Muhammad Yunus:
He doesn’t have the profile of Bob Geldof or Bono, but this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, has an interesting idea & its working.

He is the man of the hour. Honored for his groundbreaking micro-economic strategy. Which he has implemented in his home country of Bangladesh.

Yunus has started a revoutionary new kind of banking that has loaned millions of dollars to the worlds poorest people with no collateral. (Noteworthy: 97% of his banks customers are women) He is confident that he will reduce the poverty rate in Bangladesh by 50% by 2012. He says his strategy is simple & can be implemented anywhere to do away with poverty. He started by simply lending $27 to 42 people, split amongst them, (about .65cents each).

Imagine, from $27 to reducing the poverty of one of the worlds poorest countries by 50%.

Why aren’t more NGOs & governments looking into this? Seems to me, & the Nobel Committee, he might just be on to something.

I know he looks cute. But that’s precisely why the disguise is so genius. Who would ever suspect?

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
-Umberto Eco

1. Good music can save your soul

2. A good laugh can save your life

3. Friends are family that we choose, so choose carefully

4. Breathing is the best way to live longer – don’t believe me, try not breathing, see how it goes

5. Your smile says more about you then your clothes, your car & your job combined

6. Sometimes the best thing to do is nothing at all

7. Listen to other’s opinions, but make up your own mind

8. Take a nap…dream a little

9. Monkey’s are funny

10. Life’s short, eat dessert first