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Monthly Archives: April 2019
Creating the Life of My Dreams
This is an exciting time for me. I’ve been slowly building a better life for myself and I’m now seeing a lot of incredible things come to fruition. Here are some steps I’ve taken to get to this point. Perhaps … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged Creating the Life of My Dreams, dreams, life, life of my dreams, life path, life plan, life purpose, life situation, self-improvement
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Treasures and Trials
I’ve heard that when you get close to something you’ve wanted and worked toward for a long time, you’re met with a series of challenges and obstacles. Sometimes these also come after you get what you wanted. You might start … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged challenges, Eckhart Tolle, goals, motivation, obstacles, The Alchemist, The Power of Now, treasures, Treasures and Trials, trials
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Working Through Tough Times
Whenever I go through a rough time, I try to observe my reaction to it and adjust my actions accordingly. If I start getting bogged down in misery and negativity, then I’ll make extra efforts to do things that I … Continue reading
Posted in Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged food, home, restaurant, routines, shower, work, Working Through Tough Times
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Regression to the Mean
This is an excerpt from Thinking, Fast and Slow about Daniel Kahneman’s time spent working with flight instructors in the Israeli Air Force. Kahneman starts off with one of the instructor’s responses to his point that rewarding good behavior is … Continue reading
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Tagged causality, Daniel Kahneman, flight instructors, Israeli Air Force, progress, punishment, regression to the mean, reward, Thinking Fast and Slow
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The Domino Effect
I’ve previously written about how small victories can add up over time to major wins. I recently started thinking about this again, and that reminded me of this video involving small dominoes knocking down increasingly larger ones. Even though each … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Life Hacks
Tagged changes, domino, dominoes, pay it forward, small changes, Small Victories, The Domino Effect
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Learning New Things
I’ve been thinking lately about practice, especially after reading Outliers. It’s easy to forget how much time and effort it can take to become proficient in something, especially when watching someone who does it exceptionally well. I often overlook the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement, Swing Dancing
Tagged coordination, juggling, learning, Learning New Things, patience, persistence, Practice, skills, swing dancing, talent, teaching
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Seeing More of the Bigger Picture
The past few years of my life have been unlike any others. Without even meaning to do so, I started on a path of radical self-improvement and experienced some major changes in several of my views. I still don’t know … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Great Books, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged big ideas, big picture, books, progress, Seeing More of the Bigger Picture, self-improvement, The Righteous Mind, Thinking Fast and Slow, views
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Things I Do When I’m Stressed
I’ve noticed some things I tend to do whenever I’m stressed, especially for extended periods of time. When I start doing these things, I try to figure out what’s causing the stress and work on taking care of that. Otherwise … Continue reading
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Tagged discomfort, food, interaction, sleep, stress, Things I Do When I'm Stressed, unease
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Managing Your Time
When I was a little kid, other people set up my schedule and determined how I spent most of my time. I found it easy to handle a lot of things during this period in my life: playing in the … Continue reading
Posted in Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged Managing Your Time, Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Art of Manliness, time freedom, time management
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Realizations About Three Songs I Love
Sometime within the past few weeks, I was talking with my mindfulness buddy about a video of dogs set to some nice music. I had some big realizations during that conversation about a few particular songs and why they mean … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Movies, Inspirational People
Tagged "I Got A Name", "Rainbow Connection", dogs, dreamers, guitar, Jim Croce, Kermit the Frog, lovers, Muppets, music, Realizations About Three Songs I Love, Shiba Inu, songs, unconditional love
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