Our powerful human brains can be our ticket to true success and happiness, but they can also be our absolute worst enemy. The fact that we are able to fill our minds with almost unlimited thoughts is both a boon and a curse. We have the ability to complete nearly any intellectual task we set …
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Before you read this, take a lap around your home. Make a mental note of all the “stuff” you see or find. Check the closest, the basement, and the cabinets. If you’re anything like me (or, more accurately, my wife!), you have a bunch of earthly possessions that you’ve had for God knows how long. …
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Full disclosure: At the age of 30, I sat with my wife in a movie theatre full of children this summer and openly wept for roughly 94 minutes straight while watching an animated 11 year old come to terms with her feelings in the movie ‘Inside Out’. In what was possibly one of the most …
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When you were a kid, you probably watched a ton of movies featuring talking animals, kids who went days without checking in with their parents, and other equally ridiculous scenarios. In-between all that ridiculousness, of course, came those boring sentimental moments (you know, like at the end of every episode of Full House when the music came on …
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Because stress can inhibit your ability to perform at your highest potential, knowing how to manage it is incredibly important. While we all deal with stress in unique ways, there are certain methods of alleviating anxiety that have proven to be universal to all humans. By dealing with physical and emotional stress systematically, you optimize …
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You’ve most likely, at one time or another, thrown a rock into a lake and watched the ensuing ripples flow outward from the point of impact. Perhaps you realized the profound effect you’d had on the Earth in that very moment, or maybe you moved on with your life without giving your actions a second …
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“There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.” ~ Albert Einstein Everyone wants to learn how to tap into their intuition. Even those of us who don’t subscribe to the idea …
When people hear others say something about the “voices in their head,” the knee-jerk reaction is usually to think that person is a little nutty. First of all, those who do such a thing are trivializing the plight of those who truly do hear voices in their head and can’t control them. And secondly, that’s …
Wouldn’t it be great if life were like video games where you could simply put in a code to make things easier for you? Unfortunately, there’s no debug menu for the real world, and there certainly isn’t an infinite money cheat. However, there are many ways to “hack” our lives, as well as the people …
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“After I hit that shot, I realized that I was in the zone. You don’t really realize it until you’re in the middle of it.” ~ Shane Battier, after scoring 27 points for Duke during the 1999 NCAA tournament On fire. In the zone. Flowing. Whatever you choose to call it, we’ve all experienced …
We’ve all heard of the thought experiment involving a glass of water in which an optimist will see it as half-full, and a pessimist will see it as half-empty. What this hypothetical experiment seems to overlook is the fact that, in reality, the glass of water is just a glass of water — it’s the …
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“Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.” ~ George Carlin Just about every single event that a person can experience on this Earth can be approached in one of two ways: cynically or enthusiastically. Which are you? A cynic or enthusiast? Do you even know? Though not everyone sees things in such a …
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Log onto your Facebook feed and you won’t have to search long to find people arguing in the comment section of a recent news article or editorial. I’d ask you to take a moment and examine the tone of the voices you find there, but you’d have to be living in a cave not to …
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Take a minute and think about the day ahead of you. You likely have work for around six to eight hours, followed by a variety of errands, housework, and other obligations to fulfill before you wind down for about an hour before bed, just to wake up the next day and do it all over …
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Before you get started reading this, I want to make something clear: your reaction to many of these points will likely be along the lines of “well, duh.” But the point of this article isn’t so much to give relationship advice as it is to show that these pieces of wisdom have actually been studied …
FULL DISCLOSURE: I’m just as guilty as the rest of us of most of what I’m about to discuss, so please don’t think I’m writing this from a “better than you” perspective :-) I’d be willing to bet that most of you are reading this on your phone right now. I’m not saying this is …
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“The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.” ~ Aldous Huxley If I were to ask you, “Who, generally, has a better time in life: kids, or adults?” I guarantee your answer would be “kids.” Of course it would be. Children don’t …
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