#Steve Salzberg

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Newsmax: The Steve Salzberg Show: Bud Grant on His NFL Career

. Source:The Daily Press I don’t want to sound cold here, but if you look at the Vikings four Super Bowl appearances, they were the second best team in every game, so why they would be on a missing rings list from. NFL Films is surprising to me and in really at least two of those games they were clearly the second best team in the Super Bowl. Because only Super Bowl 8 against the Miami Dolphins…

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Should we bypass phase 3 trials of a COVID-19 vaccine?

Steve Salzberg proposed, in essence, bypassing phase 3 trials for a #COVID19 vaccine. It was a very bad idea for a number of reasons. To his credit, Steve later admitted his mistake.

As the pandemic continues to rage out of control in the US, naturally attention has turned to the possibility of a vaccine against COVID-19. Indeed, even a couple of months ago, I expressed concern that “Operation Warp Speed,” the program promoted by the Trump Administration to speed the release of a coronavirus vaccine, might be moving too fast, to the point that safety might be compromised. The…

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There was one day at work last week where the internet was down and I couldn’t do ANYTHING so I made predictions on the Tony nominations tomorrow and here they are.

Best Musical:

Band's Visit

Frozen

Mean Girls

Spongebob Squarepants

Best Musical Revival:

Carousel

My Fair Lady

Once on This Island

Best Leading Actor in a Musical: 

Harry Hadden Paton (My Fair Lady)

Joshua Henry (Carousel)

Paul Alexander Nolan (Escape to Margaritaville)

Tony Shalhoub (Band's Visit)

Ethan Slater (Spongebob Squarepants)

Best Leading Actress in a Musical:

Lauren Ambrose (My Fair Lady)

Hailey Kilgore (Once on This Island)

Katrina Lenk (Band's Visit)

Taylor Louderman (Mean Girls)

Jessie Mueller (Carousel)

*alternate: Patti Murin (Frozen)

Best Featured Actor in a Musical:

Norbert Leo Butz (My Fair Lady)

Gavin Lee (Spongebob Squarepants)

Alex Newell (Once on This Island)

Ari'el Stachel (Band's Visit)

Tony Yazbeck (Prince of Broadway)

*alternate: Grey Henson (Mean Girls)

Best Featured Actress in a Musical:

Lindsay Mendez (Carousel)

Ashley Park (Mean Girls)

Kenita Miller (Once on This Island)

Diana Rigg (My Fair Lady) 

Kate Rockwell (Mean Girls)

Best Direction of a Musical:

Michael Arden (Once on This Island)

David Cromer (Band's Visit)

Casey Nicholaw (Mean Girls)

Tina Landau (Spongebob Squarepants)

Bartlett Sher (My Fair Lady)

Best Book of a Musical:

Tina Fey (Mean Girls)

Jennifer Lee (Frozen)

Kyle Jarrow (Sponegbob Squarepants)

Itamar Moses (Band's Visit)

Best Original Score:

Nell Benjamin & Jeff Richmond (Mean Girls)

The entire planet Earth (Spongebob Squarepants)

Robert Lopez & Kristen Anderson-Lopez (Frozen)

David Yazbeck (Band's Visit)

Best Orchestrations:

Imogen Heap (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Claire von Kampen (Farinelli and the King)

AnnMarie Milazzo & Michael Starobin (Once on this Island)

Jamshied Sharifi (Band's Visit)

Best Choreography:

Justin Peck (Carousel)

Steve Hoggett (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Casey Nicholaw (Mean Girls)

Christopher Gattelli (Spongebob Squarepants)

Camille A. Brown (Once on this Island)

Best Scenic Design in a Musical:

Dane Laffrey (Once on This Island)

Christopher Oram (Frozen)

Michael Yeargan (My Fair Lady)

David Zinn (Spongebob Squarepants)

Best Costumes in a Musical:

Sarah Laux (Band's Visit)

Clint Ramos (Once on this Island)

David Zinn (Spongebob Squarepants)

Catherine Zuber (My Fair Lady)

Best Lighting in a Musical:

Kevin Adams (Spongebob Squarepants)

Jules Fisher & Peggy Eisenhauer (Once on this Island)

Natasha Katz (Frozen)

