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Searching for success and not getting it soon enough, (remember we are an instant society with instant coffee and instant tea), puts us under enormous pressure to succeed and perform. So we often forget who and what we are. The result is that we follow the latest fads and the latest success techniques, bandied about by the so-called gurus who promise you overnight success if you buy their products and follow their formula.
For way too many this doesn't work.
Here is a case in point. When she started her campaign for the Democratic Party nomination Hillary Clinton thought if she just followed all the advice given to her by her advisors, which include the former advisors of her husband, former president Clinton. Unfortunately, it didn't work. The voters were not doing what they were supposed to do, automatically voting for Hillary. They were attracted to the candidate who spoke with a passion, from his heart.
With her back against the wall as the poll numbers started to predict an Obama victory, Hillary realized that the time for pretend was over and started to show more of the real Hillary Clinton. And as they say the rest is history. Within a less than 24 hour period, the voters responded and Hillary Clinton averted, what would most likely have been a devastating loss into a sweet victory.
Here is another case in point. The album that turned Usher Raymond into a superstar is entitled "Confessions." if you listen to this album you'll hear that it is a very personal album. Before he worked on this album Usher had a number of albums and worked with a number of producers including Jermaine Dupri and P Diddy. However, none of these collaborations gave him the type of success he so craved.
It was at this time that someone suggested that he do an album that reveals more of him. The result is the 2004 album, Confessions, which sold 1.1 million copies in the United States in its first week of release, setting a record for the most number of records sold in 1 week for an R&B artist.
Here is Usher in his own words during an interview he gave: "I always felt like I held something back on my albums - on every album, I was playing a 'role'. This time, I decided to shake my fears and allow my personality to come through. I've really 'lived' this album: I'm in a healthy place right now. I'm 25-years old and I'm dealing with my responsibilities as a man and I'm not afraid to speak, to be realistic and talk about the issues men deal with [in relationships]."
We are often afraid to be ourselves because we are afraid that we'll be judged and looked down upon. The truth is that most people who do this, open up and be themselves, find it to be a freeing experience. They discover that people actually love what they see and hear.
So go ahead and be yourself, you have nothing to lose but everything to gain.
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I was talking to some friends the other day who just returned to Florida. They have a home down here as well as one in Philadelphia, and when I asked why they came back so early, they said that they just had to get away from their relatives!
They went on to tell me about their daughters tragic divorce, how they had to bail her out of the financial end of it and buy her condo, and how all the kids and grandkids in the family are going wild; uncontrollable they said, while their parents are making unbelievable amounts of money.
Also, they said that they were abused at the airport and on the flight by two different people who were so impatient they physically pushed the elderly couple aside; both on the plane and in the baggage area.
I have observed the same kind of rage whenever Janet and I drive anywhere in southwest Florida. (I heard that the east coast is even worse!) People routinely drive seventy miles an hour in 45 or 50 mph zones, cutting in and out of traffic as if they are on the NASCAR circuit!
And it seems to be getting worse. Americans are getting angry, very angry - you can barely watch TV without seeing pundits screaming at each other about things they discussed civilly not many years ago. So what's up with all this rage?
People are scared. Afraid that they won't have enough, and afraid that what they do have will be taken away. Everybody is walking around bone tired all the time, we don't even have enough time to sleep - too much to do, too little time. And we no longer have faith that things will work out. We have lost our confidence.
As the rest of the world catches up to us, we, as a society, must face the possibility that we will no longer be the super power we once were; those days may be long gone. Soon, we could just be another country because of the enormous amount of debt we have run up in maintaining an unsustainable, wealthy lifestyle that was so far out of sync with the rest of the world. We have always been able to grow out of this, but China and India might change all of that.
Our great country is losing its prestige. As a country, we have a very big national ego, and we get angry when things don't go our way. We're worried that we cannot sustain our current lifestyle in a shrinking world, and we are getting scared, and anger is a direct result of fear.
Soon, China will have the economic power of ten Japans, and will dwarf anything that we can do. Already, most of our manufacturing has gone overseas, just as Japan's has, and what has happened economically to Japan over the last ten years could happen here - no growth and a steady deflation set off by a housing and a stock market bubble.
