True Wealth is Control Over Your Own Time

Category: Self Improvement

  • Fear Porn

    Fear Porn
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    Reading Time: 5 minutesLet me say this up front.  None of us get out of here alive.  Truly understanding this helps, a lot, to learn not to react to the fear porn that is coming at us non-stop. You might be wondering what in the world I’m talking about. Fear porn is media content (mainstream… Read more

  • Guilty. By Innuendo. On Facebook.

    Guilty. By Innuendo. On Facebook.
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    Reading Time: 5 minutesI stumbled on a Facebook post a few days ago that stated that a man I know had allegedly embezzled $100,000 from a business he managed.  This is a small town and the comments on the post were mostly ugly, having jumped to the conclusion that he was, in fact, guilty, and… Read more

  • Become Your Own Problem

    Become Your Own Problem
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    Reading Time: 5 minutesBefore I leave the subject of the book 20,000 Days and Counting, there’s one more point that hit me square between the eyes. The author, Robert D Smith, contends, in Chapter 10, that a simple change in perspective about problems in your life works magic.   Smith tells the story in this… Read more

  • Eat Dessert First

    Eat Dessert First
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    Reading Time: 5 minutesLast week I wrote about a book called 20,000 and Counting that affected me profoundly and gave me a good kick in the pants.  Since writing the post, I read the book twice more.  I want the concepts he talked about in it to become as natural to me as breathing. I’ve… Read more

  • Life is Good

    Life is Good
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe just finished another major election cycle. Part of the country is jubilant, part is grieving, and some small part are probably oblivious. If you’re jubilant, be kind. Remember how you felt 4 years ago, and check where you are now. Most of your worst fears didn’t materialize. If you’re grieving,… Read more

  •  A Kick in the Pants

     A Kick in the Pants
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    Reading Time: 4 minutesEvery once in a while, I feel myself slipping oh, so gently, into a minor funk.  It usually happens when I sit around more than I should doing Quadrant 4 activities on the Covey 7 Habits Time Management Matrix.  Quadrant 4 activities, for those of you who don’t know, are those that… Read more

  • Keeping the Greatest Country on Earth

    Keeping the Greatest Country on Earth
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    Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s true.  In spite of all its current problems, the United States of America is still the greatest country on earth. There is a myriad of reasons why I say this, none of which I’m going to explain in this post.  If you don’t believe it, you might ask a few of… Read more

  • The Pain of Rebounding

    The Pain of Rebounding
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    Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe got the rebounder I mentioned in last week’s short post. I got on it thinking I would bounce for just the 2 minutes they said was all it took to do a complete flush of the body’s lymphatic system. Two minutes! Heck….anyone can do anything for two minutes, can’t they!?… Read more

  • Rebounding?

    Rebounding?
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    Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes something you’ve never heard of before comes into your world, and then you see it everywhere even though you never noticed it before.  That’s what happened recently with rebounding.  Randy sent me a Facebook reel (that’s a really short video, in case you didn’t know) about how rebounding is really good… Read more

  • Jackpot!

    Jackpot!
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    Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo things this week happened that made me feel like I won the lottery. In a post a couple of weeks ago, I mentioned my resistant high blood pressure and a supplement I’d heard might help treat the cause rather than the symptoms. I started taking that supplement about 2 weeks ago,… Read more