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romeosummers asked:

The Soundtracks and Theme during the End credits

Craig Miller asked:


Everyone dreams. The one thing that all in our mosaic culture have in common is this elusive pursuit of Neverland,the place where we dream all things in our life are possible. Sadly this magic place, erodes too quickly, and with it goes dreaming and belief in these dreams.

As children, we dream of success as we make plans to be a rock star, travel the world, marry the prince or princess, or walk on the moon. As we sail through our life, somewhere we fumble the dream or merely settle into the known–what we call “real life” happens.

Despite the awareness and the busyness of life, we never give up on the idea of success. It’s like the treasure that sits heavy at the bottom of very deep and dark water. This is when we adopt some model of success that we see around us, and we pursue that–a high-paying job, a beautifully-decorated home, friends and family who care about us, a romantic marriage, maybe even kids. We consider having influence in our community, leaving a legacy to our children, or myriad other pursuits. Then, if by some miraculous aligning of the cosmos, we by chance finally get what we sought and yet, we identify with the timeless lyric of Bono, “Yes, I’m still running’ . . . ’cause I still haven’t found what I’m looking for.”

The Question of Success:

Maybe I chose the wrong model of success? Should I choose another one? Questions like these are ubiquitous. According to more than 40 Gallup studies, about 75% of us feel disengaged from our jobs and according to the New American Dream Survey, about 83% of us wish we had more of what really matters in life. It seems apparent that a substantial majority of us are experiencing a disconnect between what we do from day to day and the true success that our hearts long for. Why is success so elusive? Why is accomplishment by itself not enough? And for that matter–what is success, anyway?

There are many sources that tell us to follow their program and you will find success. What they often mean, and usually say, is that you will make millions of dollars and experience financial freedom. Too often we equate success with making money. How sad it is, then, when we observe individuals who have been “successful,” meaning that they have made the money and received the accolades, and still have no personal fulfillment. Something still nags at their hearts.

The truth still remains that everyone wants real success but very few find it.

There are two reasons for this. First, we believe the lie that real success is a fairy tale or only for the exceptional. I believe that is a big fat lie. Everyone comes into existence with a specific design knitted into the very fabric of their strengths and passions. This design is as specific as every other wild and wooly creature in our world. It is only when we live according to that design that we know the map to our real success; but we can know it!

Secondly, we get caught in the cycle of going after other people’s models of success. Once we settle, we still can’t shake this innate desire for success. Therefore, we spend our lives trying to adopt these other models of success. Then, when we achieve them we still feel unsuccessful.

The answer does not lie in pursuing a model of success that either belongs to somebody else or in just going with the crowd as we follow some generic model of success. What if true success was unique to you and your design and had little to do with what others may impose on you? The truth is you will never be successful until you are living the unique design with which you were born. We may not be born with instructions, but we do have a direction written on our hearts. It is that direction, fueled by the natural strengths of our design, which takes us to true success.

The Answer to Success:

So ask yourself, do you have the eyes to see your success? Are your ears attuned to the rhythm of your unique design? Chances are your honest answer is no. We stop listening to our heart once we come face to face with what I call the reality principle. The reality principle comes into play when the pirate DOUBT comes to haunt us. He has a variety of messages that he tells us. He tells some of us that we are not worth real success. He tells others that the risk is too great to listen to their heart and so they should find the sure thing instead. He leads us all to settle for what seems secure and safe, and he plants doubt in us by telling us horror stories of the REAL world. Doubt becomes the enemy of your success.

You must learn to trust your design. Faith is the opposite of doubt. This is stepping out into the fear and even riding the fear as you journey to your true success. It has often been said that, to find new lands you have to leave the shore. Soren Kiekegaard said, “To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.” How many of us have lost ourselves long ago? We sell out way too quickly. We have settled for good and lost belief that there will ever be anything great. Fear takes our wrists and guides us more than we want.

So how do you start this journey of following your true design? To start with, you have to come to grips with the truth that in todays culture we are conditioned for peak experiences. We want to jump straight from sitting on the ground to soaring in the air, enjoying the view. Our lives are filled with gadgets and programs that have sped up our lives and provided what seems to be an easy way to enjoy the view without the work of the journey. However following your true design is an adventure and adventures are always filled with struggle and sweat and time. We have spoiled ourselves to the point that we are often conditioned to give up way too quickly. But real success doesn’t come that way. We must prepare for the realities of adventure. And if you have ever been on a real adventure you know that the pain and sweat don’t compare to the sweet exhilaration of the journey.

The truth is, we must be willing to let go of our securities. The drive to find true success must be greater than the drive to be comfortable. I talk to people all the time who are bored with merely existing and think that they are ready to find fulfillment, but they still have too much stock in the securities that they have built into their lives to protect themselves from insecurity. Once our motivation for adventure surpasses our desire for comfort, we are ready to begin the journey.

