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Tomorrow(Aug 1st) from 9-10am I’ll be on OPB’s Think Out Loud show talking about my journey from mega to pub church, the emerging church in general and about you all One of the tangents they want to pursue is the influence of The Shack on the emerging church. It’s actually written and self-published by a guy here in Portland and has been a bona-fide phenomenon in the publishing world- selling half a million copies and counting with little or no advertising. I’m going to blog it (when I finish reading it), but my question for you is: how many of…

Here’s a tip. Never read the first four chapters of The Shack while simultaneously watching the Kite Runner. Ugh. Wish me luck sleeping tonight. Think I’ll go check on the kids…

It may look like I am in China, but I am in Portland Oregon at Chinatown.

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Portland has a population of 568,380, and has been called the greenest city in the U.S. And the second greenest in the world. (Wikipedia) While here I would like to visit the Portland Art Museum, and the Portland Zoo. Also the Japanese Gardens would be of special interest. Keep following me on my journey, and on twitter, my user name is shubibroom. Take care, Love, Shubi.

How To Instantly Feel Better When You’re Sad
Posted: 24 Jul 2008 04:51 PM CDT
To date, the most popular post on this blog has been How To Stop Letting Little Things In Life Piss You Off, which is interesting because…well, it has nothing to do with how to start a business
But that’s ok. Today I thought I’d share a similar tip. It is utterly simple, I use it often, and it really works.
We all feel sad at times. It can even happen for no apparent reason at all! One day you might just be driving along and wonder to yourself, “why am I feeling so down, this is weird and there is no reason I should feel this way”. Or you may have a legitimate reason.
Regardless, I’ve discovered a little trick that is counterintuitive and can make you feel better right away: give someone a genuine compliment totally out of the blue.
I think this works because it takes the focus off of you. It makes you realize that if you are sitting there feeling sorry for yourself, then it probably happens to other people too. So why not start thinking about someone else for a change and help them out! Ironically, you do end up helping yourself out in the process…it just happens indirectly by thinking about other people instead.
About a month ago I went running with two friends. Usually I feel “high” after running. Supposedly it releases endorphins or something like that. But that day for some reason I didn’t. On the drive home, I decided to stop thinking about myself and try it out since I knew it had worked in the past.
Now if you’re like me, it can feel a little weird giving someone a huge compliment out of the blue. So I cheated and sent a text message. To one of my female friends I had just ran with I sent “nice job today you are getting faster, keep it up!” She is always the slow one in the group and I knew that would make her feel better.
When my buddy Marshal finally landed a meeting with some potential buyers for his company, I sent him a quick note “Hey super star, all the hard work has finally paid off…you deserve it!”. He walked in more confident.
After a party one time I sent a message to a friend the next day: “by the way, I meant to tell you last night you looked incredibly classy… seriously you were radiating, not sure what it was but keep it up!” She pretty much melted.
Try it out next time you’re feeling sad. Give someone a compliment that is:
Genuine
Huge
and Out of the Blue
Till next time, keep breaking free!
Brian Armstrong
www.startbreakingfree.com

1. Getting ready for baby number 3. Whoa. Little Josie June Hyatt should be here any day. I’ll say it again… Whoa. 2. Along with John Johnson, I have a book proposal/sample chapter out to a couple of places- The working title of the book is “The Middle Way- What Happens When the Existing and Emerging Church Listen to Each Other.” Basically it flows out of the bi-weekly conversations John and I have, generally about church. He from the perspective of someone pastoring a large, suburban church and me from the perspective of the pub church guy. We often disagree…

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I should probably feel less schadenfreude over this than I do… (ht Justin Baeder) “First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry. The Pirate Bay site includes a scanned copy of a college textbook with an exhortation to share. By RANDALL STROSS Published: July 27, 2008 AFTER scanning his textbooks and making them available to anyone to download free, a contributor at the file-sharing site PirateBay.orgcomposed a colorful message for “all publishers” of college textbooks, warning them that “myself and all other students are tired of getting” ripped off. (The contributor’s message included many ripe expletives, but hey, this…

Aug 14th- the live event will be simulcast on the Saddleback Civil Forum website Home View Past Forums Holocaust Survivors Dr. Rick Warren is a pastor, author, global strategist and philanthropist. His book, The Purpose Driven Life, has sold more than thirty million copies in English, and is published in more than fifty languages. In 1980, Warren and his wife Kay founded Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA. Today it is one of America’s most influential congregations, with more than 20,000 members. Senator Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic candidate for the Office of President of the United States, was elected…

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