Tag: motivational
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Purposefully Choosing a Purposeful Life
There are several things I have learned as I have lived. Among them is the reality that life is going to come at you, whether you like it or not. So I figure if life is going to happen anyway why should I be passive toward it. Why not choose to live a life worth…
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I Love the Whole World… Boom-De-Ah-Da
Before the Discovery Channel became another reality tv channel they had some awesome programming. Once upon a time you could actually discover something on the Discovery Channel. In their prime they had this brilliant commercial. I love it. I enjoy discovering new things. I enjoy learning trivia and finding out about new planets, new stars,…
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Finding the New You in the New Year
Happy New Year! I hope your Christmas and holiday season went well. With the new year of 2015 now here it’s time to start thinking about this year’s goals. It could be anything, from the large to the small. For me it’s a combination of both. One of my more smaller goals is to go…
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Finding You Inner Michaelangelo
I was told that Michaelangelo once said of his David, “He was always in there, I just chiseled away the excess stone.” In my research I couldn’t find that particular quote but I did find this one, “The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.” While…
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Time to Stop Wasting My Time
Time is a precious commodity. Out of everything in the world time is the one thing that cannot be restored. Friendships can, as can money, even houses and cars can be restored. But time, once it’s passed, it can never come back. If we truly grasped that fact I wonder if we would waste as…
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Surviving the Winter Months With a To-Do List
Life is a funny thing. Back when I was in college I loved the cold weather – the snow, the nippiness, even the late night cold runs. But now that I am older I don’t enjoy it as much. It gets dark too soon, it’s too cold to do much outside and now with my…
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Let the New Year Start Today
Whenever I go to start something new I tend to start it at the beginning of something. Sometimes it’s starting at the beginning of the week, sometimes it’s the next month or even next year. But lately I’ve been rethinking that approach. Yes, it does give an organized starting point but why do I need…
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You Don’t Know Until You Do
I had a great uncle who used to say he knew he could do this or that, so there was not point in doing it. As much as I love my family that is utter nonsense. Imagine the engineers at NASA in the 60s saying, “We know we can go to the moon so there’s…
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Baby Steps
There’s a great movie from the early 90s titled What About Bob? Bob is a nut whose mental problems stem from the belief that he has them, when in reality he doesn’t. He changes his doctor who prescribes a baby-step approach to overcoming his problems. Here is their first meeting. As I watched this clip I…
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History Maker or Stock Clerk?
I have had the privilege of working different jobs with different types of people. I have worked in retail, in fast food, in textile factories, in call centers, professional jobs, even a business that raised rodents for university studies. I have dealt with people of various backgrounds, from various cultures and countries, and from various…