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Are You Clutter-Blind? Or Do You Know Someone Who Is?
One thing that continues to surprise me about the nature of good habits and happiness is the degree to which, for most people, outer order contributes to inner calm. More, really, than it should. In...
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A Conversation with Myself – the Dream of What One Day Could Be
A rabbi writes about a YouTube video that went viral called, “A Conversation With My Twelve Year Old Self.” Jeremiah McDonald was a clever twelve year-old boy who made a videotape of himself to be...
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How to Make an Execution of a Large Project Less Stressful
Execution of a Large Project: From Stress to Success Even workaholics want to relax sometimes, let alone ordinary people. We like to put a completion of the important tasks on the back burner and then...
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How to Free Yourself of the Comparison Curse
“He looks so happy.” “Why am I depressed?” “She’s from a big, loving family.” “Why do I feel so alone?” The Comparison Curse strikes again. I live a fun life. My wife and I have circled the globe for...
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Teaching Kids Empathy Means Not Hiding the Suffering
Part of teaching my kids empathy entails exposing them to the ugly, hopeless parts of life, and there’s no mama who wants to do that, but sometimes it meets us right in our path of an otherwise happy...
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Hope
It comes in like a lullaby. Quiet at first but so melodical that you recognize it. It calms you down and it gets you through another day. It almost feels like it is coming from really far away, from a...
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Beneath All Reaction
Your psycho-emotional defaults — your go to feelings — the ones that wash over you when doom enters your room . . . these are your messengers, a tremendous fuel-source that’s available if you tap into...
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How I Crushed Neil Degrasse Tyson’s Dreams
I didn’t plan on telling Neil deGrasse Tyson that I don’t believe in his dreams. But that’s what I did. I told him, “You’re living a dream life.” “I still have this fantasy,” he said. “It could be a...
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If You Loathe Self Promotion, Here’s Something to Cheer on Your Shine…
If you’re the kind of entrepreneur/creative that loathes self-promotion… is it because: 1 …it makes you feel like you’re pushing something on someone? New thought: Passion is a force—an essential force...
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Savvy Chimpanzees and a Failure of Imagination
In, What is Enlightenment?, Immanuel Kant wrote, “Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s own understanding without another’s...
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Remembering Who We Are
As human vessels, we are constantly inundated with information and wisdom that comes directly via our primary light source—the sun. Revolutionaries have known the power of this force for aeons. It is...
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The Power Of Your Story
It’s been a good month. One of those months that makes me realise just how much my life has changed since I first tapped out my thoughts and launched them into cyberspace, nearly three years ago....
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The Importance of Self-Care in Hostile Times
Do you feel overwhelmed with the hostility that’s out there in the news and pervasive on every social media outlet? Is every newscast you watch, even if you try to avoid it, negatively impacting you?...
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Do You Have Enough Pleasure in Your Life?
Pleasure. What comes to mind when I say that word? These days we talk a lot about success, health, and consciousness but we do not talk as much about pleasure. And by pleasure I mean the things that...
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Use the End of Daylight Saving Time to Get an Extra Hour in Your Day
While writing Better Than Before, my book about habit change, when I talked to people about the habits they want to change, they often mentioned that they lack the time for a new habit. To clear time...
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How to Keep All the Balls in the Air…
You’ve been to the circus. You’ve seen the act… And you’re like…seriously, how did that clown juggle five chainsaws, three monkeys, a platypus, nine avocados and a partridge in a pear tree?! Would you...
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Love Them Anyway
As we walk through the journey of life we will experience the presence of many different people who will touch our hearts in numerous ways. Some are with us from birth and some enter our story in...
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How Mindful Meditation Can Help Melt Your Stress Away
First Aid For Stress Stress can be one of the most harmful elements in our lives. It affects our well-being on so many levels. Our mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual health are all subject to...
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I Just Wanted to See the World
I’ve felt so small in the context of all of the world’s chaos lately. It’s been suffocating and crushing and exhausting. It’s caused me to doubt the value in everything I do for weeks. I’ve talked to...
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It’s Time to Change the Road You Walk On
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” -Dolly Parton You could make a big change at any point in your life. The world could be floating along, with or without you, just...
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