Things always get worse before they get better, and when they do get better, they get worse. It’s a paradoxical situation that happens when big improvements are made – the door is opened to growth and along with it comes a brand new set of problems. When a person learns to ride a bicycle they add to their life a…
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COMMERCIALS – THE USE AND ABUSE OF INFLUENCE
Commercials – there are few things so annoying as having your attention interrupted to be told how unhappy you are and how happy you could be if you just spent a little bit of money. Advertising is something that has been woven into our culture, but it’s not unique to human beings – it happens in the animal kingdom as…
THE BRIGHT SIDE OF BAD RELATIONSHIPS
Let’s start this off with a clarification – this post is about the bright side of the takeaways – the hindsight from having been through a bad relationship. If you are currently in a union that is truly inharmonious then the brightest side of it is that you can leave. “No I can’t.” I didn’t say you can just get…
IGNORING OUR OWN NEEDS CONDEMNS OUR CHILDREN
I am blessed with a memory that reaches back to the early days of my time here on Earth. It’s interesting see how people’s beliefs are shaped by their own characteristics – many people have refused to believe that I could possibly remember things from my life back when I was one or two years old – simply because their…
I’M SERIOUS THIS TIME
So what were you last time? This is a common slogan of people aching to make a change. It’s impossible to know how many times so many of us have said this in our lifetime, but it seems to be a mechanism to convince oneself that they truly want something, usually something intended to improve the quality of their life.…