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What’s Your Geek (or How To Small Talk)
We should all feel comfortable talking about the things in the world that we enjoy.
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My Circus : My Monkeys
It is my sincerest hope that my monkeys are helpful, funny, and bring you at least a little bit of joy.
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A Bronze Bird And A Burst Of Bliss
How the glimpse of a little statue fires the one synapse that contains an entire story.
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Science Reveals - In Truth There Is Joy
A curious case of curiosity has found that happiness positively correlates with truth.
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The Unified Theory Of Happiness: Gephyric Happiness
Happiness is both the small and the large, it’s the shallow and the deep, it’s the mundane and the overwhelming. It's all of it all at once.
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Situational Awareness: Avoiding Escalator Chaos and Finding Happiness
Situational awareness is to be cognizant of your immediate surroundings and how your behavior - both decisions and actions - will affect it.
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Plan For The Plan To Not Go As Planned
There are 2 rules: 1) have a plan, 2) it’s not going to go as planned.
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The Power and Beauty Of Swearing
Swear words are just words. They have meaning, to be sure, but it's the emotion of the words that cause pearls to be clutched. That's what makes them so…
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The Empire Tree - Theme O’ The Year
Chapter 6: Give your entire year a fallback statement.
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The Empire Tree - The Branches
Chapter 5: Defining and weighting your goals.
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The Empire Tree - The Roots
Chapter 4: Identity and aspirations.
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The Empire Tree - The Tree
Chapter 3: Your future embodied in a tree.
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