The miracle of modern science...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jg2okfrmR4
WARNING: Content may be unsuitable for those allergic to corny movies.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Christ Getting In Shape For Second Coming
From the Onion:
HEAVEN—Emerging from a grueling 90 minutes of cardiovascular exercise and light lifting for tone, Son of God Jesus Christ said Monday that He is "definitely on track" to achieve peak fitness condition for the Second Coming.
The Son of God spends each morning trying to attain perfect abdominal definition.
"If every eye is going to see Me, and all the tribes of earth are going to wail on account of Me, I think I owe it to them and to Myself to be in the best shape of My life," Christ said. "Right now I'm up to 35 minutes at seven [miles per hour] on the treadmill and benching about 165 [pounds]."
"I'm really starting to feel like I'll have the strength and endurance to move every mountain and island from its place," Christ added.
Since His birthday last Dec. 25, Christ has committed Himself to a demanding daily regimen of exercise and prophecy fulfillment. Each of His workouts, Christ said, starts with an hour of cardio, after which He focuses on two muscle groups, replacing conventional free weights with the Rod of Iron with which He intends to rule all nations.
On Mondays, Christ works His chest and biceps and completes three sets of 10 transfigurations. On Tuesdays, He switches to triceps and abdominals, and passes as many sets of Last Judgments as He can in a minute. Wednesdays are devoted to the back and legs, and Thursdays and Fridays are for core and flexibility.
Even Sabbaths are spent doing yoga, swimming, and basic strength-training isometrics such as push-ups, leg lifts, and chin-ups.
"There can be no day of rest," said Christ, His eyes filled with flaming fire. "Rest is for mortals."
The determined Savior has also forsworn His favorite high-calorie, high-carb foods such as fatted calf, loaves, and even His own body and blood, instead embracing muscle-building high-protein shakes and electrolyte-replacing sports drinks. And when temptation calls, Christ need only look at two pictures taped to His refrigerator: an icon of Himself prior to starting His regimen and a reproduction of Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" fresco torn from a magazine.
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"The thought of being unable to seize the seven-headed serpent and hurl it into the abyss really keeps Me motivated," Christ said.
The Lamb of God said He made the decision to get in shape late last year when, after two millennia of relative inactivity, He realized that at His age there was "no way" He could return to Earth, judge the souls of the innocent and wicked alike, and reign over the Kingdom of God for 1,000 years without prior conditioning.
"The Second Coming isn't just Me sitting on a great white throne and judging away," Christ said. "I also have to make all of the stars fall and shake all the powers in Heaven. That's why I've been working a lot with the medicine ball."
Christ, however, admitted that centuries of heavenly grace had enabled Him to "really let [Himself] go."
"I can't lead the armies of Heaven looking like some flabby slob," said Christ, who declined to disclose His "before" weight. "That guy can't be the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. The faithful want a Messiah they can truly fear, not someone who's afraid to take off His shirt in public."
At first, Christ said He thought such a physical transformation would "take a miracle." During the first couple weeks of His exercise program, He couldn't work out on the treadmill for more than 10 minutes without gasping for breath and aggravating the old spear-point injury in His side. Now that He can deftly complete 20 ab-bench push-ups on the highest incline and almost as many chin-ups, Christ said, He feels more energetic than He has since His early 30s.
And not only has frequent exercise made Christ feel more healthy and confident, it's "cleared [His] head, which will really help [Him] deal with the massive amount of smiting and condemning."
Encouraged by His progress, particularly the increased definition in His pectoral and abdominal muscles, Christ is focusing all of His attention on visualizing the success of His Second Coming.
"Right now, it's all about Aug. 2," the goal-oriented Savior said. "And no matter how I look, there's no going back on this one like I did seven years ago."
HEAVEN—Emerging from a grueling 90 minutes of cardiovascular exercise and light lifting for tone, Son of God Jesus Christ said Monday that He is "definitely on track" to achieve peak fitness condition for the Second Coming.
The Son of God spends each morning trying to attain perfect abdominal definition.
