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GPS for the Soul - The Huffington Post
Batkid Takes Break From Fighting Crime To Throw Out First Pitch At SF Giants' Home Opener
Last time we checked in with the 5-year-old cancer survivor, Miles Scott, aka Batkid, a mystery donor had bought him a billboard so that he could watch over San Francisco at all times.
Now, he's back at it and riding in style.
The bite-sized superhero, who famously "saved Gotham City" back in November after the Make-a-Wish Foundation fulfilled his wish to be his favorite superhero, had the honor of throwing out the first pitch at Tuesday's San Francisco Giants' home opener at AT&T Park, according to SF Gate.
He entered the field in a Batmobile-painted Lamborghini, because how else would you expect Batkid to make an entrance?
After getting out of his stylish ride, he proudly greeted his fans with one fist in the air:
He then approached the mound and threw the ball to Giants' pitcher Matt Cain.
All the while, having his partner in crime, Batman, by his side, of course.
And the crowd went crazy for him!
— San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) April 8, 2014
You rock, Batkid!
Now, he's back at it and riding in style.
The bite-sized superhero, who famously "saved Gotham City" back in November after the Make-a-Wish Foundation fulfilled his wish to be his favorite superhero, had the honor of throwing out the first pitch at Tuesday's San Francisco Giants' home opener at AT&T Park, according to SF Gate.
He entered the field in a Batmobile-painted Lamborghini, because how else would you expect Batkid to make an entrance?
After getting out of his stylish ride, he proudly greeted his fans with one fist in the air:
He then approached the mound and threw the ball to Giants' pitcher Matt Cain.
All the while, having his partner in crime, Batman, by his side, of course.
And the crowd went crazy for him!
Reaction to the #sfbatkid https://t.co/euSC7iZg1Y
— San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) April 8, 2014
You rock, Batkid!
Arianna Huffington Calls Upon Us to Turn Inward for Wisdom and Wonder
When was the last time you listened to the sweet sound of silence? When was the last time you decided to close the door and just let yourself be, with nowhere to go and nothing to do?
Arianna Huffington gave a talk last week in Philadelphia promoting her 14th book, Thrive, in which she implores us to slow down and make the time to renew ourselves. After years of international productivity, over drive, sleep deprivation and now at the height of her success, Huffington is convinced that too many of us have shrunk ourselves down to to-do lists and are overly focused on power and money as the markers of success rather than internal aliveness.
As an executive coach and psychotherapist, I work with the burnout and disillusionment that Arianna talks about. Too many people in our culture are wearing their long hours at work as badges of honor, believing that climbing the corporate ladder will lead to fulfillment and that what they produce is the measure of who they are. I, too, have been guilty of feeling like the barometer of my goodness is how much time I put into my work. When I was in college, I took pride in how many hours a day I read, as if the hours spent were a reflection of my moral superiority over my classmates who were playing frisbee on the quad. Only years later did I identify my learning differences that make my reading slower than other people, and that my time with my head in the books was more about my slow brain rather than my greater intellectual prowess. That was too bad; I lost out on a lot of fun.
Huffington points out that we currently live in two worlds that exist simultaneously: burnout and "mindfulness" -- the negative results of overdrive and the need for stress reduction. The good news, as I see it, is the current popularization of mindfulness. What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is about being in the present, not the past or future. It's about being attentive to what is here and now as opposed to there and then and increasing our awareness of behaviors, thoughts and feelings that detour us from the present. Mindfulness is now everywhere. We have mindful eating, mindful addiction recovery, mindful parenting and mindfulness stress reduction programs that are showing up everywhere.
Mindfulness is a good antidote to our super extroversion, our attention to the blinking of electronic devices and our sense that we need to be available at every moment to some shiny object. I'm thrilled that Huffington, perhaps the most influential woman of our time, is spreading the word. While many of us in the health professions have been attending to stress reduction for years, when the call to reexamine our definitions of success and to focus inward comes from Arianna Huffington, people may listen.
