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The Moneyless Manifesto: Live Well, Live Rich, Live Free by Mark Boyle

The Moneyless Manifesto: Live Well, Live Rich, Live Free by Mark Boyle

The Moneyless Manifesto: Live Well, Live Rich, Live Free by Mark Boyle The Moneyless Man Interview – Living without Money and being off the grid – We have come to believe that we need money, that we depend on it to survive. We believe that money provides for us when it is actually Nature. Even Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, said that “all money is a matter of belief”. – He makes so many potent points and ways…

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Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji by A P J Abdul Kalam & Arun Tiwari

Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji by A P J Abdul Kalam & Arun Tiwari

Transcendence: My Spiritual Experiences with Pramukh Swamiji by A P J Abdul Kalam & Arun TiwariThank you Kumar for lending me the book.– Book of mirdad mentioned! – Story of Bhagwan Swaminarayan aka Ghanshyam aka Neelkanth Varni. – History of Akshardham inception to completion. – He didn’t go for a second term in presidency as per Pramukh Swami’s advice. – Kalam has written a lot of books. – There was a time when Indian temples didn’t have images like mosques….

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Negotiation and Conflict Resolution by Open2Study

Negotiation and Conflict Resolution by Open2Study

The course can be found at https://www.open2study.com/ Each module had 10 videos, 9 quizzes and 1 assessment to be completed in the week of the module.Thanks Bindi for the link. Module 1: Thinking Like a Negotiator1: When Should We Negotiate?– Negotiation is problem solving between people who are in an interdependent relationship. They depend on each other.– It involves concessions. Giving something up to the other side. Can be material, financial, effort, etc.– Negotiation is a learned skill.– There is…

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Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength (Book Summary) by Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney

Willpower: Rediscovering Our Greatest Strength (Book Summary) by Roy F. Baumeister & John Tierney

Big up Big Brandon Carter for the recommendation. Notes:– Most common desire was to eat and sleep. Then sex. – Carnegie’s Win Friends and Influence People book spent 8 pages on explaining to people how to have that winning smile. Passive bashing of similar books. – Marshmallow experiment. Successful ones managed to distract themselves for 15 minutes to get another marshmallow. The ones that failed seemed to get in more trouble. The ones with more willpower had higher salaries, more…

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The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi (Summary), An Autobiography

The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi (Summary), An Autobiography

Gandhi Autobiography First of all a lot of people have ‘heard’ about the book or some of the perverse experiments and judged the man on it. One friend even claimed that he started reading the first few pages and threw it away. If you are the kind that is attracted to the perversions and judgements, may I direct you to the story of Guru & Disciple Cross the River ;oP I always like to find out for myself and keep an…

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Fruit Tree Pruning with Peter Coppin at North Perth Community Garden

Fruit Tree Pruning with Peter Coppin at North Perth Community Garden

Guest presenter Peter Coppin is a freelance consulting horticulturist with 40 years experience with fruit and nut trees in Western Australia. Peter kindly donated his time and expertise for the North Perth Community Garden Group. June 2015. Notes:– Love his awkward sense of humour!– Spend good money on decent secateurs and a saw as they are your main tool and you avoid tennis elbow.– Listerine is best to avoid tree diseases. Read up on it and you’ll never put it…

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