What It Takes to Be Loved
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Thoughts | June 28, 2009 @ 8:10 PM
In the spirit combining one of my blogs (http://chexed.blogsopt.com/) into this one - the other one is now mostly inactive: I'm going to post a "one liner" which is something I've posted a lot of there.
Sometimes it takes being hated to be loved.
To give you a fair warning, in case you've never seen my one liners before; it's rare that they're actually one line, but they're always short. Sometimes they're serious, sometimes they're other.
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How do you build a marketing network?
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Thoughts | June 27, 2009 @ 12:35 AM
How do you build a marketing network?
Be not afraid to ask your questions directly to prominent people who you really feel you could share mutual benefits with.
I think the the notion of "good spirit" may help us to realize what a "spirit" really is.
And when we have good spirit in developing a network, the network will thrive vibrantly. If there is bad spirit in the network, it will drain the good spirit down, this is due to the law of balance.
The law of balance is another topic though.
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Control Your Thoughts
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Thoughts | May 25, 2009 @ 9:05 PM
If you knew where your thoughts could take you, you would want to control them too.
The more we think about something, the more comfortable we become with it, the more likely we are to explore within it (perhaps beyond cultural norms). Sometimes this is good, sometimes it's not.
If you experiment for yourself, you will find that with many things, the more you think about them, the more you end up thinking about them, and eventually the more things you end up doing because of the thoughts you've had about it.
So if you want to become a teacher, just plant a small seed of thought in yourself, such as a question for yourself to ponder. For example, "Do I want to teach Elementary, High, College, or Something else?"
Nurture that small seed of thought by asking more questions and seeking out the answers. Those answers will prompt more questions and better enable you to complete the task you want, or better enable you to avoid it- which you would probably not want to do once you've invested a certain amount of time into it.
The same is true unfortunately for the things we don't want to do. The more we think about them and enable ourselves to feel comfortable with them, the more likely we are to do them. Although it is a thin line, it better enables us to avoid those things as well. Often times in my experience, it's not worth the time to learn avoidance techniques for some "unworthy" thoughts.
Unworthy thoughts often end up being a waste of time or more. Just think about winning the lottery, $200 million dollars. The more we think about the $200 million, the more we want it, the more we think about taking a chance to win it, the more likely we are to do it. Some gamblers out there (myself unfortunately included on an occasion), may now be itching for a ticket simply because of the thoughts of it just now.
You can avert thoughts though, you can even avert imminent actions. Just think a thought that is contrary to that action. For example - Instead of most likely wasting a dollar, definitely get a pack of gum with that dollar. Or instead of going anywhere to buy anything, get home just a moment sooner, or stay home! Save your own time by not spending that dollar.
Time is priceless as they say. Take a moment to consider not just your actions, but more uncommonly, your thoughts - And you may end up saving a lot of time due to situations you could have avoided.
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Recession doesn't mean Depression
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Thoughts | April 26, 2009 @ 1:33 AM
Call it what you will, recession, depression, regression. I think the media has decided to agree that it's a recession, so that means 99.99 percent of America considers it that too. I'm one of the 99.99 percent for now. The good question now is- Will there be a new Baby Boom?!
When I was in high school I remember learning how the depression ushered in the Baby Boom. After looking at two charts on Wikipedia showing the year/population, I can see why. The dates definitely seem to have some correspondence. My teacher suggested an unusually higher number of people were at home and that lead to lots of time for order babies from the stork farms. That makes sense. Unemployment = Babies.
Charts: Baby Boom (1934 to Present) | Great Depression Timeline
If you look at the baby boom chart, you'll see that there may be correspondence to population around the 70's recession too.
Now there's a new recession going on and unemployment is on the rise. People are probably ordering babies by the dozens. I'll take a carton myself, maybe even some double yolked ones. What do you think? Are you ordering babies? Do you think this recession will have an effect on the amount of pregnancy? - Just think, this is a Global recession. That's a lot of eggs to hatch- Good thing storks have long legs and big wings ;)
It does look like this recession will bring babies and babies = happiness. So that means Recession != does not = depression. Recession does even follow depression, so even in depression, there is recession, then resuscitation to look forward to! Or, suscitation(?) since it's NEW life, not life being revitalized. Although when not considering babies and just considering the economy, it would be REsuscitation.
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Broken Hard Drive? New Software!
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Internet Technology | April 18, 2009 @ 6:04 PM
Kissing the old goodbye:
So my computer hard drive, where many pictures, emails, arts, Windows, and more were, suddenly stopped working the other week.
I tried to fix it, but there was little I could do, considering opening it up voided the warranty. Luckily I can send it back and they'll send me another one that's been renewed from Western Digital, who made it. Apparently they wont try to fix it and give me back the same one though. So I have to kiss all that stuff I had on their goodbye. MUAH!
Bigger and Better!
How many guys wish they could say that?! Well luckily, I'm not one of them now that I have my new new, much bigger hard drive of 1 Terrabyte (that's plenty room for way over 300,000 mp3's for you music lovers out there). It was also cheap in comparison to my old hard drive!
NEW FREE SOFTWARE!
Speaking of cheap, I searched and found a fresh list of Free Software for 2009. I've installed a whole crap load, many of which I've already been using for years, including GIMP, Inkscape, and Paint.NET (all for art). Here's the somewhat extensive list with short but sweet software reviews on PCMAG.com, whose magazines I like to look at in the magazine isles and on a occasion buy if I like what's inside. The free software list is pretty awesome though.
SECURITY:
What's most awesome about all of this though, is that I'll be able to get back to blogging now that my PC is working again! I'm going to make a backup of my computer using one of the free programs offered on that list, DriveImage. Having an "image" backup of your PC is one of the best security measures anyone can take- If your computer gets riddled with viruses beyond trust, you can erase EVERYTHING and put the original "image" of your computer back in its place, making your computer just like the day you made the "image" of it- minus anything new you've put on it since then though, so it is a "hard" security choice.
P.S.
Paint.NET actually works with Windows XP and Vista, and was at least a partially mentored project by Microsoft so that's probably why it's remained so stable for me. I recommend it for Windows users for most image editing. But never ever to do anything so childish as put a friends head on top of a nude body. That would just be wrong. My good friend Necoidian (who's been playing with his new fandangle and fancy 2nd Generation iPhone posting images to his blog) could be witness to that.
This was updated, cuz it was messed up the first time, and is now more fancy.
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