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“we need haters to help us grow … they are in your life for a reason”
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009Uma Thurman deals with haters in her own way
This is from a great essay by Danny Choo on BoingBoing (read it all):
Society has all walks of people and we would never be able to successfully get through life without experiencing haters and learning how to deal with them. Remember that we need haters to help [...]
How not to plan your life
Saturday, October 4th, 2008I’m reading (and working through) Martha Beck’s Steering by Starlight, which is a quite new-agey self-help book and lots of fun if you like that sort of thing, which I very much do. This passage made me laugh out loud, and also sums up pretty well what it is I like about Martha’s use of [...]
do a scary thing every day
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008I have spent quite a lot of time pondering the adage “Do one scary thing every day”. Not sure where it first originated (ideas?) but most recently it was in my latest self-help book (yes, I am a self-help addict, there are worse things), Martha Beck’s The Joy Diet. Building your Courage Muscle seems to [...]
married people actually have sex shocker!
Saturday, July 12th, 2008This week we read in the shocker-tastic British press about the married couple that had sex for 101 days in a row, and the wife who gave her husband a gift (or “gave” her husband a “gift”) of sex every day for a year- which apparently they almost actually managed.
If you consider it perfectly [...]
most insane headline of the year?
Friday, July 4th, 2008Facebook and MySpace generation ‘cannot form relationships’
Once upon a time, I would have bothered fisking that. Now, I have more important things to do than go through those kinds of “arguments”. Although I do wonder why possession of academic qualifications makes it OK for people to spout evil made-up irrational ridiculous bigotry to the world [...]
forget social convention, follow your star
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008The social self isn’t opposed to you reaching your North Star per se; it just won’t allow you to proceed until you get Everybody’s permission. Actually, the social self would prefer that you don’t do anything, anything at all, until Everybody kneels down and begs you to do it.
Martha Beck, Finding your own North Star
This [...]
thoughts on Mrs Dr Phil’s book
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008I love the popular culture and sometimes pick up a book like Inside My Heart in the thrift store, to see what it’s all about. Mrs McGraw is a feisty lady with plenty of common sense and we can usually learn something from the story of pretty much anyone, so here’s what I got from [...]
“When you are doing the work you are meant to do, it feels right.”
Monday, June 16th, 2008That’s not me, it’s Oprah, in her Stanford speech. It’s that time of year when American students line up in gowns collecting degrees to a hundred verses of the school orchestra playing Land of Hope and Glory, which is about England so don’t ask me why that is (perhaps you know) (Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance [...]
what are you like?
Monday, June 16th, 2008What are you like in 3 words according to someone who knows and loves/ likes/ respect you, who is doing their best to be objective?
It might be hard to find someone like that who will tell you the truth. Sometimes people who don’t know well can be better at it, due to the relative [...]
what are you like?
Thursday, March 13th, 2008So I did this Myers Briggs personality test, and it said I was overall ENTP, or Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving (Extraverted Intuition with Introverted Thinking), which means Visionary, with ENFP ie. Extraverted Intuitive Feeling Perceiving (Extraverted Intuition with Introverted Feeling) or an Inspirer, in second place.
Then I did this test to check, and also because [...]
