What do you get when you have a friendly 3-year goldendoodle, thousands of people running, and an electric fence with no power? The perfect conditions for Dozer the Dog to join a Half-Marathon race already in progress!
It seems Dozer saw all these people running by his house so he decided to join them and ended up running a half-marathon, unbeknownst to his family! He also raised over $24,000 for the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center in the process.
Richard St. John presents the 8 secrets to success in a 3-minute slideshow and talk at TED. The secrets are based on the answers from 500 interviews over 7 years.
“Peace begins with a smile.”
- Mother Teresa
Using brain scans and heart monitors researchers in Britain were able to assess the value of a smile. They found that: Continue reading
At first I thought, if I write about the rioting that happened after the Canucks hockey game then I’m giving attention to the perpetrators – something they likely crave. But then I thought, what about the citizens who tried to intervene or those who descended on downtown Vancouver the next morning to clean up the mess? Those people deserve to be recognized.
“I must do something” always solves more problems than “Something must be done.”
~ Author Unknown
Obviously, the two guys who tried to stop people from breaking the windows at the Bay and the man who tried to stop a group from breaking into Sears embodied the above quote. As did the people who protected bystanders who were injured. Continue reading
“In life you need either inspiration or desperation.”
- Anthony Robbins
You’ve likely heard the rags to riches stories about people who had no money, no idea of how to make ends meet, were facing eviction, and had a family to feed. Yet they used that feeling of desperation to propel themselves to success.
There are also stories of people who were inspired to change their life as a result of seeing the lifestyle or dream career that someone else created.
If the world were to disappear tomorrow, can you honestly say you lived life exactly how you wanted to?
If you were given a second chance, would you change anything? Would you dream a different dream? Take more chances or less? Continue reading
