Tag: Self Help
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How Do You Control Your Anger?
Like many of my posts, the impetus for writing today comes from something that happened this morning. A task was dropped in my lap that is not only not part of my job, but also requires a great deal of physical labor that is not part of my job description. This has happened several times […]
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Life Altering Changes Can Be a Good Thing
As I’ve intimated in the past, I have a couple of huge life changes happening this year. For privacy, I won’t lay those out specifically, but one regards my family and the other regards my career. Both are objectively negative occurrences that I haven’t been looking forward to, and now that they’re starting to happen, […]
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Figuring Out What You’re Good At
For one reason or another, I’ve continually been hired for jobs that are outside of my talents for the last eight years or so. My time in the military has provided me with the ability to adapt myself to positions that are not necessarily natural to me, and that has allowed me to be somewhat […]
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Living with Depression
I try to stay positive on this blog. My goal is to help people to look at the world in a slightly different way than they may have before. If I can help someone to change their mind about an important topic, or at least make a decision if they’re on the fence, then I […]
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There’s a Reason It’s Called “The Bare Minimum”
At some point in the progression of our evolution, we lost the ability to view survival as a goal in and of itself. For most of our history, the desire for most human beings was to scrape out a living for oneself and find as much safety and security as possible while maintaining as close […]
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You Can Be Smart and Stupid at the Same Time
What do you think about the variability of human intelligence? Are there things that you excel at which make you wonder why you struggle with something else? How do you overcome the things you’re not good at? When we can identify our weaknesses, we start to realize that we can’t do it on our own and, though it may hurt our pride, we learn to reach out to others to find a way forward.
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It Takes Money to Make Money
It’s one of the most heard and hated clichés to newcomers in the business world. In this modern era of free video streaming and nearly unlimited access to mountains of content, we don’t want to be told that we have to spend any more money than we already do to get into something that we […]