January 2012
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30days of meditation: Days 11 & 12
Meditation the last two days included sensations from the ghosts of me past.
Yesterday: the taste of canned cheap beer from high school.
Today:
Playing alone outside in the winter when i was about 9.
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No Pressure or Anything - Bukowski On Trying
I’ll have this ringing in my ears as I try my next challenge - TEETOTALLING FEBRUARY. I fully expect the mind will go first. The rest of you, well… please keep inviting me to happy hour, ok?
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four...
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30 Days of Meditation: finding Headspace review
Headspace is a UK based meditation site & business I found last year. They just redid their site and it’s just cute and cool enough without falling into tweesville.
It includes guided meditations (free) in a day-by-day cadence - online and on apps. Since one of the partners is an ad guy, it’s probably no accident that embrace short attention spans. In 10 minutes, you get an...
30 days of meditation day 6 - behind
Meditating on a plane was probably a little ambitious given my novice status. Kinda like aiming for Madison Square Garden after your killer karaoke Kid Rock landed you a free slippery nipple. Not ready, kid. Not ready.
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Reincarnation Resolution & Wish List: NeoVintage...
Let’s take New Year’s Resolutions up to a whole new level. In my next life, I’d like to be someone like this gent:
Seems daunting. I’d better start helping old ladies, organizing adoption drives for disabled urban squirrels and generally being less of a crabass.
Who would YOU want to be?
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30 Days of Meditation: Guided Meditation Goes Meh
Test Drive: guided meditation app
I downloaded this app several months ago (that is, 23 or 24) and never used it.
You know how it is: You buy yoga pants thinking it’ll motivate you to go to yoga. Because you bought the pants/paid for classes/read the magazine/carry your lunch in a Lululemon bag…. well, it almost feels like did do it, right? Simply buying the accessory can be enough...
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30 Days of Meditation: Meditate vs. Procrastinate
Today’s lesson: If you can’t get a damn thing done, meditation makes doing nothing count as doing something.
What happened: Pre-lunch fog, compounded by first-official-workday-of-the-new-year ennui. Normally, this might mean get sucked face-first into Pinterest or tumblr. And it did.. until I decided to jump into the day 3 meditation practice.
What I did: Went into the mini-kitchen,...
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Can Meditation Really Make You Happier? →
The idea of never getting angry for 25 years seems, honestly, dull. Going for the happy-er medium in my #30days. Zen is not my aspiration.
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30 Days of Meditation: Meditate Angry
Today’s lesson: Make yourself meditate (or exercise or your own ________ good-for-you-thing) and you’ll feel better no matter how pissed off you are.
What happened: Woke up late and walked the dog in a 50 mph skin-burning, mascara-melting wind. The kind that convinces you hell is cold and plays a lot of Garrison Keillor. I looked like a revival of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane,...
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#30days of meditation: DAY 1
Ten minutes. How many times have I wasted 10 minutes?
Still, I didn’t want to do it.
Set the time. Sit down. Shut up. And see if you can shut it off.
The first impression: God my house is loud. All the clanks and creaks and cat chirps you don’t really register otherwise.
The second impression: the house has NOTHING on the clanks and creaks and chirps of your head.
Just like...
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12 months of change #30days at a time
For years, I’ve had the idea to do this.
This year, I’m doing it.
2012. 12 to-dos, actually gonna do this time.
I’m going to take on one change/personal social experiment per month. Documented here, each and every day. Why? So if nothing else, my laptop can bear witness to the fact that I’m actually f#$&ing doing it rather than talking, thinking, pondering,...
December 2011
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Will Women Save Africa? →
How a CEO in Zambia looks beyond education and birthrate to build success:
Unusually for a high-tech company, let alone a Zambian one, the majority of his employees were women, “In general women work far harder than men,” he says, “both within the workplace and outside, despite their educational disadvantages. And I say that even though I have many men as colleagues who...
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What's Your Want Ad?
They say print and newspapers are dead but this want ad shows some intend to fight, hard and not just phone it in.
What’s the want ad for yourself in 2012?
We want to add some talent to the Sarasota Herald-Tribune investigative team. Every serious candidate should have a proven track record of conceiving, reporting and writing stellar investigative pieces that provoke change. However,...
November 2011
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“I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.”
– Herman Melville writing about Moby Dick in a letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, November 17, 1851 (via austinkleon)
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October 2011
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“So little of what could happen does happen.”
– salvador dali
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September 2011
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“Thinking of quitting is just keeping going in disguise. When you have options,...”
– USWEEKLY?!?! and Michelle Williams.
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August 2011
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“Steve Jobs: “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people...”
– Steve Jobs, Wired, February 1996
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“How would the person I’d like to be do the things I’m about to do?”
– Bill Fidicuccia
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July 2011
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Time, Deconstructed →
Something reassuring and sad at at the same time going on here. Todd McLellan | BLDGWLF