"If every eye is going to see Me, and all the tribes of earth are going to wail on account of Me, I think I owe it to them and to Myself to be in the best shape of My life," Christ said. "Right now I'm up to 35 minutes at seven [miles per hour] on the treadmill and benching about 165 [pounds]."
"I'm really starting to feel like I'll have the strength and endurance to move every mountain and island from its place," Christ added.
Since His birthday last Dec. 25, Christ has committed Himself to a demanding daily regimen of exercise and prophecy fulfillment. Each of His workouts, Christ said, starts with an hour of cardio, after which He focuses on two muscle groups, replacing conventional free weights with the Rod of Iron with which He intends to rule all nations.
On Mondays, Christ works His chest and biceps and completes three sets of 10 transfigurations. On Tuesdays, He switches to triceps and abdominals, and passes as many sets of Last Judgments as He can in a minute. Wednesdays are devoted to the back and legs, and Thursdays and Fridays are for core and flexibility.
Even Sabbaths are spent doing yoga, swimming, and basic strength-training isometrics such as push-ups, leg lifts, and chin-ups.
"There can be no day of rest," said Christ, His eyes filled with flaming fire. "Rest is for mortals."
The determined Savior has also forsworn His favorite high-calorie, high-carb foods such as fatted calf, loaves, and even His own body and blood, instead embracing muscle-building high-protein shakes and electrolyte-replacing sports drinks. And when temptation calls, Christ need only look at two pictures taped to His refrigerator: an icon of Himself prior to starting His regimen and a reproduction of Michelangelo's "Last Judgment" fresco torn from a magazine.
Enlarge Image
"The thought of being unable to seize the seven-headed serpent and hurl it into the abyss really keeps Me motivated," Christ said.
The Lamb of God said He made the decision to get in shape late last year when, after two millennia of relative inactivity, He realized that at His age there was "no way" He could return to Earth, judge the souls of the innocent and wicked alike, and reign over the Kingdom of God for 1,000 years without prior conditioning.
"The Second Coming isn't just Me sitting on a great white throne and judging away," Christ said. "I also have to make all of the stars fall and shake all the powers in Heaven. That's why I've been working a lot with the medicine ball."
Christ, however, admitted that centuries of heavenly grace had enabled Him to "really let [Himself] go."
"I can't lead the armies of Heaven looking like some flabby slob," said Christ, who declined to disclose His "before" weight. "That guy can't be the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. The faithful want a Messiah they can truly fear, not someone who's afraid to take off His shirt in public."
At first, Christ said He thought such a physical transformation would "take a miracle." During the first couple weeks of His exercise program, He couldn't work out on the treadmill for more than 10 minutes without gasping for breath and aggravating the old spear-point injury in His side. Now that He can deftly complete 20 ab-bench push-ups on the highest incline and almost as many chin-ups, Christ said, He feels more energetic than He has since His early 30s.
And not only has frequent exercise made Christ feel more healthy and confident, it's "cleared [His] head, which will really help [Him] deal with the massive amount of smiting and condemning."
Encouraged by His progress, particularly the increased definition in His pectoral and abdominal muscles, Christ is focusing all of His attention on visualizing the success of His Second Coming.
"Right now, it's all about Aug. 2," the goal-oriented Savior said. "And no matter how I look, there's no going back on this one like I did seven years ago."
Inspiring Without Speaking
"It's amazing how this seemingly small thing - simply paying attention to another, really asking, really listening, even during a brief conversation - can evoke such a wholehearted response... When someone really asks, we really answer." - Susan Scott
This week was the LMC retreat, and each year there's a session on the communication differences between men and women. Men tend to listen side-by-side, women tend to listen face-to-face. Research shows that both genders listen equally well. Still, there's room for improvement. Focusing throughout an entire conversation, with the pure intent to do good for the other, inspires people to engage them.
One of the best at doing this is my friend Brandi Peterson. She has the empathy of Mother Teresa (and endures hardship just as well), and it shows in the way she absorbs every detail of conversation. The old saying is "people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." A person who asks about the well-being of my family, more often than some of my own family, is the type of person I like to be around.
