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To live life without learning is foolishness. In a world full of preachers and teachers, who should we listen to? I thought about it for awhile and I came up with this for myself: I listen and learn from people who are determined, dependable, and compassionate. Those three adjectives can exist independent of one another [...]
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I’m not going to talk about how friends are good for your psychology because even though they are, that’s secondary. Friends are just so good in so many ways.
A little while back my best friend sent me a button through Facebook. As I have begin to understand it, Facebook consists of nothing more than a [...]
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Your answer to that question may be the reason you’re not getting what you want.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
-Dale Carnegie
Of all his quotes, this one is the best in my opinion. [...]
Owners do “walk-throughs” starting at the storefront. Then, they adjust and repair things accordingly. I have always seen a parallel in a storefront to the self.
Okay, so I covered the first two letters of value: “V” for visceral and “A” for aphoristic. Now the third: “L” for linkage! Link love is the #1 way to make friends and influence people (namely bloggers you link to on the web. After you’ve written your visceral post of around 200 [...]
Shelly just published an interview with me at her blog. In it I get the chance, because of her intuitive and thoughtful questions, to share my inspiration and some methods of blogging. If you’d like to check it out, it is at the url below:
http://thiseclecticlife.com/2008/04/03/interview-with-damien-riley-of-postcards-from-the-funny-farm/
Incidentally, it is Shelly and I’s (can you [...]
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