Resolve or Not

I just love Seth Godin. He is a prolific thinker and blogger. He is creative. He's edgy. He enthusiastically approaches the world and questions convention and observes success and idiocy and talks about it.

Whether or not you make resolutions each year, your world has been seriously rocked these past two years... if you have been alive at all during this time. We used to say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. That is still true, but I believe it is not only insanity, but a recipe for your demise.

When you have time to ponder over these next few days heading into 2010, please access Seth's FREE book. It's chock full of thoughts and ideas from today's preeminent thinkers.

See if you find an attitude or an idea that you can implement next year to create your new successes and leave these past two years in the dust that they deserve to be in.

Isness and Oughtness

In the President's lecture upon receiving his Nobel Prize this morning, he quoted Dr. King: "I refuse to accept despair as the final response to the ambiguities of history. I refuse to accept the idea that the 'isness' of man's present condition makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal 'oughtness' that forever confronts him."

I thought, why is it that I can't recall hearing that before? But more than that, I thought why hasn't that been repeated over and over again over these 40-50 years since it was first uttered?

I am so moved by that thought and think maybe our mundane lives are not exactly what this thought is meant to inspire, it seems so huge, so gigantic a thought that it can inspire an entire nation.

Despite that though, I think, I must on a regular basis examine my 'isness' and aspire to my 'oughtness'.

How, now really, can that be a bad thing? How can that be anything but a good thing for any of us?