If you get around much to other blogger’s sites in the personal development genre, there’s a very good chance you’ve bumped into my friend Galen Pearl. Her comments are thoughtful and sincere and come from a place of insight and wisdom. If you follow her blog, 10 Steps to Finding Your Happy Place, you know that insight and wisdom runs deep. She very kindly nominated me to participate in the My 7 Links blog post project, created by the Tripbase travel blog.
The My 7 Links project’s objective is to bring bloggers together to share life lessons, particularly from posts long ago settled to the bottom tiers of our dusty archives by asking us to resurrect 7 articles that fit the 7 categories they provide.
Tripbase then shares the best posts from those bloggers who have been nominated on their blog and every day on Facebook and Twitter at #My7Links (go check it out! – But come back! You’re not done here! :)).
I am deeply grateful to Galen for the nomination and have had fun looking at some of my older posts to find fits for the 7 categories. Since M2bH is only 4 months old at present, I don’t have much depth in my archives to draw from, so have had to include a few articles that won’t be all that old. Still, I hope those of you who click over to those articles find them to be of value!
My 7 links
Most beautiful: The Joy of Touch (this post was inspired by my mom’s double by-pass surgery. Her pain was intense. Her reaction to the drugs was intense. Her discomfort was intense. But touch helped her endure it all)
Most popular: 10 Ways You Can Stop Being So Easily Offended (This post has gotten the most visits by far. With most of us either easily offended or knowing someone who is, this post seems to have universal appeal)
Most controversial: 6 Ways Religious Faith can Increase Happiness (this was one of my very early posts when crickets were all I heard when I hit “publish.” So given the potential divide religion can cause, the controversy is purely theoretical — although a couple of the crickets may have gotten into fights over it, I hear)
Most helpful: Turning Guilt from Mortal Enemy to Best Friend (with so many people burdened by guilt and with so many people misunderstanding the positive role guilt can play in our lives, I believe that this post is a critical read for most people — if I do say so myself :))
Surprise success: Embrace your Inner Mosquito(one morning, while minding my own darn business, a crazy mosquito came at me with a dedication that was impressive. So much so that it led to this post. People really seemed to like it a lot. Based on the feedback, it’s my funniest post as well)
Overlooked: The Cost of Happiness (another one of my very early posts, I was proud of it. I’m a high school economics teacher and incorporated some basic economics into the art of happiness)
Most proud of: 5 Deadly Cancers to the Human Soul (I got some really positive feedback on this one. And frankly, I’m proud of the way it turned out. Read it to see if you agree)
Once nominated, we get to nominate up to 5 other bloggers for the same honor. This part was tough. There are so many wonderful bloggers with amazing sites writing amazing material. Go peek in on each of these wonderful sites and you’ll see exactly what I mean.
My Nominees for My 7 Links
Dave Ursillo: Lead without Followers, Live from Within
Let Me Know What You Think!
Follow the links and let me know what you think about my posts and those I nominated
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Hello!
Your posts are beautiful and so worthy Ken! What an honor to read each of them and your thoughts on them … wow! “Most Beautiful” and “Most Proud” are my personal favorites!
Now, you certainly do have some stellar taste and some good friends sir! 😉 I love several of these blogs and will most certainly be checking out the ones I’m unfamiliar with. You give the bloggers such a gift to promote them on your wonderful blog and you give your followers such a gift to introduce them to others! Niiice!
Always a pleasure stopping by and leaving with a full heart … thank you, thank you!
Wishing you and yours a safe, fantabulous Friday and weekend!
Much kindness,
Elena
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Elena,
What an emotional lift you always are! Thank you so much for the kindness of your words. I’m floating right now on their buoyancy!
I suppose the nomination process was the most difficult because there are just so many blogs that are so good! Trying to limit them to 5 was difficult, but those are the rules of the project.
I chose Stu’s for his no-nonsense practical advice on breaking through locked doors to live a better life at Unlock the Door, for his insight and his openness. It doesn’t take long to get the sense that you just know and like the guy. His blog was also the host of my very first guest post! 🙂
Lori made the list because of the wonderful dialogue and community she creates at Life, for instance. She’s warm and challenging at the same time. There have been a few times I commented and she replied with a very polite raised eyebrow. I love her questions and her openness as well.
Barrie’s Live Bold and Bloom was nominated because of the wisdom I feel pours from the pages of her blog.
Sibyl is elegant and insightful. Her blog at The Possibility of Today demonstrates both.
And Dave is a fearless leader who recognizes what ticks underneath the hood is infinitely more important to leadership even than the numbers of people who follow — even if no one follows! And his writing is poetic.
So yes, go explore these fine bloggers and check out their archives as well.
Take care and have a wonderful weekend yourself, Elena!
So the challenge is laid out then Ken! I’ll do my best to meet it in the post that I’ve got lined up for today 😉
Wonderful to read more of your work Ken, amazing as ever. Take care 🙂
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Thanks Stu! That mean a lot to me!
And yes, the challenge is laid out, my friend! You won’t disappoint! I look forward to the new post.
I also look forward to reading the articles you’ll link to for the 7 categories (if you choose to participate in the My 7 Links project, of course) and who you then nominate.
[…] and wade in deep, rather than a collection of links and mentions. But as it stands, Ken Wert from Meant to Be Happy nominated me to take part in The 7 Links Challenge – you may have already seen it around, but you […]
Ken: Hey. So kind of you to think of the Possibility of Today and include me in your 7 links. I know there are a ton of different sites you could have chosen and I really appreciate you choosing mine:)
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My pleasure, Sibyl! You produce some wonderful work on your blog and I thoroughly enjoy spending time there breathing in your wisdom and insight.