84 Best Picture Oscar Winners, 4 Minutes

The 85th Academy Awards are [were!] tomorrow, so today it’s time to review some Oscar history. Indie filmmaker Nelson Carvajal has created a supercut of all 84 Best Picture winners so far. It’s fascinating, and feels like a bit of a quiz — how many of these films do you recognize just from extremely brief clips? For me I didn’t recognize many until the explosion of color, followed by the explosion of musicals, followed by the Hoffman/De Niro Phase (“I’m walkin’ here!”), and then it’s all suddenly familiar. From 1967 onward I recognized almost every film. Prior to 1958, I knew almost none.

If you want to play along, just watch and count the films you recognize. Wikipedia has a cheat sheet, or you can check your work in the end credits of the video when Carvajal lists the films shown.

via 84 Best Picture Oscar Winners, 4 Minutes | Mental Floss.

Radical acceptance…

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If self-acceptance is an issue with you [as it is with me] may I suggest the following book which has been giving me deep insights in this area:

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Click the image to view/purchase at amazon.com…

I am familiar with some, but not all, of the teachers in this program. I encourage you to follow the reblog and sign up for this free course starting March 4…

Feel More Balanced Without Changing Your Life: 3 Simple Steps

Marissa HÃ¥kansson writes:

If you lead a busy life, common advice on how to create balance might include cutting out what’s least important, becoming more efficient, or adding relaxing activities to counteract your busyness.

This is helpful advice. However, I’ve also found that no matter how much balance we try to create in our external lives, it’s really how we feel on the inside that counts. We need to feel balanced, grounded, and well within our inner world before we can genuinely feel at ease.

To achieve this, you need to make a shift. Instead of slowing things down in your external life (with the intention of influencing how you feel internally), start slowing down internally, and see how it influences your external life.

This is living from the inside-out. It’s about being present in the moment and conscious of what’s going on for you at all levels: physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically and spiritually.

Living from the inside-out helps you embody your experiences fully and live with greater awareness. Conversely, when you’re living from the outside-in, you’re likely spending a lot time caught up in thinking, which only exacerbates your busyness.

When you allow your inner world to guide your outer world, you’re more conscious of how you are moving through each day and interacting with the world. How to do we create this shift?

Continue reading “Feel More Balanced Without Changing Your Life: 3 Simple Steps”

Returning Home to Your True Self: A How-To Guide

Dr. Bethany Butzer writes:

Many of us are experiencing a profound sense of disconnection. We feel disconnected from our true essence, our core, our higher self. This lack of connection can come from many sources—like distracting ourselves with sex/drugs/alcohol, the busy-ness that comes with raising a family, feeling stuck in a dead-end job, or staying in an unsatisfying relationship. Whatever the source, the outcome is always the same: we feel lost, out of touch, short on substance. Like a hamster in a wheel, we go through the daily routines of our lives, while something deep inside longs for more. We sense that we have a purpose—we can almost touch it right in front of us—but it remains elusive, just out of reach.

Continue reading “Returning Home to Your True Self: A How-To Guide”

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Self-Mastery Tip: Now What Needs To Be Done?

Self-control is *the* greatest predictor of your success. Do you have the ability to do what needs to be done, whether you feel like it or not? 

via Self-Mastery Tip: Now What Needs To Be Done? (Video).

OK, bro, it was downright mean to post this when I’m looking at a foot of snow outside my window! I gotta tell you, though, I’m starting to think I need to head to Alberta or BC fast…

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For our Saturday morning work-out inspiration series, here’s two minutes of bike riding in the Selkirk Mountains above Revelstoke, British Columbia.  (Yes, I’m encouraging an alternative reality.  Childhood memories – 4 hours from my home town.  It’s summer.  Taking in clean mountain air.)  Enjoy!

Kona House of the Big Wheel 3 from Kona Bikes on Vimeo.


Source: GrindTV

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Garden Kitty

Bill Pevlor writes:

This is our cat, Dory!  She was hanging around while I snapped photos around our yard, so…

Actually, I say she’s our cat, but lately it not so clear.  We’ve had her since she was a kitten.  She’s an outside cat with a generous food plan and comfy place to sleep – previously on our back porch, now in our garage.  Still, she has a tendency to disappear on a regular basis – sometimes for a few days, sometimes for weeks at a time. We figure she has another spot in our rural area that she considers her second home.

via Garden Kitty – Cat Photo – Pops DigitalPops Digital.

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