Cool Links...

Have been cruising through links and such the last few days... here are a few worth sharing.
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Replay of 1930?!?!?
Econbrowser: Replay of 1930?

34% of workers have 1 week or less in savings right now
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2009/08/34-percent-of-workers-have-one-week-or.html

Retail feeling the hurt...
Brands Go Overboard to Attract Customers - Fashion Markets News - WWD.com

Five Myths about Health Care around the world.
By T.R. Reid -- Five Myths About Health Care in the Rest of the World

False signs of Recovery???
Boom and burst: Don’t be fooled by false signs of economic recovery. It’s just the lull before the storm | The Big Picture

The 3 key parts of newstories we usually don't get...
The 3 key parts of news stories you usually don’t get at Newsless.org

Best Websites of 2009... really liked this one. Check these sites out.
Full List - 50 Best Websites 2009 - TIME

The mistakes we make and why we make them (investing), applies to other stuff as well.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970204313604574326223160094150.html#mod=todays_us_the_journal_report

Self Worth, Positivity and State of Mind

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So it is Sunday morning at about 7am and I'm sitting here listening to Coldplay (green eyes)- ya that concert a few weeks ago really kicked some butt. I can't wait to watch Tiger rampage the course in the PGA Championship later today as well. It's been a while since I've written something useful ...so I might as well go for it.

So I was reading a couple self- help books/articles in the past while and found what they had to say really interesting and of course it got me thinking. I actually found myself agreeing with most of it.

So the articles were essentially saying that your place in life (economic/social) is determined by your state of mind and self-worth. A couple examples, if you grew up with less in your life you may believe that is what you actually deserve and sabotage the positive things that you achieve. Thinking subconsciously you don't deserve these things in your life. Happiness, success, wealth!?!? So rather then trying to achieve the life you deserve, you end up sabotaging the positive things in your life or the cool life you already have/or could obtain.

I think it boils down to self- worth/confidence, if we value the person that we are or want to become then we will always strive to be a better person. It means thinking you deserve the best for yourself. And before anyone jumps the gun on that one ... I think the best for yourself is a realistic perception of the things/people/status you want in your life, rather then the crazed glamour & glitz version of life that the media portrays of a successful life on a daily basis. All that is really important is lifelong happiness, whatever that may be for the individual person.

Some people are really good at bringing out the best in themselves/other people and achieving their goals in a short span of time, other people take longer to find out who they really are and what they want. But both roads go to the same destination in the end. I for one belong in that latter group, I've always had multiple talents but could never figure out which direction to lean, even now I'm not fully where I need/want to be yet... but that is Okkkkkay.

Achieving your desires in life I view as more of an evolutionary process rather then a snap my fingers and it will happen now type approach. Lets put it this way, if I was already where I wanted to be... then I would have missed out on all the life lessons I've been taught/or rather that have been thrown in my direction. These lessons from other people/experiences have helped me to become a stronger person with more conviction and belief in my self then I've had at any point in my life, so YES life lessons are a really good thing believe it or not.

Hmmm how does it feel right now? It feels like you really want something, you are pretty sure you can achieve it and think you want to share it with people. But in order to do this, your head needs to be in the right place, you must build yourself into the person that can achieve those things, even if that means sacrificing things that would give you great pleasure at the present moment. I think that everyone feels this at some point.

So yes, I must agree with those articles saying that your self-worth/the way you value yourself, and your state of mind impact what you shall achieve in life or your level of happiness. And yes I still believe that a big aspect of achieving and weeding out those negative aspects in your life can be done by just flat out thinking positively. If you can find the positive in even the worst/most tragic moments in your life, imagine the internal strength you could muster to achieve the things you want the most (socially, financially, emotionally). I spoke about this in detail here and it is worth a read: http://wordonthestreetto.blogspot.com/2009/05/power-of-positivity.html. I'm a big believer that we all have the capacity to think/do/create amazing things, it just comes down to if we decide to fully apply ourselves or not and can create the right physical/mental environment to achieve results.

Dumbest Thing I've ever done....

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Ok... so was just talking to someone yesterday and I remember the dumbest thing that I've ever done, well at least that I'm going to share. Thought it would be worth the entertainment...Here goes....

So I wake up when I lived in an apartment a while back and I usually have cereal for breakfast. However the night before I had turned the temperature down in the fridge cause I thought that it was warm. This morning however... I opened the fridge and it was extremely cold.

I got the milk out for my cereal and I noticed that the milk had become like a slushy- packed with ice. I was in a complete rush for work so I thought what to do. I was like well I cold put it into the microwave but I figured that wouldn't be such a good idea!

So I decided that what I would do is turn on the stove....the burners (the big one) and turn it to max. I then got a cookie sheet cause i was thinking well how am I going to make my milk thaw in a hurry. I put the cookie sheet on the burner and then got the milk. I didn't take the bag out of the plastic container though- good thing. I put the plastic container on top of the cookie sheet which was on the stove and went back to my computer for 5 minutes. By this point the entire apartment was smoking and I was panicked. I ran to the kitchen to see what the problem was...

Imagine this.... the cookies sheet that was on the burner was smoking up badly. I took the slightly melted milk container off the cookie sheet/burner and I was so panicked that I threw the cookie sheet onto the wood floor (because it was so HOT). Then I went to tend to the melting milk container to realize that the wooden floor was now smoking because the bottom of the cookie sheet was seriously hot and charred with the contents of the stove burner. I ended up creating a large hole in the floor which I had to have repaired.

Lesson learn.... the correct method would have been to just let it sit on the counter and thaw and have it the next morning. But I love doing things the hard way.

Don't try this at home!!!