Office life. If you let it, it can suck the energy right out of you. Or, you can take advan­tage of your work­space to put pep in your step and become more pro­duc­tive than ever.

Your office—where you spend 30% to 50% of your wak­ing hours—can work for you or against you, depend­ing on how you use it.

“The work­place is the for­got­ten arena of the self-improvement bat­tle,” explains SparkPeo­ple Coach, Joe Downie. “But it’s the place where peo­ple need help the most! Stress is a huge fac­tor in how well you per­form at work. It clouds your think­ing and wears you down,” con­tin­ues Coach Joe. “With­out that energy, you lose cre­ativ­ity, con­cen­tra­tion and moti­va­tion.” In return, he says, all you gain is irri­tabil­ity and tension.

One of Bo Sanchez’s clas­sic. I love how he waxes spir­i­tual after mak­ing you laugh so hard. He’s one of those writ­ers who always leaves you with that “after­glow” when you read his pieces.

My dad cel­e­brates his birth­day today so I ded­i­cate this post to my dad. :-)

Found out the other day that 72 peo­ple danc­ing to Thriller beat the pre­vi­ous world record of 63.

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Jack­son him­self wasn’t there. But there were just enough of his fans on hand to take a shot at break­ing the Gui­ness World Record for the num­ber of peo­ple danc­ing to “Thriller.” Madame Tussaud’s wax museum in New York says 73 fans turned out to dance around Jackson’s own wax fig­ure to do the dance to his biggest hit. The pre­vi­ous record was 62. The event was to mark the 25^th anniver­sary of the release of the Thriller video.

Don’t send out con­grat­u­la­tions cards just yet. Guin­ness says it will review tapes of yesterday’s event before con­firm­ing the records — a process that could take two weeks.

What about this? I’ve writ­ten about them last year. Around 1,500 inmates/prisoners of the Cebu Provin­cial Deten­tion and Reha­bil­i­ta­tion Cen­ter, Cebu, Philippines.

Dear God is a global project for peo­ple around the world to share their inner­most hopes — and fears — through prayer.

It doesn’t mat­ter what your ver­sion of God is…Jesus, Allah, Bud­dha, sim­ply a spir­i­tual uni­ver­sal energy, or maybe you call God THE FORCE… pray­ing to a higher power–something or some­one greater than us soothes and heals–aside from giv­ing us the sense that there is more to life than our sim­ple exis­tence. It is believed that peo­ple who pray are health­ier, hap­pier and more resilient. Some peo­ple, like the Chris­t­ian saints con­nect their ful­fill­ment to ful­fill­ing the will of God.

Hey every­one! I am now offi­cially part of Blog­ging Idol 2! (clap clap clap)

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