Rules to be happy

Yesterday i received an email (as I subscribed to daily newsletter) about a story of a donkey and a farmer.

Here's the story and what we all can learn :)

One day a farmer's donkey fell down into a well.

The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do.
Finally, he decided the animal was old, and the well needed to be covered up anyway; it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the donkey.

He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone's amazement he quieted down.

A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well. He was astonished at what he saw. With each shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing.

He would shake it off and take a step up..

As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up.

Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well, and happily trotted off!
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Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a steppingstone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up.

Remember the five simple rules to be happy:

Free your heart from hatred - Forgive.
Free your mind from worries - Most never happen.
Live simply and appreciate what you have.
Give more. Expect less


NOW ....... Enough of that crap. The donkey later came back, and bit the farmer who had tried to bury him. The gash from the bite got infected and the farmer eventually died in agony from septic shock.

MORAL FROM TODAY'S LESSON:

When you try to cover your ass, it always comes back to bite you.

-John Hope Bryant-

Scratch Mat | The Fun Theory

A great idea by funtheory



Most people enter a building without cleaning their shoes, often resulting in dirt all over the floor.
Could this nuisance be removed by making the activity fun to do? We think so.

Submitted by Felix Möller and Daniel Westhof - Germany

Do all the Good

Another words by John Wesley that I love to share with everyone today.

' Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can '

John Wesley

Send a Letter

We’ve stopped writing letters.

We send e-mails instead. But finding an e-mail in your inbox is not the same as getting a letter through the postal service. A letter has a personal touch; and it can be a real pleasure to get a letter that is not a bill or a piece of junk mail.

So what can we do to encourage letter writing?
Letter writing day is held in Japan in July each year. The Japanese postal service issues a commemorative 80-yen stamp to mark the day. July has traditionally been known as Letter Month in Japan, possibly because July 7 is Start Festival, when people write letters of wishes to their God. Letter Writing Day builds on this tradition.

International Letter Writing Week is held each year in October.
This is the date when the Universal Postal Union was founded in order to facilitate international mail. The week encourages worldwide cultural exchange and friendship as a contribution to world peace. The union organizes a letter-writing competition for young people to mark the week.

Each year, there is a different theme for the competition. The national postal service promote the competition and choose a national winner. UNESCO then chooses three overall winners. The competition is open to young people under 16. Letters must be between 500 and 1,000 words in length.

Past themes have included ‘How to build a better future’ (2003),’My views on human rights’(1998), ‘A letter to the person I admire most’ (1997),’How young people can help the children of a country at war’(1993), Themes are not always serious. In 2005, contestants has to write a letter to their favourite fairytale character.

Universal Postal Union: www.upu.int
Japan Letter Writing Day: www.post.japanpost.jp/english/kitte_hagaki/stamp/tokusyu/2003/0723_letter


Amnesty’s advice on letter-writing for activists:
www.amnesty.org/campaign/letter-guide.html

I refer these information from '365 ways to change the world' by Michael Norton, interesting book to read contains lots of ideas we can do daily.

The Day After Peace

The Day After Peace is the latest award-winning documentary film from Peace One Day founder and chairman Jeremy Gilley.

Jeremy Gilley was an actor before he founded Peace One Day in 1999. He had become disillusioned with his work, but understood the potential of film to positively affect people and create change in the world. So when he set out on his near impossible mission in 1999, he took a camera with him. Every journey made, every country visited and every person met – he got it all on camera. Ten years on, The Day After Peace is his story – the story of Peace One Day.

(info from peaceoneday.org)

DesignersBlock

Today I saw an article of designersblock and found an interesting 'united' on their site.

The text 'united' forms and connect u n i together. Design really speaks. I love it. :)

How to Be Remarkable

These article from art of great things tells us how to be remarkable - here.

Remarkable things are made primarily of wholly unremarkable parts. A phone call, a chance meeting, a spiral notebook. It’s the way these parts happen to fit, and the context in which it happens that makes all the difference. And according to Cal Newport, the fact that you can’t imagine a step-by-step model for something is exactly what makes that thing impressive.

We aren’t fascinated by things we can easily understand; we’re fascinated by things far greater than the sum of their parts.


-you don’t start something remarkable. You start something, then you make it remarkable along the way.-

Food Inc. - The Truth Behind The Food at Our Local Supermarket

In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that has been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, herbicide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli—the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults. (info from Food Inc. Official Website)



HD trailer can also be found on their official website here

If We Ran The World - Human Intentions into Action

IfWeRanTheWorld, a site launched in beta this week at the TED conference that aims to harness human intentions into action.

Start by answering the question, 'If you ran the world, what would you do?' with a tangible, achievable goal: this will be your actionplatform. Then you'll be asked to break it down into the microactions that need doing in order to complete your actionplatform. Think small, simple, tweet-able. So small, simple and easy to do, in fact, that anyone you invite to microact can only say, 'I'd love to.'

It's a beta version, but it's such a huge voice contribution by people worldwide with actions! :)

Sony Foam City

In 2008, Miami was turned into the world's biggest bubble bath for Sony's "Foam City" advertisement. 120 million gallons of bubbles; 500,000 gallons of foam per minute was pumped out by a custom-built world's largest foam machine for this Sony's camera’s commercial.

sourced from crookedbrains

Though it's not a recent Sony commercial, it shows that foam can be really beautiful. Look at their happy faces! :D