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Monkey Magic

"In the worlds before Monkey, primal chaos reigned. Heaven sought order but the phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again as endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time, the pure essences of heaven the moisture of the sun and earth all formed upon a certain rock old as creation and it became magically fertile: that first egg was named thought. Tougher than the? Buddha the father Buddha says with our thoughts we make the world. Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch. From it then came a stone monkey. The nature of Monkey was...Irrepressible!!"

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This guy doesn't get it.

So, the man takes the chainsaw home and begins working on the trees. After cutting for several hours and only cutting two cords, he decides to quit. He thinks there is something wrong with the chainsaw. "How can I cut for hours and only cut two cords?" the man asks himself. "I will begin first thing in the morning and cut all day," the man tells himself. So, the next morning the man gets up at 4 am in the morning and cuts and cuts, and cuts till nightfall, and still he only manages to cut five cords.

The man is convinced this is a bad saw. "The dealer told me it would cut one hundred cords of wood in a day, no problem. I will take this saw back to the dealer," the man says to himself.

The very next day the man brings the saw back to the dealer and explains the problem. The dealer, baffled by the man's claim, removes the chainsaw from the case. The dealer says, "Hmm, it looks fine."

Then the dealer starts the chainsaw, to which the man responds, "What's that noise?

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No, A Blog Isn't A Business Plan.

It's so much fun to play on Twitter and gab away on Facebook and coerce people to "Like" your Page, then do nothing else with it. Collecting followers is not enough to run a healthy business. And yet business planning is very unfashionable right now, it seems. I don't know why.

Your working plan for your business is like a healthy diet for your body.

A diet of chocolate and sugary confections and fat is not going to leave your body healthy. Your business likewise, needs some good monitoring and a healthy input to keep it in good shape. And after all, your business should be there to keep you in good financial shape.

Think about that.

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Maybe: A Story On Resilience And Non Judgement

Sometimes our ability to bounce back is reduced because we imagine only the worst to come in the future and fail to see that even though things look bad now, that can change as suddenly as the misfortune that affected our confidence.  Being aware of possible dangers in our future is helpful. Focusing on the worst possibility and imagining that into the future is not helpful, and less than useful.
Adopting an attitude of non-judgement can serve us well.

Maybe

There is a Taoist story of an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his horse ran away. Upon hearing the news, his neighbors came to visit. “Such bad luck,” they said sympathetically.

“Maybe,” the farmer replied.

The next morning the horse returned, bringing with it three other wild horses. “How wonderful,” the neighbors exclaimed.

“Maybe,” replied the old man.

The following day, his son tried to ride one of the untamed horses, was thrown, and broke his leg. The neighbors again came to offer their sympathy on his misfortune.

“Maybe,” answered the farmer.

The day after, military officials came to the village to draft young men into the army. Seeing that the son’s leg was broken, they passed him by. The neighbors congratulated the farmer on how well things had turned out.

“Maybe,” said the farmer.

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Quotations: Change By Gail Sheehy

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

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"I'm A Lot Better..." ~ Leonard Cohen 1995

"Now I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great
musicologist," he said in a 1995 interview, "but I'm a lot better than
what I was described as for a long, long time. You know, people said I
only knew three chords when I knew five."

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Quote - On Direct Speech

It is the pervasive and persistent misunderstanding among young managers at all levels that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to listen. Getting the message across doesn't depend on articulation, or eloquence or the impeccable logic of your argument, but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. It's absolutely true that your boss, your peers and your team can hear you only when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words have to chase them. ~ Jerry Gregoire

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Quotation

To love is not a passive thing, To love is active

Voice. When I love I do something. I function, I give.

I do not love in order that I may be loved back again,

But for the creative joy of loving. And every time

I do so love I am feed, at least a little by the outgoing of love,

from enslavement to that most intolerable master ... Myself.

 

~ Bernard Iddings Bell

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Where Our Saying Come From. A Little History!

There is an old Hotel/Pub in Marble Arch, London , which used to have
a gallows adjacent to it. Prisoners were taken to the gallows, (after
a fair trial of course) to be hung.
The horse drawn dray, carting the prisoner, was accompanied by an
armed guard, who would stop the dray outside the pub and ask the
prisoner if he would like ''ONE LAST DRINK''.
If he said YES, it was referred to as “ONE FOR THE ROAD”
If he declined, that prisoner was “ON THE WAGON”

So there you go. More bleeding history

They used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all
pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery. If
you had to do this to survive you were, "Piss Poor", but worse than
that, were the really poor folk, who couldn’t even afford to buy a
pot, they "Didn’t have a pot to Piss in" & were the lowest of the low.