Success, Arianna said, is how we bring our gifts and talents to what we do. The poet Rumi said it this way, "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." Realistically, we can't all live by Rumi's invitation or Huffington's wide range of opportunities for managing stress, but we can recognize that most of us are overextended between work and family demands and need to reexamine the values that motivate us.
As I was Listening to Arianna speak last week, I recalled the first line of James Joyce's Dubliners, "Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body." I felt grateful that the power house that is Arianna Huffington is speaking out to wake us up, reminding us to turn inward and find a way back to our authentic selves.
Arianna Huffington gave a talk last week in Philadelphia promoting her 14th book, Thrive, in which she implores us to slow down and make the time to renew ourselves. After years of international productivity, over drive, sleep deprivation and now at the height of her success, Huffington is convinced that too many of us have shrunk ourselves down to to-do lists and are overly focused on power and money as the markers of success rather than internal aliveness.
As an executive coach and psychotherapist, I work with the burnout and disillusionment that Arianna talks about. Too many people in our culture are wearing their long hours at work as badges of honor, believing that climbing the corporate ladder will lead to fulfillment and that what they produce is the measure of who they are. I, too, have been guilty of feeling like the barometer of my goodness is how much time I put into my work. When I was in college, I took pride in how many hours a day I read, as if the hours spent were a reflection of my moral superiority over my classmates who were playing frisbee on the quad. Only years later did I identify my learning differences that make my reading slower than other people, and that my time with my head in the books was more about my slow brain rather than my greater intellectual prowess. That was too bad; I lost out on a lot of fun.
Huffington points out that we currently live in two worlds that exist simultaneously: burnout and "mindfulness" -- the negative results of overdrive and the need for stress reduction. The good news, as I see it, is the current popularization of mindfulness. What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is about being in the present, not the past or future. It's about being attentive to what is here and now as opposed to there and then and increasing our awareness of behaviors, thoughts and feelings that detour us from the present. Mindfulness is now everywhere. We have mindful eating, mindful addiction recovery, mindful parenting and mindfulness stress reduction programs that are showing up everywhere.
Mindfulness is a good antidote to our super extroversion, our attention to the blinking of electronic devices and our sense that we need to be available at every moment to some shiny object. I'm thrilled that Huffington, perhaps the most influential woman of our time, is spreading the word. While many of us in the health professions have been attending to stress reduction for years, when the call to reexamine our definitions of success and to focus inward comes from Arianna Huffington, people may listen.
Success, Arianna said, is how we bring our gifts and talents to what we do. The poet Rumi said it this way, "Let the beauty of what you love be what you do." Realistically, we can't all live by Rumi's invitation or Huffington's wide range of opportunities for managing stress, but we can recognize that most of us are overextended between work and family demands and need to reexamine the values that motivate us.
As I was Listening to Arianna speak last week, I recalled the first line of James Joyce's Dubliners, "Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body." I felt grateful that the power house that is Arianna Huffington is speaking out to wake us up, reminding us to turn inward and find a way back to our authentic selves.
Weird News - The Huffington Post
There's No Headline That Can Do This Cringeworthy 'Social Media' Song Justice
A social media enthusiast who doubles as a jazz saxophonist and worship leader decided to write a song about social media. What happened next will restore your faith in humanity. Or take that faith and burn it to the ground. But one of the two.
The song, entitled "Let's Get Social" (lol), was written by some guy named Phil Mershon and performed at Social Media Marketing World 2014, a social media networking weekend in San Diego. One-word review: Amaaaaaaaazing.
The song is actually performed by Mary McCoy, but Mershon stands alongside the entire time, even giving the crowd a stern command: "You're going to say one word during this song... and the word is 'social.'" Then he randomly yells the word social during the chorus a few times? It's sort of catchy to be honest.
Sadly, Mershon, our new national treasure, seems sort of in on the joke? "Yes, the 'white man can't rap' is part of the intended humor," he wrote on his Facebook page on Monday.
If you'd like to sing along (and we know you do), you can find the entirety of the lyrics at the bottom of this post. But we thought we'd pull out the four best lines.