Kenneth Posner (Mean Girls)

Best Sound Design in a Musical:

Kai Harada (Band's Visit)

Peter Hylenski (Once on this Island)

Marc Salzberg (My Fair Lady)

Walter Trarbach (Spongebob Squarepants)

Best Play:

Farinelli and the King

The Children

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

Junk

*possible fifth slot: Meteor Shower

Best Revival of a Play:

Angels in America

Iceman Cometh

Three Tall Women

Travesties

*possible fifth slot: Lobby Hero

Best Leading Actor in a Play:

Andrew Garfield (Angels in America)

Tom Hollander (Travesties)

Jamie Park (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Mark Rylance (Farinelli and the King)

Denzel Washington (Iceman Cometh)

Best Leading Actress in a Play:

Glenda Jackson (Three Tall Women)

Lauren Ridloff (Children of a Lesser God)

Condola Rashad (Saint Joan)

Amy Schumer (Meteor Shower)

Elizabeth McGovern (Time and the Conways)

Best Featured Actor in a Play:

Anthony Boyle (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Brian Tyree Henry (Lobby Hero)

Nathan Lane (Angels in America)

James McArdle (Angels in America)

David Morse (Iceman Cometh)

*note: really want Chris Evans (Lobby Hero) to be nominated over Brian Tyree Henry cause I was more impressed with his performance but I don't think it'll happen

Best Featured Actress in a Play:

Laura Benanti (Meteor Shower)

Noma Dumenzweni (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Denise Gough (Angels in America)

Laurie Metcalf (Three Tall Women)

Allison Pill (Three Tall Women)

*alternate option: Susan Brown (Angels in America)

Best Direction of a Play:

Marianne Elliot (Angels in America)

Joe Mantello (Three Tall Women)

Patrick Marber (Travesties)

John Tiffany (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Best Costume Design in a Play:

Nicky Gillibrand (Angels in America)

Katrina Lindsay (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Ann Roth (Three Tall Women)

Paloma Young (Time and the Conways)

Best Scenic Design in a Play:

Miriam Buether (Three Tall Women)

Tim Hatley (Travesties) 

Christine Jones (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child) 

Ian MacNeil (Angels in America)

Best Lighting Design in a Play:

Neil Austin (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Neil Austin (Travesties)

Paule Constable (Angels in America) 

Tim Reid (1984)

Best Sound Design in a Play:

Adam Cork (Travesties)

Ian Dickinson (Angels in America)

Gareth Fry (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Tom Gibbons (1984)

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https://quoteswithpicture.com/30-self-care-quotes-on-loving-your-greatest-ally-yourself/

30 Self Care Quotes on Loving Your Greatest Ally: Yourself

Self-care is not an indulgence, it’s a way of being. These 30 self-care quotes explain why.

While compassion and generosity keep the world afloat by prevailing over greed and hate, it is also crucial that you don’t lose yourself in the process. Devotion to others is noble. Devotion to one’s self is a necessity. You’ll only be more capable of love and respect if you have a sense of completeness from within. How else to do that than to nourish your body, mind, and soul with love and care you so rightfully deserve.

Here are 30 self-care quotes to read because too much of everything, even selflessness, become damaging in the long run. Your own needs and wants are valid. Don’t allow others’ criticisms to make you think otherwise. So, you do what you want and make yourself happy. It’s not selfish, it’s the only way to survive.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves. – Nathaniel Branden

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore. – C. JoyBell C.

And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good. – John Steinbeck

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life. – Jean Shinoda Bolen

No more martyring myself. – Sharon E. Rainey

Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body. – Golda Poretsky

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort. – Deborah Day

Self-care is how you take your power back. – Lalah Delia

Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others. – Christopher Germer

Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept. – Anna Taylor

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde

Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment. – Sharon Salzberg

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete. – Jack Kornfield

Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners. – William Shakespeare

Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that nourish you. – Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself. – Bryant McGillns

Learning to love yourself is like learning to walk—essential, life-changing, and the only way to stand tall. – Vironika Tugaleva

It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary. – Mandy Hale

When we give ourselves compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives. – Kristin Neff

