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Sane Personal Development
Becoming a better person is something of great interest to me but focusing so intently on improvement isn’t necessarily the best way to approach personal development. “There are things about ourselves...
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Just Try It
One of my biggest pet peeves is when people vehemently disapprove of an idea, worldview, activity or creative work without bothering to figure out what it is, exactly, that they’re opposing. Whether...
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Mailbag #1
Anonymous asks: I’m negative. How do I fix it? Hello! Thanks for your question. As you didn’t provide any other details here are a few things to consider for the next few minutes: Are you otherwise...
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The Ethics of Being on Time
I’ve been having an internal debate about the intersection of ethics and culture. Punctuality is something I take pretty seriously. 15 minutes early is on time, arriving on time is late for me. A few...
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The Gratitude Challenge: Part One
Your challenge today is to express gratitude. I don’t think feeling gratitude is something most of us have to practice. Almost every time the topic has come up organically with friends or family...
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The Gratitude Challenge: Part Two
Ok, time’s up. I hope you were able to find plenty of opportunities to express gratitude to all of the kind people in your life. Now let’s take this a step further. Think of someone in your life – a...
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How to (Start to) Forgive Yourself for Small Mistakes
Photo by Richard Smith Forgiveness has been on my mind this fall. It’s so much easier for me to forgive someone else for making a dumb mistake than it is to forgive myself. Why? There’s no possible way...
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Change of Heart
I wasn’t planning to share another short film so soon after discussing The Maker with all of you last week but this was a great story. There is a more traditional post coming on Monday for those of...
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Post Hoc and the Good Person Question
Lorena had a great question on her blog last week. For those of you who aren’t interested in following the link, she has a friend who said the following and she wanted to know how other non-theists...
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The next chapter of After the Storm is taking a little longer to write than I had anticipated, but it will be posted tomorrow evening. Today I’m responding to a blog post about public personas. My...
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