Tag: Self Help
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When Expectations Don’t Meet Reality
It’s something we go through all the time, struggling toward what we want out of our lives while at the same time realizing it’s never going to be exactly the way we want it to be. One of the most difficult things to live with is the idea that the perfect situation for our life […]
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Attention is a Precious Commodity
Just about everything in the world can be compared to business. When it comes to the things that have value, there are some things that are abundant and easy to come by and thus, even when demand is very high, economies of scale allow us to keep the price down to a reasonable level. On […]
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Indecision is Difficult to Live With
If you’ve been following my blog for any length of time, you’re aware that my current job will be ending soon and I don’t really have a solid plan for after that. I have been fortunate that the termination point for this position has continued to be pushed back as the requirements for the project […]
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Finding Your Creative Spark
As a fairly new writer of regular online content, it can sometimes be difficult to come up with things to talk about. I am a naturally solitary person, preferring not to waste a lot of time talking about unnecessary things and putting as focus as possible on doing things that I find fulfilling, or at […]
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Modern Love is a Lie
It’s a well known statistic in certain circles that more than half of marriages end in failure, and of those more than eighty percent of the divorces are initiated by women. If you are at all familiar with this particular line of thought, then you recognize it as part of the “red pill” mantra, or […]
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A Brave New “Detail-oriented” World
I struggle with the small things. My brain tends to focus much more on the big picture or overall plans rather than all of the little things that go into make something happen. There just isn’t enough patience in me to get proactive about details, yet somehow I’ve always been stuck in jobs that require […]
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Great Expectations…and Being Ok With Not Meeting Them
The world today is full of idealists. Most people have a grand idea of how they want their lives to turn out and a vague plan on how to get there, but very few of us end up living out the dreams of our youth. It is a mathematical truth that in a world of […]
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Men vs. Women: Emotional Stress
Men are from Mars; women are from Venus. At least, that’s how the popular saying goes and sometimes I begin to wonder if it isn’t true. We have so much in common with each other because of our human nature, but the minute differences in the biology and societal expectations of the genders causes so […]
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Dealing with Crunch Time
I’ve intimated a few times in the past that I struggle sometimes with coming up for topics to write about on this blog. It was a bit easier this morning because I had something happen to me, which I wrote about here, but most days I either have to wait for something to come to […]