What is the purpose of life? Why do we walk this planet? What is happiness? Philosophers over the eons have pondered these questions; poets and romantics have filled countless volumes with their thoughts too. Do you have an answer to these questions you are comfortable about? The reason I ask is because it is my […]
I bet you will hear that phrase “where did the year go” at least a dozen times this week if you listen. Where did the year go? It went where all seconds, minutes, hours, days, months and years go; into the past. This is a perfectly natural process which shows us we are being fully
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The theory of Occum’s Razor which dates back to the 1300’s is that “among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected.” Obviously we cannot date this idea to a specific point in time, we can presume people understood this long before an English Franciscan friar put it into a form we
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One of the most difficult truths we face as human beings is that the only constant is change. We change jobs, we change living spaces, we change automobiles, change is all around us, change is the lifeblood of our experience, and yet we seem to either want to fight change, or we cannot wait for
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The Rayne Water shop near my home posts great thought starters on their message board along the freeway, and this was a recent post: “Don’t Strive For Perfection, Strive For Excellence.” What a great realization this can be; if each and every time we so something we strive for excellence. Only excellence you ask? Well
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“There is no I in team”, “together we accomplish more”, do you have your favorite quote about working together? Look on the HR wall, you will probably see many more sayings which remind us success is the product of many hands (and failure is an orphan.) We just celebrated Thanksgiving, and hopefully we all took
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Here we are on the eve of Thanksgiving, traditionally a day set aside to share gratitude for the blessings in our lives. 2015 is another year where we honestly have to ask ourselves if the blessings might just be outweighed by world and national events. We see and hear religion pitted against religion, people fighting
“Disharmony, fighting, anger are all around me, I can’t work this way” Have you ever heard these thoughts in your mind? What can you do about this overwhelming feeling of discord? I would like to give you a magic wand to dispel all this gunk, I really would, but the magic wand shop closed last
I think we all have a tendency to want to understand what is going on around us. I will go even further to suggest that it is the feeling we do not understand what is going on which is the most frightening and maddening aspect of life. Unfortunately it is this desire to understand events
No, this is not about enjoying a brew on the beach on Maui (although that sounds great.) What I want to discuss is those people in our lives who live through being emotional vampires. I think you know the person I am speaking about; they call at all hours demanding you listen to their angst,
