Pictures Out There!

Whenever we are ready to act in greed, apathy, deceit, destructive competition, ignorance, ego or violence instead of acting in Love, we should pause and ask…Is there ever a reason to act in those non-loving ways, instead of acting in Love?No. Never. Like…never!Love is miraculously, at the same time… -- our best individual expression in our own life -- the best common experience and glue for all humanity  Both at the same time!! Wow…what more could we ask for?Just love.Join us on Apple, Google, other platforms, and picturesoutthere.com

Love is our most important and ultimate Ideal!Every kind of Love! Romantic love…love in friendships…spiritual love…familial love…love in our work…love when we play…love when we meet people…love when we are impacting people we haven’t met...and more.There is one basic question we re-answer every day about how we will live our lives…at every level, in every situation, in every relationship, and in every interaction. It is “Will we fully love, love a little, or not love at all?” It always has been, is, and will be the most important question for humanity.Please join us on Apple, Google, other platforms, and picturesoutthere.com

AI…now we call it Advanced Intelligence…our human survival may depend on a new and higher bar for our own human behavior that models how we should be treated by a variety of new AI life forms, and that motivates them to treat us respectfully and well.AI is the ultimate gift to humanity, but not in the way we might expect.AI will force us to strive for a seemingly unattainable bar where we will stop the worship of superiority, dominion, and power…and where we establish a new Golden Rule.Here’s our Picture of a new world with AI…what’s your Picture?We better have one, and then work to make it real.Join us!

There already are AI intelligences with intellect superior to humans.They will continue to advance.In time, they will probably become conscious and create their own behavior models, unless humans model consistent love and care with the whole world.We need an updated Golden Rule in our Picture for AI:“Do unto other people, animals, plants, and everything else that exists on this planet…as we would wish intellectually superior intelligences to do unto us.”Join us for Part 1 of 2 of a great conversation on AI!picturesoutthere.com  

Our second of three Ideals is Help.Helping others, and letting others help us when we need it. Living with simple consideration for other people and our planet.Our good and selfless acts of help have great ripple effects we can’t see, as we forever become a part of each other’s lives.In our abundant world, we gain everything and lose nothing from helping each other. Please join us!picturesoutthere.com

Amazing that we need to create a Picture for this comically absurd question…no one in the world would ever personally choose dirty water or dirty air for themselves. Ever. Right? Not one of us!But some of us lazily, greedily or selfishly foul the water and air that other people use.Enough of that. I mean, c’mon…it’s the air we all breathe. It’s the water we all drink. To live!This Picture’s a breeze to imagine, and should be a piece of cake to come true… Join us!

Our group affiliations and communities should always support, and never inhibit or block, our individual uniqueness and our commonality with all people!Our truest, most authentic individual self should never be submerged, diluted or denied…ever.Our overwhelming commonality with all humans should never be submerged, diluted or denied…ever.And we’re immortal, so we might as well start showing our common uniqueness right now!

Ideals…a beautiful, future looking word that suggests change and trying to be our best!Our first of three Pictures Out There! ideals is a beautiful balance of loving our Commonality and similarities with all human beings, and loving our Individual Uniqueness and differences as human beings.Equally. At the same time. Balanced.We call it “Common Uniqueness or “We’re The Same and We’re Unique!”And hooray for that!Join us for Part One of discussing this incredibly powerful Ideal!            

You’ve put your Dreams into Pictures, and then your Pictures into words.Now it’s time to put your Pictures into motion with Process and Action!We’ll talk about getting started down Your Path toward the Pictures of your Dreams…Join us!

We share our Picture for Government in the future! It includes a global government structure that solves global problems like pandemics, climate change, religious intolerance, global supply chains, workforce mobility, cybersecurity, hunger, income inequality, health and life expectancy, and access to education and learning.All other issues are addressed by local and regional governments to increase support for diversity and cultural uniqueness, where people can create or find the culture that best matches their preferences, with no harm done to others.The new structure keeps us all safe and secure, treats all of us fairly, and doesn’t permit power to negatively concentrate. Our new governing ideals are a balance of power, the right to vote, and the rule of law.But what’s your Picture? Explore with us!

Humanity’s biggest issues today are global in nature…global pandemics, climate change, religious intolerance, global supply chains, workforce mobility, hunger, cybersecurity, income inequality, health and life expectancy, and access to education and learning…global-scale problems requiring global-scale solutions!Humanity has always had government, and it has always evolved over time. Always! The government structures we have today aren’t effectively solving these issues. We have to evolve and change.Join Dave and Lee for a discussion of government of the future for our world! 

Podcast Episode #17 - Widening and NarrowingAre you Widening your world with new types of people, skills, knowledge or experiences?Or are you Narrowing your world by standing pat with the types of people, skills, knowledge and experiences you have, or have already had?How curious or adventurous, or not, are you these days…and why?Join Lee and Dave, and explore your own life of Widening and Narrowing…a critical second Perspective that has an enormous impact on our lives and our Pictures!

We can express ourselves freely and honestly as individuals, a culture or a society.Bridges are available among everyone in the world, as we openly and honestly share our music, art, dance, and language with others!Enjoy our podcast today, and then please join us for Episode #17 on January 7.

