“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.” – Dion Boucicault Time can be a strange thing. When you are bored, seconds can drag on like hours. Conversely, if you are having fun, it zips by at blinding speed. There are two things which will always remain true about time: once it’s gone, […]
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Pick Things Up and Put Them Down
“Training gives us an outlet for suppressed energies created by stress and thus tones the spirit just as exercise conditions the body.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger Working out and staying active is essential to good health and a higher quality of life. There are an infinite amount of choices for how to stay moving, anything from hiking […]
How Are Your Goals Going?
“It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.” – Ella Maillart Do you remember all of those noble goals you set during the new year? The middle of the year is almost upon us with the summer solstice occurring next week1. […]
Improve By 1% Everyday
“The Kaizen Philosophy assumes that our way of life – be it our working life, our social life, or our home life – deserves to be constantly improved.” – Masaaki Imai Self improvement is hard. There are bad days where your best self seems impossibly far away. Exhaustion can cause a rude statement to blurt out. […]
Don’t Be a Jerk
“Friends and good manners will carry you where money won’t go.” – Margaret Walker Over the years, the rules of etiquette have evolved with societal and technological advancements, but they are still as important today, as ever. The argument could be made they are even more important today with the overall decline in personal interaction. People […]
One Era Ends, Another Begins
“Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.” – Henry Cloud, Necessary Endings In terms of the universe, there is no such thing as a singular ending or beginning. To remind ourselves of this, we like […]
Attitude is Essential
“I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank Life is hard. There is no multiple choice questionnaire upon birth where you can pick and choose your circumstances, biology, or time period. Many elements are completely out of our control. As the sobering quote points out, this does […]
Wrench Your Way to Financial Savings
“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” – Kurt Vonnegut There is no way to sugar coat it – maintenance can be expensive and boring. Analysis in the US shows the yearly maintenance costs of single-family homes from 2022 to 2023 have increased about 9% […]
Fear is the Mind Killer
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.” – Frank Herbert, Dune Rarely do people want to admit to being afraid. In many societies, being afraid is negatively viewed and the butt of jokes. But as we know, life is complex and experiencing fear is inevitable. This isn’t […]
The Power of Moonbathing
“Moonlight drowns out all but the brightest stars.” – J. R. R. Tolkien The human race has been obsessed with the movement of the sun, moon, and stars since ancient times. Proof of this can be found in structures and monuments built in accordance with solstice and lunar phases. While the sun might be center stage, […]