What better way to learn to speed read than by reading personal development?

I use Spreeder to help me read (currently set at 400wpm) and Steve Pavlina for nice juicy articles. I have already read most of his “best of section”; in the time it would have taken me to read 3 articles. Steve posts some great stuff… and speed reading his stuff makes it ( Read more... )

My favorite quote in Buddhism comes from a line in the metta sutta:

Not over busy let him be simple in living.

Read on for the whole sutta:

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Your mind is a living magnet. You automatically draw people, things and circumstances into your life that are in harmony with your dominant thoughts and desires. Every person, all the animals in your life and every object you have are here because you have chose to draw them here.

-David Wolfe in The Raw Food Diet Success System p. 397

Adyashanti

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1. Cacao Beans


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You have decided to go to college and you have decided to finish, all good choices. Below are some tips to help you graduate as soon as possible.
1. Figure out why you are actually in college.

To graduate from college early you must have an intense desire to finish. The more intense your desire to finish early the better the chances of you ( Read more... )

“People who are cocky and arrogant say, ‘I know that’ and move along. People who are confident and positive ask themselves, ‘How good am I at that?’ and seek to improve.” -Jeffrey Gitomer from Little Gold Book of YES!

I want to talk a little bit of what it feels like to be a raw foodist.
Definition of raw food

Simply, A raw foodist is someone who does not eat food heated over 115 F. So basically a raw foodist does not cook his/her food, and a vegan is someone who does not eat animal products of any kind.
What it feels like to be a raw foodist

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“All that man achieves, and all that he fails to achieve is a direct result of his own thoughts.” -James Allen from As A Man Thinketh
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Nothing is possible without a positive attitude. Nothing. If you don’t believe that you can do something, then you probably won’t. Its rather simple; everything that has ever been accomplished, ever, has started as a thought. Every single building, bridge, house, computer, or whatever, was first a thought in someone’s mind. With a positive attitude ( Read more... )