Outside the box

This just makes my day and reminds of the possibilities that lie out there for all of us.

I'm currently rehearsing for a new musical that I was introduced to...um...last Friday. So needless to say, being thrown straight into rehearsal with little time to learn music or character work etc. I have a lot of catching up to do. Still, it's hilarious, fun and a lot of hard work.

Sounds right up my alley. :)

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What Will You Fill Your Heart With in 2010?, by Thomas Ott

reblogged from Unicornology

• Fool: Bloated, hyperbolic professional bios/marketing copy.
  Cool: Letting your accomplishments speak for themselves.

• Fool: Pretending that 600 Facebook friends means 600 actual friends.
  Cool: Spending more time with the people you really care about and authentically engaging with your community (whatever “community” means to you).

• Fool: Signing up for a million dollar plus mortgage because house prices keep on rising and it’s “a good investment”.
  Cool: Getting in touch with what really makes you happy and directing your funds towards that.

• Fool: Binge drinking.
  Cool: Binge thinking.

• Fool: What others can do for you.
  Cool: What you can do for others.

• Fool: Staying out til 3am because it’s a Friday night and that’s what you’re supposed to do.
  Cool: Staying in on weekends if that’s what you feel like doing, going out on weeknights if there’s something cool on, and directing one’s leisure time to pleasure rather than presentation.

• Fool: Internet fameballs and feigning a glamorous life in the hope of inspiring envy in others. Lifecasting.
  Cool: Mindcasting. Reading other people’s blogs instead of just trying to get them to read yours.

• Fool: Doing 100 things in a half assed way.
  Cool: Doing at least one thing really, really well. And the rest in a half-assed way, if you still have time.

• Fool: Conspicuous consumption.
  Cool: Deliberate understatement.

Fool/cool concept borrowed from Something Changed and Right Angle Media. General gist of post probably a result of reading too much Zen Habits and The Simple Dollar.

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Why you shouldn’t feel guilty for staying home on a Saturday night
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