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ZenWorlds #36 – Pep Talk Meditation
ZenWorlds ZenCast #36 is a meditation designed to give you a little boost. There are far too many people out there feeling a lack of support from themselves and unsupported by others around them. Sometimes a person just needs a little pep talk or cheerleading session. If you don’t have a friend or someone close [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Happy Thanksgiving Day 2009
Another year coming to a close. So far, I say this has been the best year since my egress from Raleigh. Lots to give thanks for, not all of which I’ll write here. The most important things, to be sure.
After 19 years without any contact at all, I was reunited with my daughter this year, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )All About Credit Cards
This week Jim and Mike are back in the saddle with another roundup of this week’s stories. Mike tells us about his camping trip from hell and we announce a new benefit for Members of the Mind of Men.
After the break, Jim takes us through an overview of the Credit Card environment today – just [...]
Done: Reduce Task Friction to Get to Task Completion
“If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.” – Dale Carnegie
Done: Reduce Task Friction to Get to Task Completion – Zen Habits
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )10 Reasons Why Freelancing is the Best Job Security
The idea that any real job security exists is a complete illusion. Ask any former GM employee or newspaper journalist what they think about the concept.
10 Reasons Why Freelancing is the Best Job Security – Freelance Switch
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Beginner’s Mind
Beginner’s mind is Zen practice in action. It is the mind that is innocent of preconceptions and expectations, judgements and prejudices. Beginner’s mind is just present to explore and observe and see “things as-it-is.” I think of beginner’s mind as the mind that [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )10 Ways to Live in the Moment Every Moment of Your Life
People talk about living in the moment as being an optimal way to live a life. In my experience, it’s just as easy to get wrong as it is to get right.
If the moments we choose to live in are saturated with work, we’re living buried in the labor and not in our lives.
The trick [...]
ZenWorlds #32 – Anger Meditation
ZenWorlds ZenCast #32 is a meditation designed to help you manage anger. Anger is a very natural emotion. Some manage it better than others. Some take a deep breath and shrug off what made them angry and some have tendencies to stew on the source of the anger without the ability to self-sooth. For those [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Wound-up, Stressed? The Secret of Instant Serenity
We cannot get too much of loving-kindness. All of us are in need of it. And we ourselves are often the ones who are our harshest critics and withhold our self love. When you touch the heart with the hand of love, your soul unfolds and your whole being lightens up.
Wound-up, Stressed? The Secret of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )The Unity of Words, Thoughts and Deeds
People want to be liked and they do not want to cause pain, so they lie. Lying never does any good and it only creates more pain. The best way to be in this world, and it does take time to master, is to always mean what we say and do what we say we [...]
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