Jennie S. Bev

Justice: What's the right thing to do?

 

I'm currently reading Michael J. Sandel's Justice: What's The Right Thing to Do? Sandel is a prominent professor and a best-selling author. And justice is a topic of curiosity and invites readers to be more capacious.

A review by The Guardian can be found here.

NYC Condominium: Urban Oasis

These are the details of the NYC Condominium that I love. It's a small one-bedroom condo with two rooms only. But the details of interior design are marvelous. I'm learning interior decorating, so this is a great success story to emulate.

Photos are taken from HGTV Urban Oasis.

Being a motivator and learning psychology

If you want to pursue the motivated way, a.k.a. being a motivator, don't just talk about nice and inspiring things without any scientific basic. Learn about psychology. You should know who you are dealing with and what kind of "canvas" they are.

Two important branches in Psychology are: Jungian or Depth Analytical Psychology and Positive Psychology.

Jungian Psychology (founded by Carl Jung) employs a method in which the unconscious mind is regarded as the source of healing and development. The unconscious provides the answer to mental block, which is crucial in releasing a motivated self. Jungian Psychology helps people in healing from past traumas, which are blocking optimized lives. It aims at healing past traumas.

Positive Psychology (founded by Martin Seligman and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi recently around 1998) is a school of Psychology in which positive human functioning is studied with scientific understanding to find and nurture genius talents in individuals in light of building optimized families and communities. Positive Psychology learns what is done right to understand and to seek optimized fulfilling lives. It is aimed at optimizing performance.

Definition of success

Success is a mindset.
It's not a journey or a destination.
It's already within you.
It's about being and becoming.
(Jennie S. Bev)

[Note: It simply means: whatever your mind sets you to be, just be.
Success is not everything but a person will only feel "full" when s/he believes intellectually and heartfully that s/he is successful.]

Mirror bedside table

   

Mirror bedside table and dresser from Pottery Barn.

Books and businesses

I live surrounded by books --both print and electronic-- and businesses. As I'm studying for a license in a specific business field, I'm also reading plenty of books on my latest generation Kindle.

I love Kindle because it's soft to eyes and doesn't distract me to blogging, tweeting and FB-ing like an iPad does. These few months are great for me as I have a small achievable goal that should take me closer to my destination.

Now is the age of electronic book and business. Just bring a brain along with a laptop-iPad-Kindle, and you're all set to make yourself a self-made millionaire many times over.

US Federal Reserve Bank: does power tend to corrupt?

The Federal Reserve steers the American economy and yet it remains a system that is shrouded in mystery. Few understand the logic behind its policy decisions, decisions that have a profound effect on the US economy. And over the years it has operated seemingly independently of the more democratically elected arms of the US government. Its public stance, generally lacking in transparency has fueled conspiracy theories. Some even suggest its formation lead directly to the Great Depression.

via www.mint.com

US Federal Reserve Bank is some sort of bank cartel organization, which is a private corporation with federal interest. It has the power to print US money, which is not backed by gold. What a great power to control the world.

Read more: The Fed is a Fascist Cartel by Nelson Hultberg

And as cited from Hultberg's article above:

The mega-banks that make up the Federal Reserve System are dangerously evil, there is no doubt about that. But their evil does not spring from their "privateness," nor from their "corporateness." Their evil springs from the mixture of their corporate goals with government coercion, from the fact that they are in bed with the biggest evil of all -- the federal Leviathan in Washington, which grants them protection from market demand. Kick them out of that bed into the free-market, deny them any and all legislated privileges, and we solve the problem of mega-bank exploitation.

Taking charge

I'm reading two distinguished books. Laura Munson's memoir This is Not the Story You Think It is: A Season of Unlikely Happiness and Richard Koch's Pareto Theory development book The 80/20 Individual.

Both are enlightening and mindset-changing. We should take charge of our lives and let nothing gets in the way of our choices to be happy and to be meaningful.

Life isn't that hard, just focus on the top 20% of our skills and top 20% of reasons of our happiness. The rest (80%) will come into place.