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Someone a generation older than myself warned me once about baggage, claiming, "You don't get to be your age without a little baggage." Having already run that scenario, I arrogantly scoffed, "If one is aware of baggage, surely it can be dealt with and therefore rendered ineffective."

Then I learned about baggage.

And arrogance.

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While cracked.com is always entertaining to read, rarely do I find such evaluative wisdom within its pages - which is exactly what I found in David Wong's article, 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person.

I ran across this link on someone's page who really needed to hear it as it hailed back to a discussion in 2008 concerning ( Read more... )

I celebrate criticism, I do. I look forward to being told I'm wrong, or that I'm looking at something the wrong way, or that my failure was due to some defect in my cognitive process. Why? Because it allows me to learn; to grow beyond my programming. Alternately, it gives me an opportunity to re-verify my intent, motivation, and procedure ( Read more... )

Money is a by-product of bigger, more meaningful goals such as passion, fun and wisdom.
~ Richard Branson

Bhutan is the only country to measure happiness. They have a Ministry of Happiness to measure the country's GNH (or Gross National Happiness) which "...measures quality of life or social progress in more holistic and psychological terms ( Read more... )

"You can suffer for as long as you wish, and when you no longer want to suffer, you can stop." So says Cheri Huber, Zen Leader. It often is that easy. Unless you think its not. Then all of a sudden it isn't. Why is that? In my experience, many people refuse to believe it. Or think they deserve their suffering. Whatever the reason, its ( Read more... )

Blame fascinates me. It fascinated me as a child and it fascinates me now. When I hear it from my children, I use it as a tool of instruction - to better their lives. When I hear it from an adult a little piece of me withers and dies because it kills me to see a grown-up confused about simple social constructs ( Read more... )

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SHOULD

The more I discover, the more I am in awe. The more I thought I knew how life was supposed to be, the more I've had to unlearn. Simply put, I was wrong. About everything. I now understand that even thinking that things "should" be a certain way is indicative of cognitive distortion, the hideously opaque mask of mood disorders - once we ( Read more... )