Prayer of the Meyers-Briggs Types

This is pretty funny and unfortunately very true.

http://www.bouldertherapist.com/html/humor/MentalHealthHumor/prayermyersbriggs.html

Video - kids and finger biting

Saw this on Erin's blog and thought I'd share. So cute.

Video - Why Email was Invented

Quote - Design

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

--Douglas Adams

Quote - Taking a personal break

"Rest when you're tired. Take a drink of cold water when you're thirsty. Call a friend when you're lonely. Ask God to help when you feel overwhelmed. Many of us have learned how to deprive and neglect ourselves. Many of us have learned to push ourselves hard, when the problem is that we're already pushed too hard. Many of us are afraid the work won't get done if we rest when we're tired. The work will get done; it will be done better than work that emerges from tiredness of soul and spirit. Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe. They are well-timed, efficient, and divinely led."


From The Language of Letting Go, Melody Beattie

Video - Mayo Clinic Piano Playing

Arlington, VA - The Rap

This, my friends, is hilarious because it is true.

Glass Half Full?

A quote on a friend's Facebook page:

Optimists see the glass as half-full.
Pessimists see the glass as half-empty.
I see the glass twice as big as it needs to be.

Quote - Service

The Spirit of Service “If I'm attentive to what's going on inside of me when I'm helping, 1 find that I'm always helping someone who's not as strong as 1 am, who is needier than 1 am. People feel this inequality. When we help we inadvertently take away from people more than we could ever give them; we may diminish their self-esteem, their sense of worth, integrity and wholeness. When 1 help 1 am very aware of my own strength. But we don't serve with our strength, we serve with ourselves. . . .Helping incurs debt. When you help someone they owe you one. But serving, like healing, is mutual. There is no debt. 1 am as served as the person 1 am serving. When 1 help 1 have a feeling of satisfaction. When 1 serve 1 have a feeling of gratitude.”
"Serving is also very different from fixing. When 1 fix a person 1 perceive them as broken, and their brokenness requires me to act. When 1 fix 1 do not see the wholeness in the other person or trust the integrity of the life in them. When 1 serve 1 see and trust that wholeness.. .Fixing is a form of judgment. All judgment creates distance, a disconnection, an experience of difference.. .We can only serve that to which we are profoundly connected, that which we are willing to touch. This is Mother Teresa's basic message. We serve life not because it is broken but because it is holy.

"I think 1 would go so far as to say that fixing and helping may often be the work of the ego, and service the work of the soul. They may look similar if you're watching from the outside, but the inner experience is different. The outcome is often different too.. .Lastly, fixing and helping are the basis of curing, but not of healing.. .Only service heals."

"In the Service of Life, " Rachel Naomi Remen, Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco

Quote - Best and Brightest

Quote on an email signature:

..saying "we're going to hire the best and the brightest" is the policy equivalent of saying "I would like a pony." -- Alyssa Rosenberg