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This year instead of New Year Resolutions, my wife and decided to adopt a New Year’s mantra. We tell ourselves that we are “people of action.” It is our hope that through this mantra, we will better balance our time and stress.
Posted: May 14th, 2008 under Decisions.
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I’ve been blessed with a good number of friends in my life. The bulk of them I me
t in high school and twenty years later I’m still friends with them. The group of us has stayed in touch over the years and still continues to do various activities together. In talking with other people, I’ve learned that this is actually rare both in number and longevity but to me it is just natural. But maintaining friendships takes a lot of effort and can easily overwhelm you if they get out of balance.
Posted: May 13th, 2008 under Decisions, Friends.
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I often quote a joke I heard one: “The lottery is a tax on people bad at math.” The odds of winning more money than you spend on the lottery are so low that the government is the only institution allowed to do it. We’re talking odds of millions to one depending on which game you like. The fact is that for every winner there needs to be tens of thousands of losers in order to finance the payouts. Yet every day people pay their money and play. So why do people play? Why am I tempted? Clearly something is out of balance. The desire to win millions of dollars overrides rational thought. Read more »
Posted: May 12th, 2008 under Decisions, Financial.
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So for my birthday a couple of years ago, my mother gave me
an iPod shuffle. It turns out that 1gb is just over a week’s worth of listening when I head to work and back so the gift was just perfect for me. I put a couple of podcasts on it and then have iTunes randomly grab music from my collection.
I’ve also found that part of the reason I can go through 1gb of music in a week’s worth of driving is because I’m constantly skipping to the next song. Sometimes, it is because I’m just not in the mood for the current song, or maybe it is just one I don’t care for. But a lot of times I find myself enjoying the song I’m listening to when suddenly I wonder what the next one will be.
Posted: May 1st, 2008 under Decisions.
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I suffer migraine headaches at times, as do my mother and sister. Luckily my headaches are no where near as bad as theirs but they still make me miserable. Every once in a while I’ll have one bad enough to stay in bed all day, but for the most part they are just annoying.
After a while, I learned what triggered my migraine headaches. For me it was either lack of sleep or lack of food (or a combination of both). There was not a magic formula for how much sleep or food I needed, but if I was noticeably lacking in one or the other, I was pretty sure I’d have a headache soon.
Posted: April 30th, 2008 under Decisions, Health.
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