Hi Human. You are Awesome!

In this museletter: mistakes, salary negotiation, desire, and more…

Oakland/Ohlone Territory, CA, USA | Thursday, March 18th, 2021

Yaaron (‘friends’ in Hindi, think pals!), the three things worth sharing are:

1. Procrastination can be fear in disguise

Since my last expedition, I have spent a lot of time in terror. Terror of ‘why the heck did I put myself to this task?’

Why so much creative angst? Because I found the following in my last museletter:

This mistake was plaguing my system with fear. This brings me to my second point.

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2. My mistakes are teachers with a dark sense of humor

Mistakes are commonplace. I have lived my whole life with manic mistake-phobia. Gladly, I have slowly learnt to see them as the default setting of being human, albeit a humorous setting. I decided to map this journey from mistake-phobia to mistake-philia. The map follows and my musings on it can be found here:

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3. Salary Negotiations are not about money or value

I recently asked for a promotion, a new title and 40% raise at my job. Basically I tried to pull a Jerry Maguire...

And in this process I learnt salary negotiations are all about leverage, power and confidence. Read about my 7 tips on how I almost got what I wanted -- I got the promotion, the title and a good raise. 🤩

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EMERGENCE

from fellow readers of the last expedition

• One expeditioner shared two books on love: Tolstoy’s The Law of Love and the Law of Violence & David Suzuki's The Sacred Balance in response to my reflections on love.
• Another pal shared how one’s Clue game could be upgraded- Taking Charge of your Fertility​
• Many of you found my musings on citizenship resonant and shared your own stories of immigration from multiple generations which reflected the complexity of the grief, gratitude as well as national loyalty.

Thanks for the conversations and share backs, keep ‘em coming! 😍

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Mansi’s Commentary: What I love most about this app is that they encourage positive remarks as well as those for further improvement!

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COUPLE OF QUICKIES

1. Cool shenanigans, cool people are up to: #systemstransformation #regenerativeinnovation!

Wanna be on the edge? My friends Fyodor and Manuel of The Institute for Evolutionary Leadership are launching an online learning experiment‘Thought Leadership for Systems Transformation’- registration ends March 19th (tomorrow). I have the privilege of bringing my toys of regenerative design to this experiment! Come play

2. Question for your pondering:​
“What if desire was meant to put you in orbit?”

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PARTING WISDOM

What if:

Thanks for reading. Stay safe and keep others safe.

Until my next bleed,

mansi

p.s. How about a cup of desire?​

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This is the 2nd edition of The Fireweed Expedition.

Musings for renewing the future with play and persistence.

Shout-outs: Thanks to Jess and Fyodor for contributing to this expedition. Brittany for supporting me on this project. Dolly for proofreading and all the love. Chhavi for her grounding financial advice.

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