1. "Here's some photos from my life
My cat, my kids, some bacon"
Because there's nothing the Internet loves more than bacon.
2. "So we shoot our 'viral video'
And we post it to the Gram"
Because all the hip kids call it "the Gram."
3. "I hope as we scatter we never forget
That our posts live forever even when we go to bed"
Sort of creepy but OK!
4. "Alright everyone, I want you to stand up right now, take out your phones, take a selfie with your neighbor. It's time to get social!"
Extended pause for selfies.
Verse 1
I'm showing you things you'll like
Trying to get engagement
Here's some photos from my life
My cat, my kids, some bacon
Verse 2
I'm hoping you'll share my stuff
And tweet it to the world
If you help me grow my Klout,
I promise that I'll share yours
Pre-chorus
So connect with me, let's have some fun
Let's show the world how this gets done
Chorus
Let's get social (social) with social media
Let's get social (social) with social media
Where we can spread the word and grow our reach
And find our fans in their newsfeed
Let's get social with social media
Verse 3
We're searching for the story
That'll bring us instant fame
So we shoot our "viral video"
And we post it to the Gram
Verse 4
We're looking for the secret
Of Facebook's Holy Grail
We try to keep from paying
That leads to hashtag #fail
(Repeat pre-chorus and chorus then to bridge)
Bridge
Hey now y'all, can we just get real?
Do we care about our fans or is this just another deal?
Said another way, have we lost our way?
Social's about the people, remember they are people
Do we really need another fan, like or share?
Do we need another post to show up everywhere?
I hope as we scatter we never forget
That our posts live forever even when we go to bed
[h/t ValleyWag]
The song, entitled "Let's Get Social" (lol), was written by some guy named Phil Mershon and performed at Social Media Marketing World 2014, a social media networking weekend in San Diego. One-word review: Amaaaaaaaazing.
The song is actually performed by Mary McCoy, but Mershon stands alongside the entire time, even giving the crowd a stern command: "You're going to say one word during this song... and the word is 'social.'" Then he randomly yells the word social during the chorus a few times? It's sort of catchy to be honest.
Sadly, Mershon, our new national treasure, seems sort of in on the joke? "Yes, the 'white man can't rap' is part of the intended humor," he wrote on his Facebook page on Monday.
If you'd like to sing along (and we know you do), you can find the entirety of the lyrics at the bottom of this post. But we thought we'd pull out the four best lines.
1. "Here's some photos from my life
My cat, my kids, some bacon"
Because there's nothing the Internet loves more than bacon.
2. "So we shoot our 'viral video'
And we post it to the Gram"
Because all the hip kids call it "the Gram."
3. "I hope as we scatter we never forget
That our posts live forever even when we go to bed"
Sort of creepy but OK!
4. "Alright everyone, I want you to stand up right now, take out your phones, take a selfie with your neighbor. It's time to get social!"
Extended pause for selfies.
Verse 1
I'm showing you things you'll like
Trying to get engagement
Here's some photos from my life
My cat, my kids, some bacon
Verse 2
I'm hoping you'll share my stuff
And tweet it to the world
If you help me grow my Klout,
I promise that I'll share yours
Pre-chorus
So connect with me, let's have some fun
Let's show the world how this gets done
Chorus
Let's get social (social) with social media
Let's get social (social) with social media
Where we can spread the word and grow our reach
And find our fans in their newsfeed
Let's get social with social media
Verse 3
We're searching for the story
That'll bring us instant fame
So we shoot our "viral video"
And we post it to the Gram
Verse 4
We're looking for the secret
Of Facebook's Holy Grail
We try to keep from paying
That leads to hashtag #fail
(Repeat pre-chorus and chorus then to bridge)
Bridge
Hey now y'all, can we just get real?
Do we care about our fans or is this just another deal?
Said another way, have we lost our way?
Social's about the people, remember they are people
Do we really need another fan, like or share?
Do we need another post to show up everywhere?
I hope as we scatter we never forget
That our posts live forever even when we go to bed
[h/t ValleyWag]
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