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why live anywhere else?

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30 (ok 31) Days of NOT bitching

OK, kids. I took 30 days off drinking and liked it so much I extended it to 90.

In May I'm going to tackle an even more insidious demon: complaining. 

In a meeting last week someone was bitching like crazy. It made realize:

how draining & unpleasant & self-perpetuating & totally non-productive it is

that I have wasted a big, fat portion of my time on this earth doing it

I know how hard this will be. Complaining is the great pastime, coping mechanism and bonding tool of our time. So here's what I am going to do everytime I slip up and complain:

Write down something positive (and true) about the person or situation in question on a slip of paper.

Put the paper in a jar.

Read all the positive things (yes, many slip-ups are expected) on May 31st

Anyone with me? Let's try it!

[inflateddeflated]

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Happy just plain today. xo

[adamjk]

[cordisre]

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Permission granted.

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Seth Godin: You will be disappointed

Sometimes Seth Godin just seems like a master of the obvious. This is a great reminder that in a #FAIL world it's ok to hit bumps. In fact, it's necessary.

Sooner or later, you'll ask for something or read something or expect something and you won't like what you get. You'll feel like I wasted your time, wasted your money or didn't meet your expectations.

Not just me, of course. Everyone. Even you. You will disappoint someone, and the organizations you depend on will disappoint you. Expectations keep rising, and promises keep being made. We keep bringing more magic into the world, but rising expectations mean that there's more disappointment as well.

That's part of the deal of being in the world.

The alternative, I'm afraid, isn't to choose a path where we make everyone happy and always exceed their expectations. Nope. The alternative is to hide, to fail to engage and to produce nothing.

A pretty easy choice.

[misfitwashere]

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A Behavior Guide (in order to avoid mere survival)

via nevver

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“I speak it to God: I don’t really want more time; I just want enough time. Time to breathe deep and time to see real and time to laugh long, time to give You glory and rest deep and sing joy and just enough time in a day not to feel hounded, pressed, driven, or wild to get it all done—yesterday. To have the time to grab the jacket off the hook and time to go out to all air and sky and green and time to wonder at all of them in all this light, this time refracting in prism. I just want time to do my one life well.”

- Ann Voskamp (found on starthandingoutstars)

[xokelseyrose10]

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Gandhi's 10 Fundamentals for Changing the World (or just Your World...)

We actually googled this to see if it was really a Gandhi list and not on Gohndy list etc. - and it is legit.

[vicentesolbes]

Golden Rules

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This is in the yes living. Seriously.

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Willpower works best when it's coming from somebody else - ask Larry David. (by TheGuysTravel)

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Want a New You? Change Your Name.

This op-ed makes me kinda want to do it.

So I know that whenever someone changes her name, a body gets stuffed in the closet. When I think back to my old self, I think of an entirely different person, not altogether likable, whose singular distinguishing characteristic was the chronic inability to follow through with anything she said she would do. I picked up and abandoned projects with great regularity back then, careful to always avoid the frightening terrain where my true ambitions lay.

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Resolutionsforgood.com - Make a Resolution to Do Something for Someone Else

Love the idea of this - A site where instead of focusing on the 10 lbs you need to lose, you dedicate a resolution to do something for someone else:

"This New Year’s season, TBD is hosting Resolutions for Good, a campaign to flip the switch on making resolutions and designate 2012 the year of doing good for others. Join us and make that do-good resolution official."

[youngmanandoldsoul-deactivated2]

Sometimes. I feel this way.

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Ever catch yourself saying this into the mirror? You can still do something about it. You can always do something about it.

[misswallflower]

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Johnny Cash's To-Do List - Another great inspiration pre-2012 resolution. Working on 7 & 8. Got the note down.

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5 Awesome To-Do Lists for pre-2012 - #5 Woody Guthrie's New Year's Rulin's

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New Year's Rulins' by Woody Guthrie (1-5)

Work more and better

Work by a schedule

Wash teeth if any

Shave

Take bath

[nevver]

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Could be a quote from Yoda, a boy scout leader, pageant coordinator or spiritual gangster: via nevver:

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