The #1 Guide On Being A Remarkable Human Being - In 34 Ways! By Joel Brown on August 30, 2011 Today we feature 34 ways that you can be remarkable. This here is a great little guide to remind us that we are all unique in our own little way and that it is so important in life to remember how boring it is to slip into mediocrity. We all do it from time to time and find ourselves all living a little less or giving a little less. This Article here is a wake up call to us all and may have all the answers to why you may be living a mediocre life. Live Your Own LifeThere is nothing remarkable about someone who is constantly trying to be like other people. This is what Seth Godin wrote about being remarkable: “Remarkability lies in the edges. There is a difference between being remarkable and between being noticed. I highly recommend Seth Godin’s Linchpin: Are You Indispensable for a much better perspective on how to be remarkable.
Article By Diggy @ Upgrade Reality About The Author: Joel Brown Joel Brown is the CEO and Founder of Addicted2Success.com. 30 Habits that Will Change your Life. Developing good habits is the basic of personal development and growth. Everything we do is the result of a habit that was previously taught to us. Unfortunately, not all the habits that we have are good, that’s why we are constantly trying to improve. The following is a list of 30 practical habits that can make a huge difference in your life.
You should treat this list as a reference, and implement just one habit per month. This way you will have the time to fully absorb each of them, while still seeing significant improvements each month. Health habits Exercise 30 minutes every day. Productivity habits Use an inbox system. Personal Development habits Read 1 book per week. Career habits Start a blog. What do you think? Update: A reader put together a downloadable copy of all these habits. 6 Simple Rituals To Reach Your Potential Every Day. It’s Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. Two San Francisco entrepreneurs are pitching their ventures to potential investors today. They’d both agree that this is one of the most important days of their lives. This is the story of Jane and Joe... Jane was up until 4 a.m. putting the final touches on her deck. In fact, she spent the entire weekend fixed in her apartment, preparing the presentation. Joe, on the other hand, went to sleep last night at 11 p.m., as he does most nights of the week.
Which entrepreneur would you bet on? And, which entrepreneur most closely resembles you? Jane and Joe are fictional characters but having been immersed in the world of startups in both New York and San Francisco, I see a lot of Janes. This past weekend I had the opportunity to speak with my friend Mike Del Ponte, who resembles the character of Joe. "Every day I need physical energy, mental clarity, and emotional balance to tackle everything that comes my way," Mike said. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Life's Instructions - Concepts, Ideas, Thoughts & Bullsh!t. 40 Ways to Feel More Alive. “I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.”
~Joseph Campbell As I write this, I am two hours away from my first weekly acting class in Los Angeles. I’ve been here for almost two years now, and though I loved Community Theater as a kid, I never so much as researched acting classes until a couple weeks back. I frequently said I wanted to do it, along with painting classes, which I’m starting next week, but I always made excuses not to start either. I was too busy. I didn’t have enough money. I didn’t have the time. The list went on and on, but I realized the last two were the big ones for me. Also, I hesitate to give large amounts of time to hobbies I have no intention of pursuing professionally. I realized last month, however, that I want to prioritize more of the things that make me feel passionate and excited—and not just occasionally, but regularly.
I don’t know if these classes are “leading” anywhere. 1. 2. Never, Ever Give Up. Arthur's Inspirational Transformation! 25 Things I’ve Learned In My 20s. Confessions. 2012 Las Vegas, NV Interactive gallery installation in The Cosmopolitan that invites people to anonymously share their confessions and see the confessions of the people around them in the heart of the Las Vegas strip. Amidst casinos, restaurants and bars, Chang invited passersby to write confessions on wooden plaques in the privacy of confession booths. Chang arranged the anonymous plaques on the gallery walls like a Shinto shrine prayer wall, painted select responses on 4’x4’ canvases, and orchestrated the space with an original score by Oliver Blank. The project explored the design of safe spaces for anonymity, vulnerability, understanding, and consolation.
