Archive for the ‘Emotional’ Category
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. -- Oprah Winfrey
I spend many hours during my pre-teenage days flicking through atlases and reading any copy of National Geographic I could lay my hands on, imaging faraway places and adventures on foreign shores. The ...
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Monday, February 7th, 2011
Thanks and here we go again. Life has certainly changed for me over the last few months and particularly since my separation. I am currently in the throes of trying not to get buried under the enormity of it all and keep my project – which I also reviewed here ...
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Sunday, November 28th, 2010
"The first symptom of the process of our killing our dreams is the lack of time. The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount ...
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Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
I'm not the only one saying this....
If You Are Unsatisfied With Your Life, You Only Have One Choice: Follow Your Heart.
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Sunday, October 10th, 2010
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I cannot believe that it is nearly a month since I posted here - where has the time gone? Maybe my project is turning into an obsession. Anyway, here goes.
Last week, I went to visit my sister in France and with the ...
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Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts." Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970).
If you are a consumer of the countless American success formulas, you will know that the vast majority will educate you to ...
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
According to Wikipedia, "although the human brain represents only 2% of the body weight, it receives 15% of the cardiac output, 20% of total body oxygen consumption, and 25% of total body glucose utilisation." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain#Brain_energy_consumption). Assuming of course that working the brain, like working the body, ups energy requirement and ...
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Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
CAN money buy you happiness? The answer, it appears, depends on what you mean by "happiness". High earners are generally more satisfied with their lives, it seems, but a persons day-to-day emotional wellbeing is only influenced by money up to a certain point.
via Money can buy you happiness – up ...
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Wednesday, July 21st, 2010
When you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. [Lee Ann Womack - I Hope You Dance*]
Yesterday, on my ‘experience’ wanderings (that’s what I like to call them) I happened into a bar where a few, maybe 30 or so, people were learning to ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
“I am available on most weeknights, not degree educated but well versed in matters of politics, economics, religion and the like. Personal disasters like career disappointments and failed romantic encounters can be discussed and I am not too averse to bouncing balls, kicking balls and hitting balls with a bat ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2010
My 60 year plus mother holds some very set view about certain sections of society that may have some basis in experience but most likely does not. Since she comes for the generation of the great –isms, I assumed that my siblings and I just brushed off these prejudices, sometimes ...
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Sunday, July 18th, 2010
Unlike many of my peers, when I was in my middle teenage years, I knew that I wanted to have a family; I wanted to be a father. I was going to find the right woman, get married, have babies and have a good job to support it all. I ...
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Friday, July 16th, 2010
We do not need to look for statistics to prove that the rate of marriage breakdowns is growing. Many of us have many have experienced it ourselves or have close family and friends who have and those of us with children will know that a significant proportion of their classmates ...
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
Here is one man's view of how the simple, not necessarily the easy, can make you happy. Though written from the sense of the simple home in the Brazilian favelas compared to the high life in the USA, it is the emphasis on simplicity, difficulty and community that the sense ...
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Saturday, June 19th, 2010
A Buckinghamshire man diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2006 who won £10,000 betting he would be alive years later, died at the age of 60 a few months short of collecting another £10,000 (BBC News - Buckinghamshire man who bet to beat cancer dies). On the face of it, it ...
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