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A Semi-Spiritual Rant – Episode 3 – Regrets, I’ve Had a Few

Why did I do that? Because I didn’t know better. What could I have done differently? Nothing. I could have done nothing differently. Because despite better options, I didn’t choose any of them. Why didn’t I know better? Because my ego told me what I really wanted to hear, overriding better. Is there any hope…

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A Semi-Spiritual Rant – Episode 2 – There’s No Such Thing as I Know, But

It’s the perfect contradiction between the way things are and the way I want them to be. Take any generally accepted truth. True in every sense of the word. Then apply my personal situation to it and carve out an exception. I know. But in this case, because it’s different and I’m special and I…

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A Semi-Spiritual Rant – Episode 1 – The Obstacle is the Way

You’ve been whining for weeks about those time suckers. Distractions and disruptions have been plaguing you. As soon as you get on a roll someone or something crops up to stop you in your tracks. A minute here. An hour there. Days go by. You know exactly what you want to accomplish, but one by…

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Choosing the Opportunity of a Lifetime

As we go through life, consider the opportunity cost associated with each choice we make. Opportunity cost is an economic term, and it represents the value of our next best option. And we love our options, feeling fortunate to have so many varieties of toothpaste to choose from. Factoring opportunity costs into decisions large and…

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Where to Look for Lasting Happiness

While we all want lasting happiness, there are about as many different ways to go about getting it as there are people in this world.  So, we’re going to narrow happiness down to two main sources: external or internal. When we look externally, or outside ourselves for happiness, it’s called object referral. When we seek…