This week was the LMC retreat, and each year there's a session on the communication differences between men and women. Men tend to listen side-by-side, women tend to listen face-to-face. Research shows that both genders listen equally well. Still, there's room for improvement. Focusing throughout an entire conversation, with the pure intent to do good for the other, inspires people to engage them.
One of the best at doing this is my friend Brandi Peterson. She has the empathy of Mother Teresa (and endures hardship just as well), and it shows in the way she absorbs every detail of conversation. The old saying is "people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." A person who asks about the well-being of my family, more often than some of my own family, is the type of person I like to be around.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Real 911 Calls From Nashville, TN
Dispatcher : 9-1-1 What is your emergency?
Caller: I heard what sounded like gunshots coming from the brown house on the corner.
Dispatcher: Do you have an address?
Caller: No, I have on a blouse and slacks, why?
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is your emergency?
Caller : Someone broke into my house and took a bite out of my ham and cheese sandwich .
Dispatcher : Excuse me?
Caller : I made a ham and cheese sandwich and left it on the kitchen table and when I came back from the bathroom, someone had taken a bite out of it.
Dispatcher : Was anything else taken?
Caller : No, but this has happened to me before and I'm sick and tired of it!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is the nature of your emergency?
Caller: I'm trying to reach nine eleven but my phone doesn't have an eleven on it.
Dispatcher: This is nine eleven.
Caller: I thought you just said it was nine-one-one
Dispatcher: Yes, ma'am nine-one-one and nine-eleven are the same thing.
Caller: Honey, I may be old, but I'm not stupid.
My Personal Favorite!!!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What's the nature of your emergency?
Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart
Dispatcher: Is this her first child?
Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1
Caller: Yeah, I'm having trouble breathing. I'm all out of breath.
Darn....I think I'm going to pass out.
Dispatcher: Sir, where are you calling from?
Caller: I'm at a pay phone. North and Foster.
Dispatcher: ! Sir, an ambulance is on the way. Are you an asthmatic?
Caller: No
Dispatcher: What were you doing before you started having trouble breathing?
Caller: Running from the Police.
Caller: I heard what sounded like gunshots coming from the brown house on the corner.
Dispatcher: Do you have an address?
Caller: No, I have on a blouse and slacks, why?
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is your emergency?
Caller : Someone broke into my house and took a bite out of my ham and cheese sandwich .
Dispatcher : Excuse me?
Caller : I made a ham and cheese sandwich and left it on the kitchen table and when I came back from the bathroom, someone had taken a bite out of it.
Dispatcher : Was anything else taken?
Caller : No, but this has happened to me before and I'm sick and tired of it!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What is the nature of your emergency?
Caller: I'm trying to reach nine eleven but my phone doesn't have an eleven on it.
Dispatcher: This is nine eleven.
Caller: I thought you just said it was nine-one-one
Dispatcher: Yes, ma'am nine-one-one and nine-eleven are the same thing.
Caller: Honey, I may be old, but I'm not stupid.
My Personal Favorite!!!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1 What's the nature of your emergency?
Caller: My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart
Dispatcher: Is this her first child?
Caller: No, you idiot! This is her husband!
Dispatcher: 9-1-1
Caller: Yeah, I'm having trouble breathing. I'm all out of breath.
Darn....I think I'm going to pass out.
Dispatcher: Sir, where are you calling from?
Caller: I'm at a pay phone. North and Foster.
Dispatcher: ! Sir, an ambulance is on the way. Are you an asthmatic?
Caller: No
Dispatcher: What were you doing before you started having trouble breathing?
Caller: Running from the Police.
Thursday, September 25, 2008
The Education Of Brandon Jennings
From Yahoo! Sports. As I read this, I think "This dude better play hard no matter what." And that thought applies to myself too, while struggling through the transition to a new job and a 5:00 wake-up time. I may not have $1 million a year, but I still have too much to complain.