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself. – Steve Maraboli

When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving. – Kim McMilllen

With every act of self-care, your authentic self gets stronger, and the critical, fearful mind gets weaker. Every act of self-care is a powerful declaration: I am on my side, I am on my side, each day I am more and more on my own side. – Susan Weiss Berry

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. – Audre Lorde

One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important; it’s an act of revolution. – DaShanne Stokes

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel. – Eleanor Brownn

You are a VIP, a very important person so take care with self care. If not you, who? If not now, when? – Toni Hawkins

The only person you shouldn’t be able to live without is you. – Chris McGeown

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self. – Aldous Huxley

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. – Maya Angelou

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. – Anne Lamott

Share these 30 Self-Care Quotes with friends and loved ones because regardless of how crazy life becomes, you should always love yourself.

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WHY?

WHY? is a band—three Cincinnati-bred gentlemen who've shared a whole lotta past together. Two of them are brothers. Yoni Wolf, who founded the project by his lonesome in 1998 is one of those (see also: cLOUDDEAD, Greenthink, Reaching Quiet).

The other is Josiah Wolf, who first started hitting the skins at their father's synagogue during worship service. They like being in a band together so don't ask about it. WHY?'s third fella is Doug McDiarmid, a high school friend born to French teachers, discovered by the Wolfs whilst playing guitar in a Steve Miller cover band. These men are handsome and meticulous, especially when they do ugly and unwieldy things with words and music.

The final words sung on the sixth album by WHY? are an apt place to begin: “Hold on, what’s going on?” Because while there’s much familiar about the oddly named Moh Lhean—mastermind Yoni Wolf’s sour-sweet croon, his deadpan poet’s drawl and ear for stunningly fluid psych-pop-folk-whatever arrangement—a great deal has changed in the four years that’ve passed since 2012’s Mumps, Etc., an LP that honed the band’s orchestral precision and self-deprecating swagger to a fine point. It’s significant that this is the first fully home-recorded WHY? album since the project’s 2003 debut. Made mostly in Wolf’s studio and co-produced by his brother Josiah, the result is obsessive, of course, but also intimate, and flush with warmth and looseness. But the biggest transformation is a bit subtler. After years of eying his world, in part, with a cynical squint, Wolf here learns a new mode. While Moh Lhean never stoops to outright optimism, it chronicles our hero finding peace in the unknowing, trading the wry smirk for a holy shrug, and looking past corporeal pain for something more cosmic and, rest assured, equally weird.

A low tone opens the album on “This Ole King” as acoustic pluck and upright bass form a Western bedrock beneath Wolf’s fragile voice. But as the song pushes on, the playing gets brighter and the vocal becomes a mantra-like hum inspired by Ali Farka Touré’s blues, before rolling into a second part rich with chiming keys and twisting harmony—Brian Wilson’s kaleidoscopic vision of pop. If there’s new litheness here, it’s probably because Wolf spent much of the time between albums collaborating—with ex/muse Anna Stewart as the fuzz-pop duo Divorcee, and MC Serengeti as the puckishly depressive Yoni & Geti. And if there’s a lithe newness, it may be that Wolf excised some nostalgia via his 2014 solo tapes—one re-recording choice raps from his own catalog, and another covering cuts by artists like Bob Dylan and Pavement. It’s no wonder, then, that “The Water” handily morphs a moody folk tune into some strange new form of full-band dub. Or that “One Mississippi” bounces along happily over a flurry of bizarre percussion, whistled melodies, and trippy synthesizer blips. Perhaps most impressive is “Consequence of Nonaction,” which vacillates between a quiet meditation for guitar/voice/clarinet, and wild, sax-strewn astral art-funk.

Movement is a key theme of Moh Lhean. It’s a breakup album without a romantic interest—coded within the lyrics is a tale about fleeing the seductions of a wintry figure for something synonymous with spring. “Easy” plays like a ward against the old ghost who haunts “January February March,” while “George Washington” places our host in a tiny watercraft, “paddling for land/hand on heart and heart in hand” as that faceless malevolent force stays ashore. While writing these songs, Wolf suffered a severe health scare far from home. Rather than drive him to depression, his brush with mortality imparted an incongruous impression of peace and connection to the living. At the end of “Proactive Evolution,” wherein WHY? enlists mewithoutYou’s Aaron Weiss to celebrate the stubborn persistence of humankind, Wolf samples not only thinkers like Sharon Salzberg and Ram Dass, but his actual doctors—the voices that helped shape his new outlook. Sure, Wolf poses as many questions as ever. Moh Lhean’s gorgeously psychedelic closer, “The Barely Blur” with Son Lux, puzzles over the nature of existence. But rather than leave us with the macabre chill of death, as many a WHY? LP has, the song dissolves into the infinite—the sound of the Big Bang.

