Month: May 2012

Boost Your Mind and Body With A Little Sun

Boost Your Mind and Body With A Little Sun – Infographic | FinerMinds.

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News Anchor Fail Compilation 2011

News Anchor Fail Compilation 2011 via News Anchor Fail Compilation 2011 || YDL by fazil Ahmad on Socialcam – Apr 17.

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Raising One World Trade Center

“The destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11th abruptly and permanently changed the way we see ourselves and the world, but hopefully, this time lapse video of the construction of One World Trade Center will raise a bit of hope rather than more specters of fear after a decade of conflict.” via Raising One World Trade Center time lapse – Holy Kaw!.

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Sources of Stress

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Sources of Stress

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Well said…

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Thanks for the happy memories, Presty. I grew up listening to WLS and I agree — it WAS great. Now I think WXRT in Chicago is the best station in the world…

Click ‘read more’ for the rest of Presty’s musical selections — follow his blog while you’re there. btw, here’s my favorite clip…

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Today is the 52nd anniversary of what I used to consider the greatest radio station on the planet in its best format:

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All I Really Want

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Peter Bregman posted this at Psychology Today…

I’ve come to the conclusion that I use email to distract myself. Whenever I feel the least bit uneasy, I check my email. Stuck while writing an article? Bored on a phone call? Standing in an elevator, frustrated in a meeting, anxious about an interaction? Might as well check email. It’s an ever-present, easy-access way to avoid my feelings of discomfort.

What makes it so compelling is that it’s so compelling. I wonder what’s waiting for me in my inbox? It’s scintillating.

It also feels legitimate, even responsible. I’m working. I need to make sure I don’t miss an important message or fail to respond in a timely fashion.

But it’s become a serious problem. When we don’t control our email habit, we are controlled by it. Everyone I know complains about email overload.

Email pours in, with no break to its flow. And like addicts, we check it incessantly, drawing ourselves away from meetings, conversations, personal time, or whatever is right in front of us.

Source: Coping With Email Overload | Psychology Today

Go to the source if you’d like to read the rest of his thoughts. I’d like to share with you a way that I have found to control my email habit…

Tools without thought or tactics are worthless so I try to remind myself that email is best used as a tool for ‘just in time’ information – information that affects relationships and revenue. All your ‘just in case’ information belongs in a virtual newspaper like Google Reader. Think of how much lighter your email load would be if you didn’t let newsletters and other detritus in? How often have you started down the path to Inbox Zero and then been waylaid by a Victoria’s Secret or Cabella’s catalog in your inbox. There’s a time and a place for that; the time is your ‘personal news aggregation’ time and the place is Google Reader. My advice? Use Gmail for email with a touch of Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero and David Allen’s ‘Getting Things Done’ and you’ll be an INBOX HERO in no time!

If you’re looking for help in this area, try my online book on ‘personal news aggregation’ or how to create your own personal news agency. You can register free at http://elevation.company/pna. Here are two recent lunch and learns I did on the topic of Gmail and Google Reader as well…

How to be an ‘Inbox Hero’ with Gmail…

How to be a Google Reader Rockstar…

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Winning again…

#4 son [seen here streaking across the finish line in first place] not only won the 100 yard hurdles but also the discus throw with a toss of 110′ feet. Not bad for middle school!

This give me the honor of feeding the #1 discus throwers in 7-8 and 9-10 grades in Kewaunee County… :-D

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This Day in History; The Loch Ness Monster sighted…

A personal picture of the Loch Ness Monster's ...

“Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in Scotland’s Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sighting makes local news on May 2, 1933. The newspaper Inverness Courier related an account of a local couple who claimed to have seen “an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface.” The story of the “monster” (a moniker chosen by the Courier editor) became a media phenomenon, with London newspapers sending correspondents to Scotland and a circus offering a 20,000 pound sterling reward for capture of the beast.” via This Day in History — History.com — What Happened Today in History.

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Google Tasks

Chrome Web Store – Google Tasks (by Google)

Easily add and manage your tasks from Chrome in one of three ways:

  • Simply type “t Your new task” into the Chrome Omnibar to easily add a task from whatever web page you’re on.
  • Click the Tasks icon to add a task, see your tasks and task lists and mark a task as completed
  • Highlight text on any web page, right click and add that text to a new task.

Tasks are visible everywhere that you can see your Google Tasks – in Gmail, Calendar, iGoogle, Mobile and via the Google Tasks API.