"Having celebrated his 19th birthday with his mother and younger brother at a restaurant in Rome, basketball’s most important young player climbed inside a Volvo wagon for the drive home and started talking about the biggest rookie burden since Kevin Garnett. Life isn’t so different in Italy, Brandon Jennings said with a laugh on his cell phone. They speak English. There’s Burger King and McDonald’s. The Hard Rock Café has good burgers and good music.
“The only difference is that we don’t have a dryer,” Jennings said late Tuesday night. “We hang our clothes on a line.”
Back in the States, Jennings understands what they’re waiting to hear: Oh, I made such a mistake with a leap out of Compton, Calif., to Virtus Roma of the Italian League. They won’t let me play my game. I’m all alone. The Euro League is no place for an American teenager trying to do his purgatory year before entering the NBA draft.
Back home, the college basketball propaganda machine is waiting to issue it’s typical “I told you so’s” about how life in its warped system is somehow still beneficial. Jennings heard it all on his way out, and still hears it across the Atlantic Ocean. Just understand something: He’s a point guard learning to see the floor, to open his mind, and the education of Brandon Jennings is well underway.
“I know what they have all been saying, because I even heard it from my friends, that I’m going to be a bust. And a whole different culture is going to mess up my game,” Jennings said. “I would’ve loved to have gone to college, and I’m sure I would’ve learned a lot there, but I’m learning a lot more over here.
“I know this is a real big thing. I’m the first high school kid to jump straight to Europe instead of college and I know a lot of people, a lot of kids, are keeping up with me to see how I’m doing. If I do what I’m supposed to do here, and come back (to the U.S.) better for it, I have a chance to change basketball.”
He is thinking globally, but acting locally. For Jennings, a slicing, explosive 6-foot-2 lefty, has to be a grown-up in Rome. He has to survive the physical and mental toll of a long Euro season. He doesn’t have to always play great, but he has to never back down. He has to leave behind the AAU culture, the one-on-one mentality of grassroots American ball and immerse himself in a Euro game that rejects those false basketball gods.
Jennings is an experiment that has repercussions at every level of basketball. If this goes right, European franchises will be inspired to invest in the next year’s high school class. Kids who don’t want college – and maybe don’t belong – won’t have to play that foolish one-and-done game. Sonny Vaccaro made this deal happen, and promises there’s a line down the street and around the corner wanting to follow a Jennings success story.
Jennings played for the West team in the McDonald’s All-American High School game.
(Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images)
As much as anything, that makes Jennings pro basketball’s most important rookie since Garnett re-started high school stars going straight to the NBA in 1995. Thus began more than a decade of decay in college basketball that was eventually addressed when NBA commissioner David Stern instituted a one-year wait on high school seniors wanting to make the leap to the pros. Jennings has a three-year contract for a guaranteed $1 million, but he also has an out to enter the NBA draft after Year 1 and 2 of the deal. Under Armour just gave Jennings a four-year endorsement deal, banking that he could do it all, and more.
“To me, this is the best path to get ready for the NBA,” one Western Conference general manager said. “But the thing is: You better be a mentally tough kid to pull this off. This isn’t going to be college, where they’re going to hold your hand and never make you figure out anything for yourself.”
Virtus coach Jasmin Repesa introduced his young millionaire to pro ball in the first week of training camp, insisting that he had to play hard all the time. Alone in that locker room, it hit Jennings again: This is the best thing that ever happened to him. As money goes, the NBA Developmental League can’t come close. As coaching and competition go, the Euro League is mostly superior. There are no NCAA limits on practice time. There are no AAU bagmen pretending to be assistant coaches. Jennings will get coached and get benched and get the best-paying professional apprenticeship in history.
“We just got back from a three-day road trip to Serbia, and it was three days on the road with older guys, where I had to work to fit in,” Jennings said. “This is the pro life. Nobody is babysitting me. The biggest thing for me is this: I have to prove myself. I want to let these guys know that I’m here to help them win. I don’t want them to think that I’m just some hotshot American kid trying to take all the shine here so I can set myself up for the NBA draft.