Don’t bother asking Wolf what “Moh Lhean” means. He won’t tell you. It’s the name of his home studio, where friends and family—WHY? regulars Josiah, Matt Meldon, Doug McDiarmid, Liz Wolf, and Ben Sloan, plus a handful of Ohioans—gathered to record this (and also at Josiah’s studio, dubbed El Armando). And like the titles of Alopecia and Mumps, Etc., it references a concrete thing that Wolf experienced. Most likely it’s something to do with letting go, rebirth, coming home to a familiar feeling, or venturing out to discover a new one. Or maybe it’s just a yoga pose. But there’s something in Moh Lhean, even with all its mysteries and all its differences, that’s both ephemeral and distinctive, like something the Wolf Brothers might’ve heard on a praise album in their father’s synagogue as kids, or on some ‘60s hippie LP they thrifted in their teens, or, perhaps, on the other side of the records they’ve been making their entire adult lives. Thus, it seems appropriate to conclude with some words sung on the very first song of WHY?’s sixth album, Moh Lhean: “One thing, there is no other. Only this, there is no other…. Just layers of this one thing.”

[dillinger]

WHY? / MOH LHEAN

WHY? is a band—three Cincinnati-bred gentlemen who've shared a whole lotta past together. Two of them are brothers. Yoni Wolf, who founded the project by his lonesome in 1998 is one of those (see also: cLOUDDEAD, Greenthink, Reaching Quiet).

The other is Josiah Wolf, who first started hitting the skins at their father's synagogue during worship service. They like being in a band together so don't ask about it. WHY?'s third fella is Doug McDiarmid, a high school friend born to French teachers, discovered by the Wolfs whilst playing guitar in a Steve Miller cover band. These men are handsome and meticulous, especially when they do ugly and unwieldy things with words and music.

The final words sung on the sixth album by WHY? are an apt place to begin: “Hold on, what’s going on?” Because while there’s much familiar about the oddly named Moh Lhean—mastermind Yoni Wolf’s sour-sweet croon, his deadpan poet’s drawl and ear for stunningly fluid psych-pop-folk-whatever arrangement—a great deal has changed in the four years that’ve passed since 2012’s Mumps, Etc., an LP that honed the band’s orchestral precision and self-deprecating swagger to a fine point. It’s significant that this is the first fully home-recorded WHY? album since the project’s 2003 debut. Made mostly in Wolf’s studio and co-produced by his brother Josiah, the result is obsessive, of course, but also intimate, and flush with warmth and looseness. But the biggest transformation is a bit subtler. After years of eying his world, in part, with a cynical squint, Wolf here learns a new mode. While Moh Lhean never stoops to outright optimism, it chronicles our hero finding peace in the unknowing, trading the wry smirk for a holy shrug, and looking past corporeal pain for something more cosmic and, rest assured, equally weird.

A low tone opens the album on “This Ole King” as acoustic pluck and upright bass form a Western bedrock beneath Wolf’s fragile voice. But as the song pushes on, the playing gets brighter and the vocal becomes a mantra-like hum inspired by Ali Farka Touré’s blues, before rolling into a second part rich with chiming keys and twisting harmony—Brian Wilson’s kaleidoscopic vision of pop. If there’s new litheness here, it’s probably because Wolf spent much of the time between albums collaborating—with ex/muse Anna Stewart as the fuzz-pop duo Divorcee, and MC Serengeti as the puckishly depressive Yoni & Geti. And if there’s a lithe newness, it may be that Wolf excised some nostalgia via his 2014 solo tapes—one re-recording choice raps from his own catalog, and another covering cuts by artists like Bob Dylan and Pavement. It’s no wonder, then, that “The Water” handily morphs a moody folk tune into some strange new form of full-band dub. Or that “One Mississippi” bounces along happily over a flurry of bizarre percussion, whistled melodies, and trippy synthesizer blips. Perhaps most impressive is “Consequence of Nonaction,” which vacillates between a quiet meditation for guitar/voice/clarinet, and wild, sax-strewn astral art-funk.