The next time you are washing your hands and complain, because the
water temperature isn't just how you like it, think about how things
used to be.

Here are some facts about the 1500’s:

Most people got married in June, because they took their yearly bath
in May and they still smelled pretty good by June. However, since they
were starting to smell, brides carried a bouquet of flowers, to hide
the body odour.
Hence the custom today, of carrying a bouquet when getting married.

Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the
house had the privilege of the nice clean water, then all the other
sons and men, then the women and finally the children. Last of all the
babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose someone
in it. Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the Bath
water!"

Houses had thatched roofs, thick straw piled high, with no wood
underneath. It was the only place for animals to get warm, so all the
cats and other small animals (mice, bugs) lived in the roof. When it
rained it became slippery and sometimes the animals would slip and
fall off the roof. Hence the saying "It's raining cats and dogs."

There was nothing to stop things from falling into the house. This
posed a real problem in the bedroom, where bugs and other droppings
could mess up your nice clean bed. Hence, a bed with big posts and a
sheet hung over the top, afforded some protection. That's how canopy
beds came into existence.

The floor was dirt. Only the wealthy had something other than dirt.
Hence the saying, "Dirt Poor." The wealthy had slate floors, that
would get slippery in the winter when wet, so they spread thresh
(straw) on floor to help keep their footing.
As the winter wore on, they added more thresh, until, when you opened
the door, it would all start slipping outside. A piece of wood was
placed in the entrance-way. Hence: a thresh hold.. (Getting quite an
education, aren't you?)

In those old days, they cooked in the kitchen with a big kettle, that
always hung over the fire. Every day, they lit the fire and added
things to the pot. They ate mostly vegetables and did not get much
meat. They would eat the stew for dinner, leaving leftovers in the pot
to get cold overnight, then start over the next day. Sometimes stew
had food in it that had been there for quite a while. Hence the rhyme:
''Peas porridge hot, peas porridge cold, peas porridge in the pot,
nine days old''.

Sometimes they could obtain pork, which made them feel quite special.
When visitors came over, they would hang up their bacon, to show off.
It was a sign of wealth that a man could, "Bring home the Bacon." They
would cut off a little, to share with guests and would all sit around
talking and ''Chew the fat''.

Those with money had plates made of pewter. Food with high acid
content caused some of the lead to leach onto the food, causing lead
poisoning & death. This happened most often with tomatoes, so for the
next 400 years or so, tomatoes were considered poisonous.

Bread was divided, according to status.. Workers got the burnt bottom
of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or
''The Upper Crust''.

Lead cups were used to drink ale or whisky. The combination, would
sometimes knock the imbibers out for a couple of days. Someone walking
along the road, would take them for dead and prepare them for burial.
They were laid out on the kitchen table for a couple of days and the
family would gather around and eat and drink and wait and see if they
would wake up. Hence the custom of ''Holding a Wake''.

England is old and small and the local folks started running out of
places to bury people. So, they would dig up coffins and would take
the bones to a bone-house and reuse the grave.. When reopening these
coffins, 1 out of 25 coffins were found to have scratch marks on the
inside and they realized they had been burying people alive. So they
would tie a string on the wrist of the corpse, thread it through the
coffin and up through the ground and tie it to a bell.
Someone would have to sit out in the graveyard all night, (the
graveyard shift) to listen for the bell; thus, someone could be,
''Saved by the Bell '' or was considered a ''Dead Ringer''
And that's the truth.

Now, whoever said History was boring ! ! !

So . . . get out there and educate someone!
Share these facts with a friend, like I just did! ! !

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Define Your Personal Brand With Simple Questions.

This is a great concept to work on.

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The gist of blogger Ron Ashkenas‘ piece is to think of yourself as a unique brand, and determine what your unique value is over the other brands, uh, co-workers, with whom you toil.