“Here, it isn’t like what basketball was in the U.S., where everyone just sits back and watches the individual player. It’s team first here. People come to watch the team play, and the team win. What I want to do is build relationships with my teammates, with my coaches. That’s what people are wondering if I can do …”
As it turned out, Jennings’ four-year contract with Under Armour will pay him comparably to the top three picks in the 2008 NBA draft. Between sneakers and salary, sources say, Jennings is making over $1 million a year. Under Armour hired Kris Stone, a magazine publisher and architect of the Elite 24 High School event in New York, to start a basketball branding division and he immediately made a shrewd investment: Let’s compete with Nike and adidas to sign the teenager who could become his generation’s trail blazer. New basketball company, new basketball frontier. Stone had a history with Jennings, a relationship born out of his All-Star game, and always believed this was the right talent, the right kid, to make this happen.
Vaccaro sold Virtus and Jennings on the Under Armour partnership, negotiating the contracts and shoe deals. To Vaccaro, the godfather of the basketball shoe deal, this feels like it did when he put Nike and Michael Jordan together in 1984. “This is almost like what Michael did, because he could’ve gone to adidas, which was still part of Converse,” Vaccaro said. “Nike was practically nothing. I told Brandon and his mother: ‘If you hit with Under Armour, you’re the man there.’ ”
Now, the telephone calls of intrigued parents are flooding into Vaccaro, who always has been able to see where it was all going before everyone else. “In essence, the age limit has been broken,” he said. “If Brandon can come back in one piece, the others are going to go. For the right kids, we won’t have to play ‘pretend’ anymore with college basketball.”
Outside the NBA, the most intriguing games in the world this season will be the two meetings of Jennings and Virtus Roma with Ricky Rubio and Spain’s DVK Jovenut. Those are the nights everyone in the Euro League will want to see, the best two young point guards on the planet playing far, far away from the college game.
“Yeah, yeah, I hear all about that,” Jennings said. “I’ve got a lot more to worry about than that, because there are so many great players over here. I better get used to playing with grown men, and I better learn to adjust to the Euro system. I can’t just be ‘that guy,’ worried about the hype of those games with Ricky Rubio. I know everyone is watching to see what happens with me all the time, not just then …”
He just turned 19, his basketball burden is immense, and Brandon Jennings swears that he understands the truth. Like his laundry, the kid hangs out on a line in Italy."
"Having celebrated his 19th birthday with his mother and younger brother at a restaurant in Rome, basketball’s most important young player climbed inside a Volvo wagon for the drive home and started talking about the biggest rookie burden since Kevin Garnett. Life isn’t so different in Italy, Brandon Jennings said with a laugh on his cell phone. They speak English. There’s Burger King and McDonald’s. The Hard Rock Café has good burgers and good music.
“The only difference is that we don’t have a dryer,” Jennings said late Tuesday night. “We hang our clothes on a line.”
Back in the States, Jennings understands what they’re waiting to hear: Oh, I made such a mistake with a leap out of Compton, Calif., to Virtus Roma of the Italian League. They won’t let me play my game. I’m all alone. The Euro League is no place for an American teenager trying to do his purgatory year before entering the NBA draft.
Back home, the college basketball propaganda machine is waiting to issue it’s typical “I told you so’s” about how life in its warped system is somehow still beneficial. Jennings heard it all on his way out, and still hears it across the Atlantic Ocean. Just understand something: He’s a point guard learning to see the floor, to open his mind, and the education of Brandon Jennings is well underway.
“I know what they have all been saying, because I even heard it from my friends, that I’m going to be a bust. And a whole different culture is going to mess up my game,” Jennings said. “I would’ve loved to have gone to college, and I’m sure I would’ve learned a lot there, but I’m learning a lot more over here.
“I know this is a real big thing. I’m the first high school kid to jump straight to Europe instead of college and I know a lot of people, a lot of kids, are keeping up with me to see how I’m doing. If I do what I’m supposed to do here, and come back (to the U.S.) better for it, I have a chance to change basketball.”
