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The benefits of meditation are too vast to explain them in this post, but when you have time, read the book entitled Waking Up by Sam Harris to understand them.
For the longest time, I tried to meditate, but just couldn’t do it. I have to much of an ‘action brain’ to be able to sit still, or at least, that’s what I thought. You might think the same, but it’s not true. [Read more…]
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Roughly one week ago your school sent all of you home because of a global pandemic. The COVID-10 Coronavirus outbreak has changed life as we know it. We now spend our days and nights together under the same roof. We’ve managed to go out for walks and hikes on a regular basis but these are scary times.
It’s only been one week and we may need to quarantine for months, but I plan to journal it and offer some lessons learned.
Here are a few that come to mind at this stage: [Read more…]
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You’re a human being. Okay, that’s obvious. However, as a human being, you will make bad decisions in the course of your life. That’s a fact. What I’ve learned (in making many bad decisions) is that once you make a bad decision, and you recognize that it’s bad, the next steps that you take are critical.
You can ignore the bad decision, and keep going with it, which will inevitably make things worse OR you can try to correct it as best you can.
Here’s an example…
Let’s say that one day you were supposed to come home immediately after school and do your homework because you had a sporting event later that evening. After school, your friend asks you to go play basketball for a while. You know what you’re supposed to do, but you really want to play basketball, so you go with your friend. [Read more…]
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The word accountable may be on of the most important in designing your life. It is defined as (of a person, organization, or institution) required or expected to justify actions or decisions; responsible.
Here’s what it really means: You need to force yourself to build good habits OR ELSE you probably won’t.
Here are some examples… [Read more…]
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We had a dog, but for many reasons we had to re-home him when he was young. You were all devastated and Mommy and I were so sad for you, but we didn’t have much of a choice based on the circumstances. I spent the entire 5 months taking care of him (the dog) most of the time. It was difficult and tiring but also enjoyable in some ways. It was nice to see the joy the dog brought you, but there were times that you were frustrated with the dog or not interested in him too.
Over that period of time in reading about dogs, meeting other dogs, and owning a dog, I realized that dogs need three things to have an awesome life: [Read more…]