Monday, February 28, 2011
Expect to win 25-50
So far I have really gotten into this new book. Bill Glass does a great job of explaining how using your thoughts can help you control the outcome of a situation. And the power of positive thoughts. Here Bill explains to the reader how the prisoners of war during the Vietnam war at the camp Hanoi used positive thoughts to keep them going for as long as 9 years of being locked up and help hostage. Bill talks about how these men took there time in this prison and turned it into a better experience than what it should of been. He says that some men while there were able to learn new languages and even become good at golf because while they were locked up they kept a postive attitude and kept those good thoughts in mind.
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Expect to win 1-25
Well this week I was challenged by one of my better friends to read a book called expect to win by a man named Bill Glass. This book is more of an inspirational book. It teaches some steps you can take mentally to help yourself succeed in sports or whatever you apply it to. The reason he is more sports centered is that he was an all-pro defensive end for the Cleveland Browns. This first part of the book talks about how thinking the right way is key in order to succeed in whatever tasks you are trying to achieve. Glass does a good job explaining this idea by giving you a few examples like if you think garbage you get garbage. What I got from that is if you are thinking bad thoughts about what you are doing or if you don't have confidence in yourself you are bound to fail at whatever you are doing. So if you are trying to catch a football and all you think about is how you aren't going to be able to make this catch you won't catch it.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Watchers
In these pages Travis and his new friend, the dog he found while hiking, have got to know each other. With this came some surprises like the fact that the dog is super smart and can actually think. Travis names his new friend Einstein which is a fitting name for this dog since he is a freaking genius. The two communicate together by spelling out words with scrabble pieces. Einstein explains everything to Travis about how he escaped from a secret lab and that the beast that was chasing them is named the outsider. He then tells Travis that the Outsider for some reason hates him with such a passion that he is trying to kill him and won't stop till he does.
Watchers 150-200
Well during these few pages Travis and Einstein go to town for a nice evening together. It just so happen that the rapist repair man never left Nora alone and is still at her house during this section too. Well he decides that the two of them should go out for a nice evening on the town. And to make sure Nora doesn't try and run away or anything he keeps a tight grip on her and threatens her the entire time. Well while they are out they just happen to run into Travis and Einstein as well. Einstein notices something wrong because he is a freak of nature and drags Travis back over to Nora and the rapist. The Rapist gets scared off because Travis is more or less a beast. Don't let the causality of this blog fool you. It actually was a very intriguing section of reading.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Watchers 75-110
When we last left Nora she had been complaining about her dead aunt. Boring I know well things are about to get hot well more intense than anything. during these pages the one part that stuck out the most was when Nora has to hire a repair man to fix her television. The repair man arrives and of course she lets him in. Well as things go on this guy tries to rape Nora. Yeah the book picked up a bit around that time. He doesn't succeed in his attempt to rape Nora but won't leave either she almost becomes his captive person. Overall not part of the book a little weird with the whole rape thing but oh well.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
New T.V. Discovery
Well other day while I was going through my daily routine of watching t.v. I discovered a new and exciting channel BBC. The British Broadcasting Channel the only reason I thought this was awesome was I did not know we had British t.v. here in America the land of the free. Its not all that exciting once you sit down and watch the actually shows but one sticks out from all others and that would be the rugby matches that are play annually. I had the pleasure of watch England play France and holy crap this game is intense. I honestly think that I might of missed out a bit by not getting the chance to play this awesome sport.
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