Crazy People Can Make You Crazy

“He’s making me crazy I don’t understand. Why would someone say they were going to do one thing, then do something so different from what they say? He looks so good and talks so good. His promises sound so, so real, but then everything falls apart. I end up doing all this work, and he just disappears. I get so dang angry Then about the time I’m ready to blow a gasket, he calls, charms my socks off, and the whole cycle starts over again. I walk away, scratching my head and wondering, ‘What’s wrong with me? Did I just imagine this whole thing? Did I overreact?’ I don’t get it. I don’t understand,”

Maybe it’s time for an Al-Anon meeting.

“And when we’re talking on the phone, I feel like I’m the only one for him. But then when I see him, I know he’s lying to me. I know he’s seeing someone else and standing there looking me right in the eyes and lying about it. When I ask him, he says, ‘Your insecurity is enchanting, and you’re usually such a together person.’ I don’t understand why I feel so insane.”

Maybe it s time for an Al-Anon meeting.

“And then I catch him straight-out lying to me, and I blow up. I just can’t stand that lying stuff especially when

I knew all the time he was lying to me and he denied it. I put up with it and put up with it and then finally I can’t take it anymore. By the time I blow up, he’s standing there looking calm and serene and I’m acting like an insane person.”

Crazy people make us feel crazy. It’s not you. It’s him. How about that meeting?

“And then he calls a few days later, and he says how sorry he is and I can tell he’s sorry Before I know it, I’ve forgotten about everything that happened, and it starts all over again. I keep wondering whether I’m being used, and then I look at him and I just feel so guilty for everything I’m feeling and thinking. Oh yeah. That Al-Anon meeting.”

Step One: Powerless over people, places, and things. My life has become unmanageable. Take a deep breath. Say it again. Then say it one more time. Crazy people make us feel crazy It will happen every time.

Value: Detach in love. Disentangle. Un-embroil yourself from other people’s insanity so you can be restored to sanity. It’s a value many of us learned the hard way.

Source: January 2: Crazy People Can Make You Crazy | Language of Letting Go

Facing Our Dark Side (toddlohenry.com)
Daily Recovery Reading – December 15, 2011 (12stepsthinkaboutit.org)
The Crazy People File (nebraskaenergyobserver.wordpress.com)
Detachment With Love – What is it really? (k2togyarnsandwords.com)
Don’t Blame Yourself (or Others) (psychologytoday.com)
Downloads The Way Up and Out: Recovery from Alcoholism and the Al-Anon Companion Book (pyurbym.typepad.com)
Just Do It ‘Til You BELIEVE It (recoveryalongroute66.com)
The church is full of crazy people. (You + Me (WE) = Church: Part 2) (newequus.wordpress.com)
Marketing To Crazy People. (bizsetup.wordpress.com)
Have we gone mad? (1lifetale.com)
I’ll tell you what’s crazy! (jameshandlon.com)

January 2, 2012 0

Bono, Christ and Christmas

As you celebrate Christmas, consider who we are celebrating. Music legend Bono puts it best when talking about Jesus Christ. In conversation with Michka Assayas he says, “Jesus being God isn’t farfetched to me. Look, the secular response to the Christ story always goes like this: He was a great prophet, obviously a very interesting guy, had a lot to say along the lines of other great prophets…but actually Christ doesn’t allow you that. He doesn’t let you off that hook. Christ says, ‘No. I’m not saying I’m a teacher, don’t call me teacher. I’m not saying I’m a prophet.’ I’m saying: ‘I’m the Messiah. I’m saying: ‘I am God incarnate…’

So what you’re left with is: either Christ was who He said He was or a complete nutcase…I’m not joking here. The idea that the entire course of civilization for over half of the globe could have its fate changed and turned upside-down by a nutcase, for me, that’s farfetched…The point of the death of Christ is that Christ took on the sins of the world, so that what we put out did not come back to us, and that our sinful nature does not reap the obvious death. That’s the point. It should keep us humbled. It’s not our own good works that get us through the gates of heaven.”

