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Monthly Archives: May 2019
Accepting Help
For most of my life, I’ve had a difficult time taking instructions from other people. This is especially true when someone tries to give me advice against my will or make me do something a certain way. However, even when … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged Accepting Help, improvement, instruction, learning, progress, self-awareness, teaching
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Reclaiming Your Power
There’s more information available to us than ever before, and trying to keep up with even a fraction of it all will quickly become overwhelming. It’s hard to avoid the latest celebrity gossip, sports happenings, controversies, and everything else that’s … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged beautiful music of life, current events, news, Reclaiming Your Power, sphere of influence, tuning out the noise
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A Much-Needed Day Off
Yesterday was the first day off I’ve had since I went to Floor Divided almost a month ago. However, even though I had the weekend off for that event, I spent most of those days dancing, taking lessons, driving around, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement, Swing Dancing
Tagged A Much-Needed Day Off, day off, dog, freedom, leisure, personal freedom, relaxation, rest, time freedom
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Doing the Opposite
“The Opposite” is an episode of Seinfeld in which George Costanza finally catches a break. Figuring his instincts have continually lead him to make bad choices, George tries doing the opposite of everything he would normally do and finds tremendous … Continue reading
Posted in Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged "The Opposite", actions, behavior, decisions, Doing the Opposite, George Costanza, Jason Alexander, opposite, Seinfeld
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“Three Rolls and a Pretzel”
This is a short story written by Leo Tolstoy. I first read this when I was a little kid and it’s been stuck in my head ever since. I’ll share some of my thoughts on it afterward: Feeling hungry one … Continue reading
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Tagged "Three Rolls and a Pretzel", achievement, groundwork, Leo Tolstoy, pretzels, rolls, success
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Knowing What the Future Holds
Few things are as strange to me as when someone says “that’s just the way it is, and that’s the way it’ll always be”. Things may be a certain way now, but who says they have to be this way, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged Daniel Kahneman, emotion, intuition, Jonathan Haidt, Knowing What the Future Holds, reason, The Righteous Mind, Thinking Fast and Slow
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Some Thoughts on Habits
Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit is one of the best and most practical books I’ve ever read. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the ways habits affect our lives, both for better and for worse. I’d like to … Continue reading
Posted in Great Books, Inspirational People
Tagged businesses, change, Charles Duhigg, failure, habits, organizations, pain, Some Thoughts on Habits, success, The Power of Habit
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My Lovely Day
This past Wednesday felt like a perfect day to me. Everything went smoothly, I had plenty of time to myself, and I got to move at my own pace through one enjoyable activity after another. Here are the highlights from … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Great Movies, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged Avengers: Endgame, day off, float, floating, food, My Lovely Day, work
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Review of Avengers: Endgame
I recently saw Avengers: Endgame and thought it was incredible. I was well prepared for it since I’ve seen every movie leading up to it at least once and was familiar with all the elements from those movies that came … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Great Books
Tagged Avengers, Avengers: Endgame, heroes, Marvel, MCU, Review of Avengers: Endgame, superhero movies
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The Book I’m Writing
I mentioned once that I’m writing a book. This isn’t the first book I’ve started writing, but it’s the only one I’ve continued to work on and I think it’ll be the first one (of many, I hope) that I’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged blog posts, books, financial freedom, freedom, ideas, personal freedm, The Book I'm Writing, time freedom, time management, writing
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