John Halcyon Styn

A long-time internet star, pink-haired Halcyon’s journal is a beacon of hope. His most recent project, Hugnation is a weekly, international hug anyone can participate in! It happens on Tuesdays at 1pm Pacific time.

“The world is torn apart. We need to connect. We need to be able to reach out and feel that there are people out there who care and love and feel like we do. Now, more than ever, we need to use any tools we have to heal our planet. Will it work? A better question is, “Will we try?””

I adore him for his enduring spirit, perpetual enthusiasm, light-hearted vanity, entertaining videos & pink RV, aka the Hugmobile, which is going on tour in October! (Also, I met him at Burning Man last year. I was a bit messy & I think I made a huge goober of myself, but he was totally gracious & cool!)

Rob Breszny

Rob’s weekly horoscopes are brilliant; even if you don’t care for astrology, his advice is positive, uplifting & holistically wise. His book, Pronoia Is The Antidote For Paranoia: How The Whole World Is Conspiring To Shower You With Blessings is fantastic. I picked up my copy in a secondhand bookshop in San Francisco for a pittance, which was great because I had wanted to own it for ages!

I found his Prayer For You tonight (via Halcyon, above!):

“Guide them to realize that they are all completely different from what they’ve been led to believe about themselves, and more exciting than they can possibly imagine … Make it illegal, immoral, irrelevant, unpatriotic, and totally tasteless for them to be in love with anyone or anything that’s no good for them … Remove, banish, annihilate, and laugh into oblivion any jinx that has clung to them, no matter how long they’ve suffered from it, and even if they have become accustomed or addicted to its ugly companionship … Teach them to be their own prophets and pray to themselves and right their own wrongs and sing their own songs and be their own wives and save their own lives.”

Guy Kawasaki

The founder of evangelism marketing (where your customers are so rabid for the product that they do the marketing for you), Guy is an accomplished business writer & fantastic thinker. On his blog, How To Change The World, he manages to write about all kinds of previously dull subjects in a way which is shiny & thrilling! I just watched The Art of the Start, his speech about starting a company & I’ve been sitting here thinking about iCiNG in a whole new way since. Read How to Get a Standing Ovation & The Art of Schmoozing II to get an idea of how valuable the man really is, then subscribe to his blog & lap it up regularly!

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