For the parent in me…
This is a great video for everybody – but especially parents…
Dolphin Leather?
I quote Seth Godin a lot and highly recommend his blog for daily reading!
In search of dolphin leather
There’s a story in the bible with very specific instructions for building an ark. Included in the instructions is a call for using tanned dolphin leather. Regardless of your feelings about the historical accuracy of the story, it’s an interesting question: why create an impossible mission like that? Why encourage people who might travel 100 miles over their entire lifetime to undertake a quest to find, capture, kill, skin and eventually tan a dolphin?
My friend Adam had an interesting take on this. He told me that the acquisition of the leather is irrelevant. It was the quest that mattered. Having a community-based quest means that there’s less room for whining, for infighting and for dissolution. Having a mission not only points everyone in the same direction, it also creates motion. And motion in any direction is often better than no motion at all.
All around you, people are telling you two things:
1. whatever you want, forget it, it’s impossible, and
2. sit still, preserve resources, lay low.
And yet, the people who are succeeding, creating change and (not coincidentally) are happier aren’t listening to either of these pieces of advice. Instead, they’re on the search for dolphin leather.
Frank Sinatra had it wrong. Your dream shouldn’t be impossible, but it sure helps if it’s improbable. Don’t choose your dreams based on what is certain to happen, choose them based on what’s likely to cause the change you want to occur around you.
How To Reach Out And Touch – Often
It is supremely ironic that the more we get on the internet to reach the whole world the more we need to use the internet to keep one on one contact with folks we care about, folks we want to maintain a relationship, and those we want to create one.
Every single day I send a minimum of one greeting card through the mail – from my computer.
online greeting cards
I choose a card, write a heartfelt message, and sometimes add a gift of brownies, or cookies, or something similar.
Then the program I use prints the card, stuffs and addresses the envelope, adds the gift if there is one and mails it for me – for less than $1.50.
Best deal in town. And a super easy way to create a wonderful feeling for yourself while giving joy. (Who doesn’t like to get greeting cards in the mail? Especially if it is accompanied by brownies!)
3 steps to happiness
What if I told you your whole life has been training you to be unhappy?
See if this makes sense to you.
Since you were born, every commercial and advertisement you have seen, plus social pressure has mandated the following formula (which I believe to be not only wrong but has brought us to the mess we are in)
1. DO something in your life that will make you as much money as possible so you can…
2. HAVE lots of stuff. (cars, houses, clothes, friends etc) because when you have this stuff you will look like those people in the commercials and advertisements and you will…
3. BE somebody! You will BE happy, and have a great body, life, relationship, whatever.
What this has done is drive us into serious, debilitating debt, greed, jealousy etc. It has driven us away from the value system this country was built upon.
Here is the true formula to follow…
1. BE who you are. Invest the time to learn about you – and be joyful in exactly who that is. Under no circumstances attempt to be somebody else. It never works.
2. DO what you love to do. Not only are you investing your whole life into this – you are responsible for accomplishing things in this world only you can do – so do them!
3. HAVE what you need. The universe has always supplied what we need. It will continue to do so. Especially if you are being who you are and doing what you love!
Disagree or agree? And how are will you accomplish this?
Create Your Life – Now More Than Ever
I have heard enough bad news in the last two days to last me a lifetime.
If we listen to the bad news bears the world is about to cave in on itself.
From my perspective it looks a bit different. We can only control our world – so that is where my focus lies.
At the horse stables in Atlanta, business is brisk. Although we are not getting as many calls for boarding as normal for this time of year, we are swamped with horse lesson, camp, and birthday pony party requests.
In the “Market Your Local Business” arena, more and more folks are beginning to realize the effectiveness and affordability of moving the majority of their marketing online – and they are using me to do it.
The point is this – do not let others tell you what your world looks like. Only you create your world. Granted you can choose to give that power to someone else – but what kind of life will they choose for you?
How hard will they work to make sure you have an amazing life?
Think hard about that and make the necessary changes you need – beginning today to create the world in which you live.
Why We Do What We Do…
Life is a Yume! (That’s Dream in Japanese!)
We decided a long time ago it was infinitely better for us to be doing what we love doing all the time and working when we can.
Learn how this is accomplished by scrolling through the menu. There is lots of good stuff there from years and years of writing!