This extension has been released as an example of the Google Tasks API, and can be viewed and contributed to at https://code.google.com/p/google-tasks-chrome-extension

Please note that if you sign into multiple Google accounts you should ensure that the first account you sign into is the account you wish to use when managing Tasks via this extension.

Get some!!!

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…on Holding Good Thoughts…

“Many people agree that thoughts are a form of prayer.

Application: Whenever we find ourselves thinking negative thoughts about someone in our lives, it’s time to change our intentions toward that person. It’s time to pray for only good things for that person.” via May 2 | Language of Letting Go.

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How to Shave 10 Hours Off Your Work Week

Follow the link to listen to Michael’s podcast: #010: How to Shave 10 Hours Off Your Work Week [Podcast] | Michael Hyatt.

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…on How We Are Valuable

“What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.” ~ Edgar Z. Friedenberg via Tiny Wisdom: How We Are Valuable | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In.

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…on Being Yourself

“What I am is good enough if only I would only be it openly.” ~ Carl Rogers via 3 Steps to Achieve Your Truest Dreams | Tiny Buddha: Wisdom Quotes, Letting Go, Letting Happiness In.

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Beautiful…

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Sun, sunset, sunrise, walt whitman, birds, wheat, farm, poem, beautiful, God, nature, life, lifestyle, peace

GIVE me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling;

Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard;

Give me a field where the unmow’d grass grows;

Give me an arbor, give me the trellis’d grape;

Give me fresh corn and wheat—give me serene-moving animals, teaching content;

Give me nights perfectly quiet, as on high plateaus west of the Mississippi, and I looking up at the stars…

~ Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

 

 

 

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…on the Temporary Importance of Fear

“Perfect love, we know, casteth out fear [1 John 4:18]. But so do several other things — ignorance, alcohol, passion, presumption, and stupidity.

It is very desirable that we should all advance to that perfection of love in which we shall fear no longer; but it is very undesirable, until we have reached that stage, that we should allow any inferior agent to cast out our fear.” (“The World’s Last Night” in C. S. Lewis: Essay Collection and Other Short Pieces, 51) via C. S. Lewis on the Temporary Importance of Fear – Desiring God.

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Sark…

“Invent your world.  Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you.” ~ Sark via Anderson Layman's Blog: Sark………………………………..

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I especially like #6 and the Carl Jung quote. Thanks…

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15 Powerful Things Happy People Do Differently

What is the difference between happy people and unhappy people? Of course, it may be very obvious, happy people are happy while unhappy people are unhappy, right? Well, that is correct, but we want to know what are the things that these people do differently and that is why, I have put together a list of things that HAPPY people do differently than UNHAPPY people.

1. LOVE vs. FEAR. Well, I can tell you for sure that those people who are really happy, FEAR less and LOVE a lot more. They see each moment, each challenge, each person as an opportunity to discover more about themselves and the world around them.

2. ACCEPTANCE vs. RESISTANCE. Happy people understand that you can’t really change a situation by resisting it, but you can definitely change it by accepting that it is there and…

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Shift in philosophy: DNR writing fewer tickets


A friend alerted me to this article on the Wisconsin DNR and their position on CAFOs [Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations]…

“Environmental enforcement activity by the state Department of Natural Resources has dropped dramatically in the past two years, according to data from the agency, with the number of permit violation notices hitting a 12-year low in 2011.DNR officials say the decrease is partly caused by an enforcement staff that’s been hit hard by budget cuts. But they also point to a philosophical shift that emphasizes cooperating with businesses by helping them navigate complex state and federal regulations and steering them into compliance when they violate their permits.

“I don’t apologize for that,” said DNR Secretary Cathy Stepp of her emphasis on customer service and a less-confrontational agency. “When we do our jobs right at the Wisconsin DNR and when we are no longer viewed as somebody to be afraid of and instead as a partner in understanding what the expectations are … we also see environmental enhancement and job creation as a result. (Businesses) know they have somebody they can come to and help them comply.”

But others see a darker side to that approach. Critics, including current employees and recently retired agency officials, say they see tough regulation and enforcement being de-emphasized by politically appointed administrators, and they worry it is happening at the expense of the agency’s traditional and legally mandated duties of oversight and environmental protection.” via Shift in philosophy: DNR writing fewer tickets.

This a little off topic for me, but I still wanted to amplify this information until I launch a new blog focusing primarily on these issues…

This could reflect either a lack of funding or the perceived Republican bias in favor of ‘big business’. What do you think?

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