Don’t just stand there Do something!!!

August 19th, 2009

Last week I was in Wales and met up with my old friend Dave Hieatt the co-founder of the extraordinary company Howies

I say extraordinary, as David and is wife Claire built the company with a belief and point of view about the world that has built a remarkable following.

Over more years than I care to count, I have kept everything single catalogue they sent, because they were quite simply grrrrrrreat, are still great and are inspirational, in between me umming and ahhing whether to go for the Scomer Jeans or the Pilot jacket.

Dick Dasterdley

Dick Dasterdley

Anyway Dave and Claire are doing something else called the DO Lectures. As Dick Dasterdley said, “Don’t just stand there, DO SOMETHNG”.

DO is about…

The Do lectures are all about getting a handful of speakers together in one place, in the hope that they may inspire you to go Do something. To give you the tools and the desire to change the things you care about. That people who Do things, can inspire the rest of us to go and Do things too. So each year, we invite a set of people down here to come and tell us what they Do.

They can be small Do’s or big Do’s or just plain amazing extraordinary Do’s. But when you listen to their stories, they just light a fire in your belly to go and Do your thing, your passion, the thing that sits in the back your head each day, just waiting, and waiting for you to follow your heart. To go find your cause to fight for, your company to go start, your invention to invent, your book to write, your mountain to climb. The one thing the Doers of the world Do, apart from Do amazing things, is to inspire the rest of us to go and Do amazing things.They are fire-starters.

So what Do I learn at DO?

Hopefully lots. Some practical tools. Some inspirational thinking. A different point of view on stuff. New ideas. Old ideas that have been re-thought to work better. Some speakers just talk about their lives. Or how they think. Some talk about what they hope to change. Some talk about what they have changed. I have no doubt there is something that can inspire you. We will invite inspirational people from all fields. From business to science. From politicians to environmentalists. From authors to bloggers to film makers. From the world of technology to the world of saving the planet. All we ask of them is to give the talk of their lives.

Dave Hieatt writes in his blog that

An American friend described them as a cross between Burning Man, The Ted Lectures and Where The Wild Things Are                                (But no one gets eaten alive).

I reckon We should be getting our arses down or up, or down and up to Do – held in Wales near Cardigan Bay. If you have never been Wales is a beautiful country.

Ivan Illich said that we should lead a life of action, not a life of passive consumerism. So lets GoDo something useful.

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