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Thanksgiving may be a uniquely American holiday, but the act of giving thanks has positive universal impact. I routinely see comments to the effect of, āGratitude is like āthoughts and prayers:ā a nic...
If you regularly follow my work, you know that the unifying theme of my writing is a concept I call Hardcore Happiness. It is an uncomfortable truth that you must have discipline and exert some effort...
Turns out you just have to pick your hard.
Sitting around all day, doing nothing and having no purpose and wondering why youāre 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 donāt 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 weekās article is in response to a readerās question: āWhat are some tools to help us be aware of our habitual choices and improve upon them?ā This is a great question with a long answer, but I w...
We all have daily stressors; itās part of life. Thatās NOT what Iām talking about here. Iām talking about those days when there are so many issues coming at you so fast that you can barely keep track ...
Itās hot and itās dry and the wind is blowing, hard. On summer days like this, the Great American Southwest feels like Godās 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 āflat spin.ā 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...
Itās a nebulous construct, poorly defined at best. āLoveā 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 ...
