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A Different Kind of Saturday
This past Saturday was one of the busiest for me in a long time. I spent time with a lot of friends doing several events in two different cities. I’ll share the highlights of those events with you in this … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Swing Dancing
Tagged A Different Kind of Saturday, art, blues, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, escape room, Escape U, Florida, friends, friendship, fun, gardens, ghosts, Jacksonville, music, Porchfest, Save the Fleet, St. Augustine, swing dancing, The Press
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Small Victories
Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved playing with LEGO sets. Most of the LEGO sets I’ve had have been pretty simple, but a few of them have been more complex. This caused me no despair, however, as I … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Life Hacks, Self-Improvement
Tagged Airplane!, beach, coordination, escape room, events, habit, jugglng, large victories, LEGO, motivation, planning, progress, Small Victories
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Points About Leadership from Think and Grow Rich
Napoleon Hill includes a segment in Think and Grow Rich called “The Major Attributes of Leadership”. I found those points to be consistent with my ideas about leadership as well as examples of what I consider to be good leadership, … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books
Tagged "The Major Attributes of Leadership", leadership, Napoleon Hill, Points About Leadership from Think and Grow Rich, Think and Grow Rich
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Consistency
Who do you think will become better at any given skill: someone who has a natural talent for that skill but hardly ever practices it or someone who has no natural talent for it but practices it every day? Except … Continue reading
Posted in Life Hacks, Self-Improvement
Tagged behavior, Consistency, dedication, habits, Practice
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Review of The 5 Love Languages
The 5 Love Languages is a great little book by Gary Chapman. Chapman goes into a lot of detail about various aspects of relationships, with a special focus on communication and “love languages”. According to Chapman, a love language is … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Life Hacks, Self-Improvement
Tagged acts of service, communication, Gary Chapman, love, love language, physical touch, quality time, receiving gifts, relationships, Review of The 5 Love Languages, The 5 Love Languages, words of affirmation
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Mindset
I’ve learned a lot over the past year, especially in the area of self-improvement. If I could sum it all up in one simple phrase, it would be this: mindset is everything. There are a lot of different life hacks … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, mindset, negative, negative thinking, positive, positive thinking, The Four Agreements, The Magic of Thinking Big, The Power of Now, The Power of Positive Thinking, thinking
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Personas
Are you truly yourself around other people or do you just act like “yourself”? Do you create a persona of how you want others to see you and wear that persona like a costume whenever you go out? Do you find yourself … Continue reading
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Tagged acting, friendship, persona, Personas, true self, trust
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My Rules
There are several rules I do my best to follow. Some of them are in line with my concept of morality and others are simply useful in everyday life. I sometimes break them because I’m fallible, but I mostly abide … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Life Hacks, Self-Improvement
Tagged dream big, dreams, Golden Rule, help, honesty, morality, My Rules, Practice, Presence, rules, self-improvement, Stephen Covey, take chances, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Power of Now, thinking, thoughts, usefulness
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Review of How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big
Scott Adams, best known for creating the popular Dilbert comic strip, wrote a book several years ago called How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big. In the book, Adams goes through his life story and lays out the strategies … Continue reading
Posted in Great Books, Life Hacks, Self-Improvement
Tagged Dilbert, goals, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, Life Hacks, Scott Adams, success, systems, talent stack
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Be Impeccable with Your Word
In The Four Agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz explores several different “agreements” that, when practiced, will bring us great personal freedom and peace. The first agreement is “Be Impeccable with Your Word”. This includes avoiding gossip, speaking the truth, being straightforward, … Continue reading
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Tagged actions, Be Impeccable with Your Word, Don Miguel Ruiz, gossip, mindset, negativity, positivity, The Four Agreements, words
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