The Benevolent Side of Stress
Stress is a two-sided coin, but one side can be detrimental. Are you harnessing your stress to achieve goals or is it handling you?
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Points to ponder
Does Your IQ Soar? Do You Care?
Are IQ tests sacrosanct? Or do you think there is only one kind of intelligence? What about creativity? Or intuitive or emotional intelligence? ~ Abhaidev, The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit I can’t pinpoint the recent conversation that made me think about IQ (intelligence quotient) tests. However, it must have been with my husband, because he
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When your mind wanders, where does it go?
Your mind never wanders away; it only moves towards more interesting things. ~ Kevin Horsley, Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and be More Productive Oh, look – a squirrel! I do that all the time. Well, I don’t call attention to random squirrels, but I do occasionally fly
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What are you leaving when you go?
I’d tell anyone who wants to be a podcaster the same thing others have recommended – find a niche you’re passionate about and willing to be immersed in. ~ Sandra Sealy, Chronicles Of A Seawoman: A Collection Of Poems Clearly, I can’t disagree with that. Anytime you choose a new endeavor, you increase your odds of success
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Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Or is there?
It’s smokin’, Pop! ~ Katherine Irwin My granddaughter, now 21, spoke those words as a precocious toddler when she observed our small-room humidifier doing what humidifiers are known for–spewing clouds of moisture. She may have expected a flame to shoot out next (where there’s smoke …), but no. We’ve all seen fiery, explosive crashes in
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How critical are a few degrees here or there?
The fact is, for every one degree a plane gets off course, it will miss its targeted landing spot by 92 feet for every mile you fly. ~ Sam DiGiovanna Doesn’t sound like much if you don’t do the math. I did do the math, though. Let’s say I take a flight from McGhee Tyson
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What is muscle memory; do you know?
A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well in the morning, you have to warm it up. ~ Florence Griffith Joyner Yeah, well, Florence. Some of our cars require more time to warm up, and sometimes they just refuse to start. Seriously, I take her point. I don’t know Ms.
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Does your mind propel you or ground you?
We could live several lifetimes and never exhaust the power of our minds. ~ Denis Hachey, A Mind to Mind Conversation: Change Your Mind, Change Your Life I have touched on the power of the brain in other posts, but not on this aspect, I think. Do we limit ourselves by what we think we can’t
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Any way you slice it, it’s all the same. Really?
No matter how you slice it, there will always be two sides. Spinoza In the past two months, I’ve enjoyed hosting a fair number of dinner guests. That means I have read and executed many recipes. At least half a dozen of them were for meat dishes and a few provided directions on carving. I
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Silly topics that challenge my understanding
The great art of learning is to understand but little at a time. ~John Locke Well, I guess I’m on the path to great learning because there are some topics about which I am learning only a little at a time. With those, I am absolutely thick-headed and I make no apologies for it. I
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New Year traditions. Keep ’em or kick ’em?
We all get the exact same 365 days. The only difference is what we do with them. ~Hillary DePiano The post from 12-28-23 addressed figuring out what’s important and weeding out the activities that don’t make the cut. This one is similar but deals with things we’ve always done, at least as far as we
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Want a restart? SLOW DOWN. UNPLUG.
Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you. ~ Anne Lamott Like some of you, dear readers, I find it incredibly simple to solve other people’s time management issues. Feeling stressed because you’ve over-committed? You’d prefer to resign from the executive board of the Blah, Blah, Blah group,
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In a rush? The heart racing kind?
You hear about adrenaline, how it spurs you on and gives you uncanny strength, but there’s a flip side. The feeling is heady, out of control. It heightens your senses to the point of paralysis. You have to harness the power or it’ll choke you down. ~ Harlan Coben, Tell No One I have never been
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Gratitude, Freely Given, is the Best Gift
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. ~ Epicurus How very true. I have heard a number of high-profile personalities state that you should compare yourself only to who you were yesterday, not to anyone
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Does anybody really know what time it is?
There are very few things in the world I hate more than Daylight Savings Time. It is the grand lie of time, the scourge of science, the blight on biological understanding. ~ Michelle Franklin Ms. Franklin is so angry she added an ‘s’ where it didn’t belong. Most of us do. It’s just one more thing
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Fears & Phobias: can you overcome them?
People who are saying that they are afraid of heights are usually not actually afraid of heights. They are afraid of falling, which means it’s a synonym for losing control. So they have to get in touch with the definitional belief to find out what’s really going on. ~Bashar Usually I select quotes because they
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You may see only what you’re looking for
One who enjoys finding errors will then start creating errors to find. ~ Criss Jami, Killosophy Words from 17 days ago If you read this on the day it is released, I will be returning from a trip planned, at least theoretically, more than three years ago. One of the locations on our itinerary has a
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The gravitational pull of the inner ring
The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. ~C. S. Lewis What’s the Inner RIng? The easiest way to answer would be to say it’s the title of an essay* delivered by C.S. Lewis at King’s College in 1944. In this case, the description does not address the meaning.
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How old are you, anyway?
Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis Recently I requested responses to a poll that asked, “If you didn’t know how old you are how old would you be?” I got some interesting responses. The answers, incidentally, were more for the participants than for me. You know, just to get you [some
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Does your tea look perfect? Does it matter?
We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content. ~Emile Zola Why is a glass of tea the focus of the featured image, but the quote has to do with books? Good question. Technically, this post is not
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Look inside your head for the key to happiness
Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely. ~ Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart In case you’re wondering about the image, one of my favorite ways to relax is blowing
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Getting out of a wet paper bag
The quote today is the Free Dictionary’s definition of the phrase “one’s way out of a wet paper bag”: A phrase used to emphasize that one is particularly dimwitted, unintelligent, incompetent, or unable to do something basic, simple, or straightforward. It’s me. I can’t find my way out of anywhere I have to say I take exception to the above definition since I get lost quite easily. Perhaps I could, in fact, find my way
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Mary and Martha & the rest of the story
What lasts forever? It’s not our worries that last. After all, one worry will be displaced by another worry and another and another. There is no end to them. That devilish cycle. But being silent in God’s presence. That’s the chance of a lifetime. And lasts your whole life long. As you do it, again and
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Forget brand squabbles – Mayonnaise or Miracle Whip?
It’s weird how the mind remembers the silly details. I still can’t remember the colour of my wife’s eyes, but I can remember that we were arguing about mayonnaise. ~ Matthew Munson, Shoal: A Thanet Writers Anthology Survey results Clearly, I am some sort of masochist. I know this, since I once again sought to confirm my
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