April 20, 2012
by DMNK
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A Life Of Purpose

I am here for a purpose and that purpose
is to grow into a mountain,
not shrink to a grain of sand.
Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts
to become the highest mountain of all
and I will strain my potential
until it cries for mercy.

Og Mandino

Only recently I stumbled across an amazing phrase in Ayn Rand’s “Atlas Shrugged”:

“It had the freedom of release and the tension of purpose.”

While that sentence originally describes a piece of music pretty much at the beginning of the whole story, its meaning struck me as eye-opening. As life often goes, I then found this video of a TED talk in my news stream. How convenient. Let me put together all the pieces.

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February 5, 2012
by DMNK
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Let’s Make A Difference

It’s been a while since my last post. And that’s partly due to projects like the one I’m about to present to you right about now.

A few weeks ago, I was approached by a friend of mine with a project she had in mind. She wanted to know whether or not I could help her with setting up a website and stuff like that. It was all very mysterious and vague back then, so I didn’t really know what I had just gotten myself into when I said “Sure, I’m in.”

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December 27, 2011
by DMNK
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Do You Want To Change The World?

I do.

“If the whole world followed you, would you be pleased with where you took it?”

- Neale Donald Walsch

During the last months, I’ve been on a quest some may call a naïve and maybe even futile crusade. And I wouldn’t have disagreed back when I first started – but today, it’s a little different. The issues I’ve been reading and thinking about consisted of a wide array of subjects that relate to the state of humanity right here and now, at the beginning of the 21st century.

Until recently, I didn’t know what it felt like to have real dreams of what I want to achieve in life. I was used to thinking small, not taking big steps and playing it save. All I knew was that the world was an evil place – that’s what everyone told me. A place in which it was almost impossible to live life the way I had imagined it back then, when I was still a kid.

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December 5, 2011
by DMNK
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How To: Become One Of The Good Guys (Or Girls)

For men, being one of the good guys is a double-edged sword. Well, unless you’re not an idiot that thinks that being a grade A douche will net you anything close to a decent girl or respectable woman – or even a real lady. So actually, it’s not even a double-edged sword for us. I like that: getting rid of a common (albeit stupid) idea in the first three lines. I’ll try to keep that pace up.

Being a good person then becomes a general idea, only limited by one aspect: the will to be(come) one. While we certainly behave in bad or wrong ways accidently and without giving it much thought every now and then, becoming a good person doesn’t happen by chance like that – we have to put in real effort, thought and heart.

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