Mother Earth

https://climate.nasa.gov/adopt-the-planet/#/
 In the lead up to Earth Day celebrations on April 22, this month NASA launched a campaign that allows members of the public to adopt patches of the earth. The initiative titled “Adopt the Planet” has earmarked 64,000 pieces to be assigned randomly to those who sign on.

Signing up for it generates an e-certificate in the name of the person and details from NASA’s vaults including satellite imagery of the piece of land or sea that they have “adopted.”

Review of The monk who sold his Ferrari

The core of the book is the Seven Virtues of Enlightened Learning, which Mantle reveals one by one. Now, although the book presents them as actual Virtues learned from Himalayan gurus, it’s important to remember as you read that these are made up by the author — actually, he pulled them from other sources and put them together:

1. master your mind
2. follow your purpose
3. practice kaizen
4. live with discipline
5. respect your time
6. selflessly serve others
7. embrace the present

Each of these Virtues is discussed in some detail in separate chapters, each of them with a number of concepts and habits to develop. Most of them are very inspiring and potentially very useful. After reading the book, I incorporated several of them into my life, including the ones that involve positive thinking, visualizing goals and more. Again, these are not new concepts, and have been discussed in many other books, but the book presents a great collection of useful concepts that you might want to try out.