Wednesday, December 29, 2010
7 Lessons From 7 Great Minds Posted by Eric Allen Bell
Have you ever wished you could go back in time and have a conversation with one of the greatest minds in history? Well, you can’t sorry, they’re dead. Unless of course you’re clairaudient, be my guest. But for the rest of us, we can still refer to the words they left behind.
Even though these great teachers have passed on, their words still live, and in them their wisdom. I’ve made a list of seven what I believe are some of the greatest teachings by the world’s greatest minds.
1. Realizing Your Dreams
“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.”
- Lawrence J. Peter
In order for us to achieve our dreams, we must have a vision of our goals. Writing down our dreams and creating a list of actions helps us stick to our plan. As it’s said “if you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it”. When we turn our goals into measurable actions, we gain clarity and are able to see the necessary steps we must take in order to achieve them.
Action: Visualize a life of your wildest dreams. What did you dream of doing when you were a child? What would you do if you had a million dollars? Create a vision for your goals and start breaking them down into small actions that you can take on a day by day basis.
2. Overcoming Fear
“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, “Always do what you are afraid to do.”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best way to learn something is to dive right in to it. When we overcome our fear of failure, we learn that only those who are asleep make no mistakes. Fear is the only thing keeping us from experiencing a life of love and fulfillment. If we make a commitment to an uncompromisable quest for truth, we will realize that as we grow more into the truth, our fears start to disappear.
Action: You must define your fears in order to conquer them. Create a list of everything you’re afraid of and start facing them one at a time. Make a commitment to yourself now to not let fear rule your life.
3. Intention and Desire
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”- Guatama Buddha
Our thoughts determine our reality. When we stop thinking about what we don’t and begin thinking about what we do want, our lives begin to transform. Instead of working against our desires and intentions, we move into alignment with them.
Action: Create a list of your intentions and desires. Wherever you go, take this list with you. Read it when you wake up and before you go to sleep.
4. Happiness
“Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.”
- Benjamin Franklin
Happiness comes from an inner peace, understanding and acceptance of life; a perspective of truth that opens your eyes to the beauty of life all around us. Happiness cannot be achieved by external status, it must be an internal state that we realize when we see our innate perfection.
Action: Realize that happiness is a choice. In every decision you make ask yourself “how can I respond to make myself happy and fulfilled?”
5. Self Acceptance
“If a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.” – Jesus
When we stop trying to be what we are not, we realize our authenticity. Before we had knowledge, we were completely authentic. We learn to use knowledge to measure and judge, which is a powerful tool we have as humans. However we create an image of perfection in our mind of what we should be, but are not. We confuse knowledge for nature. We believe in the lie of our imperfection. When we realize this we can reclaim the truth of our perfection and live in love and acceptance.
Action: Make a commitment to never go against yourself. Practice non-judgment and realize that the same part of your mind that condemns you is the same voice that caused you to take the action in the first place. We don’t even have to believe what we say to ourselves.
6. Appreciation and Gratitude
“So much has been given to me, I have not time to ponder over that which has been denied.”
- Helen Keller
How many times do we count our misfortunes rather than our blessings? When we take time to open our eyes to the miracle of life we can see the many gifts that have been given to us. Remembering all the beautiful aspects of life and all the reasons you are blessed can immediately shift our mood. We can move from sorrow and despair to appreciation and hope.
Action: Each time you find yourself complaining about something, re-direct your focus to something you are grateful for. Make a habit of transforming your awareness of troubles into an awareness of abundance.
7. The Art of Simplicity
“I made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it short.”
- Blaise Pascal
Perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing more to take away. As Bruce Lee once said “the height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.” True mastery of our lives is realizing the simple joys of life, removing distractions and clutter from our lives.
Action: The art of simplicity is knowing what to take away. Practice recognizing when you’re spending your time on unimportant tasks and re-focus on the important.
I’m fine
“The average person tells 4 lies a day, and 1460 a year. A total of 88,000 by the age of 6. And the most common lie is I’m fine.”
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Somebody has already said it best!
Hedgehog's dilemma
The hedgehog's dilemma, or sometimes the porcupine dilemma, is an analogy about the challenges of human intimacy. It describes a situation in which a group of hedgehogs all seek to become close to one another in order to share their heat during cold weather. However, once accomplished, they cannot avoid hurting one another with their sharp quills. They must step away from one another. Though they all share the intention of a close reciprocal relationship, this may not occur for reasons which they cannot avoid.
