A week after megachurch pastor Joel Osteen took a ton of heat on social media for his reluctance to open his church’s massive facilities to shelter victims of Hurricane Harvey, “Rick and Morty” creator Justin Roiland called the church’s prayer line.
Can’t Do It Perfectly? Just Do It, Badly!
If you are paralyzed by a fear of failure: Make a vow to “Just Do It, Badly.”
Source: Can’t Do It Perfectly? Just Do It, Badly! | Psychology Today
Life is Not about What You Could Have Been, But What Could Be
There is so much that goes on in life. Some good and others bad, but it is all part of what makes us grow. Sometimes, especially in the toughest of times, we often wish for what could have been as a way to console ourselves and move past these situations. Sadly, the trick does not work. This is part of being human and facing life. Without such circumstances, then, you are not living. How else will you know you tried if not feeling such emotions? The ‘what could have been’ moment Most of the times when we have these moments, it is a show of regret. Whether it is something we had control over or not, we have to face such moments and look forward to what could be. Regrets only delay progress. Spending too much time trying to figure out what went wrong when experiencing regret worsens the situation. All the steps and thoughts that could have prevented the situation from becoming, usually comes up then. As soon as it happens, you may end up hating yourself. On the contrary, it is not all
Source: Life is Not about What You Could Have Been, But What Could Be | Improve Yourself
Wow. I have no words for this commercial!
Perfect family in the perfect garden?
Source: Italian advert’s brutal twist ending is really dividing people
This electric air taxi is one step closer to making your commute suck a whole lot less
Lilium Jet just got mo’ money…
See the demo video: This electric air taxi is one step closer to making your commute suck a whole lot less
Are You a Fan of Myers-Briggs, StrengthsFinder, the “Big Five,” Enneagram, the Five Love Languages, or Other Personality Frameworks?
Gretchen Rubin writes:
Do you love a great personality framework? I sure do.
I believe they can be a great tool for self-knowledge — they help to shine a spotlight on hidden patterns of behavior and thinking.
If, like me, you’re fascinated by these kinds of frameworks, I think you’ll be intrigued by my Four Tendencies model — it divides the world into Upholders, Questioners, Obligers, and Rebels. (Learn more and take the Quiz here.)
People often ask me how my Four Tendencies framework corresponds to other frameworks — for instance, how it matches up with Myers-Briggs or the Big Five. I’ve even had several people suggest that the Four Tendencies correspond to the Four Houses of Hogwarts. (By the way, they don’t!)
In my view, each framework has its own nuances and strengths, which are lost if we try to map one framework onto another. So I don’t try to say that “this” equals “that.”
At the same time, it’s true that the Four Tendencies can be used alongside other frameworks, to provide deeper insights.
Why I’m No Longer Hiding Behind My Privilege and My Spirituality
I realized that I could use my white privilege one of two ways: to contribute to the problem, or to the solution. To say nothing contributes to the problem.
Source: Why I’m No Longer Hiding Behind My Privilege and My Spirituality – Tiny Buddha
Handle Me With Care
Here’s another song that belongs in my musical autobiography…
Step inside of music
Inside Music lets you step inside of a song, seeing its individual pieces to give you a closer look at how music is made.
Source: Step inside of music
10 Top Steps To Emotional Healing
You may think that emotional healing issues should be relegated to the couch in your local therapist or psychologist’s office…
Source: 10 Top Steps To Emotional Healing – YOUR VIEWS OUR REVIEWS
Embarrassment, Guilt, and Shame | Psychology Today
They’re social as well as psychological issues…
3 Ways Your Childhood Shaped the Core Beliefs You Hold Onto
Your beliefs may have turned into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Source: 3 Ways Your Childhood Shaped the Core Beliefs You Hold Onto | Psychology Today
How Judgment Limits Your Potential
We are human. Judging others is part of our survival instincts. It happens within seven seconds of meeting someone. We don’t intend to do it. It is accidental, unintentional, and subtle. The mind looks for relatedness.
Source: How Judgment Limits Your Potential – Positively Positive!! Positively Positive!!
Entering the Dark Wood
The mystics of all the great religions, along with classic literature like Homer’s Odyssey, intuited that life was a journey involving completion of a first half and transition to a second half, sometimes called “a further journey.” Yet most of us Read More » Entering the Dark Wood – Center for Action and Contemplation
The Invisible Red Thread between Two People who are Meant to be Together
We all are accustomed with the idea of soulmates. This idea originated from Plato’s Symposium where Aristophanes was of the belief that humans were eight-limbed creatures with two heads. The Gods split them in half to reduce their power and humans were reduced to weaker beings, constantly feeling incomplete, without their significant “other half”.
Read on: The Invisible Red Thread between Two People who are Meant to be Together
How To Stop A Negative Mental Feedback Loop
Bookmark this one for the next time you have a bad day.
Source: How To Stop A Negative Mental Feedback Loop – mindbodygreen
How To Prepare Your Body For Fall
Three easy days of wellness.
The House of Belonging
THE HOUSE OF BELONGING
I awoke
this morning
in the gold light
turning this way
and that
thinking for
a moment
it was one
day
like any other.
But
the veil had gone
from my
darkened heart
and
I thought
it must have been the quiet
candlelight
that filled my room,
it must have been
the first
easy rhythm
with which I breathed
myself to sleep,
it must have been
the prayer I said
speaking to the otherness
of the night.
And
I thought
this is the good day
you could
meet your love,
this is the black day
someone close
to you could die.
This is the day
you realize
how easily the thread
is broken
between this world
and the next
and I found myself
sitting up
in the quiet pathway
of light,
the tawny
close-grained cedar
burning round
me like fire
and all the angels of this housely
heaven ascending
through the first
roof of light
the sun has made.
This is the bright home
in which I live,
this is where
I ask
my friends
to come,
this is where I want
to love all the things
it has taken me so long
to learn to love.
This is the temple
of my adult aloneness
and I belong
to that aloneness
as I belong to my life.
There is no house
like the house of belonging.
– David Whyte
©1996
David Whyte is a poet, author, speaker and organizational thinker. He lectures to large audiences throughout the world, as well as offering seminars in organizational development, including his pioneering work in Conversational Leadership.
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