   “To crystallize your personal brand,” he writes, “ask yourself what you want to be known for — what differentiates you from everyone else who might have a similar background or set of experiences? In other words, what skills, abilities, knowledge and attitudes do you have (or are developing) that will make people want to work with, follow or “friend” you — online or off? What value can you create for others as a friend, blogger, colleague, teammate, boss or subordinate? And what will make you satisfied and fulfilled that you are indeed making a contribution?”

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An Interesting Response...

Okay had to share this here.

Someone posted a question on a site asking how they could market their
new business.
Here's one reply (Names Omitted)

This is one interesting approach to Marketing - and gaining rapport!

------begin------

Tracy, Tracy, Tracy

I would like to help you in a special way, from an African American
perspective.

First, find a niche market - my suggestion would be "Ugly Women".
Every market has them and I'm sure you have them all around you;
church, work, businesses, etc.

Second, I hope you have business cards to hand out. When you see an
ugly women, I mean UUUUUgly! Do her a favor and your business, hand
her your business card and tell her that your business is different
than any other. Yes, the word is Differentiation.

Don't follow what every one else is doing. Utilize your skills in
helping your market most ugliest women and help them to become less
ugly. Of course, you have stiff competition - Mary Kay, Avon, and so
on and on.

Thirdly, Don't use social media outlets, don't have a website, and
don't waist your money on newspaper ads. Fourth, best strategy, Viral
Marketing.

When these ugly women become less of a strain on the eyes of the
market that you serve people will ask, "What happen to this ugly
women?" "She's more tolerable to look at from last week, now that's
amazing!".

Which bring me to my last strategy.

Fifth, for every ugly women that you serve, tell them to bring
everyone that they now who is similar in beaugly. It wouldn't hurt to
have t-shirt made with your company name on it to give to each
customer that you have helped. Girl friend, you can do this and by the
power of makeup I send you forth to dominate the market and serve
every ugly women that you meet.

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On Imperfection and Patience

"Have patience with all things,
but chiefly have patience with yourself.
Do not lose courage in considering
your own imperfections but instantly
set about remedying them - every day
begin the task anew."

- Saint Francis de Sales

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Farmville and it's allure on Facebook have always been a mystery to me.
Here's one thought on it.

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Cultivated Play: Farmville

by A. J. Patrick Liszkiewicz — SUNY Buffalo (Amherst)
March 09, 2010 – 22:44

[This essay was given as a talk at SUNY Buffalo, 28 January 2010, the day after Howard Zinn’s death. I have left the text unaltered, to better reflect the spirit of the talk.]

“I’m worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin them around as it wants without taking a look at what they’re doing.”
                                                      — Howard Zinn

...

The secret to Farmville’s popularity is neither gameplay nor aesthetics. Farmville is popular because in entangles users in a web of social obligations. When users log into Facebook, they are reminded that their neighbors have sent them gifts, posted bonuses on their walls, and helped with each others’ farms. In turn, they are obligated to return the courtesies. As the French sociologist Marcel Mauss tells us, gifts are never free: they bind the giver and receiver in a loop of reciprocity. It is rude to refuse a gift, and ruder still to not return the kindness.[11] We play Farmville, then, because we are trying to be good to one another. We play Farmville because we are polite, cultivated people.

...

The most important thing to recognize here is that, whether we like it or not, seventy-three million people are playing Farmville: a boring, repetitive, and potentially dangerous activity that barely qualifies as a game. Seventy-three million people are obligated to a company that holds no reciprocal ethical obligation toward those people.

...

We are obligated to examine what we are doing, whether we are updating our Facebook status or playing Call of Duty, because the results of those actions will ultimately be our burden, for better or for worse. We must learn above all to distinguish between the better and the worse. Citizens must educate themselves in the use of sociable applications, such as Wikipedia, Skype, and Facebook, and learn how they can better use them to forward their best interests. And we must learn to differentiate sociable applications from sociopathic applications: applications that use people’s sociability to control those people, and to satisfy their owners’ needs.

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Quotation

I am done with great things and big plans, great intuitions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, which, if given time, will rend the hardest monuments of pride.  

~ William James

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Choral Fest-ival.

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Gary Vaynerchuk Quotes SXSW 2010

From Gist Blog

Some great lines here that ring true for me.

Excerpt

Gary Vaynerchuk’s talk at the recent SXSWi conference. Enjoy.

“Every person in this room… you’re going to be in the customer service business. And that’s what I’m obsessed with.”

