Pointers To Resources For Your Better Life #2
Lyman Reed
December 9th, 2007
Pointers to Resources
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This seemed to be a fairly popular idea, so I intend to make these pointers a regular weekly feature here at Creating a Better Life.
Have you ever wanted to be a public speaker?
Then go read Stephen Hopson’s Confessions of a Motivational Speaker. I found this just after posting my Opie, where I wrote that “people and organizations have started asking me to do speaking engagements. I’m still no great orator, but I do get by better than I could in the past.”
After reading Stephen’s article, I know I can do better than just get by.
It’s Not About The Money
Jim Bouchard contributed a thought provoking article to Steven Aitchison’s Change Your Thoughts To Change Your Life - It’s Not About The Money
I was hooked by the first half of the first line of the article: “Before I give the impression that I’m going to regurgitate some of the new age platitudes that so many underachievers find comforting…”
He doesn’t.
Improve Your Vocabulary While Feeding The Hungry
I was pointed to this one by the newsletter from Publication Coach - if you want to improve your vocabulary and help the needy at the same time, check out FreeRice. You’ll be presented with a word and four choices for what it means. Get it right, and 20 grains of rice are donated to the World Food Programme. Get it wrong, and you’ll learn a new word! The site also tracks your progress, so that new words are presented with increasing difficulty.
Learning to Live Consciously
Leo from Zen Habits gives us some great tips (and has an interesting conversation going) with Wake Up: A Guide to Living Your Life Consciously. The more I live, the more I realize that we don’t have anything other than the Now… and paying attention to it is key.
What Would You Do If You Knew You Couldn’t Fail?
Well, you might as well do it! Edward Mills of Evolving Times explains why in his outstanding article You Cannot Fail In Your Personal Growth (But You Can Be Defeated By Constantly Greater Things). Why do we accept failure as a part of the learning process in everything except our personal growth efforts?
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Lyman:
Thanks for the link love, especially around the holidays. There’s no better time than the holidays to show some love! I appreciate it very much.
I LOVE your blog - it’s clean, easy to read, fun, relevant and even unpredictable, which is what I like. I like blogs that don’t necessarily conform to the standard. Kind of like mine. I don’t blog every day, I respond to each and every comment (as opposed to some bloggers who don’t), I write whatever my heart’s desires are (and try not to worry about whether it’ll be well received or not, as opposed to those who might be obsessed), etc.
Anyway, thanks for the link love again!!
Thank *you*, Stephen, for being such an inspiration to me (and others). You’ve got quite a gift, which I know is backed up by a lot of work on your end - thank you for sharing it.
Lyman:
Thank you for your compliments on my “gift” - I really do appreciate it. A kind word like that makes me realize, “Hey, keep going, there are people out there who like your work, don’t give up.” You know how it is sometimes. We’re all human and sometimes we wonder if what we do is having any impact. I admit having those days on occasion. You ever feel that way?
Then suddenly someone smiles at you or says a kind word or surprises you by letting you know how much of a difference you made for that person. Hearing stuff like that really makes any normal, decent human being’s day brighten up, right?
So thanks for brightening my day and those of your readers and mine. I am enjoying the cross referencing that we occasionally do for one another. It keeps things wide open and exposes our individual writing styles to other audiences. It’s really cool. And it’s also very much appreciated. What you give, you get back.
Great Links Lyman =)
Cheers!
SJ
Stephen,
Oh, yeah, I have my days like that! We all do, and sometimes it seems like with all of the blogging for a better life, we forget that we are all human, we all fall down, and we all have those days (or weeks, or months) when we wonder if what we are doing makes any difference. I think that a major part of our growth is recognizing and dealing with that fact the best we can.
Thanks for helping me (and so many others) with that. I’m enjoying the cross referencing too!
Thanks, SJ! It’s great to hear from you.
Lyman
Thanks so much for including me in your pointers. It’s a great list and I’m really enjoying Stephen’s site. Thanks for pointing me in his direction. (I already know the other sites quite well, since they’re part of the Positive Blog Network).
You’re very welcome, Ed. And I’m glad I was able to introduce you to Stephen… both of you are in my feedreader’s favorites.
Lyman:
There is a “feedreaders favorite”?? I didn’t know there was a such a thing. All I know is I have a list of RSS feeds to select from (via drop down menu on my IE browser). Is that what you meant by feedreaders favorite?
At any rate, I’m glad and thankful you provided a way for me to connect with people like Ed. Thanks!
Stephen,
I use Google Reader and created a folder called “Favorites” where I put all of my must read RSS subscriptions in. That way, I can still subscribe (on a trial basis) to as many feeds as I want, but they don’t get in the way of the one’s I really enjoy.
I’m not sure if IE allows you to do that or not, but I’m sure it will.
Lyman:
Ah, I see, ok, thanks for the tips!