tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post2723065749840755586..comments2024-03-21T10:28:19.320-07:00Comments on Panel Discussion: Success Comes in CansAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-5618110485114194772009-01-17T06:23:00.000-08:002009-01-17T06:23:00.000-08:00What a great lesson! (Who ate all the soup?) I wis...What a great lesson! (Who ate all the soup?) I wish I would have thought of it many years ago. Everybody needs a "magic can."Paul Bozzohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09127028803653820935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-21109714128887070012009-01-15T14:33:00.000-08:002009-01-15T14:33:00.000-08:00Grant,I wouldn't say it's off topic. In our cultur...Grant,<BR/><BR/>I wouldn't say it's off topic. In our culture we tend to make a dichotomy out of mind and spirit, which I don't think is meant to be. I enjoyed watching the video. My favorite Bible teacher is Joyce Meyer, who has some great teachings on how "words are containers of power". It's very biblical, and these great thinkers and divinely inspired people, though they did not have access to recent brain research -- have offered guidelines for living that are really "brain based".Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-60165454214373764642009-01-15T11:29:00.000-08:002009-01-15T11:29:00.000-08:00Please don't apologize! I enjoy your contributions...Please don't apologize! I enjoy your contributions to the discussion -- which is what this site is all about!<BR/><BR/>:)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-91925933446804089782009-01-15T11:22:00.000-08:002009-01-15T11:22:00.000-08:00Haha! Thanks Andy. Sometimes I get carried away an...Haha! Thanks Andy. Sometimes I get carried away and realize, only after clicking "Publish Your Comment," that's I've written a novella on your post :-/<BR/><BR/>We really try to relish in the simplicity of our lives, because we know it can only get more complicated from here :-)Ben Villarrealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06988256305990891816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-61519591426064608762009-01-15T08:55:00.000-08:002009-01-15T08:55:00.000-08:00This may sound WAY off topic, but there's an inter...This may sound WAY off topic, but there's an interesting youtube video of an Orthodox priest talking about prayer, addiction and brain chemistry that fits with what you're talking about here. (The main idea is about the 1:45 mark)<BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUrvObw53bwAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09976783554909536532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-86365630899513713742009-01-14T15:43:00.000-08:002009-01-14T15:43:00.000-08:00Ben, Great story! -- and a testimony to the power ...Ben,<BR/> <BR/>Great story! -- and a testimony to the power of setting goals. Ah, the life of a young married couple recently employed. Someday you'll really laugh about the days you lived in a tile puzzle apartment and watched a green tv!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00423051076809524563noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4556099904449725980.post-86243944442197366532009-01-14T13:05:00.000-08:002009-01-14T13:05:00.000-08:00There's definitely something to this. Around New Y...There's definitely something to this. Around New Years, as my wife and I were rearranging the furniture in our tiny apartment (seriously, it was like one of the tile puzzles where one square's missing and you move the rest around until you make a picture) and we found a list priorities we'd set for ourselves the New Years before--I say "found," but really it had just been magnetically hung on a cupboard door.<BR/><BR/>While the majority of things were like, "Pay such-and-such bill off," or "Only eat out once every other week," at the bottom we listed the guilty pleasures we wanted: a new TV (the old one was displaying green picture), a new laptop for my wife with design software so she wouldn't have to "live" in the campus editing lab, a dog, a PlayStation, and a new microwave.<BR/><BR/>When we looked over it, we suddenly realized that we'd accomplished almost everything on that list (the bills did get paid off, we managed to save a lot of money, and we got almost all of our little "happies"--sadly, still no dog). I never really thought about it until reading your post, but that list was someplace I looked every day--to get my morning cereal, a can of green beans, etc. And I think seeing those goals, even subconsciously, is what made them obtainable.<BR/><BR/>Shortly after "finding" said list and "realizing" our accomplishments, we made one for 2009 :-)Ben Villarrealhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06988256305990891816noreply@blogger.com