Movement is a key theme of Moh Lhean. It’s a breakup album without a romantic interest—coded within the lyrics is a tale about fleeing the seductions of a wintry figure for something synonymous with spring. “Easy” plays like a ward against the old ghost who haunts “January February March,” while “George Washington” places our host in a tiny watercraft, “paddling for land/hand on heart and heart in hand” as that faceless malevolent force stays ashore. While writing these songs, Wolf suffered a severe health scare far from home. Rather than drive him to depression, his brush with mortality imparted an incongruous impression of peace and connection to the living. At the end of “Proactive Evolution,” wherein WHY? enlists mewithoutYou’s Aaron Weiss to celebrate the stubborn persistence of humankind, Wolf samples not only thinkers like Sharon Salzberg and Ram Dass, but his actual doctors—the voices that helped shape his new outlook. Sure, Wolf poses as many questions as ever. Moh Lhean’s gorgeously psychedelic closer, “The Barely Blur” with Son Lux, puzzles over the nature of existence. But rather than leave us with the macabre chill of death, as many a WHY? LP has, the song dissolves into the infinite—the sound of the Big Bang.

Don’t bother asking Wolf what “Moh Lhean” means. He won’t tell you. It’s the name of his home studio, where friends and family—WHY? regulars Josiah, Matt Meldon, Doug McDiarmid, Liz Wolf, and Ben Sloan, plus a handful of Ohioans—gathered to record this (and also at Josiah’s studio, dubbed El Armando). And like the titles of Alopecia and Mumps, Etc., it references a concrete thing that Wolf experienced. Most likely it’s something to do with letting go, rebirth, coming home to a familiar feeling, or venturing out to discover a new one. Or maybe it’s just a yoga pose. But there’s something in Moh Lhean, even with all its mysteries and all its differences, that’s both ephemeral and distinctive, like something the Wolf Brothers might’ve heard on a praise album in their father’s synagogue as kids, or on some ‘60s hippie LP they thrifted in their teens, or, perhaps, on the other side of the records they’ve been making their entire adult lives. Thus, it seems appropriate to conclude with some words sung on the very first song of WHY?’s sixth album, Moh Lhean: “One thing, there is no other. Only this, there is no other…. Just layers of this one thing.”

[darrellgurney]

“Intention leads to behaviors which lead to habits which lead to personality development which leads to destiny.”

-Jack Kornfield

Many great and creative minds say it’s all about intention.

“Our intention creates our reality.” -Wayne Dyer

  “Let the power of intention lead the way.”

-Sharon Salzberg

  “All that counts in life is intention.” – Andrea Bocelli

  “A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

And many also say a good intention and $1.85 will get you a cup of coffee.

“Many of our intentions die after we have put their harness on.” -Henry S. Haskins

  “Men with good intentions make promises. Men with good character keep them.” -Ronald Oliver

  “It’s not intentions that matter. It’s actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.” -Kristin Hannah

  “There is always a gap between intention and action.” -Paulo Coelho

For those who haven’t already resigned themselves to no possibility (which many have, whom we can’t reach anyway), we can wax eloquently on the potential for our lives, careers, dreams and purposes for being on the planet.

Yet, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary question, the unasking of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

“Will you really? But really really??”

Often the closer we actually get to a dream’s or goal’s fulfillment, the more a myriad of forces come alive to make that last yard truly the longest. It’s far easier to talk about the goal “one day” being realized than to close in on it, see beneath and beyond the mental and subconscious tricksters that come to bargain us away, and actually get it done.

Steven Pressfield addresses these sly forces in “The War of Art”, classifying them all as “resistance”. [need an Amazon affiliate link for The War of Art] They show up in what’s commonly known as “the fear of success” in forms such as perfectionism, doubt, distractibility, irritability, confusion, procrastination, etc.