What follows is a brief outline of key stages in the journey that I use in my personal coaching and in my workshops to help people find their true success. I model it after a treasure hunt where you are looking for the underwater treasure that is your true success.

Stage one: Getting Wet!

This is where you begin to acclimate yourself to the process of hearing your heart. This includes reframing how you see things like work, career, goals, and a job. It is re-learning to connect with your dreams and confronting the abstractions that take over your life. Finally, it includes beginning to generate ideas for what your true success looks like. This is a fun time of essentially getting used to the water and the idea of an adventure.

Stage two: Exploration.

Once you are acclimated, it is time to get down to work and start searching for where your treasure might be and what it might look like. This is basically exploring all around your life to find clues to what your treasure looks like and where it might be. Once you find it, you are ready to see what is inside.

Stage three: Designing the right key.

Only one key will fit your treasure chest, and only you can design it. During this stage of the journey, you narrow the focus of your life to your true success and the strengths with which you were designed. Then you create goals to achieve your design and a map to guide you once you start living it. This is an important stage because, without it, you will eventually get lost or give up.

Stage four: Turning the lock.

This is where you create the supports necessary to live your design and start following the map you designed. After this, you are in the middle of the journey, and, as Dory said in the movie, Finding Nemo, “you just keep swimming”.

We are all born with Neverland in our hearts. It is the rhythm that we were designed to dance to. The pirates of our lives work diligently to capture our hearts. When we lose our hearts we lose Neverland. We settle for an okay life, believing honestly that this is as good as it gets and that Neverland is just a dream for children. We must believe that it isn’t a fairytale. Time is chasing after all of us, don’t wait for Neverland to find you. It won’t happen.

Peter Bankss asked:




Treasure hunting is a rather contagious pastime. For some, it can become an obsession (in the best sense of the word!). People worldwide are fascinated with the hobby of treasure hunting.

Coming across a valuable item in your treasure hunt can be a real thrill. Even an item that may not have monetary value could be personally attractive to the right hunter.Part of the thrill is in the chase; not knowing what you may find lends a sense of mystery and intrigue to the treasure hunt.

In years past, a treasure hunt could have been a very dangerous quest. Pirating was rampant, with several competitive and devious hunters often after the same prize. Quite often, the myth or rumor of a valuable buried or sunken treasure led to bloodshed and fighting between hunters.

Before airplanes became the preferred method of worldwide travel, those in search of life in a new land would travel by ship to their new destination. As it could take months to sail from one continent to another, passengers were unsure if they would even return to their home land. They would pack up all of their worldly possessions to take with them to the ‘new world’. One might pack several trunks of furs, coins, jewelry, dishware, and other valuable goods to take with them to their new life.

These ships laden with valuable items were prime targets for pirates.Ships were always on the look out for pirates that may try to board and rob, or  even kill, the passengers onboard. While this high seas robbery is certainly not called treasure hunting, it demonstrates just how vulnerable these ‘treasures’ were. People traveling away from home were not only vulnerable to theft while sailing; these pirates had no qualms about robbing a ship after a natural disaster struck.

Ships sailing far from home had to endure terrible storms, barrier reefs,extremely high waves and more as they slowly made their way from one point to the next. Unfortunately, many ships succumbed to the dangers they faced, and sank.

Before GPS and radio, it was really anyone’s guess where they ship may have gone down. Tales and fables would develop about the location of the sunken ship and its possible contents. For example, if a royal family member or businessman was on board, one might assume that quite a bit of valuable merchandise sank with the ship.

If the ship was not immediately located, an air of mystery would develop around the tale as it was passed down through generations of curious people. Those will the resources and desire would undoubtedly go in search of the ship in an effort to recover some of the ‘treasures’ on board. These expeditions were treasure hunts in the truest sense of the word!

A treasure may also be something that a person unfortunately lost. Of course, if you find a valuable item, you should make every attempt to return it to its rightful owner. But in most cases, the owner is never found, leaving the treasure hunter as the new owner. We’ll discuss great places to find this kind of treasure a little later on, but some items that you could expect to come across include watches, rings, coins, or necklaces.

Other treasures may have been worthless when they were disposed of, but have now become so rare or desirable that they have increased in value. Arrowheads from battles past; carvings; certain stones, etc can all prove to be valuable finds.

Before there were designated garbage dumps, unwanted items were often buried or simply thrown into the bush. Over time, these items were long forgotten. However, finding a rare dish, for example, that can be traced to a certain crafter or era could be a real treasure.

Some treasures may have absolutely no monetary value at all, but could be very sentimentally valuable to the right person. Old family photos, a favorite teddy bear, or a letter from your first love would all be great treasures to find. It would rare to stumble across a sentimental treasure unless you were specifically looking for it, but it can happen!

Whatever your reason for treasure hunting; whatever you are searching for, you are sure to find a few surprises along the way! Treasure hunting is truly a hobby for anyone to enjoy.

