Sunday, February 21, 2016
Disruptive Tech
Plantronics reviews are helpful because the right tech matters. But what will we do if technology replaces all of our jobs? JBL is literally a blast.
Business Matters
When it comes to business, being authentic is important, but difficult. Innovation is hard to come by and people rarely do it. There is authenticity in admitting mistakes like Elon Musk. But there is a changing face of business disruption and a hidden cost to shady business. But Elon Musk is more than authentic, he's a battery powered superhero. And he's shown innovation can be simple, like a duct tape wallet. Ultimately it's important to be transparent and helpful.
Money Matters
So the economy is like two drunks leaving a bar tied to each other with a rope. So you have to take what you can into your own hands and own your credit. But it's hard, because 401 (K)s are a scam and the financial system is a scam. Budgeting can help, like what would you do with an extra $200? It's better than losing money with multilevel marketing. The problem is short-termism is screwing the economy.
A Politically Whacked State
As Brian McKay writes so eloquently at the disruptive website Zenruption, Idaho is a politically whacked state. This is consistent with a culture that is dumb enough to want Donald Trump as President. Especially when the media creates false narratives to prop up certain candidates. And Trump is going to win the nomination. Then they can implement their regressive flat tax policy. And gun sanity will truly be an oxymoron. Perhaps we can learn from our history with trickle down economics that we don't want this. But with our denial on climate change or global warming. The Pope even thinks the Republicans and Donald Trump are nuts. And the implications of the Presidency couldn't be higher with Scalia's death and the opening on the Supreme Court.
Wednesday, February 17, 2016
There is a new great site called Zenruption. In the site there is an article about how our banking system is a Ponzi scheme. This post points out how the system is rigged against the little guy and shows how we have to revolutionize our system, not merely tweak it.
Viva mas amigos
Jerry
Viva mas amigos
Jerry
Monday, February 8, 2016
Thursday, October 29, 2015
Here is my recent article: Dweller on the Threshold: Spirituality of Van Morrison
Namaste bitches
Jerry
Namaste bitches
Jerry
Monday, October 19, 2015
Monday, October 12, 2015
I published a fun story about my Ramen Evolution on sogood.com: http://www.sogoodblog.com/2015/10/09/ramen-noodles-bad-evolution-ramen/
Viva mas!
Jerry
Viva mas!
Jerry
Thursday, December 4, 2014
I Am a 47 Year Old White Male
After witnessing the coverage of deaths by police and the subsequent legal processes in Ferguson and New York City recently I have observed, mostly through social media, that our cynicism as a nation has blinded us to a very dangerous precedent being set. We are letting our identities wash over the realities of domestic threat and oppression. What does that mean?
Let me start by sharing some events that surprised me in my relationship to the police. In 2008 I came back from a 2 month trip to Costa Rica. I had lost a small fortune in the housing market and nearly lost my mind as well. When I was in Costa Rica a girl asked to braid my hair. I let her. She was more meticulous than I expected. She told me I had to comb out the braids within 6 weeks or my hair would begin to dread. I came home from Costa Rica with my hair braided and an excitement about my new look. Even though I liked the look, I expected I would cut out soon. Once home, I kept getting pulled over by the police. At no time was I doing anything wrong. And not once did they have anything to even ticket me for. Yet, they pulled me over 9 times in a few weeks. One cop told me, "Mr. Mooney, I know you're on something. I just can't prove it, so I have to let you go." I was 'on' nothing. I just happened to have a new hair style that seemed to be probable cause. This alerted me to the fact that what I was doing was less important than how I looked. And to some of the police, I looked like an 'other'. Someone different from them and their police standard haircuts. As I examine the growing tensions with the police across the country, I see this, we have divided ourselves into the camps where we feel the most alike and that extends into where we share our fears. For example, if you fear large black men, you are more inclined to side with the police. If you have felt threatened over your life more by the the police then you might summon more sympathy for those killed by the cops. In either case, we have conditioned ourselves with our fears and justify our fears of broad-sweeping groups of people. We put those people, be they cops or races in the category in our minds as 'other'. They are other than we are. By doing this, we can easily rationalize our disdain for the group, because they are other or not me. They look different. They behave differently.
By doing this, however, we miss how we participate in the encroachment on all of our personal liberties.
