The sour taste of revenge…

When someone hurts us, automatically our brain goes into wicked revenge mode. Thinking up cruel ways to add injury to those who have screwed us. But, even if we feel and think this way, it might not be, not only in our own best interest, but not in our true nature at all. You can […]

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Who’s your worst enemy?

We dislike people whom we would never cross paths again if it were up to us. Unfortunately we can’t avoid some individuals that add nothing valuable to our existence. We can try to work around them, yet in a way we should expose ourselves to those we mistrust and truly dislike.

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E-mails not worth reading.

There are e-mails not worth reading. Those from ghosts of the past that contribute nothing to your life or well-being. Now that we are so connected we have to choose which e-mails are worth answering, those to be discarded and not read and those for safekeeping. 

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Benchmarks: Our measure of change.

We all have ways to measure time and change. We do so by reflecting upon those events, benchmarks, that changed our lives. “The before and after.” We need those to see how we’ve progressed, changed, to get a sense of where we’ve been and where we are at present, what we have achieved and sometimes lost. […]

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What money can’t buy…

  I’ve spent over two decades in search of that perfect pair of shoes, those jeans that fit perfectly, that something that I could buy that would make me forever happy. At long last, I’ve realized those are not the things that will ever fulfill me. Not even that trip to the Bahamas, unless the […]

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Time to say goodbye…

Leaving behind those we love and care for or no easy feat. We leave a part of us with them, especially when we have a long history together. So it’s been on my last trip to my beloved Spain. I spent days catching up with family, old friends and made a few amazing good friends. […]

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