December 2007
23 posts
Using Amazon.com to Reduce Your Spending
Background About a month ago I was on Amazon.com, looking for Christmas presents to add to the Amazon wishlist to help my Dad out with his Christmas shopping. I don’t shop online very often, and when I logged onto the actual wishlist, I saw about 5 things on it that I had added several months ago. I hadn’t purchased them yet. In fact, I had forgotten about them. I looked them over and realized...
5 Reasons Why Enthusiasm is Better than Confidence
I didn’t write these, but I love them.
5 Reasons Why Enthusiasm is Better than Confidence
1. Confidence is about you - enthusiasm is about your subject
2. Confidence is about you - enthusiasm is about others
3. Confidence is impressive - enthusiasm is infectious
4. Confidence is certain - enthusiasm is creative
5. Confidence is serious - enthusiasm is fun
Nothing great was ever...
Making Most Important Books More Versatile
Have you ever been inspired by a book you’ve read? Read something where you thought to yourself, ‘Wow, this is amazing. I should try this,”…and then finished reading the book and stored it away in your bookcase, never to be opened again? According to Donald Latumahina of LifeOptimizer.org, it’s easy to read a book, but much harder to actually apply the information in it. He aptly states...
Welcome New Readers!
Welcome to readers coming from LifeOptimizer. Thank you for checking out my blog. I’m actually just starting to transition this from being a personal journal to a more articles/informational oriented site. I’d like to quote Leo Babauta of Zen Habits from an interview on mytropicalescape.com:
There were no comments on that post, as I had absolutely no readers. I don’t think I...
The Bloggers of Kindness →
“Success is dependent on effort.”
– Sophocles postCount('{Permalink}');
“The future that we study and plan for begins today.”
– Chester O. Fischer postCount('{Permalink}');
Artist: Truckers Drive-By Song: A World Of Hurt Album: A Blessing And A Curse Patterson Hood / Drive-By Truckers Once upon a time, my advice to you would have been go out and find yourself a whore But I guess I’ve grown up, because I don’t give that kind of advice anymore Gonna be a world of hurt / Gonna be a world of hurt / Gonna be a world of hurt I was 27 when I figured...
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Thoughts on a Talk by Thomas Moore
Today I went to listen to a speaker during lunchtime. I heard Thomas Moore, author of A Life’s Work speak. I greatly enjoyed it. He brought up some very interesting points that made me think a lot. I also liked that he related several concepts to music. Here are some of the notes I took (edited and refined here):
Work is not a job.
The word opus actually comes from the alchemy field,...
“It is always a tragedy when one religious sensibility wins out over another,...”
– Thomas Moore, from the essay The Post-Modern Healer
