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| Links: (websites I enjoy, nothing really to do with the monthly topics) http://www.howstuffworks.com/ This is an interesting website where you can have fun educating yourself�good website too if you have absolutely nothing to do but want to learn something useful. http://www.bahiker.com/ Excellent website about where to hike around the San Francisco Bay Area. Great description of trails and plenty of pictures. http://www.terragalleria.com This is an excellent website which has beautiful pictures of different places in the world. http://news.bbc.co.uk/ Good website to news events in different parts of the world. |
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| Quotes: As long as we wish for safety, we will have difficulty pursuing what matters. -- Peter Block Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is. -- H. Jackson Browne One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. -- Andre Gide The purpose of quotes on this website is to provoke thought and may or may not be an endorsement of the person being quoted and his or her beliefs. |
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| Question of the month: What is the biggest drawback in living for comfort and security as the main way of life? a) You have little excitement and challenge in your life because you avoid trying anything new or risky. b) You try to stay in your perceived comfort zones, and for the most part, are controlled by the fear of leaving them. c) You realize as much as you desire comfort and security, it's not up to you ultimately to guarantee that you'll have it or that it won't be taken away. d) You wonder how much of your life is really making a difference in a positive way, considering you hate to make personal sacrifices to affect change. e) other drawbacks f) nothing - feels pretty good. |
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| You know you like to play it safe and rarely take risks when: 1) You have a hard time admitting how you feel toward someone you know, and rarely do it. 2) You always examine the potential consequences of any decision you're about to make, and end up trying to avoid making one. 3) You constantly recoil against those who urge you to try something new and risky. 4) You like to be left alone and shy away from personal interaction with others you're not super-familiar with. 5) Your way of resolving conflict is to avoid it as much as possible (and the people involved). 6) You rarely think that maintaining routines is ever boring or too commonplace. 7) Your idea of taking a risk is not locking The Club in your car. 8) You actually prepared pretty well for Y2K a few years back. 9) Your idea of an adventure and challenge is no one's idea of an adventure and challenge. 10) you can't imagine doing something that would be worth dying for. |
| LSC's BASEMENT: For this month, here's another one of my favorites - my favorite drink is lemonade. Click here for recipes and try one or more of them out. ANTI-PET PEEVES: For a growing list of things I really like, click here. ARCHIVES: for website topics from previous months, click here. General Note: just to let you know, I update this website with a new topic around the beginning of each month. |
| Risk: striving for something without safety to fall back on |
| Thanks for checking my website-I hope your summer is going well. This month's topic is the continuation from last month's, questioning the desire for comfort and security, identifying the consequences of living life to be safe and personally undisturbed. Lik-See, 7-15-04 I love to enjoy a relaxed day where nothing or nobody disturbs me so I can enjoy my leisurely activities or hobbies. Something in me says, "Why can't life always be like that?", the nice feeling of a quiet walk in the park or a hike through the woods with nothing but peace and tranquility and quietness....I don't think that's a bad thing, but it may not be the best thing if it takes away other things in life worth striving for. Maybe desiring comfort and security in life becomes a problem when it kills your motivation and will to venture out and pursue something worthy and worthwhile and even risky. It could be a career change, it could be a potentially new relationship or friendship, it could be a vision and plan to impact and benefit those around you and beyond, it could be any big dream from your heart that you never imagined could become reality. Do you remember anytime when you really wanted to do something, e.g., improve yourself in some way or try something new, but you stopped because you were afraid of leaving your comfort zone? And not necessarily the comfort zone of a physical situations, i.e., living in a safe neighborhood or having a stable income, but maybe fearing to leave the comfort zone of not looking stupid or inept, or the comfort zone of avoiding failure and the feeling of disappointment and rejection. Some final questions : can I really achieve and gain anything that is worthy and worthwhile in life without risk (and hurt)? Are there things that exciting and rewarding to pursue and obtain in life that doesn't involve some significant level of risk and the possibility of my perceived comfort and security being taken away? |
| Last month, I mentioned "affluence" or material riches as something connected to comfort and security. I'll probably touch on this in the future, namely how does desiring and pursuing material gain, including money, affect or demonstrate our values in life? |
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