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Happiness Versus Pleasure

Happiness Versus Pleasure by: Margaret Paul, Ph.D. We are a pleasure seeking society. Most of us spend our energy seeking pleasure and avoiding pain. We hope that by doing this, we will feel happy. Yet deep, abiding happiness and joy elude so ma...

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The Evolution of the British Castle – A Short History

Since Greek and Roman times, man has strived to establish some type of a fortification for protection and shelter. Over the pursuing centuries these evolved into a form of military and residential places known as castles.When William the Conqueror, ...

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Self Evaluation Procrastinator IQ

Proscrastinator Simplex Vs. Chronic Procrastin-itisAll professional and domestic responsibilities aside, waiting to RSVP at the last minute and finishing a report the night before its due date there are different degrees of procrastination. In gene...

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SWAPPING COFFEE FOR LOTTERY TICKETS

Every morning, when at the barbershop, I walk across the street to the convenience store. I come back with three items – J.B.’s coffee, my coffee and my banana.One morning, as I was waiting in line at the register, the cashier scanned the purchas...

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Chewing On Mindfulness Gum Is Your Secret

My grandmother, a feisty and athletic woman in her younger years, was a gum-chewer. She was never without a pack or two of Wrigley's Doublemint gum. She wasn't a snapper or bubble-blowershe viewed that as highly uncivilized. Grandma kept he...

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Let's Say You're a Dog. Are You So Competitive You'd Eat a Carrot

Seems like a girl always learns something out on the farm! Yes, it’s a farm tale and I’m going to change the names of the animals to protect the guilty!I spent last weekend down in Lower Alabama where my friend from high school owns a farm. On th...

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What I Learned From A Parakeet

I want to tell you about the lesson that I learned from my parakeet.Yes, I did say that I learned something from a parakeet. I suppose thatit is possible that I have too much time on my hands. Moving on... My parakeet is named Yazzie. Yazzie is Navaj...

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It's All Very Good

So there they were. Thousands of years ago. Walking aboutthe Garden of Eden in complete freedom. Naked and unashamed. It was Paradise. Literally. The word Eden issynonymous with "paradise" and is related to a Hebrew wordmeaning "bliss" or "delight."I...

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Worry and Anxiety Help

"A god, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse; it takes away the appetite and turns the hair gray." - Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881) It does a lot more than that, Benjamin! The harm that worry cause...

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Priorities Are You Living Yours

In the Charles Dickens classic, “The Christmas Story”, Scrooge is given the opportunity to examine his life and his priorities before it is too late. Upon being shown his grave by the ghost of Christmas Future, he asks “Spirit, are these instan...

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