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February 23, 2012
1685 George Frederick Handel
1734 Mayer Amchel Rothschild
1883 Victor Fleming
1937 Lt-Cdr Brian Mills
1939 Peter Fonda
1947 Anton Mosimann
1952 Brad Whitford
1955 Howard Jones

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AN EXCERPT FROM ROB’S BOOK, Pronoia Is The Antidote To Paranoia: HOW THE UNIVERSE IS CONSPIRING TO SHOWER YOU WITH BLESSINGS

Have you ever been loved? I bet you have been loved so much and so deeply that you have become jaded about the enormity of the grace it confers. So let me remind you: To be loved is a privilege and prize equivalent to being born. If you’re smart, you pause regularly to bask in the astonishing knowledge that there are many people out there who care for you and want you to thrive and hold you in their thoughts with fondness.

Animals, too: You have been the recipient of their boundless affection. The spirits of allies who’ve left this world continue to send their tender regards, as well. Do you “believe” in angels and other divine beings? Whether or not you do, I can assure you that there are hordes of them beaming their uncanny consecrations your way. You are awash in torrents of love.

As tremendous a gift it is to get love, giving love is an equal boon. Many scientific studies demonstrate that whenever you bestow blessings on other people, you bless yourself. Expressing practical compassion not only strengthens your immune system and bolsters your health, but also promotes self-esteem, enhances longevity, and stimulates tranquility and even euphoria. As the scientists say, we humans are hardwired to benefit from altruism.

What’s your position on making love? Do you regard it as one of the nicer fringe benefits of being alive? Or are you more inclined to see it as a central proof of the primal magnanimity of the universe? I’m more aligned with the latter view.

Imagine yourself in the fluidic blaze of that intimate spectacle right now. Savor the fantasy of entwining bodies and hearts and minds with an appealing partner who has the power to enchant you. What better way do you know of to dwell in sacred space while immersed in your body’s delight? To commune with the Divine Wow while having fun? To tap into your own deeper knowing while at the same time gazing into the mysterious light of a fellow creature?

Get the book here.


A lot of us are lucky enough to get hit with occasional strokes of genius. Not too many of us follow through and put a brilliant idea into form. And almost nobody:
  • ceaselessly sees truths that habit and culture make most of us wholly blind to,
  • leads revolutions in thought and lifestyle that (if we’re lucky) actually have the credible potential to transform us all into a species of happy beings,
  • magnetizes an entire community of like-minded truth- (and beauty-) (and joy-) seekers who, like little lost lambs from a scattered herd, have been wandering, nameless and leaderless, for years,
  • commands superior talent not just in literature but also in music,
  • and prolifically — every single day — churns out art and philosophy of the highest quality.

But Rob Brezsny does.

Rob Brezsny Sees

Rob Brezsny Sees

It’s true, too, that genuinely unique beams of original light have been known to be overlooked by most of their contemporaries, praised by some, and scorned by others (maybe people who have either never attempted to do anything difficult, or have tried, given up, and, whining all the way, settled for the mediocrity Brezsny’s genius inspires us all to free ourselves from).

Rob Brezsny is one of the most talented, far-sighted, creative people of our day, and we wouldn’t be surprised if what he hasn’t done yet proves him to be one of the most creative, admirable, joy-inspiring people ever.

Amen!
Om!
Hallelujah!
Shalom!
Namaste!
More power to you!

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 Ron Dunham is an enormously successful man: father, husband, creator of both spiritual and financial wealth… and a survivor of a near-death-experience. He’s the author of the following message. And under this message, you’ll find video of Ron talking, among other things, about his extraordinary visit to “the other side.”

YOU HAVE FOUND YOURSELF

YOUR SOUL IS ALIGNED

YOUR SPIRIT IS FREE

YOUR MIND IS OPEN

YOUR HEART IS FULL

YOUR END IS YOUR BEGINNING

YOUR LOVE IS UNCONDITIONAL

YOU ARE FULLY SELF EXPRESSED

YOUR CHILD IS ALIVE

YOUR CREATOR IS BEFORE YOU

GRACE IS FLOWING THROUGH YOU

COURAGE IS YOUR HONOR

FULFILLMENT IS YOUR DESTINY

LIGHT IS THE ORDER OF YOUR DAY

LAUGHTER IS THE VOICE OF YOUR HEART

KINDNESS IS THE MOTHER OF YOUR EXISTENCE

COMPASSION IS THE QUIETNESS OF YOUR THOUGHTS

YOU ARE THE ONE AND THE MANY

YOU HAVE BEEN CALLED FORTH AND ANSWERED

WE THANK YOU FOR BLAZING THE PATH

WE THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE

 

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See that photo? It’s a picture of success. Your success. Because you might say your success is Lorna Riley’s business.RileyLorna

The world discovered Lorna’s sales talent when she was in the middle of a career in education and raising a family. She was put to work – first on a sales team, and then, when she broke all records in closing deals, in managing that sales team.

