Showing posts with label Self-Improvement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Self-Improvement. Show all posts
Thursday: Handling It All...
March 8th! NYC temperature at 4:45pm? 70 °F. This is just wrong!
WNBC is too foolish to oust anchor Sue Simmons. She is a local TV News Goddess... These stupid consultants... They want new, hip, cutting edge... But, local audiences prefer their hometown feel. WNBC is done.
One month only... newly restored Keith Haring bathroom is open to the public til March 31. Details of the Keith Haring Mural at the LGBT Center.
According to the NYTimes, new gay club XL is up and running with different themes... "At the moment, Friday is popular with clean-cut young professionals, while Saturday draws an older, well-muscled crowd from Chelsea. Sunday is Latino night. Earlier in the week, there are also occasional cabaret shows featuring drag queens and other acts. And starting today is a new party called 20-Something Thursday". So far, I don't see a theme for me... lol.
I've been groovin on some Stevie Nicks lately... Here's Stevie Nicks official You Tube channel... I especially dig her other worldly stuff...
I can tell you that Eric R. Kandel is a brainiac. "I have no difficulty about enhancing memory. Removing memory is more complicated. If it’s to reduce the impact of a particular trauma, I have no difficulty with that, but there are other ways to deal with it — cognitive behavior therapy, exposure therapy, drugs. To go into your head and pluck out a memory of an unfortunate love experience, that’s a bad idea... You know, in the end, we are who we are. We’re all part of what we’ve experienced... It shapes you."
Don't forget... Clocks spring forward on Sunday!
New mantra from the book Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers: "I can handle it"...
WNBC is too foolish to oust anchor Sue Simmons. She is a local TV News Goddess... These stupid consultants... They want new, hip, cutting edge... But, local audiences prefer their hometown feel. WNBC is done.
One month only... newly restored Keith Haring bathroom is open to the public til March 31. Details of the Keith Haring Mural at the LGBT Center.According to the NYTimes, new gay club XL is up and running with different themes... "At the moment, Friday is popular with clean-cut young professionals, while Saturday draws an older, well-muscled crowd from Chelsea. Sunday is Latino night. Earlier in the week, there are also occasional cabaret shows featuring drag queens and other acts. And starting today is a new party called 20-Something Thursday". So far, I don't see a theme for me... lol.
I've been groovin on some Stevie Nicks lately... Here's Stevie Nicks official You Tube channel... I especially dig her other worldly stuff...
I can tell you that Eric R. Kandel is a brainiac. "I have no difficulty about enhancing memory. Removing memory is more complicated. If it’s to reduce the impact of a particular trauma, I have no difficulty with that, but there are other ways to deal with it — cognitive behavior therapy, exposure therapy, drugs. To go into your head and pluck out a memory of an unfortunate love experience, that’s a bad idea... You know, in the end, we are who we are. We’re all part of what we’ve experienced... It shapes you."
Don't forget... Clocks spring forward on Sunday!
New mantra from the book Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway by Susan Jeffers: "I can handle it"...
Affected by the Effects
Great article on Alcoholism in The New York Times the other day...
Drinking and Drugging by Frank Bruni...
According to Robert Brewer, the alcohol program leader at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, heavy drinking is the third leading preventable cause of death in this country, after smoking and a combination of bad diet and inactivity. By conservative estimates, it’s directly related to about 80,000 deaths each year, an agent of — or co-conspirator in — cirrhosis, esophageal cancer, overdose, homicide and much, much more. It seeds and squires a broad range of diseases. Multiplies the effects of illicit and prescription drugs. Adds the twitch to a trigger finger. Puts the wobble in legs on a staircase or hands on a steering wheel.
And while 8 percent of Americans ages 12 and over use illicit drugs, 34 percent are addicted to alcohol or indulge in what public health officials consider risky drinking, according to Susan E. Foster, director of policy research and analysis for the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
We're all affected by the effects... Just walking down the street...
Who Moved My Cheese? Revisited.
I'm getting all new stuff from it at this present stage of life... I'd read it when it came out originally in 1999 or so...
... Particularly about clinging to people, places, things no matter what... "There is always new cheese out there whether you recognize it at the time, or not. And that you are rewarded with it when you go past your fear and enjoy the adventure."
And then there's my ongoing mantra that "people change" and some people's abhorrent disgust with that concept....
The other thing that strikes me is how the entire financial paradigm has shifted... No longer can we rely on pensions and "nose to the grindstone" as a guarantee of life long success and security...
It's all quite fascinating.... And horrifying and challenging, and enlightening... and simple. Oh my!
How will YOU change your methods in the New Year....?
As for me... I'll be more aware to:
"Be ready to change quickly and enjoy it again and again"
Here are some great quotes from Spencer Johnson.
Starting My Media Fast Today
Decided to follow the advice of author Timothy Ferriss in his The 4 Hour Work Week and to institute a self-imposed Media Fast starting today...
Remembering the first law of consciousness: whatever you focus upon expands...
I'm choosing to not to be manipulated my the media and to become immersed in all the bad news in the world... By its nature, the media accentuates the negative.
So I'll just turn the whole thing off... One week... (Maybe more).