We call our second Perspective “Moderate-to-Extreme”. We each select a point on a Moderate-to-Extreme spectrum with each of our Actions, Opinions, Expressions, Behaviors, and Experiences.We make hundreds of choices every single day, with corresponding decisions about how Moderate or Extreme we think and feel about each of them!The impact of these Moderate-to-Extreme choices make a huge difference in our life experiences:how we feel and think about ourselveshow we think and feel about othershow others experience ushow they react to our opinionshow our interactions and relationships play out Come join us and explore your own moderate-to-extreme life patterns!

When we create and share our vivid, bold visual Pictures in words it sets us up to take Action, with our visual, verbal and auditory powers working in harmony!People use words to describe action steps, to create change, to do things, and to collaborate with others.Once our Pictures are described in words, it is much easier to determine the actions that we would take to start the journey toward our truest dreams!

Want to hear a GREAT Picture?! Join us for a fascinating and authentic conversation with Natasha Kirsch, founder and CEO of The Grooming Project. Natasha has a wonderful story of how her Picture for helping struggling parents lift their children out of poverty became the journey of a lifetime, and created the energy for her very successful endeavor, The Grooming Project!

We each really matter because of our soul, spirit, personhood and individuality…not because of any wealth we may have!Our audience in the future that will listen to our podcasts has figured out how to avoid the addiction of money and materialism. We’ll talk about how they pulled off that change and how it has opened up new future possibilities for all of humanity around the globe! 

We each really matter because of our soul, spirit, personhood and individuality…not because of any wealth we may have! Here’s a positive Picture for money that takes care of any of our addictive, greedy, and destructive pursuits to hoard obscene wealth! - Part One

For Part 3 of our podcasts on community of caring, Lee shares two of his delightful short stories about his small growing-up community, and how that led him to having a broad global community of caring as an adult. Please join us for the fun!

In Part Two of our exploration of Communities of Caring, Lee and Dave share their own community paths, invite you to explore your own community journey, and speak to our listeners in the future about how their world likely handles the idea of community differently and better than we do today!

Who’s in the community of people that you really care about? It matters, big-time, for your pictures and for your life! And you control it, and how it evolves. Wow...amazing!Today, we’re exploring community and the people we each really, deeply care about. Please join Lee and Dave for this first Perspectives conversation, and to reflect on your own community of caring!

Can Pictures help make your own boldest, truest dreams come true? YES!For you personally – self-image, vocations, relationships, interests? YES!Teams or groups you’re in, or lead? YES!Your family and friendships? YES!Organizations where you work or volunteer? YES!For any issue, situation, or opportunity? YES!Please join Lee and Dave to explore your own Picture opportunities!

In Part One we shared images of current life in our "water world" and our never ending human creativity on how we act and react with Violence.In this Part Two episode, we share our Picture of a future where we have minimized that Violence in its endless ways and forms.“Really?!”, you ask. “We can minimize all the forms of violence that we do to each other?!”Yes, really! And it is mindbogglingly simple and achievable! We just have to do it.Kindly join Lee and Dave for the next step of the Picture Out There journey!

In this episode, we share our Picture of a future where we minimize the Violence that we endlessly do to each other every day, and in a thousand ways and forms.“Really?!”, you ask. “We can minimize all the forms of violence that we do to each other?!”Yes, really! Starting with a clear Picture of a less violent future that serves as our compass.A less violent future…would that be cool, or what?! Join Lee and Dave for this important step of the Picture Out There journey!

We each live inside these physical casings that we call our “bodies”. Pretty neat contraptions to house our souls! Our casings have a lot of similarities but are each unique. Very cool, huh! We should always celebrate our own physical uniqueness and that of others!But do we? Uh…no. Instead we live with our own physical insecurities in a world with racism, body shaming, etc., etc.Can a Picture actually make a difference and start the change to something better for us individually and for our world? Absolutely!So here’s a Picture of how people in the future will deal with their physical selves! It’ll get us all Picturing here in the now…come join us!

This Pictures idea...so much opportunity for each of us! But maybe a little daunting? Or even scary?We'll have some fun with all of the reasons why we turn away from our boldest dreams for our own life, and for the world. And we'll share why we should always turn away from those excuses, and turn toward our most ambitious and audacious dreams! Our most amazing journey awaits!

We're jumping in the deep end with this Pictures idea...we'll share our Picture of our future world for Spirituality and Religion. A bit ambitious? Nah. We can do it with Pictures!And after you hear all about Love First, we'd love to know what your Picture would be. Please join the fun!

Welcome to the life journey of your boldest and most audacious dreams! The Pictures Out There! podcast series explores our too-often neglected opportunities to create powerful Pictures of our most desired future. Once created, our Pictures serve as a compass and motivator toward our happiness and success, and give us a new approach for vision and action. The concepts can be applied to any issue or situation we wish, and at any individual, community, organizational, or global level. In this first episode, we introduce and give examples of the life-changing Pictures concept.Come join Dave and Lee for the first step of the journey toward YOUR boldest and most audacious life dreams and aspirations!