I just watched a fascinating youtube video about the relationship between work performance and monetary reward. Basically the video shows (with some very entertaining images) how increased monetary reward does NOT actually generate better performance from people in their jobs. Money doesn’t actually motivate us at all to create better things. The video goes on [...]

Stress seems to be caused by worrying about things that already happened or things that haven’t happened yet. Here are some great tricks to stay present and reduce your stress. If you are stressed out about the past realize you did all you could do at the time, what is, is. Give as much weight [...]

I stumbled upon this website today: http://www.spiri2al.com/ – Sharing Spiritual Knowledge. Its like Digg for “Spirutal” posts. Good idea. I’ll be visiting.

Zen Habits has a great post on finding your passion. Here is the quick breakdown: 1. What are you good at? 2. What excites you? 3. What do you read about? 4. What have you secretly dreamed of? 5. Learn, ask, take notes. 6. Experiment, try. 7. Narrow things down. 8. Banish your fears. 9. [...]

Excerpt from an email I worte tonight: …there is more to this world than these material things, there is more to life than a “job,” you know? This culture we live in seems to put a lot of emphasis on what we -do- and not how we -are- how we -be-. We are more than [...]

Long story short Anthony W. has put my blog on his little pixle home page here. And Jim Peters put healingbeats.com on the front page of his SBaGen website, which are all great link builders.