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Category Archives: Choice-Based Life
Prefer a Choice? Or, Being Forced?
Forcing myself to go somewhere, do something, or think a certain way because “I should” leaves me in a place without a substantial direction. Forcing my actions and thoughts…forcing others…forcing the life around me…yea…IF the stars align, then it is … Continue reading
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Tagged choice, control, desire, didn't he ramble, emotional bond, emotional clarity, emotional development, focus, force, fulfilment, glen hansard, grow, growing, growth, her mercy, ideal, kevin carlstead, learning, Love, Meaning, mental clarity, mental development, mental health, mental health awareness, overwhelming, passion, reflection, self-worth, student, student of life, warm
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Keep Going…You Can Do This
For years, I have been struggling with going to sleep at night. During a few day span of not sleeping, I would become sick with a cold or flu, mentally exhausted, and my body was not healing as it normally … Continue reading
“Purpose Determines Outcome”
We drove by a grocery store parking lot. I caught a glimpse of a shopping cart in the middle of one of the spots. My mind immediately went to “let’s pull over and move it out of the way.” Being … Continue reading
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Tagged acoustic, animals, awareness, beauty, black or white, change, character, clear direction, comfort, details, direction, emotions, exercise, experience, explore, Fact, Facts, freedom, fulfilled, gray, gray reality, grayness, grow, henry david thoreau, human beings, irrational, jack johnson, kevin carlstead, life, life-purpose, live, Love, Meaning, mind, motivation, not black or white, park city, paul hatherley, personality, perspectives, practice, purpose, quiz, ralph waldo emerson, rational, reality, reason, Respect, respectable, satisfaction, self-reliance, selfless, student of life, survival, test, they do they don't, thoughts, truth, vague purpose
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A Story from “Hey Arnold!”
The boarders assign each other a Secret Santa, and Arnold has to get a present for Mr. Hyunh. He hears his story about his lost daughter Mai, and decides to search the city for her. Arnold attempts to locate Mai … Continue reading
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Tagged arnold, arnold's christmas, beauty, care, character, courage, distractions, effort, focus, go for it, grow, helga pataki, hey arnold!, humility, important, jazz, jim lang, learn, Love, mai hyunh, Meaning, mr. bailey, mr. hyunh, nancy spumoni, passion, pleasure, Respect, satisfaction, success, understand, warmth
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A Few Keys to Understanding
Here are some important keys to understand ourselves, others, and life that I have experienced to be true: 1st Key There is no point in planning for what you don’t know YOUR energy and the true FACTS from the situation … Continue reading
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Tagged accurate, anticipation, anxiety, assumptions, care, check yo self, concentrate, curiosity, depression, energy, experience, Facts, future, important, innocence, judgment, mumford & sons, practice, questions, reason, senses, sight, significance, smell, sound, taste, The Cave, touch, understand, unknown
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Awake My Soul
I see the consequences when I don’t sleep, I see the consequences when I spend my days distracted by TV and movies, and I see the consequences when I try to fit in with all of the people that surround … Continue reading
Adding the Extra Step
– Allow myself to think how I naturally do in every situation – – Allow myself to feel how I naturally do in every situation – If I lived like this and only this, my actions would end up based on … Continue reading
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Tagged beauty, conscious, crazy, direction, Facts, feelings, fulfilling, impulsive, impulsive life, internal, life-affirming, Love, Meaning, meaningful life, mumford & sons, natural, organizing, pain, passion, passionate, pleasure, purpose, reality, self-consumed, simple-minded, The Cave, thoughts, truth, wisdom
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Relationships
I have been listening to The Civil Wars a lot recently and their song “Poison & Wine” depicts every long-term relationship I have shared with a woman and almost all of the long-term relationships I have observed through my friends. … Continue reading
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