After 2 years of reading/writing/creating my first 100 PhilosophersNotes, today a big ol' truck arrived to deliver a pallet packed with 25 boxes of our PN Workbooks + MP3 shuffles. (These are holiday gifts for some of my special peeps!) REALLY exciting to see these for the first time! Hope you enjoy the video of it!
Here's the amazingly cool Foreword to the Workbook by Gay Hendricks that I mention!
And you can buy 'em here: http://PhilosophersNotes.com/notes 
So exciting thanks for bring it to life for us in our busy lives, Brian.
thx and my pleasure, stephanie!
congrats!! i have tear of joy in my eyes, too. =) alexandra must be proud!
ah. thx, bro!!! she is and we send our love!
First...joy of joys.
I'm so grateful for you contagious passion.
thx so much, larry!!!
I love this!
I have been immersed in the PhilosophersNotes for over a week now, and am overwhelmed by the amount of literature, information, insights and quotes that you have amassed. As a benefactor, trying to absorb the knowledge in quantum leaps, has been no easy feat.
I can only imagine, and express my gratitude, for your dedication to this project, so individuals like myself may more easily and effortlessly climb onto the shoulders of giants ~ and soar!
Watching the 'crate date', was an emotional moment for me as a viewer. Congratulations seems so weak a word! Mazel Tov is only slightly stronger!
The shuffle and binder are now on my wish list, and someday soon, I shall be honored to present the same to my friends, students, and persons I have yet to meet.
Thank you for your gifts.
Sharon
wow!
thx, sharon!!
big hugs and big smiles and lots of love and appreciation!
-bri
OH! nice! I am soooooo getting this! love the portable MP3 player with all that on it! <hearts>
yayuh!!!!
Brian,
Having been part of your awesome community for less than a month, I was surprised by the emotion and delight I experienced watching you open up the crate. Congratulations! I am clear that your authenticity and passion is a gift to the world. Woohoo!
Sandi
wow! thx, sandi!!!
i appreciate your kind words and so excited to share with you!!
big love and here's to an AMAZING 2010!
-bri
“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man -- the function of his reasoning mind.”
Ayn Rand
Congratulations Bro ... another amazing stretch of road has opened up before you ... it's nice to be along for the ride.
well done ... very well indeed .
big smile and big hug, bro!!
thank you.
Oh, wow, Brian.
All I can think of is how much wonder and value those innocent looking shuffles are going to spread. Just beautiful.
thx, double oh!!!
hugs!
Brian, thats so awesome I've been following you now for about a year or so, I love PN's I have about 20 mp3s downloaded on my iPhone and listen to them every chance I get.
For anyone reading, the mp3's are about 20min each and filled with nothing but the best stuff from all these awesome books very clear and never boring.
thank you so much, mark!!!
so excited to share all that's in store!
congratulations! sooooo exciting!
thanx for sharing!!!
thx, ewa!!!
Holy moly, Bri! I take back what I said about the boxes of EL. This is WAAAAYY more exciting and momentous! Woo hoo! So proud and happy for you, and so happy for all the folks who will get to benefit from this treasure trove of concentrated wisdom.
ah, thx, Pilar!!!!!
huge hug and lots of love to you and your love!!!
so appreciate all your support!!
I am so happy for you
thx, richard!!!
Congrats little brotha and sista! I feel like I'm watching you open a box to the next step in your lives. I like sort of being a part, even in a voyuristic-vicarious way. Thanks for sharing, I feel your excitement. I sense abundance in the air!
heheheh! thx, susieg!
fantastic, Dr Johnson! It's been a long time coming - can't wait to get my hands, literally, on this wisdom!
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hehehe. right on, dr. paul!
YAYUH!!!!! So exciting! Santa came to your house first! Congrats to you and Alexandra on the arrival of your "baby"- she's beautiful!!! hehe Seriously though, hearty thanks for putting all this goodness out into the world for us all to absorb and enjoy. My little hot pink mp3 player with my PNotes on it goes with me everywhere. What a blessing you are to so many people- Keep Rockin' It! *But wait, there's more- order NOW and you'll receive Alexandra's Vitamix plunger attachment for FREE!* (couldn't resist! ha ha)
hehehehehhehhehhe
big hug, e!
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S
B R I A N ON Y O U R A C H I E V E M E N T O F A L I F E T I M E !!...You deserve all the kudos for your physical, mental & spiritual stamina in seeing thro' the magnum opus ! Keep it up . ! Happy holidays & Happy New-Year to you & yours .
-jagadish
thank you jagadish!!!!
here's to an A M A Z I N G 2010!
Congrats Brian. Following the passion is infectious. Great work!
thx, bro!!!
Awesome! I hope a bunch of these made it up to the north pole too.... 'cuz like me, I'm sure a lot of people had these on their wish list to Saint Nick. What an amazing gift! Thanks for all of your dedication and passion, Bri! This is truly a big contribution to the planet.
thx, bro!!!
santa had it on his list for one special friend.
A major congratz, this is absolutely awesome and I can only agree with everything said in the other comments and some what... . By the way so much fun reading thru the comments as well, this site and *ALL* of its contents are just a great infusion of honest gratefulness and positive vibes
Yayz and big up to ya!!
thank you so much, yoni!!!
Brian,
Nice Job! You are an inspiration. You walk the walk. Your work has had a highly positive impact on my life.
