{"id":777,"date":"2015-05-24T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2015-05-24T07:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/?p=777"},"modified":"2015-07-12T01:29:31","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T23:29:31","slug":"still-standing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"Still Standing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a very helpful blog a few years ago about how to be successful in business. It stated that you should give to your community before you ask of it.Basically thats a very good way to go about all things in life; a little like listening first before talking. It seems common sense and in some instances we are forced into doing this; when I moved to Paris my French wasn&#8217;t fluent so by default I was in a position of listening a lot before I could utter a little <em>moi aussi<\/em> at the end of someone else&#8217;s sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Today I spent 4 hours standing and 2 hours driving to help out in a booth for a film festival in a beach town here in California. I had screened my show at the festival last year and wanted to support the event. I did question the sanity of that decision today as I raced through a morning meeting, flew down the 405 and barely had time for a smoothie before standing questioning the passing public if they wanted free tickets to the festival in October.<\/p>\n<p>As the hours wore on and my feet began to ache I realized,as I was talking to the 2 students who were also giving up their holiday weekend, why I was there. For the sense of community, for the listening, for the supporting and for the giving before asking. Thats what <em>stand<\/em> has meant for me this week. To demonstrate what I talk about and feel passionately about. Its amazing how fast I can spin into simply being in my own life but that when I take a moment to be of service its when my heart is reminded of who I really am. And there we go a little poetic and philosophical on this holiday weekend, but thats how I occasionally roll. Happy Standing still and strong weekend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3299.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-778\" src=\"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3299-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3299\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3299-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3299-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3299-960x720.jpg 960w, http:\/\/thebeadmovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/IMG_3299-1600x1200.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a very helpful blog a few years ago about how to be successful in business. 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