Amazing Vision – Edition 2

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June 30, 2008 – 1:35 pm
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If there is one post worthy of you slowing down to read today, you might try this one. The writing contest results are in and posted here. It was a truly enjoyable time gathering the posts for this writing contest. Congratulations to the winners. To all who participated I say thank you for sharing your amazing visions with me, my readers, and the interweb.

I chose this topic for my contest because I have always been fascinated by Amazing Visionaries. They range from Walt Disney (photo: wikipedia) to Pat Rodgers (my grandfather). By watching their moves, I have been able to recreate some of that success in my own life. And I have written about it.

I heard a story many years ago about how the new tellers at banks get to spend a week handling money … nothing more. The reasoning behind this was so that the tellers could detect a fact having been made so familiar with the real. When we study the look of a successful person’s moves, we too can avoid being duped by false success stories. Just like the well known authorize.net spots fraudulent consumers, so these posts will help you spot the bad examples as well as the ones to follow.

The stories mentioned here are the “real deal.” By collecting them and putting them in one place, hopefully it will rub off on us. If you enjoyed the links, please bookmark this page, as well as the permalinks individually, and share them with others. In my opinion, now more than ever, the world needs more amazing visions! I think you will be inspired by what you read here.

Below are the 6 winning urls for “Amazing Visions: Blog Carnival Edition 2.” After that are links to all the entries. Why hold them back when inspiration is so lacking in our times! I hope you enjoy reading all of them as much as I did. Stay tuned to Postcards for Edition 3 in the near future.

TOP 3

  1. How I got Started with Blogging and Freelance Writing by Michael Kwan
  2. Mother Teresa on Love by Chelle
  3. How to become what you want to become, in about two days posted at I Will Not Die.

Honorable Mentions

  1. An Entry from Torri’s Travels by Torri
  2. Nick’s Entry on Randy Pausch posted at Romandock
  3. Amazing Vision – Mahatma Gandhi posted at Growing Happiness.

Though they didn’t get in the top three, these highly well written posts are the rest of these amazing visions . . . Please read them, you will find strength and inspiration. (Thank you again to these bloggers!) -in no particular order …

Josh Waitzkin an Inspiring Performer by Isabella Mori

A One Man Peacekeeping Force by Alexander

She’s Inspiration by Katelynjane

How Hokusai can Inspire Designers and Bloggers posted at Designer Daily

The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone – How In The World Did The Ten Commandments Get To America Before Columbus Did? posted at Shattered Paradigm.

Privilege to Be with a Loved One at the Time of Death posted at Andy, saying, “My dad was one of my greatest heroes. This is my tribute to his legacy.”

(and one of my own I just threw in at the end!)

Amazing People and Things by Damien Riley

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8 Comments

  1. Jessica The Rock Chick
    Posted June 23, 2008 at 12:38 am | Permalink

    I so want to enter but just can’t focus enough to write anything. I am trying, though :) These are fabulous entries. There’s so many talented bloggers and inspirations out there!

    Jessica The Rock Chicks last blog post..Build Me Up

  2. Peter
    Posted June 23, 2008 at 12:59 am | Permalink

    Thanks for publishing those, fine reading. I love the idea of the blog carnivals so that writers get to feature other good writers rather than just their own stuff

    Peters last blog post..“Free” Cell Phone Ringer Scams. Beware.

  3. Chelle
    Posted July 1, 2008 at 2:11 am | Permalink

    Wow! How exciting is that?

    I could have never chosen three winners from that – they’re all very inspirational :)

  4. BenSpark
    Posted July 1, 2008 at 12:17 pm | Permalink

    Hi, I wanted to leave a message on one of your social spark posts but it seems comments are closed on those ones. I found your blog through the FuelMyBlog Blog and also see that you do entrecard and social spark. I’ve added your blog to the SocialCardsters blogroll. You can find out more about that from my blog. Great stuff you are writing both here and on the Fuel Blog.

    BenSparks last blog post..Read to Me, Dad… PAD #1179

  5. Damien Riley
    Posted July 1, 2008 at 5:06 pm | Permalink

    Thanks Ben. Nice to meet ya! Sometimes the subject matter of the Sponsored Posts is meant to drive readers directly to the sponsored sites. In those cases I usually close comments to help that happen. Thanks for your comment.

    Have you had a chance to read the Amazing Visions posts? I was really honored by the excellent posts submitted. See you soon.

  6. katelynjane
    Posted July 1, 2008 at 6:28 pm | Permalink

    I loved this contest Damien! The other entries are all great, thanks so much for posting us all again!

    katelynjanes last blog post..Ze Button Makar (just trust me, it`s French)

  7. Ginger M
    Posted July 2, 2008 at 4:21 am | Permalink

    Thank you for organising this contest. I’m happy to be part of this! :) Seriously, I’d have a difficult time narrowing down the list to 3 and I’m very, very honoured to be included in the honorable mentions. Thank you!

    Ginger Ms last blog post..Wisdom Tooth, Warm Coffee and World Domination

  8. Nick
    Posted July 3, 2008 at 6:56 am | Permalink

    Hey sweet I win! Maybe not the top prize, but I’ll take what I can get especially since I was compteting with the likes of professional writers such as Michael Kwan! This is made sweeter by the fact that it was actually a competition of sorts in that it wasn’t just a random drawing. Thanks Damien :D.

    Nicks last blog post..It’s been a year already!

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