By otherizing the victims in this case, we then allow for the system to create a precedent that they can kill citizens without even facing a trial. And let me be clear here, because I think this is missed by a lot of those following these case, a Grand Jury is not a trial. It is an examination of one side of the evidence, without cross examination or scrutiny that exists in a trial, and is subject to the recommendation of the prosecuting attorney. Only after the Grand Jury issues and indictment does the case go to trial. So, in Ferguson and in New York City, the Grand Juries said that, even though citizens were killed by the police, there was no need for a trial.
It is this part that is were people have become outraged. A person is killed, justified or not, and there was no trial. It is supposedly through the trial process where we determine if the killing could have been justified. By issuing no indictment, that process was circumvented.
Now, here is the dangerous part. I see people villainizing those shot, villainizing the looters. I see false equivalencies, comparing white victims of black assailants. Through all of this, those who are identifying with the cops are also supporting a system where cops are no longer held in check by the law. And I know that many of you who think you identify with the cops feel like you don't have to worry about the cops because you don't commit crimes. That is the point. The point is, that a trial is where you determine guilt. And if you, by popular support, gut the system that holds people accountable for crime, then, when you are victim to that lack of a legal standard, remember, you were part of the problem. You were willing to let the system railroad the other, because it wasn't you...until it becomes you.
Let me start by sharing some events that surprised me in my relationship to the police. In 2008 I came back from a 2 month trip to Costa Rica. I had lost a small fortune in the housing market and nearly lost my mind as well. When I was in Costa Rica a girl asked to braid my hair. I let her. She was more meticulous than I expected. She told me I had to comb out the braids within 6 weeks or my hair would begin to dread. I came home from Costa Rica with my hair braided and an excitement about my new look. Even though I liked the look, I expected I would cut out soon. Once home, I kept getting pulled over by the police. At no time was I doing anything wrong. And not once did they have anything to even ticket me for. Yet, they pulled me over 9 times in a few weeks. One cop told me, "Mr. Mooney, I know you're on something. I just can't prove it, so I have to let you go." I was 'on' nothing. I just happened to have a new hair style that seemed to be probable cause. This alerted me to the fact that what I was doing was less important than how I looked. And to some of the police, I looked like an 'other'. Someone different from them and their police standard haircuts. As I examine the growing tensions with the police across the country, I see this, we have divided ourselves into the camps where we feel the most alike and that extends into where we share our fears. For example, if you fear large black men, you are more inclined to side with the police. If you have felt threatened over your life more by the the police then you might summon more sympathy for those killed by the cops. In either case, we have conditioned ourselves with our fears and justify our fears of broad-sweeping groups of people. We put those people, be they cops or races in the category in our minds as 'other'. They are other than we are. By doing this, we can easily rationalize our disdain for the group, because they are other or not me. They look different. They behave differently.
By doing this, however, we miss how we participate in the encroachment on all of our personal liberties.
By otherizing the victims in this case, we then allow for the system to create a precedent that they can kill citizens without even facing a trial. And let me be clear here, because I think this is missed by a lot of those following these case, a Grand Jury is not a trial. It is an examination of one side of the evidence, without cross examination or scrutiny that exists in a trial, and is subject to the recommendation of the prosecuting attorney. Only after the Grand Jury issues and indictment does the case go to trial. So, in Ferguson and in New York City, the Grand Juries said that, even though citizens were killed by the police, there was no need for a trial.
It is this part that is were people have become outraged. A person is killed, justified or not, and there was no trial. It is supposedly through the trial process where we determine if the killing could have been justified. By issuing no indictment, that process was circumvented.
Now, here is the dangerous part. I see people villainizing those shot, villainizing the looters. I see false equivalencies, comparing white victims of black assailants. Through all of this, those who are identifying with the cops are also supporting a system where cops are no longer held in check by the law. And I know that many of you who think you identify with the cops feel like you don't have to worry about the cops because you don't commit crimes. That is the point. The point is, that a trial is where you determine guilt. And if you, by popular support, gut the system that holds people accountable for crime, then, when you are victim to that lack of a legal standard, remember, you were part of the problem. You were willing to let the system railroad the other, because it wasn't you...until it becomes you.
