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Sitting around all day, doing nothing and having no purpose and wondering why you’re here at all is hard.
Trying your best and being consistently misunderstood...
Discipline is necessary for just about anything in life, from getting up in the morning to achieving lofty goals. My own experience, in my personal life and from working with others, is that there is ...
The line of people who don’t want to be happier is the shortest line in the world. When you ask why they want to be rich, to be famous, to have freedom, to generally do well in their lives, they will ...
The crux is the central point, the main reason. No matter what you look at, it all comes back to this. People spend their whole lives trying to make money. What do they really want from that money? Mo...
This week I want to do something a bit different from my usual articles. I want to give you a peek into part of my own journey, in the hope that it may help you with yours. I want to talk to you about...
This week’s article is in response to a reader’s question: “What are some tools to help us be aware of our habitual choices and improve upon them?” This is a great question with a long answer, but I w...
We all have daily stressors; it’s part of life. That’s NOT what I’m talking about here. I’m talking about those days when there are so many issues coming at you so fast that you can barely keep track ...
It’s hot and it’s dry and the wind is blowing, hard. On summer days like this, the Great American Southwest feels like God’s own hairdryer. No place feels quite right and nobody really suits me and th...
In my last article, I compared the occasionally severe emotional turbulence of life to an out-of-control spin in an airplane; a situation that can be fatal if left uncorrected. The analogy still serve...
There is an event in aviation called a “flat spin.” This is a sudden and chaotic loss of control in which the aircraft remains level but begins to rapidly rotate around its axis, like a dinner plate s...
We experience our lives initially through our senses as a series of sights, sounds, smells and so on. Later we recall and modify the memories that were created by our senses. Together, our senses and ...
When I was little, I wanted to be an astronaut. I grew up in the age of manned rockets and like most boys my age, imagined traveling through space and exploring new planets. The reality of what it too...
It’s a nebulous construct, poorly defined at best. “Love” is a word used to describe an emotion, a commitment, a gut feeling. It is also a common excuse for bad behavior ranging from wall-punching to ...
It’s more than boredom. Ennui is a restlessness, a detached dissatisfaction with life. A soul-sucking downward spiral of lost productivity and cheap dopamine hits. There is a huge wave of distracted c...
In Part I of this series, I spoke about emotion and mystery as hallmarks of a compelling story. In Part II I added the ingredient of authenticity. Now, in Part III, I want to talk about a factor that ...
