Tag: Goals
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Living Life Without a Plan
One of the big things about my life really bothers me is that I’m about to turn forty and I still have absolutely no idea what the hell I’m going to do with my life. I did the military thing for a bit more than a decade, but ultimately the culture and constant demands wore…
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Always Searching for the Unicorn
Perhaps one of the most difficult things about being raised toward the beginning of the millennial generation is that you have two perspectives of the world that are constantly warring with one another. The first is the idea that we live in a world that has realistic limits and you have to learn to live…
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Remembering How Good You Had It
I think most of us tend to have a relatively negative view of our work life. It’s easy to get involved in your daily routine and become lost in the mundane banality of the mindless work that is likely a part of whatever it is that you do. If you work in an office all…
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If You Can’t Bend You Risk Breaking
Click here to check out more videos from the channel! Our modern world is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, the services and technology that we have access to have given us an unprecedented quality of life that just a century ago was out of reach for even the wealthiest of people. The other…
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You Get What You Pay For
They say the best things in life are free. It would be nice if that were true, and perhaps if you’re talking about money, it has a ring of truth to it. However, it is the unfortunate truth that anything worth having has a cost associated with it, something we have to give up in…
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The Problem with Being Unrealistic
Human beings reach for the stars. It’s in our nature to be unsatisfied with what we have and constantly strive for something better. The drive to succeed and accomplish great things is what has propelled us from living in cold, dark caves to the fantastic level of technology that we enjoy today. There is nothing…
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Living Without a Dream
I’m not exactly sure where I recall the statement, but in the last few weeks I heard someone say something to the effect of “you’ve been given this dream; it’s a crime to let it go”. The statement hit me pretty hard with the simple truth of it, striking the core of my being with…
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Setting the Right Goals for Yourself
There is a great deal of conflict when it comes to the dreams we have for our own lives. Part of this is because we come up with amazing visions for what our future could look like that simply don’t have much of a chance of being a reality. The other part is that we…
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The Mass of Men Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation
Sometimes you hear something that just makes you stop what you’re doing and reflect on things for a while. No matter how long you think about various things in your life, there are certain words that just hit you really hard and cause you to either think about something in a completely new way, or…
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Subjective Suffering and How to Approach It
There is a lot of suffering in the world. In some places it is so tangible that you can objectively state that there can be no comparison to it. Extreme poverty, past genocides and hyper-controlling authoritarian regimes are some examples of suffering in which any reasonable person would agree falls within the realm of true…
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