Monday, October 6, 2014
HeatherAsh Amara, Jacob Nordby and the Whole Event
In my exuberance about deciding to firewalk, I have been writing and talking about the event as if it were merely the firewalk. In doing so I neglected to realize or discuss the fact that this event is more than that. There is a book signing the evening before with the amazing HeatherAsh Amara and I assume the host Jacob Nordby, author of The Divine Arsonist: A Tale Of Awakening too. And Saturday includes an intensive workshop, CULMINATING in the firewalk and then a bonfire celebration. When I realized I've neglected mentioning these other aspects, I also realized I might be excluding people who would love to be part of the workshop, celebration and book signing but not necessarily walk on burning coals. So here I am atoning. This will be a high-vibration event. There will be a strong sense of excitement. And I encourage all of you who are curious or fans of the authors to check it out. And just to do a little house cleaning, the site of event might be changing due to some unforeseeable events. So stay tuned.
Namaste bitches.
For more, visit www.JerryMooneyBooks.com
Namaste bitches.
For more, visit www.JerryMooneyBooks.com
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Thoughts On Fire and Faith
Once I decided to walk on fire, I felt a profound shift inside of me. Because I'm often like a friendly Saint Bernard that goes around licking everyone on the face, I know my exuberance can be a little overwhelming. In the past I would purposely squelch my enthusiasm in order to make those around me more comfortable. That seems impossible now. I want to share. I want to not just share my excitement, but I want others to experience this too. But why?
A few of the things that have had a profound impact on my personal empowerment have been extreme: kayaking, skiing and climbing (although I never got very good at climbing). When I did those things, the activity broke loose self doubts, because I was doing such extreme activities and conquering them (at least completing them without dying). An aspect that I didn't expect was how the empowerment translated into other aspects of my life. Of course kayaking would empower rafting or swimming, but what about public speaking or other seemingly unrelated activities? The truth is, it was ubiquitous. Skiing made me a better teacher. Kayaking made me a better writer. How?
By challenging myself to do what I was scared of I shrunk my fears and emboldened my courage. And what I discovered through that was that fear and courage are really at the crux of whatever we want to do. Do we lean on the fear side or the courage side? And to what degree? If you've faced down the fear of death in class V whitewater, giving a speech in front of your department chairs becomes undaunting.
So what? What does this have to do with faith, let alone fire? Here's what. When I did those various things my faith developed over time that I could do it. Practice, and execution over time gave me the confidence that I could do those things, but it was in the extremity of the action that I found the real catharsis. It was in exposing myself to my fear where I discovered my power. Learning to do those things had value. I don't want to diminish that. It fills you with a sense of accomplishment. But the catharsis of facing down your fears happens in a moment. It's a moment of do or die. This is powerful. This is transformative. This puts all of the meetings with crusty faculty heads into perspective.
This is why I'm so excited by the firewalk. The idea of walking on fire has the same principles of confronting a gnarly whitewater rapid or a ski slope with no visible bottom, but the required skill is, well, faith. You have to simply have faith that you can walk on fire and it will be okay. It's similar to the idea of skydiving in that the skill is faith, but the faith you have when you skydive is in the parachute. You have faith that the device works. With firewalking the faith you have is in yourself. The faith you cultivate comes from seeing that people have done it and those people aren't more amazing and magical and skilled than you are. They simply had the faith that they could do it, and they did it. It's easily witnessed on Youtube. People have been doing this for eons. I'm sure that any of us, with a little effort, can find someone we already know who has done it. And if we look around to find the people who have done it, we probably won't be surprised at who they are: they are the adventurers. They walk with confidence. They spend less time being tripped up by the trivialities of life. They are emboldened. The question becomes, are they me?
Namaste bitches
Find more at www.JerryMooneyBooks.com
A few of the things that have had a profound impact on my personal empowerment have been extreme: kayaking, skiing and climbing (although I never got very good at climbing). When I did those things, the activity broke loose self doubts, because I was doing such extreme activities and conquering them (at least completing them without dying). An aspect that I didn't expect was how the empowerment translated into other aspects of my life. Of course kayaking would empower rafting or swimming, but what about public speaking or other seemingly unrelated activities? The truth is, it was ubiquitous. Skiing made me a better teacher. Kayaking made me a better writer. How?
By challenging myself to do what I was scared of I shrunk my fears and emboldened my courage. And what I discovered through that was that fear and courage are really at the crux of whatever we want to do. Do we lean on the fear side or the courage side? And to what degree? If you've faced down the fear of death in class V whitewater, giving a speech in front of your department chairs becomes undaunting.
