities require travel or huge investments in time some simple suggestions include:

Share a love of cooking- make a meal together & transfer your tasty traditions.
Convey cosmic curiosity- pullout your telescope & point out the planets.
Express your enthusiasm for sport- step outside & shoot some hoops.

Maybe you love hiking and could plan a camping trip, perhaps its cars and you could go to a convention together.

Whatever your passion the point is to pass it on, for this is how tradition is born and talent formed.

 

AVATAR Planet Pandora

by Action Advisor on April 29, 2010

 

World’s Smallest Stallion

by Action Advisor on April 28, 2010

The current title holder for worlds smallest horse was until recently held by 43cm tall Thumbellina.

A tiny trotter who has now been trumped by a 6 pound, 14 inch tall, half pinto stallion named “Einstein” born April 22, 2010 in Barnstead, New Hampshire.

Breeder Judy Smith of Tiz A Miniature Horse Farm says, “I have been at this for 20 years plus but I have never seen one this tiny or even close to it.”

WATCH Einstein, the world’s smallest horse.

 

Mountaineer Reinhold Messner

by Action Advisor on April 27, 2010

 

North and South ‘Conquering the Poles’

by Action Advisor on April 27, 2010

Linda Beilharz has become the first Australian woman to successfully trek across both the South and North poles.

Ms Beilharz, 50, of Bendigo, became the first Australian woman to ski from the edge of the Antarctic to the South Pole in December 2004.

Six years on and Ms Beilharz, together with husband Rod Rigato, and Canadian Sarah McNair-Landry, finished a trek to the North Pole.

Starting their journey on February 28, from Ward Hunt Island, the most northern tip of Canada they covered 780km in 55 days and battled blizzards, ice drift and crossed open water.

Linda’s extraordinary triumph is testament not only to her physical strength and courage, but to her dogged determination to cross the vast white landscapes of both Poles!

Linda has established a not for profit company called Journeys for Learning that brings the stories of expeditions to students to enhance learning about resilience, team work and environmental sustainability.