WTF is Zynnia's mysterious tragedy?
Zynnia’s life has been filled with both blessings and also profound loss.
Zynnia’s sole mission and purpose in life is to fully enjoy each moment and live in full awareness and gratitude for the power of now. Zynnia knows all too well, that at any moment tragedy can strike and the whole world you grow comfortable with can be ripped apart.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
she wanted waffles but they served pancakes instead :'(
― Mordy, Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mean
Zynnia has lived through it and she has immense wisdom and maturity from that journey. This is why she very consciously chooses a life of dreams coming true.
"it"?
I'd choose a life where dreams come true, but just this week I dreamed that the copier at work was located at O'Hare airport, so I can't risk it.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I'm in the process of both expanding and contracting my business."
blew my mind
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol that was my favorite too.
really stoked you are all here, btw.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
amway is an old fav.
see, this is the thing... say what you will about Amway, they may be selling you overpriced toothpaste but at least you're getting an actual product to clean your teeth with.
these dudes aren't even that far removed from people who make money teaching men how to date women (Sean Stephenson has actually dipped in to this), but like, at least with Pick Up Artist gurus, the promise is that dudes will come out less afraid of talking to women-- which is a lot more solid than, "awesomeness!".
also a fan of when zynnia shouts "LIVE VICARIOUSLY THROUGH ME AND MY FAMILY!"
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol otm
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
OUT: dance momsIN: video moms
so far, my favorite Mindvalley product is QUANTUM JUMPING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
just watch this interview Vishen did at the home of Burt Goldman, developer of the Quantum Jumping method:
http://www.quantumjumping.com/special/meet-burt-goldman
1) count how many times they mention money2) be sure to watch till 6:43. I promise you won't be disappointed.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
i bet you guys are doubling the view count on all of Zynnia's videos right now
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
quaNTUM JUmping
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
two phrases came into his head the first was PLANT YOURSELF the second was Take lots of pictures
― the parable is the parable of the (Lamp), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
heads up, y'all: 2012 will not be the end of the world:
bonus copping of 99% jargon
also:
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
i was forced (along with my workmates) to attend a customized motivational seminar once. we managed to completely sabotage it -- i think i made one of the two seminar leaders cry. i am not ashamed. these folks are the lowest of the low, occupying a totally unnecessary niche opened up by the worst tendencies of corporate culture and "self-actualization" rhetoric.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
can you remember who the speaker was?????
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Trans: "I am in a constant state of starting up new concerns, hoping the IRS wont catch me when I declare bankruptcy on the old ones"
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost
no they were nobodies... folks that were routinely hired by the business school of the university where i worked to provide "teamwork seminars" for different groups. i wasn't in the business school but i guess our boss decided to try them out.
IIRC one of the two speakers was trying to get us to learn about "optimizing teamwork" based on lessons from ... wait for it... people who "successfully" survived the holocaust. i interrupted him and told him that i couldn't leave the seminar because i was being paid to attend but that he would not be continuing this line of discussion.
he looked sort of lost, looked at the other speaker who nodded, then he kind of hung his shoulders and stepped aside for the next part of the seminar.
the head of my department, who arranged the seminar, was mortified.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I personally dont believe 2012 will be the end of the world"
WOW AMAZING!~!!!! D:
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
i got a lot of high-fives from coworkers the next day, though.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
IIRC one of the two speakers was trying to get us to learn about "optimizing teamwork" based on lessons from ... wait for it... people who "successfully" survived the holocaust.
oh my god
― horseshoe, Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
guys there are also endless amounts of "video cover letters" from people applying for a job at Mindvalley©
&
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah wow amst that is... I'm gobsmacked.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
I mean I thought the motivational bullshit day my old workplace pulled on us once was in bad taste (they themed it on "Survivor" the TV show - the week my entire team had been told we were being laid off!).
But that just... wow.
