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Living

Lessons from a Pocket Knife

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I had the great pleasure of escaping to the woods for a few days with my son this week. It’s a beautiful old cabin nestled between the base of a tree-covered mountain and a deep isolated lake. Before heading out, we stopped at Canadian Tire and picked up his first pocket knife. Its a stainless [...]

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Get Out of Your Head

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Listen. Can you hear it? It is the sound of your brain growing, stretching, just by reading these words. Your brain is becoming something more than it was just moments ago. There are approximately 100 billion neurons in the human brain. That is more than ten times the number of stars in the galaxy. It [...]

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Finding Time

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Why is finding time to do the things we want or need to do so difficult for some, and so easy for others? Once in a while I get a comment from clients asking how it is I always seem to be so well organized: having information seemingly at my fingertips, accessible within moments of [...]

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Downshifting or Minimal Living

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Downshifting, or minimal living, is a lifestyle trend based on one question: is more necessarily better? The reasons for asking this question have a variety of sources: concern for the environment; job losses; retirement plans running askew with drops in the stock market; or even questioning capitalism itself which seems to dictate keep growing, or [...]

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My Litter Free Zone

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My litter free zone began in March. I didn’t even think about it. I saw a plastic bottle rolling in the wind towards me and… I picked it up. Big deal. But what I found rather curious were the brief thoughts that cascaded through my brain before picking it up. It wasn’t, “Oh, a piece [...]

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Seize the Day

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Understanding time as a fluid component of your life will bring you better appreciation for the motto: seize the day! Time is not something we should always measure with clocks and calendars. Time is a relative experience in our life. It is fluid. And the more you appreciate this, the more you will appreciate the [...]

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Your Journey to Success (Part 2)

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This entry on your journey to success is continued from Part 1: Success is a Choice. It does not matter, really, which you read first. Not one of these ten elements is more important than the others. 6. Ego. I have written a lot concerning the ego, and the dangers of allowing it to rule [...]

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Success Is a Choice

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This based on an article I wrote, many years ago, after interviewing business leaders, political leaders, writers and artists, each one a success in their field, explaining that success is a choice. I recently found a copy of the notes I kept back then. I was curious, from a personal standpoint, to see how I [...]

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Yes, They Hate You, They Really Hate You

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I have a friend who lives on flowers and rainbows. She is so selfless, she often forgets to eat. She believes World War II could have been avoided if Adolph Hitler had been given a few more hugs when he was a boy. In one pocket she carries treats for dogs; in the other, stickers [...]

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Home Office – An Open Letter to Pablo Neruda

Dear Pablo, I know this may come as a surprise to you, but from my perspective, it has been a very long time coming indeed. Please read this  letter in its entirety before taking offense. I understand the concept of a “home office” is difficult to grasp for anyone who does not have one. In [...]

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