Category: Self Improvement
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I Want to Learn to Meditate
Reading Time: 2 minutesAll this health stuff the last couple of posts reminded me that one thing I really want to do is learn to meditate. They say (you know…they…the ones who aren’t me) that meditation has a lot of health and welfare benefits. I especially like the list that includes lowering stress, improving focus,… Read more
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Danger! – The Aggressive Pursuit of Comfort
Reading Time: 5 minutesDon’t we wait our entire working lives for retirement? Not consciously of course, especially when we’re younger and in the prime of that aforementioned life. But we’re aware from the time we begin working that we need to think about that upcoming season called retirement. That awareness is primarily concerned with means… Read more
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The Truth About Aging
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSomewhere in our internet browsing adventures recently Randy and I discovered Gary Brecka. Brecka has an unusual, fascinating, and compelling story about how he came to start a podcast called The Ultimate Human. He’s a non-physician human biologist whose life work has been the study of how the human body does,… Read more
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86,400
Reading Time: 2 minutesI happened upon a Substack (essentially a blog hosting service) post this week from a favorite internet writer of mine, Seth Keshel. You can read it here. The post is about the 86,400 seconds of time each of us have to spend every single day of our lives. I’ve written about spending… Read more
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My Sweaty Genius
Reading Time: 5 minutesLast Friday I wrote a short blog post about one of my favorite quotes: Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. He (Thomas Edison) should know. Everyone has heard of him. As one of the greatest and most prolific American inventors, Edison acquired 1,093 patents. That’s a hell of a lot of… Read more
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Inspiration vs Perspiration
Reading Time: 2 minutesOne of my favorite quotes comes from Thomas Edison. He said, “Genius is 1 percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration.” If I were younger and more ambitious, (in other words, still looking to be more successful) I’d have that quote hanging prominently on one of my walls. That insight is true in… Read more
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When a Book Isn’t Worth Your Time
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhy does it feel so wrong to put a book on the discard pile (or in the trash) if you don’t want to finish it? No matter how appealing a book looks, or the synopsis on its jacket sounds when you acquire it, sometimes it just isn’t worth your time and energy… Read more
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Hug Me Like You Mean It
Reading Time: < 1 minuteYears ago an 18 year-old niece came to live with us. We loved her dearly but she and her divorced parents were at odds and she’d had a few rough years finishing high school. Randy and I both come from a family of huggers and it’s standard operating procedure to greet… Read more
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Breaking Up With Sugar
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe all have relationships that definitely don’t enhance our lives. I’ve often said that if you are with someone who doesn’t bring out the best in you, that’s not a relationship you want to nurture. In fact, it’s emotionally healthy to minimize or sever those kinds of relationships. Yesterday I had… Read more
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Bookbait
Reading Time: 5 minutesAs I work through the lessons of this publishing course I signed up for a few weeks ago, there are assignments that help clarify your book idea, audience, and a host of other things necessary to get a book that people actually want to read published. Assignment #1 was writing your “Bookbait.”… Read more