Sunday, February 25th 2018

One of the most powerful, life enhancing videos i've ever watched

Fault Vs Responsibility by Will Smith FULL SPEECH

Ah. Spring is almost here.
A beautiful voiced robin sings for his breakfast in a pet food store

Every morning, this little robin comes into a store in Swansea to start his 'shift'... 🎶 Singing by the bird food! #EmployeeOfTheMonth 🔊Sound on🔊 pic.twitter.com/ODqrrElAwI

— BBC Springwatch (@BBCSpringwatch) February 19, 2018

Every morning, this little robin comes into a store in Swansea to start his 'shift'... 🎶 Singing by the bird food!

Via the delightful BBC SpringWatch Twitter feed

The full Ghetto Spider Ah Ha dance


Huh, so interesting
Medical History of American Presidents

George Washington · John Adams · Thomas Jefferson · James Madison · James Monroe · John Q. Adams · Andrew Jackson · Martin van Buren · William Harrison · John Tyler · James Polk · Zachary Taylor · Millard Fillmore · Franklin Pierce · James Buchanan · Abraham Lincoln · Andrew Johnson · Ulysses Grant · Rutherford Hayes · James Garfield · Chester Arthur · Grover Cleveland · Benjamin Harrison · William McKinley · Theodore Roosevelt · William Taft · Woodrow Wilson · Warren Harding · Calvin Coolidge · Herbert Hoover · Franklin Roosevelt · Harry Truman · Dwight Eisenhower · John Kennedy · Lyndon Johnson · Richard Nixon · Gerald Ford · James Carter · Ronald Reagan · George Bush · William Clinton · George W. Bush · Barack Obama

An interesting post on Reddit

Ikigai - A Japanese Concept Meaning "A Reason for Being". (self.financialindependence)

submitted 5 days ago by NOVACPA

There are lots of posts about:

• "I make money, but it's not what I love."

I recently stumbled on the graph below and it definitely explains a lot of these feelings and puts it into context.

This site has the Venn diagram.

• What you love is either a mission or a passion.
• What you are good at is either a passion or a profession.
• What you can be paid for is either a profession or a vocation.
• What the world needs is either a vocation or a mission.
• What you love & what the world needs is a mission.
• What you love & what you are good at is a passion.

We all strive for ikigai, but most will not find it. However, if you find a vocation or professionduring your years working for financial independence, then you can focus on either a passion or mission, since you do not need anyone to pay for it. Effectively, you have created your own ikigai, over a lifetime, rather than simultaneously.

If you had a profession during your earning years, you will likely be searching for a mission later. If you had a vocation during your earning years, you will likely search for a passion later.

As a CPA (working in finance), I'm squarely in the profession category. The world doesn't, really, need us, I'm good at it, I get paid for it. I do love parts of it. There are days when I feel, "satisfaction, but a feeling of uselessness" on the days I love it. Other days, I feel, "comfortable, but a feeling of emptiness" when I'm doing work the world needs, but I don't love. Therefore, I'm constantly searching for a mission. I know what I want to do post-career, that will negate these feelings.

I can't speak to the software engineers here, but I imagine, you're in the section between profession & vocation in terms of feelings. Depending on where you work, you may even be between the mission & vocation. Therefore, you're likely searching for the passion, post-career.

Sweet, gentle birdsong

Aaaand breathe. Take a 5 minute break this Monday to de-stress and listen to the beautiful sound of birdsong 💆
🔊 Sound on 🔊 pic.twitter.com/XtV8w0qOVH

— BBC Springwatch (@BBCSpringwatch) February 19, 2018

Marvelous collection of vintage photographs of celebrities by Allan Tannenbaum   
More wonderful vintage photographs

Ken Schles: Invisible City

Schuhmachergäßchen, Riquethaus. Leipzig, East Germany. 1980.
NY Lens presents “One Wall, Two Germanys”

More vintage pics of celebs, many taken in the 1980s

Jodie Foster

Madonna

Madonna