In The Back Forty, with a lifetime of making and unfulfilling on so many intentions already, it requires a real leaving of the past in the past to get up the courage to again intend with a vengeance.

That’s why we’re here in this journey together. We look at the past as simply R & D, research and development, for who we came here to be and what we came here to do. So, any intention play we’ve done before was simply practice, not carving our inability into stone.

Here are 4 ways to up your practice of Active Re-Intention in your second half/best half of life.

Clean Up

You don’t want to put icing on a cake of poop, so first get real, down and dirty about where you’ve spoken bold intentions before…and didn’t git ‘er done.

You might make a list for yourself and then ritualize the letting go of that past pattern by burning it. Or, you might check in with people who knew you when you were playing big for something and then saw you disappear.

People are forgiving, and we all love redemption stories. However, with yourself or others, cleaning up the mess from previous intentional misfires can help you listen to your Self with fresh ears.

Buck Up

Get your bold on…with measured sobriety.  Be willing to make some big demands on the Self you are now, stake some outrageous claims on your possibilities, and have some unrecognizable declarations pass your lips.  

Then ask people if you’re crazy, or if it can be done.

For those who say you’re crazy, ask them why. For those who say it can be done, ask them specifically how and why.

Measure the responses, then ask those you trust to measure the responses, and choose your friends wisely. Your producing the result in the face of no agreement is always possible, and yet your ability to enroll others in your intention and have a world pulling for you and holding you to account is a more powerful approach.

Buddy Up

Don’t do it alone, yet again, just like you’ve always done, with your Lone Ranger, maverick, Rebel Without a Cause, self-made man/woman, “I’ve got this” false confidence.

Get a buddy. Commit to specifics and by whens. Put your ass on the line. Agree to pay money if you don’t meet your milestones. Give yourself big rewards when you do.

The greatest single key to delivering on your intention is having someone to be accountable to beyond yourself.

Show Up

For your Self. Use your buddy and your commitments to them (and your Self) to let this be the time you actually did what you said you’d do by the time you said you’d do it.

There’s so many forces that will come up here to slow you down, turn your head to one side or the other, or convince you it wasn’t a smart or worthy idea in the first place.

Go Nike on yourself.  Just do it. Take the actions required by the intentions. Again, and again. And when you don’t, go back to Clean Up and start all over.

“Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.” -Dr. Steve Maraboli

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Newsmax: The Steve Malzberg Show: PJ O'Rourke, Author of The Baby Boom: How it Got Away

. Source:The New Democrat  First of all I love PJ O’Rourke, you know platonically because he’s one my favorite political and cultural commentators. And why is that because first of all his deep honesty and consistency. He’s what is called a Conservative Libertarian. Probably not a pure Libertarian, but a Barry Goldwater Conservative whose politics is built around government should mind their own…

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Newsmax: Video: The Steve Salzberg Show- Ira Stoll: Author of JFK Conservative

Newsmax: Video: The Steve Salzberg Show- Ira Stoll: Author of JFK Conservative

Source:Newsmax– Ira Stoll talking to Steve Salzberg about his book. Source:The New Democrat “And former vice president and managing editor of the New York Sun Author of the new provocative book “JFK: Conservative.” From Newsmax I wrote a couple of blog post last week why Jack Kennedy would not only be a Democrat but a loyal Democrat, a good Democrat and even a Liberal Democrat and he’s a big…

[gorskon]

The World Health Organization: Embracing traditional Chinese medicine pseudoscience in ICD-11

The World Health Organization: Embracing traditional Chinese medicine pseudoscience in ICD-11

I debated about whether or not to write about this, given that I’ve covered the topic in a fair amount of detail before around six months ago. However, after seeing this topic pop up on Twitter and be mentioned by Steve Novella, Steve Salzberg, and Edzard Ernst, I figured it was worth a mention again in order to provide you, my readers, with the latest update, albeit a few days later than I…

[gorskon]

Charlie Goldsmith: A new celebrity quack arises, enabled by TLC

Charlie Goldsmith: A new celebrity quack arises, enabled by TLC

Oh, Forbes, home to quite a few bloggers I respect, like Steve Salzberg, Peter Lipson, Britt Hermes, and several others, why do you do this to me? Sure, not all Forbes bloggers are great. There are even a few, particularly a couple of the tech bloggers (I’m talking to you, Ewan Spence, in particular) who are awful. Rarely, however, have I seen a post as riddled with pseudoscience as this one on…

[darrellgurney]

“Intention leads to behaviors which lead to habits which lead to personality development which leads to destiny.”

