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Three Steps To Transform Your Mood by: Hailey Eisen (First published in YummyMummyClub.ca — Our Happy Place blog) If you’re like me, then it’s not unusual to wake up in a bad mood or to suddenly feel sad, angry, or frustrated for seemingly no reason. While I try to stay upbeat and positive, especially when my daughter is around, I’m hormonal and moody and totally unpredictable…most of the time. But, I’m lucky enough to have a dad who is a life coach. (While I was growing up, he was a Type A workaholic who ran a family business, but for [...]

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Sarah Kay – Poetry that makes you think

“I use poetry to help me work through what I don’t understand, but I show up to each new poem with a backpack full of everywhere else that I’ve been.” – Sarah Kay “If I should have a daughter, instead of Mom, she’s gonna call me Point B … ” began spoken word poet Sarah Kay, in a talk that inspired two standing ovations at TED2011. She tells the story of her metamorphosis — from a wide-eyed teenager soaking in verse at New York’s Bowery Poetry Club to a teacher connecting kids with the power of self-expression through Project V.O.I.C.E. [...]

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Three Ways to Inspire Others

Three Ways to Inspire Others If you have an artistic side, but you’re not sure how to hone it, or if you want to make art your career, consider an online degree from an art college. From graphic design to creative writing, there’s something at an art college for everyone. With a degree, you can more easily translate your artistic gift into your livelihood. Imagine getting up every day and doing something you love for money. Making it your mission on Earth to inspire others is easier than you think. If you can write, draw or design, you have [...]

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14 natural items for your alternative first aid kit

by Kathleen Broadhurst On April 13, 2011 Cloves. Photo by Elenadan Find out which multitasking natural remedies merit a spot in your backpack. If you’ve come to trust in herbal and alternative medicine at home, it can be a hard decision to go back to Pepto-Bismol and Dayquil when you’re getting ready to go abroad. With these 14 items it’s easy to keep up that alternative health kick you’ve been on, even when you’re 5000 miles from home. 1. Echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) This is top of the list because it’s just so damn useful. Echinacea helps support a healthy immune [...]

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Eye Of God

This is an authentic photograph (actually, a composite of images) taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and at the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. It was featured on NASA’s website as an Astronomy Picture of the Day in May 2003 and thereafter reproduced on a number of websites under the title “The Eye of God” (though their is no evidence that NASA has ever referred to it as such). The awe-inspiring image has also been featured on magazine covers and in articles about space imagery. What it actually depicts is the so-called Helix Nebula, described by astronomers as “a [...]

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How to Build a Beautiful Company

Employing open-book management and leadership by consensus, the Sky Factory’s Bill Witherspoon has set out to create the perfect business. As Told to Leigh Buchanan | Jun 8, 2010 In the early 1970s, Bill Witherspoon lived for months in a school bus parked in the Oregon desert. A hundred miles from the nearest town, he spent day after day painting the sky and the clouds. He later sold his work for tidy sums. Witherspoon would spend the rest of his life alternating between painting and launching companies. His first company experimented with new methods of agricultural management. In 1982, he [...]

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The World As I See It – An Essay by Einstein

“How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors [...]

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The Ripple Effect of Kindness –by Birju Pandya

The Ripple Effect of Kindness –by Birju Pandya , Original Story Over the last few years, I’ve become a big proponent of Smile Cards. The premise behind these small cards is simple: do an anonymous act of kindness and leave a card behind, inviting the recipient to pay-it-forward. If he/she does, the chain keeps going, resulting in “ripples” of kindness radiating out. Smile Cards are wonderful in ways I cannot count. Small, simple, humble — yet powerful, because one act of kindness can be the start of a long chain. But for all these reasons, the main reason why I use them [...]

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Drew Dellinger – planetize the movement

drew dellinger planetize the movement Drew Dellinger (Ph.D. candidate) is an internationally sought-after speaker, poet, writer, and teacher who has inspired minds and hearts around the world, performing poetry and keynoting on justice, ecology, cosmology, and compassion. He is also a consultant, publisher, and founder of Planetize the Movement. Dellinger has presented at over 1000 events across the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia. He has spoken and performed at numerous conferences–including Bioneers, the Green Festival, the Dream Reborn, and the Parliament of the World’s Religions–as well as colleges and universities, poetry venues, protests, and places of worship. He has [...]

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