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Sounds morbid huh? Not to me. I see it as a positive, self-improvement mantra. Most people have seen a dead person like a grandparent or friend in a casket at a funeral. We know they don’t look real. I remember my grandfathers both looked like wax. It is not their [...]
I have learned that being frantic and putting a happy face only gets you so far. Why not try being quieter and more of a listener?
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“How fragile we are.”
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A single word can add value to your life. In college I read that in a book and tried it out. I bought a pack of 3×5″ cards on sale and searched my mind and dictionary for words to concentrate on. This had a profound impact on the anxiety and [...]
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Today’s fast paced world leaves us all exhausted at the end of most days. Right now, as an example, I have that woozy feeling I have forgotten an appointment because I didn’t transfer it from my wallet to my Yahoo! calendar. Oh well, if I did I did. I’m pretty good about [...]
There is no real shortcut to distinguishing what is real from what is fake. Each person must come up with her/his own definition.
I asked myself a question today as I was preparing to go out into my Truman Show here at the Funny Farm here I call my life. The question was based half on Eckhart Tolle’s book, A New Earth and half on my own outlook on life. Blogs can be a great way to [...]
I have music around me as much as possible. It lifts my spirit and makes me more human, I think. Someone might say that I am in my own la la land because I have a playlist for before the kids get here called “Feelin’ Good Classroom Music.” To that voice [...]
My mom and I have been talking a lot lately about the book A New Earth. If you haven’t heard of it yet, you soon will. Oprah has fully endorsed its author, Eckhart Tolle, and we all know that what Oprah endorses, sells like crazy. But Tolle is a very humble guy. [...]
There are no simple solutions for these stresses at work. Try as we might, we can’t please everyone all the time. Not withstanding, there is a mindset, or a mantra, that can guide us through the stormy waters when they rise up against us
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