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Many of you may have wondered where I've been, and I've been busy reading and collecting links to great ecology, green, and health blogs and sites. Today I want to share some of my linky love with some of the ecology and green sites I've discovered plus a video from Viropop.

I subscribe to most of these, so you can imagine the reading that comes my way every week!

Here are some of my fav's:

Ideal Bite

Gaia

Eco Salon

Earth 911

Ecofriend


Earth Cinema Circle


Earthday

I love taking that Real Age test. It is just amazing to see how many years you can literally take off or add on to your life just by the foods you eat and the lifestyle that you choose to lead…meaning smoking, drinking…. This is a great eye opening test that I think everyone should...

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Music is a great way to make your mood better…at least for me. When I have tedious chores to do listening to my iPod just makes things somehow better and it also makes the time go by a lot quicker. And when I am in a bad music sometimes just listening to nice [...]

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Go out to the local nursery and get yourself some shrubbery and trees to plant. It is a great way to make sure that you are breathing in clean and healthier air. And keep some in your home as well. And if you do live in an area that is high [...]

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I think prevention is key no matter what you are talking about…whether it is to prevent illness or disease or to prevent further frustration and sometimes just taking a little time to do a little reading up on things and research is something that can help prevent things. GetISP is a great...

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Did you know that it has been proven that people who floss live longer. It could be because people that floss are more health conscious but I truly believe that you teeth and your nails cay a lot for your over all health. And not to mention that it is just better [...]

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Considering that the theme of this website is Practical Personal Development, the title Quit Trying To Become A Better Person may come as a bit of a shock to you. This site has been a bit of a journal for my personal development endeavors over the past year and a half — you may be thinking, why quit now?

I’m not exactly quiting, I’m simply reinventing some definitions and making distinctions as to what life means. If you remember, the first of 5 ways to maximize your mind to achieve your goals, is to define what you want. Below you will find my mission statement, with character traits that I want to be, not traits that I want to become.

The truth is that trying to become a better person has the dangerous potential of leading to unhappiness. Happiness is important to all people, and after I conducted the Happiness Project I created what I think is an excellent definition of what Happiness means.

“Happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.”
~Alex Shalman

Why can trying to become a better person lead to unhappiness? If you want to be optimistic for example, you just want, you aren’t being. If you act virtuous, you aren’t virtuous, you’re just acting the role. What if for a moment you believed that it was possible to just be the best you that you could be right now? Sure you might be a better version of you in the future, but all we have right now is — now — and we can choose to be the best version of us.

I have been reading and re-reading my mission statement below for a couple of years. This is who I am, with no doubt about it in my mind. Have there been times in my life where I have not acted in accordance to this mission statement? Of course! I’m far from flawless in that respect, but whenever I catch myself, or someone calls me out on it, I get myself right back to who I am.

My Mission Statement

1. I am an outstanding human being in every respect
2. I am honest, kind, loving, loyal and true - to my family, friends and everyone who knows me
3. I am a positive, optimistic, confident, warm, friendly person who is admired and respected by everyone
4. I am an excellent parent (when I have kids), a fine employer and I do my work in an upstanding fashion every time
5. I uplift, encourage and inspire everyone I meet - everywhere I go
6. The possibility that I have created for myself and my life is the possibility of being someone who operates with the greatest good of all in mind, and the possibility of living in the present.

The mission statement focuses on character traits in the present tense. I chose the tense very carefully here. If I had used future tense I would always be trying to become an outstanding person. By using the present tense, I allow myself to be outstanding — right now.

How does this fit in with constant and never ending improvement? For me, part of being the best me that I can be, is improving on different areas of my life — daily. In fact, it’s the only hope of ever achieving the greatest day of our life. If I want to run a mile at a certain speed that is faster than I’m physically capable of running today, I will have to train and improve daily in order to reach my goal. However, if I want to be kind and compassionate, I merely have to create that possibility for my life and transform.

Create A Possibility

Create a possibility for your life. Copy/paste the following sentence into the comments section and fill in the blank. Once you share it with us, go ahead and write down the possibility on a piece of paper and index card and carry it with you daily.

The possibility that I have created for myself and my life is the possibility of being ____.

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