TEDTalks

Try Something new for 30 days

Small changes are attainable. Is there something you’ve always meant to do, wanted to do, but just … haven’t? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals. Something this author can attest that actually works. For the past 60 days I have been making my own journey . It started as my personal challenge but guess what it has become part of what I do …. I exercise 1 hour a day 6 days a week. Its taken me years of sloth to arrive at this point and all those excuses of not being able to find time, fit it in to my life or even sustain it have melted away. Hey guess what? I found after 30 days its do-able, I love it, and what’s more the added benefit is that I have lost 18 pounds to date!

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Break the silence for suicide survivors

Even when our lives appear fine from the outside, locked within can be a world of quiet suffering, leading some to the decision to end their life. At TEDYou, JD Schramm asks us to break the silence surrounding suicide and suicide attempts, and to create much-needed resources to help people who reclaim their life after escaping death. Resources: http://t.co/wsNrY9C 


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The 3 A’s of Awesome

Watch this inspirational and humorous video from Neil Pasricha who uses the power of blogging to spread a little optimism each day about the awesome things that make life worth living. I love it! Raindrop on roses and whiskers on kittens…… This is a great presentation and Neil nails what’s important, yes—- we only have one life to live. Look around you, savour and value what is truly awesome!

Neil Pasricha never imagined that writing about the smell of gasoline, thinking it’s Thursday when it’s really Friday, or wearing underwear just out of the dryer would amount to anything. A self-described “average guy” with a typical 9-to-5 job in the suburbs, Neil started his blog 1000 Awesome Things, as a small reminder — in a world of rising sea levels, global conflict, and a troubled economy — of the free, easy little joys that make life sweet.
Neil Pasricha

He certainly didn’t anticipate that his site would gain a readership of millions of people, win two Webby Awards (“the Internet’s highest honor” according to The New York Times), be named one of PC Magazine’s Top 100 Sites On the Internet, or become a place where people from around the world would come to celebrate the simple pleasures of daily life. His just released first book The Book of Awesome has become a #1 International Bestseller and The Book of Awesome 2 comes out in Spring, 2011.

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