So you’ve been told to interact on all the major social media spots…but you would love the option to just publish from one location.

Running around and spending TONS of time on each of the major players like Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google +1, etc…

Is at a minimum time consuming and often a painful thing to consider.

What if I told you I have a solution!?

I’m not going to tell you to NOT play on these sites directly, but wouldn’t it be nice to occasionally just send a post out from one spot?!

If you’re interested in this type of action, just enter your name in the opt-in email form over there on the right and I’ll let you know when I release this training product.  I expect to have it finished by the end of next week.  (May 25th, 2012 ish).

It’s taken me a while to fully test this and I think I have the final system ready to go.

Take care and have an awesome rest of the day!

Sean

This is yet another one of my favorite quotes from the Buddha.  I think at some point in our lives we all go through this “what is the reason I’m here”…and “what is to be my life’s mission?”…  After having a few conversations with friends, family and associates it seems as if this is likely one of the biggest questions we face in life.  Some questions that might be useful to consider:

1. What is is that you have great passion and enthusiasm for?

2. What has been a challenge that you’ve gotten through successfully?
(hint: so that you may help others in this way)

(more…)

Hope you all are having a great beginning of the week.  It’s been a while since I’ve posted and just wanted to share a few photos I took recently.

A few baby deer on the side of the road as I was driving home a day ago.

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Here are two shots of the lake that I took today as I was going for a jog:

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Spring is on the way…the blossoms are showing up.

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Just a picture I found that I took while living in Shell Beach, CA some years ago…

Love these sunsets…hope you enjoy the view.

So today was one of those days.

Thank God for feeling ok in embracing being stubborn and wanting to just push through no matter what.  I was having some issues with plugins not working/connecting correctly on a client’s site and feeling the need to be more persistent than ever in getting these issues resolved.  Right now this post is testing out something to ensure all connections are firing and that it’s not the ‘other service/APIs’ having issues.

Anyways, caused me to have a reason to make a post, and cite to of my favorite quotes on the topic below…

“Energy and persistence conquer all things.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.”
- Napoleon Hill

I was playing around with some photos I took on my iPhone and thought I’d share a few with you.

This first one I took and just emailed to myself.  Consider it the regular shot (with minor filtering in Paintshop Pro 7 — yes, I bring it old school).

And this one…also taken with my iPhone and used the Instragram iPhone photo app to give it it’s effect.

This last one, below, that is a little green looking I applied the Scratchcam iPhone photo app and there we have it…

Hope you enjoyed the photos, I had fun playing.

So you know I can’t just walk away from this post without throwing some hippie-mindset atcha.

Let’s talk filters on reality.  We start with input from our world but quickly put filters on things, events, etc until it becomes very different from ‘what is.’  How do we get back to knowing reality and ‘what is?’  One book I recently finished, the Discourse Summaries by S.N. Goenka, has you start with meditation on the breath.  I found it useful and here’s a short quote from it:

“On this path, whatever is unknown about yourself must become known to you. For this purpose respiration will help. It acts as a bridge from the known to the unknown, because respiration is one function of the body that can be either conscious or unconscious, intentional or automatic. One starts with conscious, intentional breathing, and proceeds to awareness of natural, normal breath. And from there you will advance to still subtler truths about yourself. Every step is a step with reality; every day you will penetrate further to discover subtler realities about yourself, about your body and mind.”

Of course it gets way deeper than that, but this statement gives some decent rationale as to why to begin with focusing on the breath when beginning a Vipassana meditation practice.

Anyways, I dig it, hope you dig it…and more importantly I hope you have an awesome rest of the day.

“You are your own master,
you make your own future.
Therefore discipline yourself
as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred.”
– Dhammapada, XXV. 21 (380).

I thought I’d share this quote I found in the back of a book I recently completed called the Discourse Summaries by S.N. Goenka on the Vispassana meditation techniques which I really dig.  Was a cool quote so I thought I’d share and HEY I had a picture of this giant horse that lives a few minutes up the street from me I thought I’d include so you don’t have to stare purely at text. 

Hope you’re having an awesome Wednesday…

PS:  For those of you interested in some pretty deep meditation stuff checkout that book
I referred to here:

Another gorgeous day on the Central Coast. Thought I’d share another photo with you before I head back down.

To all of my friends, family, clients, and acquaintances online…  I’m wishing you a blessed and very Happy Thanksgiving.  I’m lucky to have a lot of amazing people in my life.  Thanks for being awesome and giving me another reason to be grateful today.

Cheers!

I think this is the first time I’m quoting a post from Facebook.
Thanks for the inspiring post Stephen.

“If you don’t like the “effects” in your life, be the “cause” of something better.” – Stephen Pierce

Not sure if he came up with that on his own as I’ve heard others speak to this concept in slightly different ways but I thought it was definitely worth of repeating…especially to start the week out with.

Have a great week and if you’re not getting what you want out of life, be the cause of something better!

PS:  One thing I’ve found useful in being the cause of what I want out of life, is getting ‘really clear’ about what that is.  Have certainty and clarity then go for it!

I hope you are all having an amazing weekend.  Wanted to share some images with you that I took recently and as usual, a few quotes that inspire me…that I hope also inspire you.

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.” – Frank Loyd Wright

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

…

“Choose to see the blue sky.”

…and have a great rest of the weekend.

Sean

Found this image posted a few times online recently.  Just felt compelled to share this with you today.

Enjoy… It’s another great quote from Steve Jobs.