Inspired by Japanese Shinto shrines, Post Secret, and Catholicism. 2012, Las Vegas, NV. Helps you remember what's happened in your life. 18 Thought-Provoking Questions. 100 Tips About Life, People, and Happiness. 88 Important Truths I’ve Learned About Life. Everyone gets drilled with certain lessons in life. Sometimes it takes repeated demonstrations of a given law of life to really get it into your skull, and other times one powerful experience drives the point home once forever. Here are 88 things I’ve discovered about life, the world, and its inhabitants by this point in my short time on earth. 1. You can’t change other people, and it’s rude to try. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. 63. 64. 65. 66. 67. 68. 69. 70. 71. 72. 73. 74. 75. 76. 77. 78. 79. 80. 81. 82. 83. 84. 85. 86. 87. 88.
Photo by Philgarlic Have a lot on your mind? Everyday mindfulness has transformed my life, and the lives of many others. 10 Things to Remind Yourself on a Daily Basis. Bad days can be extremely overpowering sometimes. When we're having a bad day, everything feels wrong and the day seems to get even worse as we sink further into frustration and despair. By the end of the day, all we want to do is pull the covers up over our heads and block it all out. When I clawed my way out of a depressive phase last year, it was a daily challenge to keep myself from falling back into that phase again.
I had to go through a process of re-building my self-esteem and re-evaluating my life. It sort of felt like climbing up and over a steep hill and every time I let a negative or discouraging thought sink in, my foot would slip and I would roll all the way back down to the bottom of the hill and have to start all over again. On the bad days, I would feel like it would never end and that I would always be unhappy. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. SHARE SHARES 41.2k. Are You Alive or Just Breathing? 10 Ways to Feel More Alive.
Have you ever noticed that sometimes we go about life doing things everyday and we end up in a bit of a rut? Maybe we lost sight of the magic in life; or the excitement that was once there as a kid but now seems to be lost in the piles of responsibility and hustle of our everyday lives? I of course have felt these things in my life as well and at various times I’ve noticed that the only way out of these situations you may feel stuck in, is to really shake things up. While most of our challenges can be related back to fear in the end, just me telling you to “address the fear,” isn’t going to be much help is it? So let’s get practical with it. Let’s throw out 10 ideas to start bringing more experiences into our life and spice things up a little. Before we get into this list fully, remember that we must also look within when it comes to how we feel in life, more often than not, the dis-ease we feel with life starts within!
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. The Lesson of the Monkeys | Jason Wells. I was first told of this experiment* by a former work colleague, and later discovered this illustration of it. It’s both illuminating and disturbing. There is a clunky word that describes this phenomenon: filiopietism, or the reverence of forebears or tradition carried to excess. But I prefer another term for it: the tragic circle.
I believe many of these tragic circles exist, mostly unseen, in across all cultures and societites, causing untold harm. The lesson is as obvious as it is important: question everything. . * Stephenson, G. Powerful Lessons My Mom Did Not Teach Me. My mom left out a few lessons that a lot of other kids got. Certain common habits, I just never developed because nobody taught me. In the last few years I’ve become more and more interested in people, and I pay more attention to passers-by when I’m out and about. One thing that always enthralls me is seeing children learn from their parents. A wide-eyed and curious child, watching his mother’s actions and words, is a powerful sight to behold. It affects me today in ways it never had before. Now that I’m older and firmly in the habit of examining my habits, I can see how crucial those moments are in shaping a kid’s life. What the parent does in those moments, in front of her vulnerable, impressionable child, is a far-reaching act of creation.
There are certain common lessons I see a lot of parents giving their kids that I now realize I missed out on. Some kids learn that they should yell and smoke cigarettes when they get upset. We don’t choose our parents. I won. …to indulge in vices. 19 pictures which scream NO EXCUSES. Probably one of the only times I think saying, “No” is alright, as in No Excuses.
No Excuses must be one of the strongest things you can tell yourself, because it wakes you up and lets you know what you’re actually saying to yourself… … to hold yourself back. Nothing more, nothing less. However legitimate, reasonable, excusable, tired, bored, unmotivated, lazy, partied out, discouraged, listless, lethargic, stupid, slack or whatever the hell you are, guess what? There’s probably someone out there worse off and always willing to try anyway. Boom. I found all this over the net and some of them I interpreted myself, so it’s not all about fitness. No excuses to not smile and be happy Age is not an excuse bro!