“Too many businesses are trying to act like a 19 yr old guy. Just trying to close the deal”

“Advertising is over. We have to have a “thank you economy”

“We are completely underestimating the value of thank you and you’re welcome”

“People are not buying content” because so much content is available for free, but “experience is extremely valuable.”

“The people who are giving customer service are winning, and the ones who aren’t are losing.”

“The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Companies need to do the same thing. They need to start caring”

“Don’t take it for granted. Life is so good, I’m scared. I’m thankful.”

“Be driven by gratitude.”

“There is nobody more obsessed with me then hanging out with 90yr. old people. They never say I wish I made more money.”

“You can’t scale caring, it’s not authentic.”

“Care about your users/customers 1st before you sell them on anything. Close slower. Soft sell.”

“Surround yourself with awesome people. Don’t take consumers/employees for granted.”

“Abolish the notion that social media will help your biz blow up over night – building successful biz takes patience & time”

“Have patience. Google Analytics is not a real indicator of how good you are. Stay authentic, don’t panic.”

“Be authentic everyday!”

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On The Dalai Lama, Leonard Cohen and Travelling Within

http://www.oregonlive.com/books/index.ssf/2010/04/pico_iyer_talks_about_the_dala.html

Pico Iyer talks about the Dalai Lama, Leonard Cohen and the virtues of traveling within yourself

By Jeff Baker, The Oregonian

April 04, 2010, 6:37PM

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Q: How old is he? (Dalai Lama)

A: 75 this year, in July. I think his health is pretty good. His stamina is amazing. Whenever he comes to Japan I travel with him for eight or nine days and I'm exhausted just from watching him go through his schedule and I'm 25 years younger than he. It goes back to your first question: I think part of the reason why his stamina is so amazing is he spends his first four hours every day in meditation. I think seeing people like him or Leonard Cohen, who is doing three-hour concerts at the age of 74 and 75, has if nothing else shown me that it's only by composing yourself and sitting still for a long, long time that you can really bring the focus and clarity to guide you when you start moving. Those two are good examples of that.

Q: I was going to wait to ask you about Leonard Cohen but he keeps popping up.

A: He does keep popping in.

Q: Start from the beginning: What's your connection to him?

A: Like many people, maybe you, I was a devotee growing up. I remember when I was 17 I went to India, really for the first time, for three months and all I had was an acoustic guitar, a very worn copy of his first album, and the dream of becoming the Indian Leonard Cohen. I would traipse along with long hair, English boarding school, and every time I'd see a beautiful Mogol garden I'd sit down and strum something horrible and try to create some moon/June terrible verse to replicate him. I was a fan for a long, long time.

Then in 1995, to my delight, a magazine asked me to spend some time with him in his Zen temple where he'd gone on retreat because I had written a book about Japan and Zen. Since then, because he's such an open, generous and humble man, as his monk-ly robes would suggest, disarmingly so. It's almost shocking when people meet him how much he's left Leonard Cohen the celebrity behind. He presents himself as somebody who just wants to look after you and tend to you anonymously. He was really nice enough to keep up the connection.

I reviewed his album in 2001, "Ten New Songs," and I think he liked that piece. He often asked me to write, I guess the text for his Essential Leonard Cohen album and then something about his next album and the text for his recent concert program and the bio for his Web site. I think it's mostly because maybe two reasons. One is he's such a literary person at heart. As you know, he began his life as a poet and he's always hungering for a literary appreciation for his work, not just the typical music critic response. And also he doesn't know so many people who spend a lot of time in a monastery and that seems to make a connection whereby I could understand him in a certain way that made sense to him. Of course he's ... like any charismatic person who's been in the public eye for 40 years but more than most he exerts such a fascination for people. He, like the Dalai Lama in a different way, has set up such an elaborate screen of myths and projections. When people hear the words Leonard Cohen they think of all kinds of things but probably not of the monk or the poet. Maybe he was glad to have someone respond to that.

Q: I was disappointed he didn't come here. Did you travel with him?

A: I didn't but I saw a couple of the concerts.

Q: I heard they were both artistic triumphs and rapturously received.

