Saturday, November 30, 2013

The amazing power of gratitude

The amazing power of gratitude

I’ve been deeply engrossed in the creation of a course for personal and business development, for release in Jan. 2014. In that process, I’ve discovered the incredible
Gratitude and happiness
Gratitude

power of gratitude. To access a flow state gratitude is essential. Flow is that magical state during which you access heightened reality. I’ve experienced it as a profession musician, public speaker and most recently, during the writing and recording of the material for my course. I started the journey as an interesting entrepreneurial project and found the most exciting adventure I’ve ever undertaken. I encourage you to examine and practice gratitude each day of your life. What you will find is breathtaking.

A genuine sense of gratitude is rooted in the realization that when I think about all that I am, all that I have, and all that I might have achieved, I cannot claim to have done any of this by myself. None of us is really “self-made.” We must all acknowledge the importance of the help, advice, comfort and loyalty that came from others.
Gratitude can flow not just to individuals but also to a family, a neighborhood, a society or a nation. We don’t choose the family into which we are born or the environment our parents fostered.
Family and gratitude
Gratitude and family
If we’re generally happy, might our disposition owe at least in part to our upbringing, or perhaps even to accidental genetic forces? If we belong to a once oppressed group, we are in debt to those who waged battles that have brought us closer to equal treatment. We enjoy a natural world that was conserved for us, even if it has sometimes been despoiled. via What Gratitude Requires | RealClearPolitics
As much as being grateful should not be exclusively celebrated one day per year, we do have a day dedicated to giving thanks coming up pretty soon. And so, to help you prepare for an entire day of looking on the bright side, here are 5 TED talks to get you in a grateful mood.via 5 TED Talks to Get You in a Grateful Mood This Thanksgiving
Sometime in the coming weeks, you and yours will probably share notes on the things for which you’re thankful.
Perhaps you’ll take the basic approach, where everyone at the table mentions one thing. Or you’ll ask everyone to write an affirming note of some sort on every guest’s place card. Or distribute a pre-meal questionnaire.
But after a few tears and belly laughs, you may also wonder why you and your children don’t do this kind of thing more often. There is a fast-growing collection of studies around gratitude and its links to everything from stronger immune systems to better divorces. And while the study of gratitude in children is still in its early stages, evidence is also emerging that it can help them too.via How to Start a Year-Round Family Gratitude Ritual – NYTimes.com
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David Steindl-Rast: Want to be happy? Be grateful

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  • 1 hour ago: All of you who have replied seem to be so UN happy that's so sad to me because I believe that it does work .if ya'll should have a moment then I would suggest going to emotos web site , that's where I learned to be grateful . It isn't easy for you to believe emotos work it took me awhile and 3 books later from half priced books store in Austin , tx. Give these ideas a chance if not then stop distracting others from trying . Thank you ,Bzerk
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    1 hour ago: I think I recognize this voice. It is the voice of the wise man from my favorite talk by Louie Schwartzberg: Nature. Beauty. Gratitude.

The math behind a sunroom addition

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Understanding the Math Behind Your Sunroom Addition Cost

Posted by Danny Peterson on Fri, Nov 29, 13

    
Sunroom_Addition_CostIf you’re a homeowner in Baltimore or Washington, D.C., you’re probably curious about what you can expect in terms of sunroom addition cost. You see the value in adding this extra living space onto your home, but need to know what the bottom line looks like so you can get the room you’ve dreamt about, while staying on budget. While there is no exact figure when it comes to the type of investment you can expect to make, there are a few different points to keep in mind as you make your calculations. 

Katie Couric hired by Yahoo what does this mean to their content?



Nov 26, 2013, 5:57am PST

What Yahoo's Katie Couric hire reveals about its content strategy




Ramin Talaie
Former Today Show anchor and day time talk show host Katie Couric will join Yahoo. But what does that mean for Yahoo's content strategy?






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We heard some rumblings last week, and now it's confirmed: Katie Couric is leaving ABC News for a new gig at Yahoo.
In a blog post announcing the appointment, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer said that as Global Anchor, Couric will be the "face of Yahoo News" and will shoot features for its homepage. She's not leaving TV entirely, either — Couric will continue to host her daytime talk show, "Katie," even though it looks like her day-to-day news role at ABC is over.
Couric is the highest profile of a string of high-profile hires at Yahoo as it pushes to turn its relatively strong Yahoo News brand into a major player in online media. Mayer has also brought in New York Times tech columnist David Pogue to lead a tech news vertical, former NYT deputy news editor Megan Lieberman to be its editor-in-chief, and NYT Magazine writer Matt Bai to be its national political correspondent.
Put simply, Yahoo under Mayer appears to be all-in on online media, particularly video, despite some early throat clearing. Ross Levinsohn, the man who was up for the top job before Mayer's surprise announcement, famously thought of Yahoo as primarily a media company with a lot of pointless tech products that it needed to shed, so Mayer was quick to de-emphasize that strategy initially.
At the time of her appointment, many were saying that the primary issue facing Yahoo's incoming chief was deciding whether it was going to be a tech company or a media company. Mayer was quick to dismiss that debate as "not the right question."
But what is Yahoo's media strategy? That's not really clear. To the extent that it has one, it seems to be to throw as much money as possible at the problem, pick up really high-profile names, and trust that traffic will sort itself out. You can see that in the slightly schizophrenic way Mayer describes the things she admires about Couric in her announcement:

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