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What is Your Subconscious Mind Obsessed With?

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Scientists say that your subconscious mind runs about 95{2879bc8f2cf0c7badc0ba0b91bc88170008fa0b1cee68ceb4afb7fd46d4bfeb9} of your daily life? This is because your subconscious mind is more dominant than your conscious mind. What does that mean? Well, it means that while your subconscious mind can affect the thoughts in your conscious mind, it’s very difficult to reverse this process. What is your subconscious mind doing? For starters your subconscious stores detailed information related to everything you have even seen, read, heard or experienced. It also stores all of your…

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2015 Fundraising Update

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I want to start this post by thanking all of you who have donated to me so far for my 2015 fundraiser. At the time of writing this post, 31 people have donated a total of a little over $2,100 to help me cover this year’s financial shortfall. Thank you so much! It really warms my heart to have such amazing supporters.For those who don’t know, I’m working on raising $6,500 to cover a financial deficit that I’ll have this year. With the current donations being where they are, I still need about $4,400 more in donations.This money…

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Friends With The Ex?

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one of the first posts that went viral on here was “Can I Be Friends With the Ex?” which was based on a letter a student wrote me. In honor of the blog’s 9th anniversary, I rewrote it and posted … Continue reading →

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Is it Really a Panic Attack?

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You are asked to do a presentation at work and suddenly the room starts to spin, you are sweating and your heart is pounding with fear. Is it a panic attack? Or are you just anxious and stressed and experiencing an ‘anxiety attack’? And what is the difference, really?  Anxiety – what is it? It’s …

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Are stocks really too risky for seniors?

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My brothers and I were recently at a meeting to help my mother manage some of her finances. She sold her house and needed to put her money into something low risk.  As with most people of her age and even a couple decades younger, she has a high aversion for risk. She was on the right track, of course. At her age, she should go low-risk, as any financial advisor will tell you. The problem is that low risk also means low rewards, which is a risk…

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Thoughts of the day 11-2-2015

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 To conform and fit in or to be original and be a trend setter? To be yourself or to be that which others want you to be? Good questions that we all face many times throughout our lives. Problem with total conformity is you lose a part of your personality and self in the process. To be bold …

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Don’t wait…

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“Ivan Ilych’s life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible” – Leo Tolstoy, from his novella The Death of Ivan Ilich Ivan Ilych’s values and desires were ruled by the opinions of others.  In the bargain for social standing, he compromised the voice of his soul, he relinquished his freedom and individuality.  He followed convention and pursued a life of shallow relationships and petty self-interest. In a death-bed epiphany, Ivan recognized the terrible price he paid for conformity, for safety, for basing his …