I've been reading "The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking" by Dale Carnegie in preparation for trying out teaching (in a community college or as a graduate assistant (assuming I get in)). My favorite line from the book so far is a quote from Emerson "fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world". what a terrible thing to be defeated by... this is good motivation for me; it gets me in a very determined attitude, which is a good place to be.
my first week off from work was glorious, everything i dreamt it could be. i made more progress towards my goals this past week than i did in about the last 6 months. i wish i could have planned things better but at some point you just have to start or you're never going to do it, so thats what i did. i may have to wait awhile before i get into school, and it may be harder getting in than i initially thought, but its ok. i�ll make it work some way or another, or i�ll at least exhaust my options and know that i gave it my best shot. one things for sure, i�m not going to be on my deathbed wondering what would have happened if i would have tried to make music my profession.
by the way, in the past i�ve never been a big environmentalist. sure i do things like recycle cuz i�m told its good to do but i never real got why some people were so passionate about it. i had heard mixed things and wondered how big of a problem it really was. however, i saw a program called �global dimming� that came on pbs recently and it was pretty scary. i�d still like to research it using different sources but if even half of what they�re saying is true, things could get real bad. i never knew how delicate of a balancing act the environment is; we take things like rain and plenty of food at the grocery store for granted. in Ethopia around 50 million people died from a shift in the monsoon pattern. a shift they believe was influenced by global warming/dimming. thats just one of the things mentioned in the video that put the scare into me. a transcript is shown at Global
Dimming (PBS) if you�re interested. basically they discovered a new effect of pollution caused by dirty air (pollution you can see, rather than greenhouse gases). It actually reduces the amount of sunlight that reaches the earth (in some places up to a 20% reduction in the last 40 yrs or so) which cools the earth and masks the true affects of global warming. this type of pollution has been greatly reduced in highly developed places (like US and Europe) and eventually it will be reduced in other countries as well (otherwise people would continue to die and suffer from respiratory illnesses). so if we continue on our trend of increasing greenhouse gases and decreasing the dirty air, global warming will be about twice as bad as they previously thought, giving some pretty dire predictions for the next 30 � 50 yrs or so. i don�t know what the solution is but they definitely got my attention.
10:00 p.m. - 2006-06-11
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