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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Thursday, April 25, 2013
Chobani Founded by Iconoclast
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Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya made Greek yogurt available in the U.S. It's a product that five years ago was not available in the U.S. and Americans did not know they wanted it. Now, Chobani has trouble keeping up with demands for their Greek yogurt and the "Goliath" yogurt companies are so threatened that they are making their own Greek yogurt selections available. In the past, there would be no way a small start-up food company could compete with age-old companies. As I've been telling my students and anyone willing to listen, we are living in a time where technology is allowing a little David with a great idea for a great product or service to compete with (and be a threat to) existing big Goliaths. And if you understand the life principles taught in SpirFit that Hamdi Ulukaya also understands, your chances are even greater.
Social Media and Chobani
The technology of social media was essential in Chobani's growth. More about how Chobani uses social media can be found at: http://www.nbcnews.com/id/49084239/ns/business-small_business/t/how-chobani-yogurt-used-social-media-boost-sales/#.UXmqj7VwqSo
More of Chobani in the News
Chobani on NBC News South Carolina
http://www.wcnc.com/news/business/Popular-yogurt-company-185998602.html
Disclosure: Neither the writer of this blog or SpirFit Academy has any financial interest or any ties with Chobani or NBC.
Saturday, April 20, 2013
Monday, April 15, 2013
Rachel Cruz' Story
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Sunday, April 14, 2013
Sexual Abuse
Surviving and recovering from sexual abuse - http://spirfit.org/Academy/sexualabuse/index.htm
Monday, January 21, 2013
Google Founder Spotted on NYC Wearing Hi-Tech Glasses
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So, this guy on Twitter just so happens to run into Sergei Brin (co-founder of Google) in the New York City subways wearing the $1500 high tech glasses Google is promoting.
If you ask me, I don't think it's a coincidence. I think it's staged, and this Tweeter Noah Zerkin and Sergei Brin are probably collaborators.
Think about it. This tweet and picture has gone viral being picked up and spread by many news websites. If my theory about this "run-in" is correct, Google just got a lot of free advertisement for this pair of high tech glasses they are pushing. This is just something that Sergei Brin is brilliant enough to pull off and it's very characteristic of him to do marketing in such an unorthodox way. It's also very characteristic of him to be unlike other billionaires in willing to ride the New York City subways.
My Spiritual Awakening, MLK, and Obama
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Eleven years ago, on January 21st, 2002 (which also landed on a Monday like today that was also Martin Luther King's Day), I had a spiritual awakening. It was the first I had of its kind and I probably hadn't had one like it since.
Don't get me wrong. I've made a lot of spiritual progress since than, but that one was just so sudden and it came upon me with so much power and love from God. It was so sudden and it was so needed as I was going through a major depression back then. (I've since spoken to someone who was clinically depressed and on medication. She told me that my case was worse than hers, and that if I would've sought medical attention, they would definitely have medicated me.) Anyway, that awakening brought me out of that depression without any medical attention or drugs. God can do amazing things.
Ever since that awakening, I've also been making progress in my life in terms of following not only what's "safe" but following God and following what He has placed in my heart. I've made decisions that did not and still does not make sense to many (especially when many only know one way, one program,... with a one track mind. Not that that one track is wrong. When so many people follow the same track or same type of life, it's got to be working (to a certain extent). But it's just not the only way, or even the best way as most people think. Anyway, I digress.
11 years ago, when I had that abrupt awakening that God brought on upon me, I was living by myself in San Leandro, California. The awakening came upon me after the night before (or shortly after 12am on 1/21/2002). Then I went to sleep probably with the best sleep I've had for awhile upto that point. When I awoke in the morning, I drove down to the closest book store, Borders in Union City and asking God to give me answers. (This is probably not significant, but I thought I would include some less significant details anyway. When I feel like I need answers, I go into a big bookstore, ask God to guide me, and start going through books. On that day of awakening in 2002, after going through a lot of books, two books captivated me on that day. If I remember correctly, they were _Not Your Mother's Life_ by Joan K. Peters and _The Call to the Soul_ by Marjory Zoet Bankson.)
Despite gradual progress since then and despite having gone on a less traveled road, I still seem to have a long ways to go. Maybe you would like to hear me say that "I've come a long way" which may be true, but it seems to me that I have a much longer way to go. I won't say that I am tired but I do feel fed up on some days because I am not as far along as I had planned (although progress has been apparent). Back in my awakening of January 21st, 2002, I did not know why God chose Martin Luther King's Day to awaken me. Since then, I can see a little bit more of why, but I probably do not know entirely yet why God chose MLK day And the mystery expands as this year, my anniversary of my spiritual awakening is again on a Martin Luther King's Monday and it coincides with Barack Obama's public inauguration of his second term as President of the United States.
Now I've been learning about Barack Obama even before he became President, just as I've been learning about a number of others who I consider to be iconoclasts (Sergei Brin, Larry Page, Rick Warren, Joyce Meyer, Steve Jobs, Taylor Swift, Matt Damon,...) From what I've read and what I've seen, Obama is someone I admire. (It doesn't mean I agree with everything he believes in his idealogy, but I don't think there's anyone we can agree with entirely including those we admire or look up to.) Well anyway (to conclude this journal entry), I will say that I've made progress since January 21st, 2002, but I have a lot more progress to make. May God bless me and be with me. I am sure more will be revealed in my life.
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