Favorite Finds Of The Week

This weekend we’re planning on getting outside and doing a bit of spring cleaning around the yard. Raking up old leaves, taking the cover off the pool, washing the patio furniture and scrubbing down the deck is all on our massive todo list. I hope you all enjoy a wonderful weekend and take the opportunity to do something, one little thing you truly enjoy. But if you can’t tear yourself away from the computer be sure to check out these articles from some of the great blogs we follow. 

7 Ways to Make Regret-Free Decisions and Overcome Insecurity – Someday Syndrome

Do you ever waver over decisions and or feel insecure about your actions? Perhaps it’s because you don’t have a passionate vision of the future. If your future is murky or you’re not sure the future you have in mind is the right one for you, every decision you make will cause you anguish. You have nothing against which to measure progress and you have no idea if your decisions are correct or not. Indecisiveness leads you to regret every decision you make. The regret then leads to insecurity. Because you can’t trust your inner voice, you start looking for outside approval. You let the opinions of others sway you until you don’t know what’s going on inside your head and your heart.

8 Principles for a Zen Marriage – Simple Marriage 

For over a year now I have been a Zen Habits follower. In fact I have even used some of Leo’s work on Simple Marriage. Recently Leo wrote a post on how to live like a Zen Monk. Which got me thinking about how a couple could create a Zen Marriage.To begin, what exactly would a Zen Marriage look like and why would anyone want to experience one?

How To Reclaim Your Childlike Passion For Life -Simple and Spiritual

In the film “Knocked Up” a man sits at a park bench watching his daughters blow bubbles. He says to the man beside him, “Why do they get so excited over bubbles. They’re just bubbles.” He sits there musing for a while, and then he adds, “I wish I could get that excited over bubbles. I wish I could get that excited about anything.” Every adult at some point has watched a child and wished that they could rediscover that explosive joy and passion that children have. That they once had.

How to Alleviate Self-Consciousness and Other People-Allergies – Raptitude

Whether it’s the rude throng of last-minute Christmas shoppers, or the drunken fratboys slithering up to you at a concert, or the old man in the restaurant booth behind you who clears his decrepit throat every forty seconds, everyone finds themselves feeling a general aversion to people now and then.  For those with any level of social anxiety, there is always at least a hum of this derision in the background, sometimes a full-on shout.  Even for those without it, repeated ugly experiences can inspire a familiar distaste for people that may never completely disappear. Unless, of course, the people do.

Do my words improve silence? – Quantum Learning

Silence is perfect, unformed nothingness and stillness. Only in silence is there complete tranquility and peace. Speaking both creates and destroys. I create new form out of my thoughts and in doing so I destroy the perfect silence. Every time I open my mouth to give voice to my words I disturb the quiet by creating a vibration, a ripple in the still pool of silence. I had better make sure I’m creating something of meaning!

5 Tiny Steps to Quit Being Such a Jerk – Zen Habits

I was having a talk with my son yesterday, sitting him down and talking about consideration — how to think of others, and not just yourself. It’s a key concept that makes such a difference in life that it’s one of the few things I really want to teach my children. It’s so sad because I see so many inconsiderate people around me every day — people who only care about what they want and don’t think of others, don’t see things from the perspective of other people. People who cut you off in traffic, who cut in front of you in line, who say rude things, who take your parking spot, who hurt your feelings. I try to brush these things off, but it’s unfortunate that so many people are so inconsiderate.