He is thinking globally, but acting locally. For Jennings, a slicing, explosive 6-foot-2 lefty, has to be a grown-up in Rome. He has to survive the physical and mental toll of a long Euro season. He doesn’t have to always play great, but he has to never back down. He has to leave behind the AAU culture, the one-on-one mentality of grassroots American ball and immerse himself in a Euro game that rejects those false basketball gods.
Jennings is an experiment that has repercussions at every level of basketball. If this goes right, European franchises will be inspired to invest in the next year’s high school class. Kids who don’t want college – and maybe don’t belong – won’t have to play that foolish one-and-done game. Sonny Vaccaro made this deal happen, and promises there’s a line down the street and around the corner wanting to follow a Jennings success story.
Jennings played for the West team in the McDonald’s All-American High School game.
(Joe Murphy/NBAE via Getty Images)
As much as anything, that makes Jennings pro basketball’s most important rookie since Garnett re-started high school stars going straight to the NBA in 1995. Thus began more than a decade of decay in college basketball that was eventually addressed when NBA commissioner David Stern instituted a one-year wait on high school seniors wanting to make the leap to the pros. Jennings has a three-year contract for a guaranteed $1 million, but he also has an out to enter the NBA draft after Year 1 and 2 of the deal. Under Armour just gave Jennings a four-year endorsement deal, banking that he could do it all, and more.
“To me, this is the best path to get ready for the NBA,” one Western Conference general manager said. “But the thing is: You better be a mentally tough kid to pull this off. This isn’t going to be college, where they’re going to hold your hand and never make you figure out anything for yourself.”
Virtus coach Jasmin Repesa introduced his young millionaire to pro ball in the first week of training camp, insisting that he had to play hard all the time. Alone in that locker room, it hit Jennings again: This is the best thing that ever happened to him. As money goes, the NBA Developmental League can’t come close. As coaching and competition go, the Euro League is mostly superior. There are no NCAA limits on practice time. There are no AAU bagmen pretending to be assistant coaches. Jennings will get coached and get benched and get the best-paying professional apprenticeship in history.
“We just got back from a three-day road trip to Serbia, and it was three days on the road with older guys, where I had to work to fit in,” Jennings said. “This is the pro life. Nobody is babysitting me. The biggest thing for me is this: I have to prove myself. I want to let these guys know that I’m here to help them win. I don’t want them to think that I’m just some hotshot American kid trying to take all the shine here so I can set myself up for the NBA draft.
“Here, it isn’t like what basketball was in the U.S., where everyone just sits back and watches the individual player. It’s team first here. People come to watch the team play, and the team win. What I want to do is build relationships with my teammates, with my coaches. That’s what people are wondering if I can do …”
As it turned out, Jennings’ four-year contract with Under Armour will pay him comparably to the top three picks in the 2008 NBA draft. Between sneakers and salary, sources say, Jennings is making over $1 million a year. Under Armour hired Kris Stone, a magazine publisher and architect of the Elite 24 High School event in New York, to start a basketball branding division and he immediately made a shrewd investment: Let’s compete with Nike and adidas to sign the teenager who could become his generation’s trail blazer. New basketball company, new basketball frontier. Stone had a history with Jennings, a relationship born out of his All-Star game, and always believed this was the right talent, the right kid, to make this happen.
Vaccaro sold Virtus and Jennings on the Under Armour partnership, negotiating the contracts and shoe deals. To Vaccaro, the godfather of the basketball shoe deal, this feels like it did when he put Nike and Michael Jordan together in 1984. “This is almost like what Michael did, because he could’ve gone to adidas, which was still part of Converse,” Vaccaro said. “Nike was practically nothing. I told Brandon and his mother: ‘If you hit with Under Armour, you’re the man there.’ ”
Now, the telephone calls of intrigued parents are flooding into Vaccaro, who always has been able to see where it was all going before everyone else. “In essence, the age limit has been broken,” he said. “If Brandon can come back in one piece, the others are going to go. For the right kids, we won’t have to play ‘pretend’ anymore with college basketball.”