-Jack Kornfield

Many great and creative minds say it’s all about intention.

“Our intention creates our reality.” -Wayne Dyer

  “Let the power of intention lead the way.”

-Sharon Salzberg

  “All that counts in life is intention.” – Andrea Bocelli

  “A good intention clothes itself with sudden power.”

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

And many also say a good intention and $1.85 will get you a cup of coffee.

“Many of our intentions die after we have put their harness on.” -Henry S. Haskins

  “Men with good intentions make promises. Men with good character keep them.” -Ronald Oliver

  “It’s not intentions that matter. It’s actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.” -Kristin Hannah

  “There is always a gap between intention and action.” -Paulo Coelho

For those who haven’t already resigned themselves to no possibility (which many have, whom we can’t reach anyway), we can wax eloquently on the potential for our lives, careers, dreams and purposes for being on the planet.

Yet, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary question, the unasking of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

“Will you really? But really really??”

Often the closer we actually get to a dream’s or goal’s fulfillment, the more a myriad of forces come alive to make that last yard truly the longest. It’s far easier to talk about the goal “one day” being realized than to close in on it, see beneath and beyond the mental and subconscious tricksters that come to bargain us away, and actually get it done.

Steven Pressfield addresses these sly forces in “The War of Art”, classifying them all as “resistance”. They show up in what’s commonly known as “the fear of success” in forms such as perfectionism, doubt, distractibility, irritability, confusion, procrastination, etc.

In The Back Forty, with a lifetime of making and unfulfilling on so many intentions already, it requires a real leaving of the past in the past to get up the courage to again intend with a vengeance.

That’s why we’re here in this journey together. We look at the past as simply R & D, research and development, for who we came here to be and what we came here to do. So, any intention play we’ve done before was simply practice, not carving our inability into stone.

Here are 4 ways to up your practice of Active Re-Intention in your second half/best half of life.

Clean Up

You don’t want to put icing on a cake of poop, so first get real, down and dirty about where you’ve spoken bold intentions before…and didn’t git ‘er done.

You might make a list for yourself and then ritualize the letting go of that past pattern by burning it. Or, you might check in with people who knew you when you were playing big for something and then saw you disappear.

People are forgiving, and we all love redemption stories. However, with yourself or others, cleaning up the mess from previous intentional misfires can help you listen to your Self with fresh ears.

Buck Up

Get your bold on…with measured sobriety.  Be willing to make some big demands on the Self you are now, stake some outrageous claims on your possibilities, and have some unrecognizable declarations pass your lips.  

Then ask people if you’re crazy, or if it can be done.

For those who say you’re crazy, ask them why. For those who say it can be done, ask them specifically how and why.

Measure the responses, then ask those you trust to measure the responses, and choose your friends wisely. Your producing the result in the face of no agreement is always possible, and yet your ability to enroll others in your intention and have a world pulling for you and holding you to account is a more powerful approach.

Buddy Up

Don’t do it alone, yet again, just like you’ve always done, with your Lone Ranger, maverick, Rebel Without a Cause, self-made man/woman, “I’ve got this” false confidence.

Get a buddy. Commit to specifics and by whens. Put your ass on the line. Agree to pay money if you don’t meet your milestones. Give yourself big rewards when you do.

The greatest single key to delivering on your intention is having someone to be accountable to beyond yourself.

Show Up

For your Self. Use your buddy and your commitments to them (and your Self) to let this be the time you actually did what you said you’d do by the time you said you’d do it.

There’s so many forces that will come up here to slow you down, turn your head to one side or the other, or convince you it wasn’t a smart or worthy idea in the first place.

Go Nike on yourself.  Just do it. Take the actions required by the intentions. Again, and again. And when you don’t, go back to Clean Up and start all over.

“Take action! An inch of movement will bring you closer to your goals than a mile of intention.” -Dr. Steve Maraboli