February 2010
17 posts
From GratitudeLog
I recently started expressing what I am grateful for at GratitudeLog (www.gratitudelog.com). It is really awesome! Here is proof, from a weekly email that the founder, Mike, sent out:
I came across this really powerful quote today. It goes like this: “When you complain, you become a living, breathing crap magnet.” What an awesome quote! If you take a close look at your...
January 2010
10 posts
Escape from MachuPicchu
chrisfettin:
So here’s how it all went down.
Yesterday morning, Cody, Christie and myself woke up around 4am. We quickly gathered our belongings in the dark and briefly considered “borrowing” a blanket from our hostel because it was much colder outside than it had been all week. A quick glance out the window of our room gave us a welcome sight: stars. Stars meant no clouds and no clouds meant...
The Streets are Unsafe, and Other Reasons Why I...
I am definitely not the only one. I can see it in people’s eyes walking towards me. The dread. A woman dead ahead. There is a canvasser between us, and thankfully for me his eyes are facing the other way. I can squeak by unscathed, as the woman mumbles a sorry, or fidgets with her phone or simply ignores the canvasser. As I slide by he quickly tries to get my attention but it is too...
Some thoughts from my father
The Mental De-Tox & Re-New process will help you release and purge negative thoughts and feelings that belong to events of the past year, and to free up energy for focusing on what you truly wish to create in the new year. The Mental De-Tox & Re-New exercise is a 4 step process beginning with a review of the past year. Take Inventory * Look back through your calendar and your...
FRUSTRATIONS.
So now we have 41 Repubs and 59 Dems in the Senate. All bests are off, all that vitriol and hate, all for nought! Nothing accomplished! All that hope and enthusiasm, and here we are back at square one! What is happening?!?!
AHHHHH I AM SO FRUSTRATED WITH THIS COUNTRY. Why must we have a two-party system? Back and forth, back and forth. It will always be like that until there is another...
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"To Love, Be Loved and Never Stop Learning"
That is Tim Ferriss’ life resolution. And as the author of the #1 New York Times Bestseller The 4-Hour Workweek, he certainly seems to know what he’s talking about. I finally wrapped up reading the book - of course it had been on my to-do list for almost a year now - and am kicking myself for not having read it sooner. Not because it necessarily changed my life (I have been going...