Outside the NBA, the most intriguing games in the world this season will be the two meetings of Jennings and Virtus Roma with Ricky Rubio and Spain’s DVK Jovenut. Those are the nights everyone in the Euro League will want to see, the best two young point guards on the planet playing far, far away from the college game.
“Yeah, yeah, I hear all about that,” Jennings said. “I’ve got a lot more to worry about than that, because there are so many great players over here. I better get used to playing with grown men, and I better learn to adjust to the Euro system. I can’t just be ‘that guy,’ worried about the hype of those games with Ricky Rubio. I know everyone is watching to see what happens with me all the time, not just then …”
He just turned 19, his basketball burden is immense, and Brandon Jennings swears that he understands the truth. Like his laundry, the kid hangs out on a line in Italy."
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
The Incurable Condition
Is cancer incurable? In the last year I've had two friends undergo extensive, gut-wrenching chemotherapy and find blessing in the magic words "Your test results came back perfect. You are cancer-free."
On the other hand...
"I don't know about you, but I have not yet witnessed a spontaneous recovery from incompetence." -- Susan Scott
On the other hand...
"I don't know about you, but I have not yet witnessed a spontaneous recovery from incompetence." -- Susan Scott
Anger
From Lou Tice. This is timely! Today, day 3 of my quest to start getting up early, ended with a humiliating meeting at work, followed by a discouraging meeting with Leadership McLean County. Thankfully, by now I've learned that when I feel like this, the most important thing is not the temporary result, but my reaction to it. These moods are hyperamplified when I'm not getting enough rest. Because I'm "too blessed to be stressed"! Off to bed until I rebound! I don't "meditate" in the popular sense of the word, but by chilling out mellow, waiting for my next surge in energy. Could it be more than mere coincidence that these inspiriational messages find me when I most need them?
Do you find yourself feeling out of sorts or angry a lot? What do you do when you get angry? Let's talk about this powerful feeling.
Anger is a powerful emotion that reveals itself in many different ways. Some folks seem to go through life with a chip on their shoulder. They are quick to find things to be angry about, always fix the cause of their anger as
somewhere outside themselves, and occasionally erupt into rage. Other people
seem to run on a pretty even keel most of the time, but when they get angry
they explode and feel completely out of control.
One of my seminar participants once described anger like jumping into a
powerful sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed, and then
discovering that the brakes don't work. But you know, it is possible to do
some work on those brakes, and while you may want to get professional help,
you can learn to be your own mechanic too.
You can learn to accept yourself and others as they are at the same time you
focus on and move toward a new way of dealing with anger. You can learn to
think constructively about what you'd like to have happen, rather than
destructively about what you don't want. And you can learn to channel the
energy that now goes to fuel your anger into building an exciting future
instead.
If you decide to use your enormous potential, you can put the brakes on
anger, shift gears, and take charge of your life.
Do you find yourself feeling out of sorts or angry a lot? What do you do when you get angry? Let's talk about this powerful feeling.
Anger is a powerful emotion that reveals itself in many different ways. Some folks seem to go through life with a chip on their shoulder. They are quick to find things to be angry about, always fix the cause of their anger as
somewhere outside themselves, and occasionally erupt into rage. Other people
seem to run on a pretty even keel most of the time, but when they get angry
they explode and feel completely out of control.
One of my seminar participants once described anger like jumping into a
powerful sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed, and then
discovering that the brakes don't work. But you know, it is possible to do
some work on those brakes, and while you may want to get professional help,
you can learn to be your own mechanic too.
You can learn to accept yourself and others as they are at the same time you
focus on and move toward a new way of dealing with anger. You can learn to
think constructively about what you'd like to have happen, rather than
destructively about what you don't want. And you can learn to channel the
energy that now goes to fuel your anger into building an exciting future
instead.
If you decide to use your enormous potential, you can put the brakes on
anger, shift gears, and take charge of your life.
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