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What Does “Living Life” Mean To You?

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

What is “living” ? Sounds like such a simple question, but I’m frequently surprised by how few people really consider what it really means to them.
And no, I don’t mean the involuntary act of breathing, and all the other things the body does to sustain itself. I’m talking about choosing your place in the world, finding it, and [...]

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Why It’s Cool To Stop Trying To Be Cool

Saturday, May 10th, 2008

What follows is an article from GQ written by a pretty funny guy named Dan Kennedy (no relation to the marketing guru) — it’s an article I liked so much, and hit a nerve very close to me so well, I had the determination to rip its pages from the issue and type the whole thing [...]

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We All Create Our Own Realities To Live In

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Note: I got this excellent e-mail about a year ago from one of my best friends, Jason Summers, describing his experiences in talking with a few people outside our normal loop where he also ends up delving into a lot of our shared core beliefs. I liked it so much I wanted to post it [...]

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Are You Letting This Common Mindset Ruin Your Life?

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

You can have any mindset you want about anyTHING you want.
None are inherantly “good” or “bad” (those concepts are based on other people’s agreement or disagreement), but for every kind of mindset, there are very exact consequences that will come to you as a result.
I just got off the phone a few minutes ago with [...]

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Does American Society Demand Too Much Of Us?

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

NOTE: This was actually written a couple years ago or so. While I still mostly agree with it, some of the biting attitudes of cynicism are no longer with me and there are certain small details I no longer believe. The bottom line is that we cannot be everything to everybody, so stop trying. The [...]

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