Both Arthur Schopenhauer and Sigmund Freud have used this situation to describe what they feel is the state an individual will find themselves in relation to others. The hedgehog's dilemma suggests that despite goodwill, human intimacy cannot occur without substantial mutual harm, and what results is cautious behavior and weak relationships. With the hedgehog's dilemma one is recommended to use moderation in affairs with others both because of self-interest, as well as out of consideration for others.
In real life however, the porcupine problem is often resolved in far more sociable a manner. For many people, the potential pain of prickly quills is trumped by the powerful need for social warmth.
Qualia
The question hinges on whether color is a product of the mind or an inherent property of objects. While most philosophers will agree that color assignment corresponds to light frequency, it is not at all clear whether the particular psychological phenomena of color are imposed on these visual signals by the mind, or whether such qualia are somehow naturally associated with their noumena. Another way to look at this question is to assume two people ("Fred" and "George" for the sake of convenience) see colors differently. That is, when Fred sees the sky, his mind interprets this light signal as blue. He calls the sky "blue." However, when George sees the sky, his mind assigns green to that light frequency. If Fred were able to step into George's mind, he would be amazed that George saw green skies. However, George has learned to associate the word "blue" with what his mind sees as green, and so he calls the sky "blue", because for him the color green has the name "blue." The question is whether blue must be blue for all people, or whether the perception of that particular color is assigned by the mind.
Totally ripped this off of Wikipedia, but I thought it was a great way to argue about perception.
Totally ripped this off of Wikipedia, but I thought it was a great way to argue about perception.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Transformers 3- Dark of the Moon Teaser Trailer (Love It/Hate It?)
More awesome stuff being blown up, can't wait!!!
The Roots - Rising Up ft. Wale, Chrisette Michele
Can't get over how good The Roots are. Black thought is the ill-est.
Emma Emma Emma!!!!!!!!!
Absolutely gives off the "girls next door" feel but who are we kidding this girls a FOX. Red, brown or blonde? Doesn't matter....
P.S. just saw Easy A, high school comedy with a message, the usual. But she's so adorable!!!
Friday, December 24, 2010
TRON: LEGACY Official Trailer [HD]
The movie was good but Olivia Wilde's presence
made up for having to pay extra to see it in 3D. Two thumbs up,
, ✰ ✰ ✰ ★★
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Might as well be a the Grinch
Well this year completely stank!!! Xmas is as awful as a wake. The season has been completely lost from my little world and I just cant wait for next year. Really I'm looking forward to my resolutions, and will be glad once this whole year is forgotten about.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. Or it could be that his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all may have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
Then he got an idea. An awful idea. The Grinch got a wonderful, *awful* idea!
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight. Or it could be that his head wasn't screwed on just right. But I think that the most likely reason of all may have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
Then he got an idea. An awful idea. The Grinch got a wonderful, *awful* idea!
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
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Sunday, December 5, 2010
You Mother on Yelp
Your mother's vagina was FANTASTIC, I totally disagree with the two star rating I saw of it on YELP!!!
LIFE COMPONENTS
LIFE on earth consists of six components, 1. Carbon 2. Hydrogen 3. Nitrogen. 4. Oxygen 5. Phosphorus 6. Sulfur and a new found 7th. Arsenic.
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/
http://gizmodo.com/5704158/
Friday, December 3, 2010
Hex
Off the bat the anti terrorista agenda told me this could go south real soon, but I gave it another chance hoping the action would make up for it, but I was done with the dialogue then and there. Then Megan fox made her debut and bought the movie some extra time, actually I sold out at that point in time. What can I say I'm sucka for a pretty face and pouting lips, we all have our Achilles heel. The Movie was straight garbage!!!!
I'm pretty sure they took this image straight out of my dreams.
Salt & Cop Out
Classic Hollywood cop out, however the movie was entertaining until the last minute, then it just leaves you thinking, really is this how they decided to finish this? I'm trying to think of a way to describe it, oh yeah shitty!!! But that's to be expected of most Hollywood movies now a days, gutless endings, and for what, it's not like they are coming out with sequels anyhow and if they did they would flop because the endings to the originals blow. But all an all the movie was a good way to keep my mind off of things, full of action, plus Angelina Jolie with the full blown make up its not too hard on the eyes, in paparazzi photographs she looks like a zombie.
The Good The Bad and The Uggly
So disappointed with this dude!
He killed the movie for me
obviously he didn't write the movie, but I still blame him!
Oh who am I kidding she's still far from a zombie, but maybe she should put more meat on them bones.
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