THANK YOU for living the wisdom you speak of --- "What one can me, one must be"
THANK YOU for your leadership.
thank you, chris!
appreciate your kind words and, as you know, love that quote!
as wallace wattles says: "the world needs demonstration more than it needs instruction."
here's to demonstrating!
-bri
Brian...WOW...... your enthusiasm is infectious!!!! Love the videos...and especially this one!!!!
You are a 'True' blessing to the world!
Troy Robertson
hehe. thx, troy!!!
When are we going to be able to buy this new format??
you can get it now, marilyn!
http://www.philosophersnotes.com/notes
Brian,
I like the integration of Facebook Connect on your blog. Well done.
The video would be perfect if it wasn't for the unsharp picture of the (Flip) camera. Try to fix that
All the best,
Peter Komrakov
thx, peter!
hehe on the flip.
So proud of you Brian...you are really making a difference in people's lives by sharing such amazing information that will help anyone create the life they truly desire.
I love your childlike excitement in unwrapping the first box of the physical products-it was awesome to see it and share in that experience with you.
CoNgRAts!!!!!!!!!
SharlaPatrick @ http:SharlaPatrick.com
thx, sharla!!!!
big hug and lots of appreciation!!!
-bri
Dude! Thankyou so much for doing this. thanks for all your work.
The more I listen to you and get to know you through these videos, the more I'm convinced there are actually authentic, caring, and truly good intending entrepreneurs out there. I love the fact that you actually do care and want to make a difference in the world and the money is just bonus. This is the way the economy should be modeled after and I hope that more people are inspired by you to do the same.
Big companies need not be monsters. Google said it best in their company motto: "Don't Be Evil". It's a great philosophy to have and I hope to say the exact same thing when it's my time to shine as well!
Dood!
thx, chris!!!
i really appreciate your kind words. I'm a HUGE fan of conscious capitalism and demonstrating what we can do leveraging business/free markets as forces for good!
one of my big inspirations is john mackey, the founder and ceo of whole foods. you might dig this:
http://www.philosophersnotes.com/blog/177/john-ma...
here's to being the change we want to see and shining brightly, bro!
-bri
Dood!
thx, chris!!!
i really appreciate your kind words. I'm a HUGE fan of conscious capitalism and demonstrating what we can do leveraging business/free markets as forces for good!
one of my big inspirations is john mackey, the founder and ceo of whole foods. you might dig this:
http://www.philosophersnotes.com/blog/177/john-ma...
here's to being the change we want to see and shining brightly, bro!
-bri
Fantastic...I love PN TV and so cool to see where you live. Ohhh Mac people too...can it get better?!
xx
hehehehehe. go mac's!!!!!
Let's see, 100 Notes in 2 years. Since there are 52 weeks in a year. You produced about one note per week -- which meant that you had to read one book per week. Is that about right? That sound like a full-time job to me. Was it? Is my math correct?
hey P: i had read ~40 of them before and had started collecting big ideas on them a few years before and then created those Notes in the first several months as I spent a fair amount of time building the web site, producing the daily emails and all that jazz. then read 60 more at various rates while in LA then in bali for a year. plus taught 90 90-minute classes on about 70 of the books! full time job fer sure! (with meditation and movement as key parts of my "job" too!
Brian, it is so exciting to see how Philosopher's Notes has developed in one year! Amazing! I love the digital notes and the physical product looks great! Congrats!
Brian - by one year, I mean since I first heard of Philosopher's notes about a year ago...
love it, ruth! thank you for sharing in my excitement!!
here's to an amazing 2010!
Brian - by one year, I mean since I first heard of Philosopher's notes about a year ago...
Ok, now stop that. It's too good for words. It's so good it's painful. I don't see how anyone can know how good, because this sort of thing goes subconscious and will totally reorganize your mind to a new self, if you let it. Intuition can access a new self. I mean, tha i's powerful.
I just dropped negative words for a while and had my highest consciousness and lowest depression. The thing is, I stood up in three minutes and my lowest depression ever, disappeared. It appeared to be done subconsciously. After all, science rates it as a million times the speed and capacity of the conscious mind. It really does our thinking with vision logic, which is images and symbols, the language of the brain. We only get the screen readout, if we know how to use our intuition. The mind seems to be the opposite of a computer in that the computer has trouble with graphics, while text is easy, fast and with small files. The mind, however seems to choke with words, while images are slick. So fast that you basically have to stop one to see it.
That one on psych-cybernetics blew me away. I had tried to read it before and gave up. Here it turns out to be better than, than what? Everything? That felt like about the last piece I needed for a pretty clear picture. I mean, going to the moon is nice, but it looks like we have hardly started yet compared to all that seems to be coming up and coming up fast too.
The whole mind can not only put the whole book in context, but all the books and all life, while we don't even notice it, and if we don't develop out intuition to access it, then we often don't get a lot of the benefit.
I would recommend people get a handle on Emotional Intelligence, because that is pretty much an intro into intuition, although EI is not necessarily presented that way. You just have to get the information that is clear and down to earth, like Covey, although he doesn't really go into it that well. I would even recommend Emotional Intelligence in sports. Fun too. When you get into 'the zone' in sports, its as if all the other players slow down. It's similar to the phenomena of when your whole life passes in front of you in a second or two.
'nuf said.
hah! love it. 'nuf said!
Thanks Brian..It brings so so much joy to watch your joy,well deserved joy,keep up the brilliant Inspiring work...The world is in sad shape and needs more inspiring people like yourself..and the goddess!
hope youtwo have a awesome time in Bali..we will miss you!