What do you
dream of becoming?
Click Happy
201
Week 1
Think of Click Happy like
A dojo to learn to become a powerful creative changemaker
Before you continue reading please go and do these surveys if you haven’t already.
Then check out this page then come back and finish these slides
https://clickhappy.org/201-impact-academy/
Watch this to the ends so you don’t miss important bits.
Photography is just the tool
I’m a photographer. I get it. I LOVE it. But I have also been many other things in my life (in order of attainment - Professional Clown, Electronics Tech in the Navy, Cellist - in the Vermont Philharmonic, US Naval Officer, Nurse Consultant, Organic Blueberry Farmer, Master Photographer, Film Maker, Director of a Charitable Trust). Photography was an incredibly important part of that but I do understand that it is really just a tool. You can be anything and use photography to help you communicate your ideas.
What I am really here to do is to support you to become powerful visual storytellers and change makers. If you can’t communicate your vision for a brighter future for the world then you will not be able to achieve it. Changing things takes help in the form of other people and they need to understand your vision. The better you can become at illustrating and communicating your vision the more impact your life will have on making the world a better place to be.
So yes, we are learning photography. But really we are learning about ourselves and the change we seek to make in the world. And we are loading up on tools I have road tested and found to be of use.
Power up babes
You have 3 brains but school only teaches you how to use one of them.
We are going to do our best to teach you how to use all three powerfully to make positive change in the world. And your camera is just the tool that will help you explore them.
Head
Heart
Guts
Watch this video - 15 minutes invested = a lifetime of power.
Listen to Einstein
“The Intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gifts.”
Click Happy is about teaching you to remember the gifts (the other two brains and the Wairua that fuels them).
The power of decision
When you make a strong decision of the life you want vs the life you currently have you step up your game and you use all three brains to get you there.
Head - Imagination, Inspiration, Creativity
Heart - What you naturally love and are drawn to
Guts - The character to push through the hard parts and find your way
Decide what you want to become - The I AM list
Write at least 3 I AM declarations.
They do not have to be true in this moment but they have the potential to be true.
Here are some of mine:
I AM running a fully funded and fully staffed international youth program that is supporting the next generation of changemakers to become compassionate, innovative, and gritty leaders and team members.
I AM healthy and fit and physically powerful, flexible, and balanced.
I AM surrounded by a world class team of mentors.
I AM leading a mojolution that is innovatively evolving education for the masses to the development of the 3 brains - Head, Heart, and Guts.
Now what are you three I Am’s
Don’t think small. Think big hairy audacious awesomeness that you dream of for yourself.
I AM _______________________________________
I AM _______________________________________
I AM _______________________________________
Write them down. Put them by your bedside and read them and ideally say them aloud each night if you are in private. Then read them on awakening in the morning.
The night time reading of your dreams is incredibly important part of the process. This is like planting a seed in your subconscious. This is where your imagination, will, and intuition live…they will work on it while you sleep. The more you can add detail to the vision and the more emotion you can put on it as if it is already happening the more fertile the seed will become.
If you learn nothing else from me the slide above is the one I want you to take on board.
Your imagination is what sets you apart from all of the other animals and people on this earth. Your imagination is the seat of your power. When you fuel it with your emotions it is like rocket fuel for your dreams.
Grit + Imagination + Compassion is what makes the world better step by step. When you apply those same tools to your own life it will become better, raising the level for everyone else.
So start your twice daily I AM practice. Decide on your future and pull it into the Now.
The easiest way to change your life for the better
Is to open your mind to the possibility of who you could be.
And then just start behaving as if.
What are you behaving as if?
What are your I AM statements?
You choose your life my dear. You choose through your beliefs and actions. You have control and power to change anything that isn’t working for you in your life. It is about using the power of your mind and imagination as tools in service of your vision.
Create a vision Board of your I AM’s
This doesn’t replace saying or reading your I AM’s each night and morning. But it does add more compost to the soil. Plus they are fun to make.
Supplies
Monochromatic images - Creating the Rainbow
Lily Seng
Lily Seng
Ava Thomas
Link to Course webpage with all links embedded
https://clickhappy.org/201-impact-academy/
This also includes the course calendar for your reference.
Post Production Tip of the week to use Lightroom to help with Colour Grading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ByQVtJG8jE
This is called setting intention
You now have set the intention for your course and beyond.
So this week your home work is: