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How to Live An Amazing Life

June 23, 2015 ♦

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A revelation occurred to me just yesterday (at the time I'm writing this post). I think that many of us have been living life by just trying to live, without considering the overall picture of our lives. Steve Jobs has been known to say he lives his life as if…

Our Need For A Redemption Narrative

January 14, 2015 ♦

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While I was on a plane ride to Hokkaido, I stumbled across an article on the International New York Times (Nov. 15-16, 2014) in the Editorials Opinion section titled I nearly died. So what? I love how the author, Meghan Daum (columnist of the Los Angeles Times), was brutally honest about…

Why Being Spoiled May Not Be That Bad

January 12, 2015 ♦

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I'm one of those people that just can't help but debate with their parents. So today my mom and I were discussing about how Jaycee Chan (Jackie Chan's son) was sentenced to imprisonment for a couple of months, and my mom thinks that going to prison for him is good since he…

Less Is More

January 3, 2015 ♦

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We live in a world where we are more interconnected to each other than in any time of our history. We have access to contacting each other around the world at almost anywhere with a cellular service / data, and as creatures of habits, we've made ourselves addicted in digital information…

Actions That Speak

November 13, 2014 ♦

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When we think about body language, we often think about someone's posture or facial expressions - how someone's arms are crossed, how someone's legs are crossed, how their eyes are moving etc. If we want to go even further, we can even observe their actions and determine their habits and…

Conditioning For Parents

September 11, 2014 ♦

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Image courtesy of www.listdose.com Treat a dog a biscuit when it gives its paw to you, and you will encourage this behavior. When your dog tries to pee in the living room and you hit it with a stick, you discourage this kind of behavior. Humans are also trainable as…

Laws of Attraction

August 22, 2014 ♦

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There are laws that govern what people are attracted to. These can be things, places, or people. Here are some laws that you can utilize to make yourself or your business more attractive: 1. The more scarce you are, the more attractive you become. Similar to objects, the more rare…

Why We Are Not Rational

August 3, 2014 ♦

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We are not rational. According to Merriam Webster, to be rational is to be "based on facts or reason and not on emotions or feelings." Yet in life, most decisions are based on the combination of both, and usually more so from our emotions. Humans aren't rational because we don't…

The Subconscious

August 3, 2014 ♦

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We all possess the subconscious. It's the animal instinct we have inside of us. It is what influences us for survival and reproduction. By understanding about our subconscious, we understand so much more about ourselves, especially when it comes to things that appear "inexplicable". Our subconscious drives our behaviors in many…

Sleep, Hard Work, And Not Inversely Correlated

August 2, 2014 ♦

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We grew up thinking that the hardest workers often slept the least, or at least very little. People make it sound like by sacrificing sleep to work, that we are working hard, and by sleeping a lot, we are not. This cannot be further than the truth. Sleeping in is completely different…