Episode 29: Welcome back to Heal Into Happy, I’m your host, Lark Allen. On the last episode, I interviewed Martin Rutte about Project Heaven On Earth, the three simple questions that will help you change the world. Today, I’m excited to continue this conversation with Martin as he shares all of the amazing things he is doing to help bring this project to life. As you listen, I invite you to feel into what your heaven on earth contribution could be, journal about what brings you into a state of bliss, living in joy, and then sharing your joy with others is a powerful way to be of service. I would love to hear what comes up for you in the comments…
Let’s help expand Martin’s project together. Happy listening.
IN THIS EPISODE:
• Now, let me tell you what’s happened since I’ve come up with all of these, with these three questions, over the years, I’ve seen what I call the gateways or when you ask these three questions over and over and over and over, thousands of times what I began to see was patterns in the answers… What I call the heaven on earth gateways. And so what are they? One is internal, there are people who say, the way you create heaven on earth is by creating within the more heaven on earth, within the mark will show up out in the world. So these people go, they take art courses, dance courses, anything to have that divine self come up, or they go to therapy to clean up hurts and traumas in the past, all of that, so they can have more evident earth internally. And we have people who say heaven on earth is about relationships with myself, with another, with others, with God. There are people who say heaven on earth is about living a value, love, harmony, joy. Those people say, the more of that big value in the world, the more they will be having on earth than there are people who say, Well, what about the sufferings in the world? So for them, the gateway is and suffering, not make it better, end it. (3:40)
• Well, and now let me go to the next piece which is, let me talk about some of the examples of what people are doing, because I find that by thinking about the examples, the actual physical, tangible examples in the world, it inspires people. So let’s start simple. A woman in Hawaii, Susan Alina Fryer. I did a seminar in Hawaii and she saw, can I do it as well? What do you do? I teach people how to grow micro-greens, which are little green plants that grow in about 10 days, and then you cut them and you blend them up and you drink them, and they’re healthy drink. And I said, Oh, okay, so what’s heaven on earth for you? And I don’t have her exact words, but it was something like to recreate the Garden of Eden, and I went, That’s it. Don’t you get it, what you’re doing with teaching, your program is helping to re-create the garden… And she went, Oh my God, you’re right, you’re right. And so she’s now embedded in every email that she sends out, her definition of Heaven On Earth, she asked question number two, imagine you have a magic wand, and with it you can have heaven on earth. What’s heaven on earth for you? And she talks about recreating the garden. (7:18)
• Let me give you a couple more because you see the range, as we go up. We have a woman in Austria, Elizabeth, who said, Oh well, I know my project, because I was asking what’s your Heaven On Earth project? And she said, Well, Austria’s a heaven on earth, and I said, Whoa, well, yes, because Martin it’s simple. And she taught me the value of simple, I don’t know what your simple is, but you do for her. Simple was Austria’s Heaven On Earth Nation. She’s taken a copy of my book Project Heaven On Earth to the President of the country. She’s a Catholic, she organized on Halloween a session at the local monastery where people came in, they got a little magic wand and they went around to different stations around the monastery, some of which asked the three have a questions that I just asked you, obviously in German. She went to the local priest who asked the three questions in one of his sermons, and this woman is… She gave away for Christmas one year, shoes that were engraved in German with Heaven On Earth, so that when people walk in the snow, they leave this pattern. (12:27)
• He has a new program called Africa, a Heaven On Earth Continent. Wow. And if we have a guy in Canada is getting his PhD in Heaven On Earth, so I know it goes on and on and on, but I think you get that if you think of heaven on earth like that, it’s a metaphoric software program that allows this new possibility to exist, like any software program, you download it, you open it up, you boot it up and it says to you, Okay, here’s a whole bunch of new possibilities that you never even thought of, and I need your input. I need you to make it real. How are you gonna do that? (14:53)
ABOUT MARTIN:
Martin Rutte is an international speaker and consultant committed to reconnecting people and business with their natural source of creativity, innovation and genius.
As president of Livelihood, a management consulting firm with offices in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, and Ranchos De Taos, NM, USA, he explores the deeper meaning of work and its contribution to society.
The company’s areas of service include: strategic vision, corporate spirit, dialogue and creative leadership.
Martin has worked with many of America’s leading corporations including: Sony Pictures Entertainment, Southern California Edison, The World Bank, Virgin Records and Apple Computer, assisting them to expand their outlook and position themselves for the future.
He was the first Canadian to address the Corporate Leadership & Ethics Forum of the Harvard Business School, and returned for four consecutive years as a keynote speaker.
His pioneering work on spirituality in the workplace was featured on the ABC-TV special, Creativity: Touching the Divine.
He has been a speaker at all six international conferences on Spirituality in Business in Mexico, and has spoken at conferences on this topic in: Canada, USA, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, New Zealand and Germany.
He is co-author of the New York Times business bestseller, Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work with sales of over one million copies and translations into 15 languages.
Mr. Rutte’s newest book is Project Heaven on Earth: The 3 simple questions that will help you change the world … easily. The book explores the desire and longing you have for a world that works. It helps unlock your vision for the kind of world you want. It empowers the new story of what it means to be a human and what it means to be humanity.
He has delivered in-person workshops on Project Heaven on Earth in: Canada, USA, Sweden, England, Germany, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Sweden & Costa Rica. In addition he has delivered on line workshops and webinars to a global audience.
Articles on his innovative work have appeared in: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, US News & World Report, The Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The Boston Globe, The Toronto Globe & Mail, and, The Cape Times.
He was the co-founder and Chair of the Board of Canada’s first academic Centre for Spirituality and the Workplace, at the Sobey School of Business, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is also a past member of the editorial board of The Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion.
Mr. Rutte has served as Vice-President of Pardes Yisroel synagogue in Santa Fe, NM. He has also served as a board member of: Money Concepts Canada, Global Family, The Hunger Project Canada, and as a committee member of The Canadian Cancer Society.
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