Jung Da Yeon: Age 43. No excuses to not make ART! No excuses to not make beautiful music No excuses to not coexist peacefully No excuses to not get along No excuses to get your ass to exercise No excuses to not be happy with all the shit you own No excuses to not be thankful. 106 Excuses That Prevent You From Ever Becoming Great. The following is a rare guest post, this time coming from Tommy Walker. Tommy Walker is an Online Marketing Strategist and host of “Inside the Mind” a fresh and entertaining video show about Internet Marketing Strategy. Be honest. How often do you sabotage yourself? On any given day, you have tasks you’d like to finish because you know they’d positively impact your business, and tasks you actually do. You trick yourself into thinking that keeping up with industry news, and reading the latest “10 tips to ______” post is “working”.
You know better, but some part of you believes that simply reading the article will help you move forward. That having a deep understanding of all things online marketing will better position you when the time is right. But that time doesn’t come. Something is holding you back, and you can’t quite put your finger on it. You may have one excuse; you may have several. What follows are 106 of the most common excuses you might tell yourself.
You don’t have the knowledge. If Everyone Knew | Now with five more facts that everyone should know. Conférence Sylvain Boudreau [Conférencier] Boutique en ligne | Moi inc. L'attitude positive au quotidien ! Inspiring People: Random Interesting Facts. French subway stations aren't usually used as parking places Coca Cola was invented by John Pemerton in 1886. It used to be made from coca leaves and could contain traces of cocaine (from 0.1% to 0.9% depending on where grown) Though it is no longer made with cocaine.The Guinness World Record for holding the most Guinness Records is set by Ashrita Furman. Ashrita has set - 303 - official Guinness Records since 1979 and currently holds - 121 (sept 2010)A googol is a large number. the digit 1 followed by one hundred zeros: 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.
A random photo I took in Oxfordshire. More bizarre facts try: Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Extraordinary Book of Facts: And Bizarre Information (Bathroom Readers) Le discours le plus important de votre vie - Gary Yourofsky. Letter to a young procrastinator. Dear chronically procrastinating young person, Slate has asked me to offer you a few words of advice—as I, too, am a procrastinator. Always have been. In college, I'd start 10-page papers after midnight on the day they were due. Half my memories of this period involve screaming at my printer to print faster, ripping the pages from its maw, and then sprinting to my professor's office with moments to spare, sweat streaming down my face. Why did I subject myself to so much stress, instead of starting my work earlier like "normal" people do? I'm here to tell you that it was none of these things.
Don't judge, pal—you're lazy, too. It's just that simple, my slothful friend. Get off your fat badonk and stop procrastinating. Will you do this? Understand that this will never, ever change. I'm serious about this. It's a beautiful dream, my indolent chum. Take, for instance, this assignment. OK, back now. No. And that's OK! Stop resisting and embrace your procrastination. Your shiftless amigo,Seth. Need Some Motivation Right Now? Read This IMMEDIATELY. If you’re in desperate need of some motivation, we’re going to fix that problem, right here, right now.
Prepare yourself. WARNING: I’m going to swear and yell a little in this post. Desperate times call for desperate measures. You said you needed motivation. If this isn’t the kind of motivation you need, leave now. Alright. Here goes. Do you want some motherfucking motivation right now? I SAID, do you want some MOTHERFUCKING MOTIVATION RIGHT NOW?
Do you want to get some seriously useful shit done today? Do you want to get off your ass and start producing instead of wallowing in despair, depression, self pity, fear, doubt or whatever is holding you back? Are you sick of not getting anything done? Let’s DO THIS. The point of this exercise is to give you motivation to do something right now. Follow the steps below carefully. 1. The world doesn’t care. And if you’re feeling depressed or down, stop feeling sorry for yourself while you’re at it. We all face obstacles. Did you catch that? Period. 2. 3. 4.
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