This is a guest post from my friend, Andy Feld. ———– As I travel and meet new people all over our country, it seems most everyone falls into one of the three areas mentioned in this month’s title. What am I talking about? It’s the societal evolutionary change which is now in progress, although admittedly sometimes imperceptible. It is easy to see that violence rarely leads to anything but more…
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Carousel — 04.09.10
Read moreHello Dear Readers & happy Friday! It’s been a bit quiet around here this week because I am preparing for vacation. Yahoo! I leave tomorrow morning and will be returning late next week. You will see a couple of guest posts during that time (if I can properly set that up in WordPress) and a guest post from me will be posted over at a friend’s blog. So keep your…
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Review: The Power of Now
Read moreThe Power of Now had been on my “to-read” list for years when, by a stroke of fate, a dear friend offered to lend me her audio copy. Based on my general understanding of the book and its content (prior to reading it) I felt that I would enjoy it; however, I was completely unprepared for the way that the book would speak to me, transform my perspective, and change…
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Carousel — 04.02.10
Read moreEvery Friday, I post my favourite links, posts, & resources from around the Web. Expect to learn, grow, & be inspired. ———————– “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” —Lao Tzu 1. The Rebel’s Manifesto: “1. Do the opposite of what you were taught in school.” This is…
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3 Super Simple Ways to Reduce Stress, Improve Health, & Live Happy
Read moreWant to know how you can cut your stress in half? How about if there were two things you could change that would drastically alter your stress levels for the rest of your life? Now I bet you really want to know, right? What if I told you that doing these simple things will not only decrease your stress levels, but will also make you happier and decrease your risk…
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Letting Go of the Past: Forgiveness
Read moreLast week, I finished listening to Eckhart Tolle’s The Power of Now. It had been on my “to-read” list for years, when by a stroke of fate a dear friend offered to lend me her audio copy. I plan to do a full review of the book in the coming weeks but for now I want to focus on one important element—forgiveness of the past. Recently I started thinking about…
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Carousel — 03.26.10
Read moreEvery Friday, I post my favourite links, posts, & resources from around the Web. Expect to learn, grow, & be inspired. ———————– 1. burning questions with Patti Digh: poetic choices: If you read nothing else from this week’s Carousel, read this post. This is honestly one of the most moving & profound interviews that I’ve ever read. 2. UPDATE ON THE JOURNEY TO EVERY COUNTRY: Incredible! Talk about an incredible…
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Hakuna Matata: 8 Lessons I Learned in Kenya
Read moreThe Adventure Begins I was taking a required elective, World Geography, during my senior year of college. If it hadn’t been for that elective, I would have never been in the Science Building at all. (I was an English Major with a Creative Writing focus.) But for whatever reason, I was there in the Science Building and one morning while walking to class, I noticed a flier on the wall:…
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Tired of Conflict Bringing You Down?
Read moreDealing With Conflict Conflict takes many forms—misunderstanding, frustration, ignorance, hatred, envy, and so on—but despite the cause, the result is largely the same: someone walks away with hurt feelings. The truth is, however, that this is not necessary. You can choose to be unaffected by conflict. It is not an easy thing to accomplish. You have, after all, lived your life believing that conflict equals pain. But with practice &…