Marianne Williamson, one of my favorite authors and spiritualists has always maintained that starting ones day by listening to the news was not the most positive and uplifting way to start a new day... She instead recommended something more spiritual like meditation...
Even the Serenity Prayer seems to be saying Turn off the damned TV: "God: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference".
I find that television news, in particular, usually just makes me angry...
I love The New York Times, but I want to eek out the the most from these last remaining weeks of summer vacation and starting each day with a lost hour of reading about all the things in the world that I have absolutely no control over is perhaps not the best use of my remaining vacation time...
But, at lunch time every day, I will allow ten minutes to catch up on the news around the world... Ten minutes only... (Ferriss recommends only five minutes!)
What will I do with the newfound time and head space??
We'll see...
"It is not length of life, but depth of life".
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
On My Mind
I swear when I find out what app, tab, website, or widget is causing my computer to stutter and stammer so frequently lately... I will rip it off my hard drive by hand! I thought it was Shockwave in Chrome. But, it's still happening...
This woman slays me: "There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death". ~ Fran Lebowitz
Was boiling fresh beets this morning in my kitchen on this humid day... I should have invited all my friends over, handed out towels, and called it a schvitz!... Tips appreciated.
Celery from the locally grown Greenmarket tastes like real celery. That whitish stuff for sale in the grocery stores tastes like absolutely nothing... I also got fresh string beans, new potatoes, squash, zucchini, tomatoes, cucumbers, and corn from Joe the Produce Guy and his hardworking family.
I really don't like that Labor Day and the return to work is approaching so fast!
And the rich get richer... as city construction permits see uptick.
New York Times reports on one such project well underway that will surely cast a shadow over Hell's Kitchen and vicinity... 54th and BroadwayWhy do Conservatives go after Teachers and Not Police?? Ask Lawrence O'Donnell.
Meanwhile this was on Facebook:
More Facebook wisdom: There are 3 types of Republicans: 1. Billionaires 2. Millionaires 3. Suckers dumb enuf to think policies for nos 1 & 2 will benefit them.
Thomas L Friedman's column in today's New York Times The Day Our Leaders Got Unstuck provides the perfect solution to all the Washington financial problems...
I think time management guru Tim Ferris is hot. Not convinced? Looky here... Anyway, I'm reading the latest edition of his bestselling book... The 4- Hour Workweek over summer break... Lots of good stuff!
Support striking Verizon workers! Sign this petition.
I had two winning lottery tickets the other day! TWO! Total winnings? $4. Damn! I was hoping for $4 Million!
Why isn't New York in the Top 5 of America's Kinkiest Cities? Blame Bloomberg! Look at all the tourism revenue lost! And then there is no legal gambling in NY either... So NY'ers go to surrounding states to give away their money...
As I hit Publish Post... Hell's Kitchen Temperature at Noon... Is 80°F under partly sunny skies with 60% humidity, and expected to climb to 88 this afternoon...
Like I said... I plan to stay in...
Site of the Week: The Fix
New this week: TheFix.com
A new site dedicated to the recovery movement...
Including kicky stuff like: Biggest Celebrity Meltdowns and Kicking Hollywood's Butts.
Finding the Perfect AA Meeting... by Ruth Fowler:
"Before I got sober, I assumed AA would be a magical place full of kind, understanding people who had seen the worst side of life, learned from their hard knocks, and emerged as angels on earth to help those suffering from the same disease. But of course, AA is chockfull of the same people who piss you off in the real world—except worse, because we’re all addicts and alcoholics. At the same time, those moments when the rich actor dude from Malibu and the homeless bum from Culver City can share a coffee and laugh over shared experience—that’s what AA’s about. And along the way, we all meet the lunatics and snobs and whoever else turns up. But we also meet people who will inevitably come to be essential to your recovery. And it’s all good. Since, of course, there’s always another meeting to check out later on".
It's not all Twelve Steps, however. Many different treatments and programs are discussed and covered here.
The Fix only launched this week...
So, I'm only getting to know it when I have a chance to log in between other tasks...
But I can tell already, it's definitely worth bookmarking and keeping an eye on it...
A new site dedicated to the recovery movement...
Including kicky stuff like: Biggest Celebrity Meltdowns and Kicking Hollywood's Butts.
Finding the Perfect AA Meeting... by Ruth Fowler:"Before I got sober, I assumed AA would be a magical place full of kind, understanding people who had seen the worst side of life, learned from their hard knocks, and emerged as angels on earth to help those suffering from the same disease. But of course, AA is chockfull of the same people who piss you off in the real world—except worse, because we’re all addicts and alcoholics. At the same time, those moments when the rich actor dude from Malibu and the homeless bum from Culver City can share a coffee and laugh over shared experience—that’s what AA’s about. And along the way, we all meet the lunatics and snobs and whoever else turns up. But we also meet people who will inevitably come to be essential to your recovery. And it’s all good. Since, of course, there’s always another meeting to check out later on".
It's not all Twelve Steps, however. Many different treatments and programs are discussed and covered here.
The Fix only launched this week...
So, I'm only getting to know it when I have a chance to log in between other tasks...
But I can tell already, it's definitely worth bookmarking and keeping an eye on it...
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