Tag: #lifestyle
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Of course, I’m Pro Choice!
Did you panic or want to tune me out when you saw today’s blog title? Please don’t! I despise it when a group or political movement coopt and manipulate a perfectly good phrase such as “pro-choice” to promote or further their propaganda campaigns and agendas. In the abortion debate (which isn’t a debate at all,…
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Risky Business
Are you a risk taker? For me, not so much. My personality and temperament are much more wired toward stability, safety, and security. For instance, I’m not much of a risk taker in the area of finances and take a much more conservative approach to investments rather than being speculative. You also won’t see me…
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Wanna live healthy in 2024? … Avoid AI at all costs!
In my pursuit of rest and life balance over the past four years, one of the most significant changes I made was in the area of diet. I followed a paleo diet for a while, then switched to keto. I dropped wheat, flour, seed oils, most sugar added, and processed foods from my diet. The…
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I Love Mondays!
I love Mondays! I also look forward to Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Are you one of those people who loathe Monday mornings and the beginning a new workweek? Do you live for the weekend? Sometime around noon on Wednesday does a smile break across your face as you declare, “It’s “hump” day!”…
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CYOUL8R Possessions or People?
Saturday morning, I was on my way to visit a friend. While driving, a late model shiny sports car abruptly pulled over into my lane ahead of me. The license plate read CYOUL8R. In other words, – “See you later.” I shook my head and couldn’t help but wonder, wow, you spent 80 grand or…
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Stop talking with your Thumbs.
Are you “talking” with your thumbs more than you are with your mouth? It used to be if you wanted to “chat” with someone it meant you were seeking to speak with them in conversation, one on one. Now a days the word “chat” has taken on a whole new meaning. We have Chatbot, ChatGPT,…
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Live The Truth, NOT live your own truth.
Last week my wife Tammy and I spent a few days in the mountains of North Carolina to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary. It was a restful and relaxing time. On our third day though we had a brief period of stress. After a leisurely breakfast we were walking along an old section of Asheville that…
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Improving Your Serve
Tennis anyone? If you’ve ever played tennis, one of the vital skills to learn is the serve. A weak serve will nearly always lead to defeat. Top players will spend many hours mastering it. My question for you today is, “How’s your “serve” and what are you doing to improve your “serve” in life? A…
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Time is short
We’ve all heard the statement time is short. Or time is short, make the most of it. Actually, time is short when you waste a lot of it. Roman philosopher Seneca said it well – “Life is long if you know how to use it. It is not that we have a short space of…
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Simply Simplify
The word simplify means to make something less complex or complicated, plainer and easier. You may have heard the story that during the height of the space race in the 1960s, The U.S. spent millions to create a pen that would write in space while the Russians simply used a pencil. It’s a great story,…
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