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How to Report Storm Damage
How to report storm damage from this past weekend's storm:
Residents, please report damages to Pinellas County at https://pinellas.gov/reportdamage
Businesses, please report damages to the Florida Division of Emergency Management at https://floridadisaster.biz/BusinessDamageAssessments
Pinellas County flood recovery information: https://pinellas.gov/flooding
Remember that permits are required for most work in Treasure Island as the city is in a special flood hazard area (flood zone). You may begin work without a permit in emergency situations, by notifying permits@mytreasureisland.org and specifying the address and the nature of the work. You will need to apply for a permit within 48 hours of this notification.
Treasure Island City Hall • 120 108th Avenue • Treasure Island, FL 33706
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Fwd: How to Report Storm Damage From This Past Weekend's Storm
Monday, September 11, 2023
Fwd: Rethink the way you make choices 🔄
Begin forwarded message:Subject: Rethink the way you make choices 🔄Date: September 8, 2023 at 5:08:48 PM EDT
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A practical roadmap for rational decision-making
Have you made a decision you regret? Or have you felt stuck making an important choice? We've all had those feelings. Our 7-step framework can help you to navigate even the trickiest decisions.
Making a decision, especially an important one, shouldn't be done impulsively or without proper consideration. A structured approach can help you ensure you're not just reacting, but proactively shaping your future.
This email offers a brief outline of seven steps to refine your decision-making; whether you're someone who tends to be indecisive or someone seeking to enhance the quality of your choices, these actionable steps might help you feel more in control.
If you want to dive in deeper into these decision-making insights, consider trying the tools linked below or joining the Clearer Clearer Thinking 7-Day Make Better Decisions Challenge.
1️⃣ Avoid narrow framing
When considering your options, there are often more than you realize. For example, when something you own breaks, you might think your only choices are to buy a new one or fix the old one, but you can also borrow, rent, upcycle, part-exchange and more. So, spend some time looking for options you might not have considered straight away.
2️⃣ Explore your intrinsic values
Figure out your intrinsic values, and spend time reflecting on whether any of the options you're considering conforms better or worse to those values.
3️⃣ Consider the impact of biases
There are common biases that might affect you when you're making decisions, such as: short-term bias, the sunk cost fallacy, and ignoring the probabilities of outcomes.
4️⃣ Reflect on your principles
Build a list of your principles and reflect on which of them might be relevant to your decision. If you have any relevant principles, reflect on what they suggest you should do.
5️⃣ Learn from your past mistakes
Think of a decision you've made in the past which you would consider a mistake. Try to identify the immediate cause and the root cause of the mistake. Reflect on those causes and then consider what you can do to stop yourself from repeating that mistake in the short term and the long term. Reflect on how you can avoid making that mistake with the decision you have been considering in the previous steps.
6️⃣ Set effective goals
To increase the chances that your decisions take you where you want to go in life, try setting effective goals and reflecting on whether your decisions will take you closer to those goals. To set effective goals, do things such as: make your goal challenging (but not too challenging!); make it about achieving what you want (rather than avoiding what you don't); make it meaningful; and check your commitment level.
7️⃣ Make your decision!
Once you go through these steps, you should feel more confident and certain of the decision you want to make.
However, if you feel that you need to put more thought into it, we strongly encourage you to try our 7-Day, Make Better Decisions Challenge. By signing up free, you'll get an email sent to your inbox each day, talking you through one of the steps above in more detail, always followed by a quick and thoughtful exercise, which you can do by yourself, at your own pace.
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🔈 We've released a new podcast episode! 🔈
Using metacognitive therapy to break the habit of rumination (with Pia Callesen) - Spencer is joined by Dr. Pia Callesen, one of Denmark's most educated and experienced metacognitive psychologists, to discuss questions like: What is metacognitive therapy? How does MCT differ from CBT, DBT, and other mental health therapy paradigms? How do we know we're spending time worrying about the right things? How much time spent worrying is actually useful? How aware are we of our own tendencies to ruminate on certain negative thoughts? Does MCT avoid all content-based problem-solving? What is the state of the evidence for MCT?
Here at ClearerThinking.org, we offer many free mini-courses and tools to help you make better decisions, hone your reasoning, and create the life you want! Here's a sampling of our work:
- Value Of Your Time Calculator - Get a custom report that will help you make decisions based on the value of your time, like whether to take on extra part-time work or hire your own help.