So, a trained teacher, Lorna did it “by the books.” That is, taught the way she’d been taught to teach. Break it down into elements, spool it out in rational order, start with the fundamentals, prepare thoroughly, speak clearly, and keep it interesting.

What resulted was a massive collection of original training material, and Lorna flying around the country delivering fun, funny, intensive, and effective week-long courses in sales, customer service, and management.

She designed coordinated systems on those topics, with extensive (over a hundred or more) sets of modularized lessons on each, and used them in: 

  • in-person training (which earned her a CSP, the most prestigious certification in the country for professional speakers),
  • published audio recordings (about such topics as time and memory management, and the three most important skills for creating success), and
  • a series of books (like 76 Ways to Build a Straight Referral Business, ASAP!, Quest For Your Best, and Off the Chart Results for Organizational Development).

 And that was just the beginning!

Lorna has now turned the whole spectrum of that knowledge, experience, and educational material into an online training system, enhancing it with all the added benefits of the internet.

Lorna wanted to provide people on sales, customer service, and leadership teams not just with a way to learn the training skills they need to succeed, but also with a systematic plan that enables you to take responsibility for that success. Your own, and the entire company’s. (Clear proof of her management experience, isn’t it?) So hundreds of Lorna’s carefully crafted lessons are structured into what’s called a Managed Accountability Plan. They can be watched, tracked, assessed, and reviewed on line.

Chart Learning Solutions delivers high-impact performance results that train & retain sales, customer service, and leadership talent. Through our unique blended solution, we build a culture of continuous improvement, common language, guarantee accountability, and foster meaningful dialogues between employees and managers to ensure skills and behaviors meet business objectives. Chart’s Sales Cycle “Managed Accountability Plans” (MAPs™) saved GMCR over $3.5M and are required for all their “AFH” sales people. With our on-demand on-line courses, we create continuous learning accountability, enhanced employee/manager relationships, build a common language, integrate a unified sales, service, and leadership process among a geographically dispersed workforce, reduce costs, and produce measureable results. This is achieved with Chart’s blended eLearning multimedia tutorials, online quizzes, Application Activities, Accountability Application Meetings, Goal Action Planners, on-line reporting, coaching guides and live Coaching.”

Any description of Lorna Riley would be completely unfinished if it didn’t include a bit about one of her one-of-a-kind works of art: The Movie Lover’s Cookbook aka Reel Meals. It’s a coffee-table cookbook with page after page of photographs of unforgettable eating scenes from world-favorite movies — next to the recipe for what they’re eating in each “reel meal”!  (What comestibles did the Marx Brothers clobber each other with in Duck Soup? What hors d’oeuvres did Audrey Hepburn dine on in Breakfast at Tiffany’s?)

Lorna wrote and produced this gem pre-internet, when specific photos from specific scenes in movies were really hard to get your hands on, and even harder to get legal rights to use. Tragically for lovers of cool things, it’s a classic that’s out of print now. Just had to mention it because it might be the best example, beyond her success as a success guru, of the brilliant creativity Lorna cannot keep a lid on.

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Scott Magers, former professional baseball coach and highly successful CEO, introduces Action Heroes, the world’s most powerful internet marketing training team. According to YouTube, it’s “an extensive, intensive, detailed, broad, deep education in every aspect of internet marketing. Continous training, not just a weekend seminar. Dedicated experts and fellow students are working together to monetize the internet!”

Scott Magers is a father, husband, personal trainer of star athletes, and very successful businessman.  Now, as the co-founder of PitchIn, an international on- and off-line  social/business/charity network, Scott is also busy creating “a world that works for everbody, with no one left behind.” Read more about this amazing guy here..

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After a very successful career as a veterinarian with charisma and intuition his four-legged clients couldn’t resist, Herb Tanzer was tapped by major TV networks in New York to host a show about animal care. Instead, he became a life coach. Herb wants, and actually creates, a world that works for everybody. Now he lives for doing whatever he can to let you, help you, and show you how to be the cause of a life your unique brilliance deserves. Like no other coach, Herb Tanzer brings a broad understanding of spirtuality to the mundane task of everyday success strategy. Herb’s web site.

Herb dares you to dream:

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