Keanu Reeves Whoa. Dept.:

(the following is excerpted from Steve Pavlina's blog post, "Cultivating Burning Desire". chek paragraph 2, italics mine... yikes!)

1. Burn the ships.
I'm not going to pull any punches with this one. If your goals are really important enough to you, then you can start by burning the proverbial ships, such that you have no choice but to press on. For instance, if you want to launch your own business, you can begin by making the commitment to quitting your job. Write a letter of resignation, put it in a stamped envelope addressed to your boss, and give it to a trusted friend with firm instructions to mail the letter if you haven't quit your job by a certain date.

One Las Vegas casino manager made the decision to quit smoking. He didn't feel he had the personal willpower to do it alone, so he took out a billboard on the Las Vegas Strip with his photo on it along with the words, "If you catch me smoking, I'll pay you $100,000!" Was he able to quit smoking? You bet! (Ok, bad pun.) This is called willpower leveraging. You use a small bit of willpower to establish a consequence that will virtually compel you to keep your commitment. As Andrew Carnegie once said, "Put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket!"

In the classic book The Art of War, Sun Tzu notes that soldiers fight the most ferociously when they believe they're fighting to the death. A good general knows that when attacking an opposing force, it's important to create the illusion of a potential escape route for the enemy, so they won't fight as hard. What escape routes are you keeping open that are causing you not to fight as hard?

If you don't burn those ships, you are sending the message to your subconscious mind that it's ok to quit. And when the going gets tough, as it inevitably does for any worthwhile goal, you will quit. If you really want to achieve your goals, then you've got to burn those ships to the ground, and scatter the ashes. If you're thinking that the average person won't do this, you're right -- that's why they're average.

(Steve's hardcore. And that's only point 1, lol)

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A small compendium of "whoa."s:
my fave: noodles. yum. :)
5-sec Matrix - the original "whoa."
more Keanu! Bill+Ted "whoa."
grand finale!

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reminiscing dept. (fave poker chatbox intar-mar-JEK-shunzh, c.2007):
1. dooooood!
2. wAWESHOMEz!
3. pwned.
4. qwned!
5. plankton.
6. whoa.
7. all your base are belong to meeeeee
8. shipitholla, balla ;)
9. WINNAHH! (gagnant!)