the goode life

The Most Expensive iPhone

Most iPhones already come complete with so many bells and whistles (not to mention all the apps you can download) what more could you possibly want?  How about gold and diamonds?

This iPhone is worth about $3.2million dollars; for that you get 271 grams of 22-karat gold and 136 flawless diamonds.  Other than that it's still a regular iPhone.  Who would want such a phone and why?  Because I don't know anyone who hasn't lost a cellphone at least once :).  My brother-in-law used to work for the airlines, he had a box at work full of cellphones, PDAs, iPods, Blackberries, etc....that people would leave on the planes.  Can you imagine accidentally leaving this one!!

I foresee cellphones following in the footsteps of cameras. They are going to become faster, better, and cheaper much like our disposable digital cameras you can get in a cardboard box.  Not that throwaway cameras are goode......

I'm gonna file this one under not goode

(Source: NY Daily News)

Afrigadget

At first I wanted to post one or two things I had discovered on this site, but it was too hard to narrow it down.  So I'm going to suggest you visit the site and peruse it yourself.

Afrigadget is a website that focuses on ways people in Africa have used ingenuity to solve everyday problems.  It's both innovative and inspiring at the same time!

Book Excerpt- All That You Are

This is an excerpt from a book by Lauren Benatar titled, All That You Are.  Normally I am not a fan of the "self-help guru" style of writing (I prefer my teachings directly from the Source), but the few passages I read from the Snoedel/Moore Life website really struck a cord in me.  This one in particular:

There was an absolute void, an emptiness. I knew how to play the mass consciousness, consensus-reality game of earning and doing and struggling and accumulating more stuff and doing the right thing according to society’s norms. But that game was old and I was bored stiff. In the midst of this emptiness and frustration, I wrote the following:

‘I am bored with how we have constructed this world.
I am bored with the stupid men ruling the world, making such
a mess, and doing the same things again and again with the
same ridiculous outcomes.
I am bored with the way we give our power to the media, to
brands and to celebrity.
I am bored with the way we think.
I am bored with the fact that we use less than 10 percent of
our consciousness and think that what we see is what there is.
I am bored with people saying: “That’s how life is.”

 

I am bored with our religions that are so outdated.
I am bored with us not challenging society’s norms in our
ridiculous quest to belong.
I am bored with the huge divide between rich and poor.
I am bored with our silly conviction that we need to keep
struggling, that we need to compete.
I am bored with us pretending that we are separate from
one another.
I am bored of us being scared of rejection, of not fitting in,
of physical danger.
I am bored with the conditional relationships we
have created.
I am bored with the stupid way we treat the Earth.
I am bored with the way we work ourselves to death, trying
to keep ourselves safe and secure. It’s time to move on…

I want to play a new game.
I want us to play a different game, a game where we
remember who we really are.
I want us to remember that this is all a game and we are
multidimensional beings who can transcend time and space.
I want us to reach for higher relationships based on self-love,
not self-loathing.
I want us to bring the Goddess onto the game board where
she can join God to show us how we can join our feminine
and masculine in an equal partnership.
I want work to be an expression of our passion and joy rather
than a means of survival.
I want us to understand that we are part of the source of
universal abundance so that we can receive whatever we want.

I want to remember that I am God Also.'

EPA's Green Question of the Week

What does "environmental protection" mean to you?

EPA was established on December 2, 1970 and since then the nation has made enormous strides in protecting the environment. But every day, we all make individual choices that can affect the environment. One of Administrator Jackson's priorities is broadening the definition of "environmentalism."  Share your thoughts about what it means to you.

Share your answer: http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2009/11/30/qotw-environmental-protection

What to do with all the Thanksgiving leftovers?

Most people generate more trash than normal during the holidays.  In fact, the volume of household waste in the United States generally increases 25 percent between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day – that’s about 1 million extra tons.

Did you know that food waste accounts for 18% of municipal solid waste sent to landfills?  More than 30 million tons of food waste is sent to the landfills each year. In the U.S., less than 3% of food waste is being diverted from landfills. There are lots of easy and effective ways to minimize holiday waste.  Here are five holiday tips anyone can employ to reduce their impact on the environment this Thanksgiving:  

Tip #1:  Have a plan!  If you don't know how much turkey or potatoes you need to feed all of your guests, find out!  You can help reduce food waste by only cooking at much as you’ll need. There are lots of tools on-line to help with this, one free calculation tool is available at: www.lovefoodhatewaste.com/perfect_portions

Tip #2:  Eat your leftovers!  This one may seem obvious, but lots of leftovers wind up in a landfill.  Instead of throwing away your excess food, make a delicious snack or meal out of your Thanksgiving Day leftovers!

Tip #3:  Compost your food waste! If you don't have a food collection system in your neighborhood, you can start your own compost pile. Find out how at: http://www.epa.gov/osw/conserve/rrr/composting/by_compost.htm

Tip #4:  Use food waste as a resource! Compost it to make a natural fertilizer. Or anaerobically digest it to create energy!

Tip # 5:  Give Back!  Find a local non-profit agency to donate your excess food to.  Not only will you be making a huge difference for someone in need, you’ll also help divert waste from a local landfill.

