June 2010
24 posts
"As human beings, our greatest glory consists not...
Oliver Goldsmith said it first, but every moment we get to put it into practice. A fall is not a fail… and we can remind ourselves of this by singing (or dancing to!) Chumbawumba’s “Tubthumping”, which boldly declared… I get knocked down, but I get up again, you’re never gonna keep me down. “Tubthumping” is much catchier than Dwayne Wade’s...
I love LA... We love it!
Last week I road tripped to LA in a rented Corvette.What might have been a tour of the castles of California (Hearst Castle, Magic Castle, Sleeping Beauty, Medieval Times, Julius Castle, Castello di Amorosa, etc.) turned into just a traditional heavy metal NoCal-to-SoCal coastal road trip bookended with stops at the exquisite-for-different-reasons Hearst Castle and Magic Castle (and its...
West coast represent, now put your hands up!
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them. Bonus points if we dance to Snoop Dogg and his bird-flipping gummy bear minions (0:22)… Summertime is everything… Posted via email from …ifindkarma… | Comment »
We can reflect to a happy moment anytime we want.
Just five days ago Team USA scored a miraculous goal, and it led to ten reflections on happiness. Then two days ago, Team USA was eliminated by Ghana in the most-watched U.S. soccer game ever. But the wonderful thing about reflection is that we can look back to a happy moment anytime we want. Reflecting on Landon Donovan’s winning goal… Posted via email from...
Top 10 Essential Reflections On Happiness... (Cc:...
Wow.That may have been the sweetest ending of a World Cup game I have ever watched. You can watch the highlights on your favorite Interweb site, but they won’t really give you the feeling of 90 minutes of tense, do-or-die buildup , culminating in a super charged score in the final minute that propelled Team USA from elimination into first place in their group! ****** I am “Snoopy...
After losing to Slovenia 2-2, let's hope for a...
FIFA made YouTube take down the controversial “Grand Theft Soccer” videos showing how the referee stole the third USA goal in last week’s USA/Slovenia game. With that goal, USA would be poised to win its group; without that goal, USA will have to fight to make it to the next round.So to summarize: USA beat England 1-1, and then USA lost to Slovenia 2-2, even though technically...
Be here now.
Michelle Geromel posted, “Dear friend, not even I know how a dream will come true, until it does. But if you just keep showing up, they always do. Big-Love-Hug, ~The Universe” (source: tut.com) I told her that being present is challenging because life has so many distractions. She says that whenever she feels scattered, she looks in the mirror and asks herself where she is....
There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is...
“There are shortcuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them,” said Vicki Baum. “Dance is your pulse, your heartbeat, your breathing. It’s the rhythm of your life. It’s the expression in time and movement, in happiness, joy, sadness and envy,” adds Jacques D’amboise. Dancing makes me happy. And the dance in this video fills me with happiness… ...
Bird is the word!
Peter: “There seems to be an absence of an ornothological piece… A headline regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety…”Brian: “What are you talking about?” Peter: “Oh, have you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard…”Brian: “Heard what?” Stewie at 0:27: “BRIAN, DON’T!!!” Posted...
Bobulate: The other 20 percent →
Woody Allen told us that 80 percent of success is showing up. So after we show up, we fill the other 20 percent with everything else. Much of the time, we fit things in. Fill in the cracks. Push the boundaries. We’re taught, even, to portend busy-ness even when we’re not. But then, we’re left…
Why being a Facebook whale is an EPIC FAIL.
Hi! My name is Adam, and I am a Facebook whale. I love Facebook, but Facebook does not love me. Why do they hate me? Because I am a Facebook whale. Allow me to explain… A whale is someone who’s big. In Ocean’s 13, for example, the whale owned the air south of Beijing.On Facebook a whale is someone who has 5000 “friends”, more or less. (A “Facebook friend”...
How to change the world with a pen and paper....
TED talk by Omar Ahmad is bodacious. And excellent.The pen is indeed the greatest utensil of change, even in 2010: Posted via email from …ifindkarma… | Comment »
The emotions of England v USA #WorldCup are best...
You know what the world needs now? More World Cup!!Meanwhile, this brilliantly captures the emotions of Saturday’s game. Posted via email from …ifindkarma… | Comment »
I should invest in a luck factory. I'd make a...
I got a decent amount of replies for the tweet … Even if you work hard and make wise choices, you still need a little luck. Never forget that. …but unfortunately then I tweeted about Google which got retweeted and commented on many times, and all of the replies I got on Twitter got lost in a cacophony of random chirping. My lovely little stream of replies and was flooded with a...
Bazinga!
Once again, you’ve fallen for one of my classic pranks.Bazinga! Posted via email from …ifindkarma… | Comment »
We believe in the interconnectedness of all...
In the beginning, there was nothing but darkness. And then God said, “Let there be light.” And then we could see that there was nothing. Which is a funny thing to say because words are inadequate, and sometimes words have two meanings. And then expansion started… Wait! And we added things. And the universe expanded. And we added more things. And the universe kept expanding to...
Searching Twitter is like drinking an Ipecac...
I was writing an email about how people are bad at predicting what will make them happy.And I wanted to find the article that Jennifer Aaker retweeted about predicting happiness so I could link to it. You would not believe how hard it is to find a tweet. I mean, she has only tweeted 1100 times. Go ahead, try. I’ll wait. Here’s an image to inspire you. … Give up?Every Twitter...
People are very bad at predicting what will make...
Tony Hsieh of Zappos has a forthcoming book, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose. In it, he talks about Zappos’ issues that had nothing to do with the underlying performance of our business, but that increased tensions on their board of directors: Some board members had always viewed our company culture as a pet project — “Tony’s social...
Everything is everythang.
Happiness comes from within. Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while, a great wind carries me across the sky. — Ojibwe Saying (Gathered in a hospital room, watching a boxing match on TV.)Paulie, watching a boxer get hit: It’s a life of abuse. John Schwinn: Well, he is a boxer. Heh.Paulie: It’s the same for everybody. (To Tony:) Look at you, T. You...
You can do anything.
You can do anything, but you cannot do everything.So reflect, think carefully, and choose wisely. The good news is, you don’t have to choose alone.Everybody’s all connected, you see… What her words lack in coherence is more than made up for in enthusiasm. :) Posted via email from …ifindkarma… | Comment »
We'll see.
We believe in the interconnectedness of all things.And all things are neither wonderful nor terrible. They just are. Everything is everythang. This is the lesson in the movie Charlie Wilson’s War reflected in this story about a Zen master: Gust Avrakotos: There’s a little boy and on his 14th birthday he gets a horse… and everybody in the village says, “How wonderful. The...
I know why the caged bird sings.
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me, When his wing is bruised and his bosom sore, When he beats his bars and would be free; It is not a carol of joy or glee, But a prayer that he sends from his heart’s deep core, But a plea, that upward to Heaven he flings – I know why the caged bird sings … Posted via email from …ifindkarma… | Comment »