So what? What does this have to do with faith, let alone fire? Here's what. When I did those various things my faith developed over time that I could do it. Practice, and execution over time gave me the confidence that I could do those things, but it was in the extremity of the action that I found the real catharsis. It was in exposing myself to my fear where I discovered my power. Learning to do those things had value. I don't want to diminish that. It fills you with a sense of accomplishment. But the catharsis of facing down your fears happens in a moment. It's a moment of do or die. This is powerful. This is transformative. This puts all of the meetings with crusty faculty heads into perspective.
This is why I'm so excited by the firewalk. The idea of walking on fire has the same principles of confronting a gnarly whitewater rapid or a ski slope with no visible bottom, but the required skill is, well, faith. You have to simply have faith that you can walk on fire and it will be okay. It's similar to the idea of skydiving in that the skill is faith, but the faith you have when you skydive is in the parachute. You have faith that the device works. With firewalking the faith you have is in yourself. The faith you cultivate comes from seeing that people have done it and those people aren't more amazing and magical and skilled than you are. They simply had the faith that they could do it, and they did it. It's easily witnessed on Youtube. People have been doing this for eons. I'm sure that any of us, with a little effort, can find someone we already know who has done it. And if we look around to find the people who have done it, we probably won't be surprised at who they are: they are the adventurers. They walk with confidence. They spend less time being tripped up by the trivialities of life. They are emboldened. The question becomes, are they me?
Namaste bitches
Find more at www.JerryMooneyBooks.com
Monday, September 22, 2014
Best Sellers List!!!
Look what I had the pleasure of seeing today!
Number 4!!!!
Namaste bitches!
for more please visit www.JerryMooneyBooks.com
Namaste bitches!
for more please visit www.JerryMooneyBooks.com
Sunday, September 21, 2014
FREE EBOOK FOR A FEW DAYS!
History Yoghurt and the Moon will be free as a Kindle ebook for the next 5 days. You don't need to sign up for anything. Just buy the book for $0.00.
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Namaste bitches
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Namaste bitches
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Friday, September 19, 2014
The Author's Paradox
I was recently asked about marketing by a fellow author and I feel like I'm a total newb in this arena. However, I understand its necessity and realize it is not as simple as beating potential readers over the head with the idea that you wrote a book and they should buy it. As such I've been delving into the discipline and wanted to share the response I wrote to my fellow author.
..... I just joined goodreads.com, so I have little to contribute as far as its effectiveness. I do share your observation that it seems difficult to reach readers. I think until one has 'arrived' it just is so. But I also think that this is a good resource to get your book out there, get it into the collective psyche of readers, and contribute to your efforts to magnetize your work. It feels like there is a paradox in selling books: there are zillions of book consumers so selling some copies should be easy. But there are a zillion books to choose from, so getting someone to choose your book seems impossible. What I'm experiencing is that people have this built-in fear of making bad choices. So it takes time to expose them to an idea before they accept it. That means that you can't just tell them, "Hey, I have the greatest thing on earth!" and expect them to pull the trigger, even if it is the greatest thing on earth. So, without some built in publicity or some stunt or providence that shines a bright light on your work it will probably take some time and effort to get people to trust choosing your book.
Let me share a story. A few years ago JCPenny was suffering from declining sales. They completely overhauled their leadership. They brought in new faces with new ideas to attempt to turn things around. What the new group discovered was that the previous sales model was insulting to their consumers. A pair of jeans that they had a price point of $15 would be on sale for 80% off...at $14.99. Everything was always on sale. In fact, if you ever bought something that wasn't 'on sale' you were really just paying for a very marked up item.
So, the new leadership introduced the truth and respect campaign. They were going to stop insulting their customers. Instead of a pair of jeans being marked down to $14.99 they were just going to price them at $15, not on sale. They got rid o the .99, because they felt it insulted their customer's ability to know the difference was a penny. So they proudly introduced all of these initiatives. They spread the word. They advertised on their new model. They worked for a new relationship with their consumers.
And....it failed miserably. It turned out that consumption was such and emotional experience that buying a $60 pair of jeans for $14.99 made the consumer feel like they got over on the store. They made a wise choice. They could pat themselves on the back for being so clever in their purchases. It didn't matter if that pair of jeans was always for sale and that was really the only price. There was no sense of intrinsic value. As such, most consumers bought, not for value or even need, but almost as a sport and buying things on sale meant they were winning.
