Finding Clarity in an Ambiguous World
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Fear Today, Gone Tomorrow
Ever had your loved one not come home when you expect? At first, we think they must have just been delayed in traffic, so we call their cell phone and don’t get an answer. Now we start to imagine some pretty creative scenarios; maybe they got in a car accident, or worse. As we dwell…
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Money and Contentment are By-Products
To see the picture in this image, you have to shake your head. Staring at the picture doesn’t work — the picture only comes through because of another action. It is a by-product. This is true of a lot of things in life: happiness, contentment, and money rarely if ever come by focusing on them.…
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Bullsh*t vs. The 5th Amendment
Nothing has been scientifically proven to be more effective for headaches. – TV commercial Sure sounds better than reality: No scientific studies have ever compared this product to any other product. Modern marketing and politics play fancy free and foot loose with the truth. Spin is king. Harry G. Frankfurt wrote a small treatise on…
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How Do I Get More Done?
There are over 1700 apps on iOS for managing ToDo lists – many that cost money. If you could download and try each of them (say 1 per minute), it would take nearly 30 hours straight. When it comes to managing our life, we want something to blame. It can’t be us, so it must…
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Why a Diet Sounds Better Tomorrow
Why is it easy to get psyched-up for starting a diet tomorrow but not right now? Why does an exercise regiment seem so easy to imagine, but hard to follow? We can picture ourselves running miles, exercising every other day, and feeling great, but when it’s time to go to the gym, a myriad of…
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Learning Empathy
“If you’re a 40-yr old mother who likes to run and also knows how to code well, please come talk to me after this discussion because I want to hire you.” Cheryl Kellond, founder of Bia, made the above appeal during a panel session last night titled Geeks vs. Suits. She explained that she highly doubted a…
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Correcting The Details
When I was a teenager, my dad received a special bonus to take his family out for dinner and so we headed for a fancy French restaurant in our town called The Catacombs. I don’t remember much of the actual meal, but instead one of the conversations. I don’t think anyone else involved remembers this…
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When Life Breaks Relationships
Relationships are a complicated mix of expectations, communication and growth. In the short-term, relationships grow quickly with people whose life situation is the same as ours. Over time people’s circumstances change. Sometimes it’s us, sometimes it’s the other person, either way it can destroy the relationship. When something life-changing happens, it’s normal for relationships to…
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The Cheese Is Alive
My French friend told me a story about cheese. After skiing with some friends in the Alps, they discovered a small chalet in Switzerland. Warming themselves up from the cold, they sat down at a quaint table. His face lit up when he spied what was sitting on the counter: “It was the most beautiful…
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The Trails of Life
Everyday is like a hike – most of the time we stay on the trail, occasionally we forge new ones. The trails represent the how of living: paths that we have either created or were taught by those who came before us. But unlike the trails on the mountain, many of our own patterns of…
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