What the heck is kombucha?

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Surviving Whole Foods

ROFL.

My Mom ate white bread, cooked with real fat and would have probably assumed that a place with the name Whole Foods was a farm stand. And while she was a little bit nuts when she died at the young age of 92, we’d be lucky to be half as healthy as she was. I seriously doubt she ever tasted whole wheat bread, much less a substitute for it. I do remember she once bought a jar of Oil of Olay, but gave it away something like 10 years later unused. And if you dared to Namaste her, she’d probably be tempted to smack you for sassing.

Trying to make the world a better place…

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I challenge all my friends and followers:

  1. In the next 24 hours, I want you to bestow some random act of kindness to a total stranger or someone you don’t know well.
  2. Ask all your friends to do the same.
  3. When you’re done, reply to this post… not with what you did or who you did it for, but how it made you feel.

Go ahead… I dare you!

If you want to know what respect looks like, this is as good as it gets

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High school basketball player passes ball to mentally challenged player on the other team

If all of our coaches, teachers and parents showed the same level of leadership, commitment and high moral standards as those who played a part in shaping the values of the young people in this video, I don’t think we’d have to worry nearly as much about gun violence, gangs, drugs or a hundred other things that affect the adults our children become.

… like Mitchell’s coach who was 110% committed to placing the morale of one student above winning.

… like Mitchell’s parents who have obviously supported him and refused to allow his limitations to get in the way of him leading a full, productive and happy life.

… like the parents of those students who immediately and without reservation started to cheer for Mitchell the moment he took to the basketball coach.

… and like the parents of that young man from the opposing team who seized an opportunity to do something really wonderful for another human being.

“11 Simple Concepts to Become a Better Leader”

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That was the title of a great article I recently read on LinkedIn. After reading it, I rather think it should have been titled 11 Steps to Become a Better Person.

You can read the whole post, or sit back and let yourself be transformed by these awesome quotes:

“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world today.”
– Robert McAfee Brown

“I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I’ve become. If I had, I’d have done it a lot earlier.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.”
– John Whittier

“Individuals play the game, but teams beat the odds.”
– SEAL Team Saying

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.”
– Charles Swindoll

“When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.”
– Ben Franklin

“The only way to do great work is to love the work you do.”
– Steve Jobs

“A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.”
– Charles de Gaulle

“Less isn’t more; just enough is more.”
– Milton Glaser

“I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”
– Gilbert Chesterton