― thanks to denial, I'm immortal! (Trayce), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
amateurist that is A+ work
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah. for a guy who was ostensibly a "motivational" speaker he seemed pretty weak and demoralized. i think i ruined his week. i would've felt bad if his presentation wasn't so egregiously offensive.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
this stuff is just megachurches but on a smaller screen and without the vestigial jesus part
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mindvalley staff group photo
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
^all of these people live & work in Kuala Lumpur
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
the new series "young, attractive, and profoundly flaky" debuts on bravo this saturday!
anyway...
i forgot the other good part of my motivational seminar experience.
one part of the seminar was devoted to a "game" in which we were given note cards, and asked to write--anonymously-- one instance of "positive reinforcement" and one "constructive criticism" of each of our coworkers.
some of my coworkers refused the participate. i should have but decided just to do the "positive reinforcement" part.
some of the "constructive criticism" read like poison pen letters: "beth really has an attitude." "i don't think jeff is any good at his job." "i feel like jeremy is constantly talking down to people."
it made at least one of my coworkers cry. and it ended in a general uproar with us asking the "motivational" speakers for their credentials and wondering aloud how many times they had done this before.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
so basically, if you see a motivational speaker walking down the street, just go ahead and cold cock him or her. you will do the human race a great service.
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol now i want a comedic series based based on motivational speakers in the style of Party Down
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
that pic looks like a "yelp elite event"
― omar little, Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
xpost. just getting a total amway vibe from this awesomefest/mindvalley thing. create a culture where you're special (attracting lost souls, of course = easy marks), using gurus to lead you to The Secret of personal fulfillment (making money, somehow), create a fraudulent presentation that being an affiliate will make you lots of it, with only a tiny chance of that happening.
amway's way creepier, but seems like the same basic deal ... deluding poor souls into parting with their money and getting them to shell out more. Mindvalley/Awesomefest seems linked to The Secret somehow. This is actually pretty interesting.
― Spectrum, Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
my friend just got fired from his job working as a lifecoach
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
rather, working for a lifecoach
lol i was gonna say
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
Several people who appeared/starred in The Secret have spoken at Awesomeness Fest
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
seminar as placebo effect
― omar little, Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
so much shame in that room...
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
part of an email friend got back when trying to get paid for the two weeks before he was fired:
On an practical and business front. Since you were hired on as a subcontractor in the get go and that from the outset we were going to take a look a few months down the road as to how we were to proceed, I feel as though that has come to fruition. And although the review of things did not look like we both thought it was going to, both initially and according to where we were playing weeks before christmas, it happened the way it did. In my mind it occurred and adjusted to suit the situation and position I found myself in (with complete commitment to not doing another thing that looked like it did prior to that moment). Although that might be hard to explain, interpret or understand, things like this happen for some of us and there is a watershed and things change overnight. It did, there's no other explanation or rationale.
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
holy shit
― the "intenterface" (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
honestly that is the freakiest thing about this phenomenon to me, the way it seems to curdle people's ability to use language properly. a college roommate got really into the landmark forum and it was like she just spoke gibberish all the time suddenly.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have a couple of friends who got into landmark forum and invited me to join a writer's group they were putting together, and i realized about three meetings in i was accidentally getting landmarked.
― omar little, Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
i quit before we went to "cafe gratitude"
A BREAKDOWN OF A LIFECOACH:
Here's the first email my friend got from the dude:
This is the start of something big and quite frankly something never before developed or experienced on the face of this planet.What we will accomplish together will be directly downloaded from Source and put into practice by You and Me.It will change not only our lives but the world as we know it and expand all that is from this moment forward.I am excited, enthusiastic and looking very much forward to our creation of team and moving this into action.
Welcome!
Here's the last email friend got from the dude:
I am simply not ready to move forward with my business endeavors at this point.Everyday I wonder when and if it will surge but to date I am simply disinterested in reentering into "business as usual" again.It is actually repulsive to me at the moment and thus keeping me from engaging in anything that resembles what we were doing prior to years end.
I am not exactly sure what else to say as a result of the experience I am having.I suppose we can go through the week from my standpoint and see what occurs and because I have no idea when this experience I am having will change, I can not predict the outcome and really have no desire to do that anyway.