So, what does this have to do with anything? I think it means that the uneasy truth about being an author is that until you get into the hearts and minds of readers you have to, well, get into the hearts and minds of the readers. And that typically requires more than just producing a quality product.
Namaste Bitches
find more at www.JerryMooneyBooks.com
..... I just joined goodreads.com, so I have little to contribute as far as its effectiveness. I do share your observation that it seems difficult to reach readers. I think until one has 'arrived' it just is so. But I also think that this is a good resource to get your book out there, get it into the collective psyche of readers, and contribute to your efforts to magnetize your work. It feels like there is a paradox in selling books: there are zillions of book consumers so selling some copies should be easy. But there are a zillion books to choose from, so getting someone to choose your book seems impossible. What I'm experiencing is that people have this built-in fear of making bad choices. So it takes time to expose them to an idea before they accept it. That means that you can't just tell them, "Hey, I have the greatest thing on earth!" and expect them to pull the trigger, even if it is the greatest thing on earth. So, without some built in publicity or some stunt or providence that shines a bright light on your work it will probably take some time and effort to get people to trust choosing your book.
Let me share a story. A few years ago JCPenny was suffering from declining sales. They completely overhauled their leadership. They brought in new faces with new ideas to attempt to turn things around. What the new group discovered was that the previous sales model was insulting to their consumers. A pair of jeans that they had a price point of $15 would be on sale for 80% off...at $14.99. Everything was always on sale. In fact, if you ever bought something that wasn't 'on sale' you were really just paying for a very marked up item.
So, the new leadership introduced the truth and respect campaign. They were going to stop insulting their customers. Instead of a pair of jeans being marked down to $14.99 they were just going to price them at $15, not on sale. They got rid o the .99, because they felt it insulted their customer's ability to know the difference was a penny. So they proudly introduced all of these initiatives. They spread the word. They advertised on their new model. They worked for a new relationship with their consumers.
And....it failed miserably. It turned out that consumption was such and emotional experience that buying a $60 pair of jeans for $14.99 made the consumer feel like they got over on the store. They made a wise choice. They could pat themselves on the back for being so clever in their purchases. It didn't matter if that pair of jeans was always for sale and that was really the only price. There was no sense of intrinsic value. As such, most consumers bought, not for value or even need, but almost as a sport and buying things on sale meant they were winning.
So, what does this have to do with anything? I think it means that the uneasy truth about being an author is that until you get into the hearts and minds of readers you have to, well, get into the hearts and minds of the readers. And that typically requires more than just producing a quality product.
Namaste Bitches
find more at www.JerryMooneyBooks.com
Monday, September 15, 2014
Fire Walk
As many of you know, I am a seeker. The search has lead me to many amazing places and many precarious situations. Much of what I've done has often been referred to as mistakes by others, typically, not by me. I've been arrested in five countries. I did a weird mission for the CIA. I had a brief fling with the military. All of these things have added color to my life and sometimes deepened my spiritual understanding. When that happens I feel like I have profited most.
So, a year ago I was doing a sweat out in BFE, Idaho. Afterwards I was talking to Watomi, the resident shaman. He began to talk to me about fire walking. He was a strong advocate for the power it had to burn away vestigial baggage that people lug around, hindering their lives and development. Although his words sounded true and compelling, the idea of walking on 1100 degree coals freaked me the fuck out! I couldn't even entertain the idea in a hypothetical way. It was really terrifying to me to simply think about it. Now, I want to put this in some context. I'm not simply a giant coward. I've kayaked class V rapids, I've skydived, I've skied double black diamond slopes, I've climbed 5-9 pitches...generally, I've done some pretty scary and extreme shit. This crossed some boundary, though. I felt physically uncomfortable just hearing about it. When we left the sweat, it came up between Wendy and me and I tried to converse about it in a calm manner. I gave it the same amount of credence as I would someone who wanted to talk about their run in with Bigfoot. I might listen with curiosity, but I wasn't about to swallow the ideas whole. Besides, weren't there ways to burn away vestigial baggage without inviting yourself to become the guest of honor at a barbecue?
