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How to Defeat Your Inner Jerk

The inner jerk is the anti-conscience of your thought process. It is the tiny voice inside your brain that says, “you’re not good enough. You’re not pretty enough. No, you can’t do that. You’re a loser. You’ll never amount to anything.” Continue reading

Sparks don’t Fly, but They’re Your Best Friend. Is That Enough?

Two such movies came to mind. In When Harry Met Sally, Harry and Sally meet after college, hate each other, bump into one another years later, become friends, and then wind up falling in love. In Valentine’s Day, Jennifer Garner and Ashton Kutcher’s characters are best friends in love with people who are all wrong for them. In the end, they fall in love. Continue reading

4 Questions That Prove Clear Thinking Is Not Common Sense

Clarity of thought helps us make decisions that will lead to the outcome we desire. Unfortunately, at some point in our lives we give into the fast paced world around us and disregard the faculties of our own mind. These faculties of reasoning, processing information, and determining truth help lead to clear thinking. Clear thinking comes from having being informed Continue reading

Realizing Your Ultimate Aim

I think security and comfort are both geared towards one final aim, to ensure lasting and genuine happiness. Happiness is the ultimate aim of everything we do. Again, take a moment to think about this… Continue reading

Hate Your Job? 3 Ways to Find a Better Job

Use your unhappiness as a motivator to make some changes. You’ll spend more time at your job than you will with your family and friends. You might as well make it as rewarding as you can. Continue reading

Live Your Life Without An Eraser

Each day is a learning opportunity for us and having some bad experiences from time to time is just reality. We can’t erase these bad experiences whether they are accidents, failures or mistakes, but we can certainly learn from them. Continue reading