Jared Johnson’s Lifestream

A small business management classmate posted this video in a blog post about the characteristics of an entrepreneur.

I posted some ideas related to the video on my blog.

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Up In The Air - Trailer (In Theaters Now)

Sherlock Holmes - Trailer (In Theaters Now)

Away We Go - Trailer (Available on DVD)

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If you don't have anything going on tonight, head over to Ebenezers Coffeehouse on Capitol Hill (2nd St & F St NE) for a screening of the documentary film, At the End of Slavery. It will be shown at 8:30pm in the lower-level performance space.

Narrated by actor Danny Glover, At the End of Slavery: The Battle for Justice in our Time takes you inside the violent and ugly business of modern-day slavery — the buying and selling of human beings — from the brothels of the Philippines to the brick kilns of India. 

Undercover footage and first-person testimony from former slaves and respected experts expose the enormity of the crime — but a remarkable strategy and the courage of today's abolitionists offer hope for a final end to this brutal trade.

-- Text from http://attheendofslavery.com/

View the At the End of Slavery Trailer

For your information, I love the song "God's Gonna Cut you Down" (played in the film's trailer) from the Man in Black, Mr. Johnny Cash.

For more information see: http://attheendofslavery.com/

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The rock group Switchfoot released a new album this week, and the second track is song called "Mess of Me." The song's chorus declares:

I've made a mess of me I wanna get back the rest of me 
I´ve made a mess of me I wanna spend the rest of my life alive 
I´ve made a mess of me I wanna reverse this tragedy 
I´ve made a mess of me I wanna spend the rest of my life alive 
The rest of my life alive! 

Lately, I have been contemplating on a passage from the Bible that says:

For we are God's masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.  --http://read.ly/Eph2.10.NLT

The song "Mess of Me" is a personal reminder that when I try to order my own life I tend to make a mess of it. I inevitably turn my focus toward financial gain and prestige, instead of focusing on the "good things" I was created to do.

A mash-up of the song lyric and the passage makes me picture a "masterpiece" of sculpture, like Michelangelo's David, shattered and scattered across the floor in little shards of marble. It was created anew as a spectacular piece of art and now it is reduced to a pile of rubble. I would hate to get to the end of my life and say, "I have made a mess of me, and I wish I would have spent my life alive." The amazing thing is God continuously gives me the opportunity to live the life he created for me. I don't have that kind of patience!

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The Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals today to force a one-game playoff with the Detroit Tigers for the 2009 American League Central Title. This means the Twins will play at least one more game in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. They will open Target Field at the beginning of the 2010 MLB Season.

My favorite Metrodome moment will always be when Centerfielder Kirby Puckett hit an 11th-inning walk-off homerun in Game 6 of the 1991 World Series against the Atlanta Braves. That run forced a game seven, and the Twins ended up winning the series. Kirby Puckett and Michael Jordan were my two childhood sports heroes.

I love Jack Buck's call on this play -- "And we'll see you tomorrow night!"

Video of Kirby Puckett's homerun

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Jessica and I went to U2's 360° Tour show at FedEx Field on Tuesday night. We tailgated with friends before the show and played a serious game of Cornhole in the gray parking lot. The set for this show was gigantic. We sat up in the 400 level, but we still had a good view thanks to the 360° video screen. 

Muse was the opening act. I enjoyed them, but the people around us did not seem very into that part of the show.

                   

Click here to download:

U2_360_Tour.zip (5646 KB)

U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

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