Quiz of the Day: iHeart iTunes

How many total songs? 918

Sort by Song Title
first: ­"'(Don't Fear) The Reaper" - Blue Oyster Cult
last: "ZYX" - They Might Be Giants

Sort by Time
first: "Mr. Sparkle" :05 - Simpsons clip
last: "Mystery Land (progressive trance)" 1:31:51 - DJ Tiesto

Sort by Album
first: 311 - 311
last: X&Y - Coldplay

Top Ten Played Songs:
"Don't Phunk With My Heart" - Black Eyed Peas
"Things Just Ain't the Same" - Deborah Cox
"Hollaback Girl" - Gwen Stefani
"Call On Me" - Eric Prydz
"Hung Up" - Madonna
"Feel It" - The Tamperer
"Hot in Herre" - Tiga
"Dragostea Din Tei" - O Zone
"Red Alert" - Basement Jaxx
"100 Years" - Five for Fighting

Find "sex," how many songs show up? 3

Find "death," how many songs show up? 0

Find "love," how many songs show up? 40

Find "peace", how many songs show up? 0

Find "rock", how many songs show up? 39

Total size of music files on your computer? 5.51 GB

Total time of music files on your computer? 3.9 days

The last CD you bought was: B In the Mix - The Remixes (Britney Spears)

What was the last song you listened to before reading this message? "Spin Spin Sugar (Garage Mix)" - Sneaker Pimps

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From: Vic's blog

Quiz of the Day: Name acronym

D	Dashing
R	Responsible
E	Earthy
W	Wonderful

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Name Acronym Generator
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Quiz of the Day: Which Golden Girl are you?

Which Golden Girl Are You?

Just so you know...

Henry the Hand’s ®
4 Principles of Hand Awareness:
1. WASH your hands when they are dirty and BEFORE eating.
2. DO NOT cough into your hands.
3. DO NOT sneeze into your hands.
4. Above all, DO NOT put your fingers into your eyes, nose or mouth!

The 8th Habit: One voice

Teach Others
Chapter 11* "One Voice--Pathfinding Shared Vision, Values and Strategy" discusses how to inspire others to find their voice in a group through a shared vision and how to effectively develop a mission statement. Employees should clearly understand organizational goals and be committed to them.

Pathfinding is a great organizational commitment, but it also doesn't exist independently of other organizational realities. Organizations must also consider market realities, core competencies (unique strengths), stakeholder wants and needs, and values.

Covey presents a principle-centered core for organizations:
Mission (why/who: purpose, vision, values)
Core (what: passionate focus & execution)
Line of Sight Strategy (how/when: accountability)


Report Results
As I plan our orientation staff training for this summer, I am thinking of how to incorporate some of this leadership knowledge and making sure the staff understand the office & program goals and commit to them has been on my mind. I am planning sessions to help them understand these concepts and incorporating this into our new evaluation process to keep them focused throughout the summer and consider the program goals in their daily performance.

*from Stephen Covey's The 8th Habit: From effectiveness to greatness as part of the 8th Habit Challenge

What I'm reading: If life is a game, these are the rules

From Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott's If Life is a Game, These are the Rules:

The 10 Rules for being Human:

Rule One: You will receive a body.
You may love it or hate it, but it will be yours for the duration of your life on Earth.

Rule Two: You will be presented with lessons.
You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called "life." Each day in this school you will have the opportunity to learn lessons. You may like the lessons or hate them, but you have designed them as part of your curriculum.

Rule Three: There are no mistakes, only lessons.
Growth is a process of experimentation, a series of trials, errors, and occasional victories. The failed experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that work.

Rule Four: A lesson is repeated until learned.
Lessons will repeated to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson.

Rule Five: Learning does not end.
There is no part of life that does not contain lessons. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

Rule Six: "There" is no better than "here."
When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain a "there" that will look better to you than your present "here."

Rule Seven: Others are only mirrors of you.
You cannot love or hate something about another person unless
it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.

Rule Eight: What you make of your life is up to you.
You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you.

Rule Nine: Your answers lie inside of you.
All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

Rule Ten: You will forget all of this at birth.
You can remember it if you want by unraveling the double helix of inner knowing.

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Six steps to executing any change in your life:

1. Awareness: becoming conscious of the pattern or issue
2. Acknowledgment: admitting that you need to release the pattern
3. Choice: actively selecting to release the pattern
4. Strategy: creating a realistic plan
5. Commitment: taking action, aided by external accountability
6. Celebration: rewarding yourself for succeeding
   

Healthy New Year

I'm doing the National Body Challenge again this year with some friends. We made a Hungry Gay Boys group, anybody else want to join in the fun? I want to get into a better routine of eating & exercising. My goal is to loose 15 lbs and exercise regularly. I'll keep you posted :)