Moving!

5 Minute Superhero has now moved to it's new and pleasant home: www.gonewacko.org
Please take some time to go there and enjoy your visit!  X*)

30 tips to live a magical, wonderful life...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0GbEVAf_K4&feature=player_embedded
Really great little video - inspiring.  X*)

Pencil Parable.

The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside, just before putting it into the box. There are five things you need to know, he told the pencil, before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best pencil you can be.

[1] You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in Someone’s hand.

[2] You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but you’ll need it to become a better pencil.

[3] You will be able to correct mistakes you will make.

[4] The most important part of you will always be what’s inside.

[5] On every surface you are used on, you must leave your mark. No matter what the condition, you must continue to write.

Originally found: http://jmm.aaa.net.au/articles/4337.htm.  

Stand Up by Sugarland...

This is one of the best songs to inspire empowerment that I've heard recently.  If you have songs that you know of that represent empowerment or encourages people - Please post them here.  Hugs to all!

I can't get it to just appear here for your viewing pleasure, so please go to youtube via this link and enjoy.
http://youtu.be/ARkxnRbyR1c

Little boy uses CPR Super Power on his sister.

Check out this video of a little boy who used his "super power" of doing CPR on his sister.  He learned it from the movie Blackhawk Down.  


http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Fvideo%2Fus-15749625%2F9-year-old-boy-saves-little-sister-with-cpr-24963211&h=6c56a


What super power have you learned and where did you learn it?  

Ways To Be A 5 Minute Superhero...

Here are just a Few ways you can be a 5-minute superhero.  Please post any ideas you have as well.
Smile at someone.
Donate - time, goods you aren't using, etc.
Advocate - find a cause you can support and support it.
Hug someone (with their permission of course)
Learn something new - or teach someone else something new...
Love
Recycle
Use kind words
Network
Get active
Simplify
Breathe - deep breathing exhilarates and works wonders on your mood!
Encourage chivalry (and whatever the female equivalent is lol)
Believe - find something to believe in, and stand up for it.
Reduce waste
Tutor someone
Vote!
Increase/Encourage integrity
Compliment someone (sincerely)
Encourage others
Hope you found that helpful.  These are now on my 5-Minute Superhero cards that I'll be handing out. X*)

A Call to Basics

What’s really important.

AKA – A Call to Basics

                I was just having some nightmares about what it would be like to be honestly fending for ourselves in a post-apocalyptic world.  Scary thing is – it could happen.  A lot of us are pampered and it would break us to go through some of the things we would have to, but a lot of us would also surprise people with the strength and resiliency we can garner.  I’m not just talking about war-torn apocalypse – I’m talking about the apocalypse of Alzheimer’s disease, financial crashes, physical paralysis, drug abuse, community violence and other abrupt life-events that affect so many of us.  We can’t say it won’t happen to us, and we can’t plan for everything – but we’ve all felt the repercussions of these things from someone in our lives.

                In thinking about what’s important in my own life I must say Relationships top the whole shebang.  Relationship with God, with Family, with Friends and even acquaintances are important.  It would probably be “easier” to survive physically without people to “tie us down,” but what sort of survival is that?  To what end would that sort of existence become?  Communities of whatever size are intrinsic to being human.

                Things are only as important as we make them unless they have to do with our survival.  I can’t think of any electronics that we would absolutely need except those medical devices – and even some of those I question.  Things like first-aid-kits that have been hobbled together, food, water… those are necessities as far as things go.  Even shelter is something that can usually be passed over. 

                I think a lot of us have passed over the basics of what being human is, and overburdened ourselves with what other things we think we need.  We must have that new iPad, this new car, that new piece of furniture or nail polish or shoes.  Maybe these things ARE causing us mortal trouble?  Maybe we’re so far away from the basics that we can no longer see the important things.  What does it really matter if we don’t catch up with the lifestyle Jay-Z or Bill Gates or our “wealthier” next door neighbor has?  Or, if we are Jay-Z or Bill Gates or Neighbor-A – why does it matter if we keep that position?

                I would challenge all of us (myself included) to evaluate what our priorities are, why they are what they are, and what good they will do us.  I ask this, because I’m seeing more and more people who have worked so very hard to establish a financial safety net and independence, only to require leaning on someone else in order to survive and accomplish daily tasks.  What are you living for?  Is it the experiences that you’ll be able to pass along to other family members?  Is it the money that you can save up for safety?  In the very end – what really matters? 

[Fully original work by Lisa Weiche, 2011.  All rights reserved.]