Well, how did you do? Did you fret your taxes for months, wait until the last minute to file, and now are you beginning a new cycle of fret in case you are audited by the IRS? If you, like I, did indeed do some fretting about filing your taxes, this is a great time […]
The difference between being an amateur and being a professional is far greater than that one gets paid and the other one doesn’t. In a nutshell the difference is this; an amateur plays, a professional practices. do you hear the difference? Do you play at being successful or do you practice being successful? Do you
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No, nothing glib in this blog, suicide is a very serious experience in so many lives. For the person who finds themselves sitting at the precipice of life or suicide the world is a very empty place. This person believes the world will be better off with out them, and that further more, no one will care if they
Monkey Mind the voices in our heads which chatter on endlessly about stuff which distracts us from being productive or at peace. You know what I am talking about, those voices which tell us repeatedly how so and so is making our lives difficult, that if this would happen our lives would be so much better,
I come from Southern California where we are in a severe water situation. At least once a month, it seems, we are told the gas prices are going up because of one thing or another, we deal with rolling power shortages frequently too. You may not be from SoCal, but I am certain that somewhere
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Friday I wrote about disharmony and the poison it brings into our lives. Today I want to look at other sources of that same type of poison which rots our insides and leaves almost no impression on the person who is the focus of that disharmony. UNFORGIVENESS: One of the most common poisons to which we
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Until we accept personal responsibility for our own actions, words, desire and thoughts we have but one tool in our tool chest to allow us to move forward: Blame. We blame others for the state of our lives, we blame others for the condition of our marriages. “You ruined my (our) life, you cost me
Throughout our lives we have been guided to live our lives certain ways by others. Our parents, teachers, society, our heroes, are all possible examples of how we think we should live our lives. Your life is your life, no one else can live it, and even more, we can only live our lives the way
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Today is the day set aside to honor those who have given their lives for our country. Please remember that. This is not the day to honor those who survived their service. I mention this because, as with so many other casually thought of holidays, and even casually used phrases, we get them mixed up, and
I started to post this blog last night only to discover my server was down. Is this the modern equivalent of the old “the dog ate my homework?” Even a low-tech savvy person such as myself can feel disconnected when this happens; what must it be like for someone who takes instant communication not only
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