- Achieve Your Goals - Create a personalized, step-by-step plan for your chosen goal and set a regular schedule of reminders so that you can keep track of the milestones that you achieve
- Life Changing Questions - Answer these open-ended questions (alone or with others) to learn new, important insights about yourself.
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Saturday, September 9, 2023
Fwd: Seeding and Harvesting
Begin forwarded message:
From: Kelvy Bird <bird@kelvybird.com>
Date: September 7, 2023 at 10:10:19 PM EDT
Hello Dr
What a season of transition, of incubation and opening, both! Find below some info on activities that might be of interest to you, and possibly for friends and colleagues:
- Ongoing: The year-long Conversation Series continues
- Programs: Levels of Scribing, and Visual Sensemaking
- Certification: u-lab, and Visual Presencing Pathway
- Generative Scribing: An upcoming audio book, intern admiration, and teaching
- Personally? Well, I moved... :)
Tend your seeds; may they find ready soil.
Kelvy
Conversation Series
A monthly opportunity to explore scribing applied to various topics. Tomorrow's sessions will be on Narratives, with special guests Christopher Fuller and Janis Pryor.
Friday September 8 from 11am-12pm and 8-9pm EDT. From $20-40. I know this is late but you can still sign up!
Programs
Levels of Scribing
Sept 20-Oct 11 | Online | More Info
A 2-week largely self-directed program, ending with an integrative 2-hour live session, to learn and apply 4 Levels of Scribing across contexts.
Visual Sensemaking
Dec 6-7 | Online | More Info
This program helps participants make sense of their current conditions, while unearthing future possibility through inner knowing.
u-lab
Celebrating it's 10th year, u-lab: Leading from the Emerging Future is going strong—updated to meet the times. This course is a core introduction to a method called Theory U, for leading change in business, government, and civil society contexts worldwide.
Visual Presencing Pathway
u-school for Transformation, with Presencing Institute, has set in motion capacity development pathways for awareness-based systems change. One of those offers certification in Visual Presencing. Many of you are already well on the way, based on previous programs!
Generative Scribing
Intern Admiration
A big, big thank you to Iman Tuan, a bright light who spent a chunk of her summer helping me convert Generative Scribing into an audio book. There is more editing to go, but her dedication and kind direction advanced the project by leaps and bounds.
Somehow Sharing Back
I really, really want to open up scribing for today's youth. Emma Dulski continues to help me craft a curriculum for college-level institutions. If you know anyone who might be interested, please consider making a connection or let me know. Thank you 🙏🏼
Gardening and Art
Well, I moved! Now based in the "Pioneer Valley" of Western MA—land of the Pocumtuc—my commitment to local living and work is holding steady. Less flying, more time in a community garden, while building a studio space near the woods for making art and tending the land. Rebalancing. Trying! It might be a more private time. We'll see what comes with the call of life...
Monday, August 7, 2023
Fwd: Invitation: u-lab 1x Community Activation Call this week.
Begin forwarded message:From: u-school for Transformation by Presencing Institute <u-lab@presencing.org>Subject: Invitation: u-lab 1x Community Activation Call this week.Date: August 7, 2023 at 5:00:17 AM EDT
- Getting started with a hub
- Organizing your hub around the new changes to u-lab
- How to finance our work
Join the call
- Recording: Watch the recording of our last community activationc call here.
- Special Preview Clip from the new conversation between Dayna Cunningham and Otto Scharmer.
- Hub Resources:
- Hub Hosting Module: Organized as a self-guided course, you can explore and learn how to organize and host a hub in your community or organizationhere.
- Create a hub: You can start your own hub here.
- Hubs: You can discover and join existing hubs here.
- u-lab 1x:
- u-lab 1x: Leading from the Emerging Future are now open both on MITx and u-school. The program will be hosted on two platforms as in previous years. The course will open on August 31st, our first global live session will be on September 14th.
You can register now on:
- MITx platform for the main content
- u-school platform for methods, tools and community space
**The u-lab 1x course and all materials are available at no cost. The option exists to pursue a verified certificate from MITx for a fee of $99. Click "Enroll Now" button and join for free, while the option to pursue a verified certificate from MITx for a fee of $99 will be prompted after the enrollment.
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