When watching professional sports, there are a number of exciting elements that make us enjoy watching. There is love of the sport itself, the beauty of seeing professionals perform at such a high level, the camaraderie of bonding with others over an event or a team and the thrill of your team winning. One of the elements that often goes […]
When you talk to people about their ideal life, they will frequently say that if they could retire and not worry about money that they would live on a beach and drink pina coladas all day long. It certainly sounds interesting in theory, being on the beach, having fun and worries. And we also know that most people are not […]
When people want to start a new project, whether it is a new exercise program, a new job, a new business or a new course of study, they are often concerned about having access to resources. They feel that they need to secure resources or else they will not be able to effectively start. The first thing to remember is […]
In an experiment on biodiversity, a controlled environment was created in the desert under a large glass dome. The idea was to experiment with growing conditions to determine which was the optimal one. People lived in this biodome and things went well. There was one strange exception, however. Once they grew to a certain height, trees in the dome would […]
When my wife and I were first married we went on a trip to New York City. We spent a few days there and one day in the midst of sightseeing we visited some stores in Manhattan. We were not really buying anything just “window shopping” or quickly going in and out of the stores. We noticed immediately that we […]
We have all had the experience of driving somewhere and realising that have been daydreaming and not paying attention to the road. We are startled by the awareness that we have little or no memory of driving the last few minutes. This may seem frightening in an age where being distracted constantly is the norm, however, if you were actually […]
Have you ever started to watch a movie and realised you don’t like it partway through? However, since you have already watched part of it, often you will finish watching it because you don’t want to feel like you wasted the initial time spent. Often people will do this with books and television series as well. They don’t want to […]
When the average person decides they are going to do something, they figure out what they need to do and do it, generally unemotionally. They go to work every day and the tasks they need to accomplish are either laid out for them by the company they work for or as the day progresses, things they need to do will […]
There is no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing. -Scandinavian Saying This quote is an old but profound statement on how we view circumstances, particularly things that we cannot control like the weather. It tells us that we cannot control some things, but that we can control our reaction to those things. This may seem obvious, but […]
The subject of patience is a popular one on this Blog. We have talked about having patience and taking a long-term view because life is a marathon, not a sprint, and that we should enjoy the journey. We have also talked about how patience can build up our ability to delay gratification and how that is a trait that can […]
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