Jena La Flamme is a Writer/Speaker/Certified Holistic Health Counselor/Weight Loss Coach as well as being the Jena Wellness Center. A real renaissance woman in the field of “being better”, Jena has an interesting and useful blog on her website JenaWellness.com. Jena’s career in the healing arts began 11 years ago during her first visit to [...]
This is probably my favorite speech of all time. Steve Jobs addressed Stanford’s 2005 graduates discussing some major lessons he learned in his lifetime. Drawing from some of the most pivotal points in his life, Steve Jobs, chief executive officer and co-founder of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, urged graduates to pursue their [...]
TED is is a small nonprofit devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from three worlds: Technology, Entertainment, Design. This week’s TEDTalk features Wofford College president Ben Dunlap tells the story of Sandor Teszler, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who taught him about passionate living and lifelong [...]
On this frantic day America dubs Black Friday, we’d just like to reunite you with a great little video from Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann‘s album Something For Everybody. Now 10 things you didn’t know about this video: Released in 1998, the video is not written by Luhrmann, it’s simply the director’s depiction of an [...]
Life Coach/Motivational Speaker Anthony Robbins has some good advice on how to deal with the current economic depression that we are facing. When Tony sat down with Matt Lauer on the Today Show. Matt and Tony discussed the recession, 9/11, and emotional fitness. Check out the video here: We’ll be doing a full read this [...]
If you live in the New York area, you’ve more than likely seen the mug of Dr. Mehmet Oz mozying along on the side of a city bus. Having personally witnessed this ad about 1,000 times I gave in. I tuned in and checked out what the good doctor had to say (check out your [...]
Alternative rock band Say Anything recently released their 4th Full Length album entitled “Say Anything.” As a departure from their usually pessimistic lyrics, Say Anything’s lead singer/songwriter Max Bemis decided to write an optimistic call to action. In the song, Bemis cries “You could do better, You could be the greatest man in the world” [...]
One of my very favorite blogs on the internet is Experiments in Lifestyle Design (The Official Blog of Tim Feriss) The blog which was launched into the Technorati top 1000 after his first book, The Four Hour Work Week, became a New York Times #1 best seller. Feriss coined the phrase “Lifestyle Design” which is [...]
It is the nature of the mind to make things much more complicated than they actually are. Since we believe things are complicated we look for complications. In finding complications it confirms that things are complicated creating a cycle of thinking too much. This cycle of thinking to much causes a ceaseless and constant chatter [...]