In the last week I’ve gotten email from some pretty reputable sources trying to get me to buy a pretty expensive online course (expensive as in over $1000). Both emails proclaimed this to be a very useful product coming from a market leader. Problem is that when I checked into it, that market leader...
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5 easy steps to becoming an insider
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to get information when the knowledge holders are a closed community. It’s not the same as the cool kids’ lunch table but it can feel like it. For example, the travelling artists that sell at festivals – they might want to be helpful but if they’ve survived...
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September means new beginnings
I saw on a list of holidays that September is considered Self Improvement Month – probably made up by bloggers in an attempt to have something to say since most of us are either yearly adopters or don’t bother at all. In any event it got me thinking about Fall and the start of...
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The new paradigm of cancer
Tomorrow my dad starts his first round of chemo therapy. This isn’t chemo designed to eliminate the cancer but to manage it, to keep it in check in order to wring a few more years out of life. When I was growing up, cancer was like the Cold War, a low lying but ever...
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How does one judge quality of life?
Yesterday my 18 year old cat, Isabeau, got the official diagnosis of kidney disease. Apparently most cats will get this if they live long enough, the same way most elderly humans have at least some arthritis. The question I have to answer for myself and for her is what is the right balance of...
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As the universe expands, the world shrinks
There was a press release last week announcing that in 2008 there were more on demand books published than those by traditional publishers. That might not seem like a big deal if you’re not in the publishing business, but it does mean that if you have ever wanted to write a book, the only...
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An animated refresher course in the 8 Principles
Even though you’ve probably heard most, if not all, of the advice given in The Eight Principles of Happiness before, unless you’ve been to this site already you probably haven’t seen them presented in animated graphics with a soundtrack. Sometimes a new form of presentation makes the difference and hopefully will leave you with...
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Reality check; what is real vs concept
I’m currently reading The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander. It’s intriguing me on several levels and one particular idea immediately captured my imagination; that the optimists who see the glass as half full are in fact, the only realists – not the cynics as popular culture would have it....
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