Joyspotting

Blogging your comeback

Have you fallen down and gotten back up? Did people count you out, but then you turned it around? Did you even give up on yourself, but then reconsidered and happy you did? And best yet, you blogged about your experience to help others. Well, let us know about you and your blog, and we'll highlight your story here on Joyspotting.

What's right in the world and other "can you spread some love" around the joyosphere

• What's wrong with the World? Perhaps not a damn thing. Perhaps we should spend more time focusing on what's right in the world. It's all perspective. [Zen Habits]

• Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell have stepped into finish the last movie Heath Ledger was working on, The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus. In an act of huge kindness, all three actors are giving their paycheck to Mathilda, Heath's daughter, because her dad had not updated his will after her birth to include little Mathilda. Wow! How can you not love this. [News.com.au]

• Speaking of money want to attract more money into your life? {raises hand} Steve shares with us the perspective of financial relativity, and that indeed it does go back to our emotions about value. [Steve Pavlina]

• Share some knowledge. If you have books sitting on your shelf that you'd like to move on so someone else can learn from them and enjoy them, here are 10 ways to recycle your used books, and bring a smile to someone else. [The Daily Green]

Quick pick me up on becoming an authentic you

Web tip: Shorten your long links with the cute MooUrl

We're all for web applications that have the powerful triple combo: useful, easy, and cute. MooUrl definitely fits the bill.

Instead of sending links of urls to your friends and co-workers that are like a thousand characters long, Moourl will let you shrink the url to a small number of characters. Nice! I use MooUrl all the time for things like IM and Twitter, butmostly I go back over and over because that cute cow is so happy looking.

Great attitude: Christina Applegate feeling optimistic after double masectomy

I have a serious girl crush going on for Christina Applegate. When I heard she had breast cancer, my heart went out to her.  But when I heard that she underwent a double masectomy in order to beat the cancer and that she is looking at this whole experience as a story of living versus dying,  I fell more in love with her. Christina syas of her healing:

"Sometimes, you know, I cry. And sometimes I scream. And I get really angry. And I get really upset, you know, into wallowing in self-pity sometimes. And I think it's all part of the healing."

Man, I love the honesty!

What's interesting is that Christina's career originally was built on the sexy blonde image starting with Kelly Bundy, and really the star talent was her boobs. Now that she has had a double masectomy and will be having reconstructive surgery, does the taking away of her breasts also take away her bombshell sexiness?

I say no, and her story is one that shows women that your beauty is not tied to your body, and that a body that ages and shows the tracks of time and experience grows into something beautiful as well.

{Reuters}