Over the last year I thought about how the idea of walking on 1100 degree coals terrified me. TERRIFIED ME! This felt very foreign and the magnitude of my terror caused by simply imagining it told me something: I had to do this! If something caused my psyche to do Olympic level backflips, I better take a deeper look. So I did.
When Jacob Nordby posted, http://yourawakenedself.com/igniting-your-inner-fire-with-heatherash-amara/
on his Facebook page I immediately felt those foreign pangs of acute terror. I decided to stare them down this time. I decided to commit to doing it.
What was weird was as soon as I decided to walk on fire, and I don't mean decided to think about it or decided to maybe do it or decided to talk about it, but decided to do it, I felt calm and powerful. I felt the future fire burning away my vestigial baggage. I felt the hypothetical future fire cauterizing my psychological wounds. I felt the burn of the flame cooling around me. I felt the relationship between quantum matrix and observer crystallizing. I felt the power of my mental projections, my stories, my mythology weakening. I felt like I was teleported to my center and there I found calm. I felt like I found the volume switch on life and was able to turn it down.
I felt all of these things from simply deciding. I hadn't even told anyone yet. I hadn't committed out loud. Technically I could change my mind and no one would know. But I didn't. I immediately told people. I felt like telling would make it even more real, even more of a solid commitment.
Now I've committed and I feel like doing so has had a profound impact. Of course the actually walk will certainly be even more so. However, I'm so impressed by the centering and powerful effect of simply deciding to walk. Because of this, I wanted to share, so that if any of you out there experience a similar terror from the idea of barbecuing yourself, perhaps this is an opportunity rise like a phoenix.
Namaste bitches
So, a year ago I was doing a sweat out in BFE, Idaho. Afterwards I was talking to Watomi, the resident shaman. He began to talk to me about fire walking. He was a strong advocate for the power it had to burn away vestigial baggage that people lug around, hindering their lives and development. Although his words sounded true and compelling, the idea of walking on 1100 degree coals freaked me the fuck out! I couldn't even entertain the idea in a hypothetical way. It was really terrifying to me to simply think about it. Now, I want to put this in some context. I'm not simply a giant coward. I've kayaked class V rapids, I've skydived, I've skied double black diamond slopes, I've climbed 5-9 pitches...generally, I've done some pretty scary and extreme shit. This crossed some boundary, though. I felt physically uncomfortable just hearing about it. When we left the sweat, it came up between Wendy and me and I tried to converse about it in a calm manner. I gave it the same amount of credence as I would someone who wanted to talk about their run in with Bigfoot. I might listen with curiosity, but I wasn't about to swallow the ideas whole. Besides, weren't there ways to burn away vestigial baggage without inviting yourself to become the guest of honor at a barbecue?
Over the last year I thought about how the idea of walking on 1100 degree coals terrified me. TERRIFIED ME! This felt very foreign and the magnitude of my terror caused by simply imagining it told me something: I had to do this! If something caused my psyche to do Olympic level backflips, I better take a deeper look. So I did.
When Jacob Nordby posted, http://yourawakenedself.com/igniting-your-inner-fire-with-heatherash-amara/
on his Facebook page I immediately felt those foreign pangs of acute terror. I decided to stare them down this time. I decided to commit to doing it.
What was weird was as soon as I decided to walk on fire, and I don't mean decided to think about it or decided to maybe do it or decided to talk about it, but decided to do it, I felt calm and powerful. I felt the future fire burning away my vestigial baggage. I felt the hypothetical future fire cauterizing my psychological wounds. I felt the burn of the flame cooling around me. I felt the relationship between quantum matrix and observer crystallizing. I felt the power of my mental projections, my stories, my mythology weakening. I felt like I was teleported to my center and there I found calm. I felt like I found the volume switch on life and was able to turn it down.
I felt all of these things from simply deciding. I hadn't even told anyone yet. I hadn't committed out loud. Technically I could change my mind and no one would know. But I didn't. I immediately told people. I felt like telling would make it even more real, even more of a solid commitment.
Now I've committed and I feel like doing so has had a profound impact. Of course the actually walk will certainly be even more so. However, I'm so impressed by the centering and powerful effect of simply deciding to walk. Because of this, I wanted to share, so that if any of you out there experience a similar terror from the idea of barbecuing yourself, perhaps this is an opportunity rise like a phoenix.
Namaste bitches
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
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