Japan has an aging population, as do we, and their growth rate has stopped; a trend that cannot be changed easily. Neither Japan nor the United States can compete with the rest of the world in manufacturing, and the things that we can compete in, our technology and our entrepreneurial talents, the rest of the world will soon learn how to do as well. The Chinese and Asians are incredibly intelligent people, and diligent, too and there are lots of them!
But if we can get by all of this without nuking someone, or some such nonsense, as a last gasp effort to reestablish our dominance, then, as we accept our new role in the world, we have a good chance of coming out of this relatively intact. And maybe even a better country for it - perhaps not financially, but psychologically and spiritually.
But then again... there is an almost palpable feeling that something big is about to happen, and maybe this is the real basis of our out of control anger, because what might be about to happen could foster the greatest of fears.
A possibility exists that we know, collectively, intuitively, that our world is about to change, a sudden, dramatic change that would be above and beyond economics, or anything that we have ever experienced before. (Nature has a way of wiping out any smugness that we foolishly develop when things are going too good!) It is as if the entire world is about to experience one of those life-altering tragedies that turns individual's lives around, but this time it will turn the entire world around.
If you type "2012" into your browser, you will see that many diverse prophesies are pointing toward that date, including the Bible and other sources that predict some sort of cataclysmic sun event. The Mayan calendar actually sets the precise date: Dec. 21, 2012.
Some say that 2012 will usher in a new consciousness after the apocalyptic sun event, which is described by various prophets as an orange fireball in the sky, a comet, gigantic sun flares. And perhaps what happens during the next five years will lead up to it, or maybe it will happen suddenly. Who knows, maybe the source of global warming involves much more than merely humankind's follies!
At any rate, it's a good time to begin looking inward. Regardless of what happens to the world, what we develop inwardly cannot be taken away.
As practicing Buddhists, we consider every day to be our last. We understand that our personal world will most likely come to an end before the world does, but either way, it's the next world that we will have to deal with, based on whatever understanding we have developed down here. Christians with faith in God, and Buddhists who live each moment, need not concern themselves with the end of the world.
However, those that have their entire existence grounded in the things of the world could potentially have a lot to worry about! Think about it; if we woke up some night and found the sky a bright, reddish orange, and the temperature outside our homes about 150 degrees, what would we do? The water would run out, no food, bands of marauders looking for water and anything to eat. We wouldn't be worrying about our 401k!
This kind of reality, where our families are about to lose their lives, is about as tough as it gets, and unless we have taken time to contemplate death, our relationships, and the deeper aspects of life, we could easily fall over the psychological edge.
Some say that although many will live through this upheaval, their lives will change dramatically, living in small groups and barely surviving. The economic and political concerns of today would be long forgotten, as people's lives more closely resemble the wandering lifestyles of Christ or the Buddha.
When the chips are down like this, things get real, quickly, and spirituality naturally floods our souls, as we survive together in loving clans and groups. How else could spirituality ever happen? It could never happen in our present states of mind.
It takes an exceptional astuteness and awareness to practice austerities and difficult observances when things are going so good, but those that sacrifice now will be ready, whether the calamity involves the entire world or only themselves.
It's just a matter of time, and time goes by quickly...
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Monday, 22 November 2010 § 0
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My Way is the latest release from Pop Superstar Usher, and is another winner by this talented musician.
This CD will grab your attention right out of the gate with You Make Me Wanna... and doesn't let go until the very last note of the very last song You Make Me Wanna... - (extended version), which by the way is another great track.
The nice thing about a CD like this is when the talent is this rich even if Pop isn't your favorite style you still can't help but appreciate the greatness of the artist.
If you're even mildly into Pop music you'll enjoy this album. Overall My Way is an a great release. I give it my double thumbs up. You will not be disappointed with one single track.
While the entire album is outstanding the truly standout tunes are track 2 - Just Like Me, track 9 - One Day You'll Be Mine, and track 10 - You Make Me Wanna... - (extended version).
My Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 1 - You Make Me Wanna.... What a nice track!
My Way Release Notes:
Usher originally released My Way on September 16, 1997 on the LaFace label.
CD Track List Follows:
1. You Make Me Wanna...
2. Just Like Me
3. Nice & Slow
4. Slow Jam - (featuring Monica)
5. My Way
6. Come Back
7. I Will
8. Bedtime
9. One Day You'll Be Mine
10. You Make Me Wanna... - (extended version)
My Way Album Notes Personnel: Usher, Monica, Lil' Kim (vocals); Jermaine Dupri, Manuel Seal (various instruments, background vocals); Greg Phillinganes (piano); Babyface (keyboards, bass, drum programming, background vocals); Nathan East (bass); Randy Walker (Midi programmer); Jagged Edge, Trey Lorenz, Trina Broussard, Shanice Wilson (background vocals).
Producers: Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds, Jermaine Dupri, Sprauge "Doogie" Williams.
Engineers include: Phi Tan, Rob Williams, Manny Marroquin.
Recorded at Somewhere In College Park, College Park, Georgia; Sony Studios, New York, New York; Brandon's Way Recording, Los Angeles, Califonia; Future Recording Studios, Virginia Beach, Virginia.
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The compact disc has been around since 1978, developed by Phillips and Sony. The reason it was developed was to take over for the Laserdisc as the industry standard digital audio disc. Since its invention, we have seen many updates on the compact disc technology. The most recent being the CD-R and DVD discs. With the CD-R, you can now burn your own discs at home, and then modify those discs at a later date. DVD technology allows us to record video onto a disc, where we used to only be able to record audio and data. As time rolls by, and the disc industry advances, we are presented with new forms of these technologies. The two new contenders are Blu-Ray discs and HD-DVD, here's a little information about each of these new disc types.
1. Blu-Ray
This type of disc, also known as Blu-Ray Disc, is the next generation of optical disc. It was developed by the Blu-Ray Disc Association, a group of consumer electronic/PC/media manufacturers, including: Apple, HP, Mitsubishi, Phillips, Sony, and others. The Blu-Ray disc type was mainly developed for recording, rewriting, and playing back high-definition (HD) video. It's also perfect for storing large amounts of data, exceeding previous DVD-R disc storage capabilities. It can hold more than 5 times the amount of information that a traditional DVD can hold, up to 25GB single layer, and up to 50GB dual layer. One of the main differences of the Blu-Ray disc is the type of laser that the disc is read with. Normal DVDs are read with a red laser, the Blu-Ray discs are read with a blue-violet laser. The main benefit of this change is the wave length of the laser types. The traditional red laser has a wider focus, so the blue-violet laser can be focused more precisely allowing more tightly packed data. This equals more data in less space on the disc, this results in the additional storage space available on the new Blu-Ray discs. These new discs are backwards compatible with regular DVDs, which they are expected to replace in the near future.
2. HD-DVD
HD-DVD discs, High Definition Versatile Discs or High Definition Digital Video Discs, are very similar to the Blu-Ray discs. This disc type is being developed by a group of consumer electronics/PC companies, headed by Toshiba. They also use a blue-violet laser to read the contents of the disc, which results in an increase in storage capacity compared to normal DVD discs. The HD-DVD can store 15GB single layer and 30GB double layer, making their storage capacity 10GB per layer smaller than the Blu-Ray. But Toshiba has announced a triple layer disc that can hold 45GB of information, and the HD DVD discs can hold both HD DVD and regular DVD information on one disc.
Right now these two disc types are battling it out to become the next generation of DVD disc technology, conjuring up images of the battle between Betamax and VHS in the 80's. I guess we're all wondering who's going to come out on top? In my honest opinion, I believe that Blu-Ray will become the new standard. Both disc types offer HD capability and large data storage capacity, so it's kind of hard to say which is better. The Blu-Ray, with its greater maximum storage capacity and the fact that it's being backed by more of the large consumer electronic/PC/media manufacturers, I believe will win the battle. But it's all still up in the air, so only time will tell.
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