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"The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights." - Muhammed Ali

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The world is going to university

Yes, the world is going to university and yes, we should find a way to measure quality of the educations doled out to prevent wasted funds on paper certifications that mean nothing more than a set amount of tuition payed. Perhaps it would help to implement standardized testing for certain under-graduation degrees similar to the board examinations doctors have to take to become certified practitioners; however, we need to take a step back even further and ask “Do people even NEED higher education to do their jobs?” and I think we’ll find the answer to that question is often “No”. Motivated individuals are going to be motivated. There are so many free educational resources available online (ex. MIT OpenCourseWare) it’s easy to teach yourself something if you want to learn it. Going to college and drinking with a peer group comprised of a bunch of other aimless individuals who are destined to extend their adolescence until their 30th birthdays isn’t going to inspire motivation in students who weren’t motivated in the first place. How can we deflate the education bubble? How can we remove the stigma associated with NOT going to college?

        “AFTER God had carried us safe to New England, and we had builded our houses, provided necessaries for our livelihood, reared...

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Men Just Don't Trust Women -- And It's A Huge Problem

After five months of marriage, eight months of being engaged, and another year of whatever the hell we were doing before we got engaged, I realized I don't trust my wife. I trust her opinions about important things. I trusted that she'd make a great...

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What causes poverty?

Lack of resources and lack of mind-set. Resources have to be built within a community though. They can’t just be pumped in. The mind-set of the impoverished people needs to be adjusted too. They need hope and they need belief that the changes they make on an individual level will sum into real change for their community and lead to its betterment. Beliefs --> thoughts --> actions. Poverty is a result of actions and if you trace it back further, it’s actually a crisis of belief.

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What are the world’s problems?

Think of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: 

First food & water: poverty, hunger, drinking water (3rd world problems)

Then safety employment, health, housing, family: violence, terrorism, disease (American + 3rd world problems)

Then relationships: personal (American + 3rd world problem)

Then respect, self esteem, confidence: personal  (American + 3rd world problems)

Then morality, spontaneity, creativity, problem solving: personal, but feeds society in aggregate --> solutions to population growth, energy needs, climate change  (American + 3rd world problem and WOLRD problems)

To begin addressing these, we need to apply numbers... How many people are suffering from each? How many people are contributing to each?

Finally, we start applying solutions.

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A magnetic personality

KNOW that you are loved and love.

Have positive perceptions and turn your negative emotions into positive ones.

Have a sense of direction and purpose and be determined.

Make good decisions quickly.

Be enthusiastic

Be courageous (fear is contagious)

Have a vision and inspire others

Be humorous

Be independent

Be intelligent and manage your $h!+

Be interested. RESPECT every person; everyone has something beautiful and special to offer, so appreciate differences and develop fondness for them.

Exude warmth, brilliance, radiance.... with a genuine smile and with your tone of voice.

Communicate naturally and be at ease with people. 

Listen sincerely and speak sincerely and HOW you say it matters.

Give appreciation.

Self-confidence, but keep it quiet so people will approach (”quiet, happy, self confidence)

Fascinate

Don’t judge yourself or others... understand, forgive, and expect the best of others.

Accept change and consider new ideas. Be flexible and open minded, but hold on to your sense of justice.

Be giving and have at attitude of service. Think of what you can bring to the table that would benefit others. Be considerate of others’ interests, perspectives, concerns.

Don’t concern yourself with what others think of you - you can’t control it, so don’t sweat it.

Exercise, sleep enough, eat clean, drink plenty of water, cling to moderation!

Have fun and laugh - if you’re not enjoying your life, then what are you doing?

Do things so you have something to share and bond with others over.

Be tidy: in your environment, your appearance, your grooming.

Sell your opinions and ideas through painting pictures with your words - an extensive vocabulary helps here!

Be tactful. Say the right thing at the same time and feel comfortable saying nothing at the right time too.

Why bother developing a magnetic personality? Life isn’t meant to be lived alone. You’ll have people in your life and it will feel great for everyone, plus those with magnetic personalities tend to be perceived as more attractive in their 50′s and beyond ;)

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If you really want to do something you'll find a way; if you don't, you'll find an excuse.

Anonymous

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Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

Napoleon Hill

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“Where do you want to be in ten years?”

“I don’t think about that shit.”

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Do you want to be this guy?

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Brisbane, see you tonight! xx The xx

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Dear The XX,

You are breaking my heart.  I'm an American living in Brisbane and I'm not with you tonight.  I don't know how this has happened, but it saddens me deeply.   

Yours so very truly,

Moirazo

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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

Dr. Seuss

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“Don't wait. The time will never be just right.”

Napoleon Hill

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Alan Watts:

“So I always ask the question: What would you like to do if money were no object? How would you really enjoy spending your life? Well it’s so amazing as the result of our kind of educational system, crowds of students say ‘Well, we’d like to be painters, we’d like to be poets, we’d like to be writers’ But as everybody knows you can’t earn any money that way! Another person says ‘Well I’d like to live an out-of-door’s life and ride horses.’ I said ‘You wanna teach in a riding school?’

Let’s go through with it. What do you want to do? When we finally got down to something which the individual says he really wants to do I will say to him ‘You do that! And forget the money!’ Because if you say that getting the money is the most important thing you will spend your life completely wasting your time! You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living – that is to go on doing things you don’t like doing! Which is stupid! Better to have a short life that is full of which you like doing then a long life spent in a miserable way. And after all, if you do really like what you are doing – it doesn’t really matter what it is – you can eventually become a master of it. It’s the only way of becoming the master of something, to be really with it. And then you will be able to get a good fee for whatever it is. So don’t worry too much, somebody is interested in everything. Anything you can be interested in, you’ll find others who are.

But it’s absolutely stupid to spend your time doing things you don’t like in order to go on spending things you don’t like, doing things you don’t like and to teach our children to follow the same track. See, what we are doing is we are bringing up children and educating to live the same sort of lifes we are living. In order they may justify themselves and find satisfaction in life by bringing up their children to bring up their children to do the same thing. So it’s all retch and no vomit – it never gets there! And so therefore it’s so important to consider this question:

What do I desire?”

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Awesome, creative parenting.  An inspiration.

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What is an idea, action, and emotion all at the same time?

Love is.

It's an idea, a changing, breathing, living idea.  It's a language, spoken not for proficiency, but for pleasure.

Love goes beyond affection, beyond passion, beyond sex.

http://anna-tannaspeaks.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/one-who-loves-you-will-make-you-weep.html

I believe love is an action.  It's something you do.

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So be truly glad. There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a little while.

1 Peter: 1 - 6

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"We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us."

Virginia Satir