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Category Archives: Self-Improvement
Good Communication
Good communication is essential for modern life. Anything that takes more than one person to accomplishes requires everyone involved to communicate effectively with each other. Unfortunately, I regularly see one example after another of terrible communication, both online and in … Continue reading
Posted in Getting Along with Each Other, Humanitarian Things, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged bad communication, communication, conversations, discussions, Good Communication, ideas, problems, solutions, solving problems
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Going Your Own Way
I’ve always been fascinated by people who march to the beat of their own drum. Some think that these people are dangerous but I disagree. The ones I find interesting are all, or were, peaceful (at least as far as … Continue reading
Posted in Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged exploration, Going Your Own Way, human condition, individuality, lifestyle, present moment
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The Daily Stoic: “Stoic Joy”
For a long time now, I’ve considered joy to be more meaningful than happiness. Joy is something I’ve long considered to be deeper, richer, and more substantial than happiness, cheerfulness, and other similar feelings. There’s something about joy’s ability to … Continue reading
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Tagged happiness, joy, peace, Seneca, The Daily Stoic, The Daily Stoic: "Stoic Joy"
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Daily Self-Care
One of my favorite chapters in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is the one that encourages us to Sharpen the Saw. This involves taking it slow for a while, making sure we get plenty of rest, and temporarily … Continue reading
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Tagged Always Do Your Best, Daily Self-Care, Don Miguel Ruiz, self-care, self-love, Sharpen the saw, Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Four Agreements
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Reframing Myself
I felt on edge for a while last night. It started with the caffeine in the sweet tea I had with my dinner and the cookies I had for dessert. That, along with watching a video of people getting angry … Continue reading
Posted in Great Books, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged "What Do You Do With the Mad That You Feel?", chinups, Daniel Kahneman, energy, Joe Rogan, juggling, Life Hacks, Mister Rogers, reframing, Reframing Myself, sleep, Thinking Fast and Slow, unicycling
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Layers
When I became serious about self-improvement, I didn’t know what to expect. It became clear early on that this would be painful much of the time, although regular progress and periods of deep peace more than made up for the … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Inspirational People, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged layers, mindfulness buddy, pain, progress, rabbit hole, self-actualization, self-improvement
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Some Recent Realizations
I had some startling realizations yesterday at work and on my way to get some food after my shift ended. One of them was that I still do a lot of people pleasing in certain areas of my life. Another … Continue reading
Posted in Adventures, Getting Along with Each Other, Life Hacks, Personal Freedom, Self-Improvement
Tagged acceptance, failure, juggling, People Pleasing, perception, Practice, realizations, self-awareness, skills, Some Recent Realizations, Spanish, success, talents, unicycling
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The Daily Stoic: “What’s on Your Tombstone?”
I always enjoy finding places where two or more books I’ve read overlap. This entry from The Daily Stoic fits together nicely with Stephen Covey’s recommendation in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to begin with the end in … Continue reading
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Tagged accomplishment, Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Begin with the End in Mind, consequences, costs, death, gravestone, life, Seneca, Stephen Covey, success, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The Daily Stoic, The Daily Stoic: Whats on Your Tombstone?, tombstone
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Lighting Candles
The quote in that picture serves as an occasional reminder for me to keep my priorities in order. For many years, I spent a lot of time criticizing things that I disliked instead of figuring out how to take action … Continue reading
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Tagged darkness, light, Lighting Candles, proactive, reactive
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Ask Yourself Why
Socrates was known for learning how other people saw the world by asking them a lot of questions. In the process, he often got them to recognize flaws and discrepancies in their own thinking. This style has since become known … Continue reading
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