Children are sponges…

A Random Intentional List of Stuff

1. Gratitude is the most powerful gesture you can ever make.

2. Perfection is the enemy of good.

3. I gave a man 2 dollars to catch the bus, his entire day changed, and he told me god bless before I got off! A man at a bike shop just fixed my brakes and adjusted my tires for free. Kindness is contagious and cheap!

4. Proximity to love/god is a poor man’s experience compared to intimacy with god/love. know this.

5. Knowlege without application is sin.

6. I start graduate school on Thursday! Excitement.

7. I have decided to begin competing in poetry slam. WHAT WHAT!

8. Do the rules you follow align with your values?

9. I deleted Twitter. I check facebook less frequently.

10. I’m getting rid of my blackberry.

11. Realizing you don’t have to be busy, to be “important”.

12. Money is an important tool, but is just a resource. People get in trouble when they start putting it above more important things in life.

13. I have been a soap box preacher for a long time, and never practiced. Mistakes are apart of the journey. Accepted.

14. Monday is my favorite day of the week. I’m trying to get intimate with the other six.

15. Its better to be friends with a faithful few, than popular to a shady plenty.

16. Everything we find wrong with others is a projection of our “stuff”.

17. Good is the enemy of perfect.

18. I eat/drink a strawberry/oatmeal/almond shake every morning which is filling and delicious.

19. Being vegetarian when you don’t like cooking is hard.

20. I am on a 5 game win streak on NBA2k9. see me!

P.S- Journalling is that ISH!

We Know Things Are Bad….

Madoff and Miracles: How I Lost My Life’s Savings and a Poem Saved My Life

Thank you. Poetry is the sacred. Poetry is the sacred made secular. I think it is of the greatest importances for people to go back to poetry. It is fundamentally, us reimagined into our beautiful. fascinating. ordinary. selves, or lack thereof. great post!
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Why Positive Thinking Just Doesn’t Work

Hey Russell,

Insightful Article. You are totally right…the problem with many people who use self development books is that they keep reading and reading and never really applying what they’ve read. I know one writer calls it spiritual bloating or indigestion. Agreed.

However, you did not address the rebuttals that people had made. You simply twisted them to re-align with the points you had made previously. Which is a rhetorical cheap shot for someone that is trying to help people.

The self-help industry has short-comings. Including, emphasizing the reward over practice, i.e, “Learn how to make millions of dollars in 30 days”, but not stating the work and learning curve that comes into that wealth or how wealth does not increase happiness”

Everything you said about positive thinking and practice is dead on. What you didn’t say is the possible side effects or trials that personal growth entail.

I think that’s the difference between an amateur and a professional: Amateurs give you a one-sided coin and professionals give you the whole thing… this isn’t to say that the mental health industry doesn’t focus on the woes of humanity, its to say that PD lacks balance/harmony and ethical clarity.

While the comments may have been a bit abrasive in the past, in truth what many of these comments are saying is personal developmen­t/spiritua­l growth is a journey…some journeys are shorter than others but all are a challenge.
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