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Category Archives: Inspirational People
Reviewing My 2021 Goals
Last year, I set a number of goals that I hoped to accomplish in 2021. It’s time to revisit those goals and see how I did. Let’s take a look. Finish my first book. I have several books that I … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged 2021 Goals, friends, friendship, goals, healing, reading, Reviewing My 2021 Goals, writing
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Take Smaller Bites
I see a lot of praise for being constantly on the go. Somehow it’s become popular to think that if you don’t always have multiple projects going simultaneously and if you’re not feeling exhausted from working around the clock to … Continue reading
Posted in Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged burnout, exhaustion, Matthew Walker, rest, self-care, self-love, stress, Take Smaller Bites, time management, value, work, worth
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Competing Visions
Ever since I was a little kid, there have been two visions of the world competing within me. Whichever one shapes my perceptions depends on how I feel at any given moment. I’ll describe them both in detail, starting with … Continue reading
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Tagged Competing Visions, Disney, hope, hopelessness, negativity, optimism, perceptions, pessimism, positivity, visions
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The Danger of Pride
It seems there’s always a missing piece of the puzzle for me. The one I’ve discovered most recently was pride. How it hid from me, worked all kinds of trouble behind the scenes, and what I’ve done about it since. … Continue reading
What Would You Actually Do?
What would you do if you had lived during a past atrocity? It’s easy to imagine what you would have done in that situation but how accurate can you be in your assessment? After all, values change greatly over time … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Humanitarian Things, Inspirational People
Tagged Daniel Kahneman, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, familiarity, Fear, groups, manipulation, propaganda, truth, values, What Would You Actually Do?
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More of My Thoughts on Control
So many people seem to be concerned about things that are ultimately beyond their control. Systems, institutions, practices, traditions, and even entire, cities, states, and countries. Not to mention the mundane actions of other people whom they may not even … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Humanitarian Things, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged concern, control, Fear, freedom, guilt, influence, More of My Thoughts on Control, peace, Stephen Covey
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Removing the Negative
Although I don’t follow philosophical pessimism, I do think it has some good points. The one that stands out the most to me has to do with removing the negative. Looking back over my life, I realized that I’ve gotten … Continue reading
One Year of Letting Go
It’s been a little more than a year now since I started letting go consistently. What has happened for me in that time? More than I can cover in a blog post but I’ll share some of the major highlights … Continue reading
Review of So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed
So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed is an intriguing book by Jon Ronson. It covers a wide range of subjects related to public shaming. Here is a brief overview along with some of my thoughts on it. Ronson includes several stories … Continue reading
Posted in Communication, Getting Along with Each Other, Great Books, Humanitarian Things, Inspirational People
Tagged Jon Ronson, Loretta Ross, public shaming, Review of So You've Been Publicly Shamed, shame, So You've Been Publicly Shamed
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