James Shenton asked:


For those who came of age in the 1980s during a time of sleek consumerism and homogenous globalization, Indiana Jones was something of an idol. Harking back to a time when the jungles of South America and the Pyramids of Egypt were truly a world away, the Indiana Jones trilogy excited in us a feeling of adventure that has been rarely seen before or since.

The popularity of the Indiana Jones movies stems not just from the fact that they were directed and acted by some of the greatest Hollywood talent of the day, but also from the fact that the movies were classic adventures. They were swashbuckling epics that found an ideal mix of adventure, intrigue and mystery, steeped in myth and mysticism.

This formula was clearly successful. The first Indiana Jones movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, was the highest grossing movie of 1981 and was nominated for eight Academy Awards (of which it won four). The following two instalments, Temple of Doom and The Last Crusade, fared almost as well, each winning an Academy Award and grossing hundreds of millions of dollars.

Since 1989, though, all has been quiet on the Indy front. Despite regular calls for a fourth movie there were no developments for years. Rumor and hearsay surrounded plans for the fourth Indiana Jones movie since 1995, when Last Crusade writer Jeffrey Boam was asked to write a script.

Since then, several screenwriters and directors have attempted to take on the project—including Chris Columbus (Home Alone), M Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) and Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption)—without success.

Finally, though, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Harrison Ford have accepted a script written by David Koepp (Spiderman, War of the Worlds). As of July 2006 Spielberg and Koepp were fine-tuning the screenplay in advance of pre-production, expected to begin in early 2007.

The question that will be repeatedly posed by fans of the series over the next couple of years is this: will it be possible to recreate the magic of the original trilogy? Hollywood has moved on since the 1980s, and audiences have come to demand big budget CGI and dazzling visual effects. Despite winning the Academy Award for Visual Effects with Temple of Doom, the appeal of the Indiana Jones movies was never in their special effects. In fact, Temple of Doom—admitted by Lucas and Spielberg as the most visual effects-heavy of the trilogy—saw the most disappointing box office performance of the three.

The main concern, though, is Harrison Ford’s age. Already in his 40s in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Ford will be at least 65 when filming begins on the fourth movie. Even with the use of makeup, camera trickery and stuntmen, how can it be possible to remain faithful to the original trilogy when the star is old enough to draw a pension?

Despite these worries, however, one thing is certain. Come the release date a couple of years from now we’ll see a sudden surge in the sales of fedoras and bullwhips. He may be old enough to qualify for a buss pass, but there’s something about Indiana Jones that brings out the child in us all.

David Cowley asked:


Fossil Fish

If there is anything that truly unites us to the past, it must be fossils.  They are a record of how life not only existed thousands and millions of years ago but there is a record of how that life was shaped and formed over those years.  Anyone interested in treasure hunting may have a particular interest in any type of antique or special find, but for some, there is no substituting the hunt for elusive fossil fish.  While you may assume that you need to travel to some far-off and exotic land and become a full-fledged Indiana Jones to find this type of treasure, in reality many have been able to come across these ancient fossils in whatever local area they live, including parts of the central United States, as well as in Germany, China, Italy, and other such areas.

To find fossil fish you of course need to get off the beaten path a bit.  Areas that are developed and suburbanized are probably not going to have many fossils readily found as the construction needed for a city or suburb is going to disturb the ground well below for the foundations of buildings.  Most of these ancient fossils are found in areas that are not quite civilized such as in deep caves and caverns or even the dessert.

Fossil Fish

For instance, the state of Wyoming has yielding some amazing finds recently when it comes to fossil fish.  Stingrays and mioplosus are common finds.  The Green River Formation in southwestern Wyoming seems to contain a treasure trove of these ancient fossils from many different geological times.  The city of Kemmerer welcomes fossil treasure hunters from around the world as they too search for their finds.  There are some three million acres of public lands at which you may do some digging, and of course when you get tired of treasure hunting there is a wealth of other activities available to you as well.  At Fossil Butte National Monument you can do some exploring on your own, or if you’re new to the hobby you can take a tour with a local ranger or guide.  Even children can get in on the action as they find and clean their own fossils and other treasures.

Some of the tools you will need are safety glasses, hammer, chisel and a crow bar.  The quarry area is littered with flat slabs or plates of sedentary rock that was formed on and ancient lake bed.  When the fish or plant life died they fell to the lake floor and were subsequently buried with mud and silt.  Pick up the slabs of rock and split them endwise to release the fossil treasures.

Some of the rarer fossil finds have commanded up to a quarter of a million dollars.  The fossil’s value is determined by its rarity of the specimen, the size, and the quality of the bone definition.  Wyoming is considered the fish fossil capital of the world.

Of course there really is no area of the world where you absolutely cannot find fossils.  Many have literally stumbled across very valuable finds when just out fishing or hiking or rock climbing.  While searching for fossil fish may be a bit difficult for those who are new to the activity, with the right guide and research manual you may find that this is a hobby that is well worth the pursuit.

Happy Treasure Hunting.