Source: Bono, Christ and Christmas | All Pro Dad

December 24, 2011 0

Bono’s green guitar

Recently, Adam Bevell, who lost his sight more than two decades ago, attended his 20th U2 concert in Nashville. Throughout the show, he held up a sign that read “Blind Guitar Player: Bring Me Up!” And eventually Bono took him up on the offer by inviting him on stage to strum along to “All I Want is You” and then letting him leave with a parting gift. The green guitar…

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October 21, 2011 0

The 9/11 YouTube Project

YouTube worked with The New York Times on a YouTube Channel featuring archived news broadcasts and personal stories and reflections from the public…

September 11, 2011 0

This Day in Music Spotlight: U2 Go ‘Out of Control’

Before The Joshua Tree, War or even Boy, there was Three – U2’s debut release that consisted of (as the title suggests) three songs. Although only sold in Ireland, the EP marked an important milestone. On September 1, 1979, as a precursor to stadium-rocking concerts, multi-platinum albums and world-saving crusades, U2 would release their first songs to the public.

The story, however, begins about three years earlier, on September 25, 1976, when 14-year-old Larry Mullen Jr. posted a note on a school bulletin board saying that he was looking for people who were interested in starting a band. According to the drummer, it was to be called The Larry Mullen Band for about 10 minutes, until a boy named Paul Hewson showed up. With Bono in the band, there was little chance of little Larry being the leader.

Although guitarist Dave Evans (soon to become The Edge) and bassist Adam Clayton were in the group from the get-go, the band also included Dave’s older brother, Dik Evans, and Mullen’s friends, Ivan McCormick and Peter Martin. After a few weeks, McCormick and Martin had dropped out, and U2 were a quintet. Of course, they weren’t called U2 at the time. Initially, they took the name Feedback and then changed to The Hype in 1977.

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I missed this on Sept. 1, but wanted to share it with my sister anyway. Follow the ‘via’ link if you’re interested in U2 history…

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September 5, 2011 0

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“We all know that there is growing agreement that podcasts are a great way to share your thought-leading content.

According to a study released by KnowledgeStorm and Universal McCann on the emerging role of new media, over 41 percent of survey respondents claimed they had listened to podcasts on more than one occasion, and 13 percent stated that they frequently download or listen to them; and 65 percent of podcast listeners said they listen to podcasts for both personal and business interests (source: Emerging Media Series: The Influence of Podcasts on B2B Technology Purchase Decisions, July 2006).

There is increasing demand for podcasts as part of the marketing arsenal to engage audiences and advance conversations with prospective customers. Podcasting is proving to be a great way share multimedia content because your audience can fetch it automatically or when it fits their schedule. Podcasts are fun and easy to do and there are plenty of free or cheap ways to get started. Click here to read the original article or give me a call at (920) 486-4798 if you’d like to know more…

Podcasters meet the most interesting people (trafcom.typepad.com)
Using new media to make the most of your event (trafcom.typepad.com)
Blogging: Audio/Video vs. Text (blogherald.com)
The Greatest But Most Obvious Blog Secret Of All (slyvisions.com)

June 29, 2011 0

June 26, 2011 0

I was drawn in by the title of this compelling YouTube video. It’s a thoughtful piece on why it may not be as easy as you’d like to introduce new strategies…

April 5, 2011 0

Long, but interesting…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHGcvj3JiGA

April 4, 2011 0

March 22, 2011 0

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiCn6y6JU8o

February 24, 2011 0

Anatomy of a U2 360º Concert

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February 13, 2011 0

Oh, yeah! It’s the dumbest ad campaign of the past decade…

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImyK29QLs_A

February 6, 2011 0

Stay on top of your industry, that is. If you’re a business professional in any category and you’re not using Google Reader or some lesser tool to monitor newsfeeds, I’m very concerned about your future. Whoa. What did you say, Todd? I said, I’m very concerned about your future!

You see, unless you’re working on a production line somewhere making widgets for an hourly wage [not that there’s anything wrong with that — I’ve done it myself] your growth and advancement in business and in life [see this if you don’t believe me] depends on your ongoing professional development and that depends in large part upon your ability to aggregate, manage, and leverage relevant information…