(Source:  the US-EPA)

Abraham Daily Quote

A very good career choice would be to gravitate toward those activities and to embrace those desires that harmonize with your core intentions, which are freedom and growth—and joy. Make a "career" of living a happy life rather than trying to find work that will produce enough income that you can do things with your money that will then make you happy. When feeling happy is of paramount importance to you—and what you do "for a living" makes you happy—you have found the best of all combinations. --- Abraham 

Excerpted from the book "Money and the Law of Attraction: Learning to Attract Health, Wealth and Happiness" #274

Our Love,

Jerry and Esther

Blessings for all

God said:

With greater power must come greater consideration for others. As your power in the relative and spiritual worlds grows, the more it is necessary for you to let go of ego and become the servant of life. The higher you go, the humbler you will be. You may have thought it would be otherwise. You may have looked for greater power for yourself, and now you learn that the king must be more considerate than the man who sweeps the streets. The king who serves must serve his kingdom. The whole world is his kingdom.

The king must think beyond boundaries, or he is not a king. He is something else, an amasser, perhaps, or one who seals the fates of others, thumbs up or thumbs down, perhaps, or one who is never satisfied with the jurisdiction he has, perhaps. Who would want to be a dissatisfied king?   
 
The king must know the arena he is in now. He has to learn his role in the happiness of others.
 
This applies to the man who may be king of his own home, or the mayor of a city.
 
As a matter of fact, this applies to everyone on Earth. Everyone is to serve and serve with the utmost consideration. Kindness must be delivered, and kindness must be served. This is how you serve the Universe, and how you serve Me.
 
You would never be ruthless, yet there are moments in life when you have forgotten the place another must hold in your heart. You have perhaps walked over another’s heart and thought it your due. Your due is not to rule. Your due is not to overrule another’s heart. Your due is not to stir the waters but to calm them. Your due is to serve, beloveds.
 
As a matter of fact, your due is to be as much like Me as possible at any particular moment. Then, beloveds, you are being yourself. Being yourself is being without ego. I hold you in reverence, and I ask you to hold all My children in reverence. One life is precious. Every life is precious. All life is precious. And so you are to be very careful about where you step. Others’ feelings are not to be walked on..
 
Do not make yourself an instructor of others. Instruct yourself. Be what you desire others to be. Be a leader and not a commander. Silence your tongue more than you wag it.
 
The more you serve in the world, the more free you become. Remember, beloveds, that you are serving Me in all you do. Serving Me is receiving. It is giving yourself a blessing. I ask you to be a blessing to all. Imagine that you have a wand that bestows blessings, and you dub everyone with your wand. You are an emblem of Me, and so you think of others, not to the extinction of yourself but to the enrichment of all.
 
Emblazon Me in the world by your consideration of others, who are, after all, yourself.
 
In terms of considerateness, you act in My place. You have the opportunity to represent Greatness. Take it. Why would you ever think of representing anything less? Why would you ever want to represent a hood on the street or any one or anything that is less than the God I AM?.
 

I give you power. I give you great power. I ask you to use that power kindly and wisely, not for your sense of power, but for the blessings you give straight from Me. Strew love, beloveds. Strew love.

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Love and Gratitude

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. - John F. Kennedy - Happy Thanksgiving!

  Dr. Emoto's water crystal of love and gratitude

Learn Something Everyday!

Learn Something Everyday

Give Thanks

Cultivating gratitude can boost well-being—and may help you sleep better.

By Jill Duman

Gratitude is a fundamental component of most spiritual paths, and a growing body of research suggests that it has important health implications, too, including better sleep, fewer physical ailments, and a greater ability to cope with stressful situations.

"Gratitude elevates, it energizes, it inspires, it transforms," says Robert Emmons, a University of California, Davis, psychology professor who has helped champion the study of gratitude as a factor in mental and physical health. A series of studies he conducted in 2003 found that people who kept weekly written records of gratitude slept longer, exercised more frequently, had fewer health complaints, and generally felt better about their lives when compared with those who were asked to record only their complaints. In another study, he found that students who wrote in gratitude journals felt more satisfied with their lives and their school experience.

Practicing conscious gratitude has also been linked with positive mental health. Todd Kashdan, associate professor of psychology at Virginia's George Mason University, found that when veterans with posttraumatic stress dis-order kept gratitude journals, they experienced a greater sense of overall well-being in their lives. "There are two parts of being grateful," Kashdan says. "One is recognizing that someone benefited in some way, then mindfully seeing the connection to yourself. You have to really be in the present to see what's happening in your life, what's causing things to happen, and how you fit into things bigger than yourself."

A gratitude practice is a natural companion to yoga, which "offers numerous opportunities to reflect on all there is in one's life to be grateful for," says Emmons. To begin consciously cultivating gratitude, try considering what life would be like without a pleasure you now enjoy, or think about who you are grateful for. A daily gratitude journal can help you be more mindful of these things in your life. But your gratitude practice doesn't have to be scripted: Simply taking time on a regular basis to mentally note your blessings is a big step in the right direction.

This article is from the Yoga Journal newsletter.