A: Rapturous. I've never seen anything like it. I went to see the first concerts in Toronto, which were the start of the official tour, and for Leonard Cohen to return to a big arena in Canada is like the Pope to show up in St. Peter's square or whatever it's called. He only had to come out onstage and the whole place was up, and then regularly after every song. It was very touching. I've never seen such an intimate connection between an audience and a star onstage. I think that's because his skill at demystifying himself and creating that air of intimacy, even in a big arena. I thought a lot about what it is that holds people so about his work and I think there is a pitiless, unsparing honesty that very few writers in any form can conjure up. I more and more think that he is one of the enduring poets of English literature. I would put him right next to Emily Dickinson.

Q: Do you think that his performing aged well? He is a spare arranger and his voice is not considered classically beautiful and maybe sounds better now than it did when he was younger.

A: That's a very interesting point and makes a lot of sense to me. I think it's also that he's sitting apart from the time and that he's singing to the tune of his own drummer. I think what people respond to is a composure and a wisdom to his delivery that we're not accustomed to seeing even among his contemporaries like Bob Dylan. I think they feel that he's not trying to keep up with the moment or traffic in the latest MTV styles or playing elaborate games of that kind.

He's presenting himself almost as a monk in prayer on the stage and that cuts through some of the stuff I was saying we're so tired of. We feel more and more manipulated by image and more hostage to the moment and he's not about moment and not about image. And yes his voice, which was always a little uncertain, is now more hauntingly uncertain. When I play it in Japan my Japanese wife runs out of the room holding her ears. She says 'this is just Buddhist chanting. This is like going to a Zen temple.' (laughs) And she's right. That has a certain appeal now.

The arc of his career is so interesting. He began as the bright troubadour romantic and then in the 70s his songs were all about self-hatred and being messed up and lost and then he went into the Zen temple and came out with these very worldly songs, "First We'll Take Manhattan," almost like a prophet returning to the mountaintop. I do feel, and maybe it's just my prejudice, that those years as a monk prepared him for being able to come out in the world and an extraordinary collected energy that almost no other musician can command. One reason the concerts were so successful was his transparent humility. We're not used to a performer thanking the audience over and over and not trying to hog the spotlight.

Q: As far as putting him in the pantheon of poets, I've read comments from him that writing is a very painstaking process for him and he wants to make sure to get it right.

A: Yes, exactly. I remember when I was staying with him in the Zen temple in this little rickety cabin on the mountainside and he had all these notebooks up there and he pointed and said those six notebooks are one song. For something like "Halleluyah" he wrote 80 verses and recorded four verses and he sometimes sings a version with two different ones so he's employed six out of the 80. I think that perfectionism, that absolute meticulousness that you see in his dress and his presentation of himself, means that he'll continue to make minor changes in a song even after it's recorded.

He approaches life as a poet and I think he's almost unique in the rock and roll domain in that there are many people like Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan and subsequent ones who have a great gift for poetry but are musicians first. I see Cohen as being very similar to Thomas Merton. I was just up at the monastery reading Merton and it's word for word similar but even more Emily Dickinson with those riddled quatrains where each word is so uncanny but so perfectly put together in this little jewel box that can explode in your hand. It's a very rare thing even in poetry because not much mainstream poetry is rhymed and observes so specific a rhythm as his.

Q: The current Bob Dylan is revealing himself to be what he was when he was 20, a troubadour and a collector and interpreter of old folk songs. He'll reinterpret himself differently every time where Cohen will make sure to get it exactly right.

A: Yes, and invested with the changes himself. When he sings "Suzanne" it's note for note the same as in 1967 but what you're hearing is a 75-year-old man singing a 40-year-old song of love so it instantly has a different coloration. But you're right, he's not playing games with it, he's counting on the years to speak through it. I think Dylan is the great minstrel of people when they're young and walking down the road and they don't know what's beyond the next mountain and the excitement of exploration and leaving everything behind and Cohen is about what's on the other side of the mountain. He's the only person I know in the contemporary music world who's speaking for the wisdom of the 75-year-old rather the questing nature of the 20-year-old.

I was listening to some early Dylan recently from the Scorsese documentary "No Direction Home" and there's some early songs when Dylan was 19 and I suddenly got it and I realized when he was 19 he sounds like he's 1,000 years old and he sounds like a prophet who's come down from the mountain or forest and it's really uncanny to me now. In some ways he's gotten younger and younger as the years have gone on whereas I think Cohen is more about how we've watched him deepen and mature and go from this person singing about division and confusion to this sage who's beyond it all.

-- Jeff Baker

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