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. While the majority of these flicks have probably long since been relinquished to the doldrums of the dust bin, a handful have no doubt morphed …
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While overthinking, in certain, rare cases, can be a ticket to great breakthroughs, for most of us it is nothing more than a scourge. 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 …
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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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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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On fire. In the zone. The flow state. Whatever you choose to call it, we’ve all experienced this feeling at least once in our life — that moment when you’re completely engulfed by the task at hand, to the point that all else fades away. When the activity you’re doing becomes not just the most …
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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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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“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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