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
funny thing is the most landmarky of that group really DID write in total bizarre gibberish
― omar little, Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
in his defense the only reason the friend worked for the dude was to get some money after travelling a bunch and ending up back in his home state
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
In my mind it occurred and adjusted to suit the situation and position I found myself in (with complete commitment to not doing another thing that looked like it did prior to that moment).
― his hands are a dirty fountain through which lives spurt (contenderizer), Thursday, 2 February 2012 06:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
― goole, Friday, 26 April 2013 21:38 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
via UYD
http://lucidityfestival.com/
― goole, Friday, 26 April 2013 21:40 (3 weeks ago) Permalink
new blurb on mindvalley website:
We’re an international group of visionaries, rebels, crazed inventors, best-selling authors, quirky artists, and ambitious entrepreneurs working on pushing humanity forward through culture hacking and revolutionizing the global education system.
― tpp, Monday, 29 April 2013 10:07 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
sounds like the heritage foundation to me
― goole, Monday, 29 April 2013 14:50 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
yeah i went back and looked at their site for the first time in a while recently and was amazed at how impossible it was to even find a page listing their actual products for sale (which was def there not long ago)
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Monday, 29 April 2013 14:52 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
sort of want to poll the different sectors of mindvalley
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 29 April 2013 14:59 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
my vote goes to the russian women
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Monday, 29 April 2013 15:01 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
it's sort of fun to imagine a group that was ACTUALLY composed of visionaries, rebels, crazed inventors, best-selling authors, quirky artists, and ambitious entrepreneurs -- like, get Madame Blavatsky, Subcomandante Marcos, Emmett "Doc" Brown, Scott Turow, Bill Plympton, and Henry Ford together in a room and watch the culture get hacked!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 29 April 2013 15:02 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
What is Culture Hacking?
cul·ture [kuhl-cher] noun, verb,The quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.A particular form or stage of civilization, as that of a certain nation or period: Greek culture.Development or improvement of the mind by education or training.The behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group: the youth culture; the drug culture.
hack, verbTo cut to the core. To dismantle systems apart. To rebuild. To recode.
Thus, “culture hacking” is the art of bringing in technology and education in smart effective ways to rapidly “recode” and advance culture, altering in the process the behaviors of everyday individuals to make them adopt smarter practices that elevate their lives.
And so far, the results have been phenomenal.
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Monday, 29 April 2013 15:03 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
lmao @ customer support FAQ page:
http://support.mindvalley.com/customer/portal/articles/544161-tips-on-how-to-manifest-
― ְ֮֠֓֟֬֩ (gr8080), Monday, 29 April 2013 16:20 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
wow, thanks. that looks like some secrete wisdome that was accidentally put on a public facing page
The energy of true heartfelt appreciation is at the level of 780 which is way above love.
― los blue jeans, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 03:22 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
former coworker
http ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqmJjTr2PA
please watch and tell me if it's worth watching
― the late great, Thursday, 2 May 2013 03:43 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
uh oh
"Author and motivational speaker Dr. Brian Dixon, who runs one of the most successful charter schools in the Baton Rouge region, the Mentorship Academy, provides an inspirational plea for discovering how to do your impossible in life."
http://mentorshipbr.org/
― goole, Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:06 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
http://www.theonion.com/articles/social-media-rock-star-makes-28000-per-year,32301/
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Friday, 3 May 2013 19:54 (2 weeks ago) Permalink
http://alexchiu.com/
― gr8080, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 18:58 (3 days ago) Permalink
"hmm"
― we're up all night to get (s1ocki), Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:04 (3 days ago) Permalink
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:08 (3 days ago) Permalink
what's the word goole, good speech or no?
― the late great, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:13 (3 days ago) Permalink
iirc i couldn't get very far.
― goole, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:18 (3 days ago) Permalink
sweet spot of being super bland but being really embarrassing about it
what did you think of the school's website? curious why you posted it.
― the late great, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:23 (3 days ago) Permalink
might be a good school? idk i just looked the dude up and found his business, so i posted it. charter schools are vaguely suspect to me but not much thought went into it tbh.
― goole, Wednesday, 15 May 2013 19:54 (3 days ago) Permalink