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See Projects To Their Completion

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Most of us have projects on the go. Sometimes these are small things, like writing a block of code, and sometimes these are larger, like growing a garden. Whatever these projects are, it’s great when you can see them to their completion. There are a few important things to remember. Make sure you define exactly what constitutes [...]

Remembering The End Goal

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It never ceases to amaze me how easily we forget what we are after. I think it's safe to say that everyone is after a measured degree of happiness. Whether we name it as such or have a different signifier for it, I think our end goal is the same: to obtain a high level of satisfaction with ourselves, our lives, our circumstances and products... our everything. Now, you may recall that in recent writings, I touched on the dangers of polarization in the context of that nasty word, "Everything", and its partner, "Nothing". Suffice it to say, it might be more practical to think about our degree of happiness in different terms - being happy doesn't have to mean that you are happy with everything, in the polarized sense of the word. Nevertheless, we all want to be happy. But today I want to talk about what happens when we forget that this is our goal

Be Realistic? Happiness Is Real

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Some of us come to the idea of improving our lives with a measured degree of skepticism. "Is it realistic to think that I can help myself become happier?" The question has some merit. Everyone has an intrinsic sense of the immovability of circumstance. Surely we can't just snap a finger or rub a magical lamp and wish everything to be great. This is has been known for millenia to positive and negative thinkers alike. So, when we

Quantum Possibility

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Nothing is impossible. How many times have we heard this? Probably enough to take it as less of a truth statement and as more of an encouraging gesture. But what if I told you that Quantum Mechanics - a scientific field which has never made a prediction that observable evidence has contradicted - actually proved that nothing is impossible? What if our universal laws were such that instead of defining exactly what was possible, they defined only how possible events were. I wish to introduce to you the science of Quantum Possibility

How To Start And Finish A Watercolor Painting

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1. Get out the supplies The first thing you want to do is gather what you'll be painting with and what you'll be painting on. It is important that the first step isn't, "Think about what to paint," or, "Think about past artwork," especially if you can become discouraged easily. Instead of drawing a creative blank or recalling past disappointments first, just get out (or go buy) your paints, your watercolor paper, paintbrushes, a jar of water, and optionally a paper towel or cloth to wipe excess paint onto, or to take paint off the paper with. 2. Set up the work area I like to work on a flat table, but depending on the

Blogging Outside The Box

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logging is a tricky business. Most up-and-comers such as myself find motivation not too hard to come by in the first few months. We write, and write, and write. After a short time, we start realizing that results aren't going to start piling in right away, so we start crawling the internet for traffic-building tips and strategies. Most of the resources out there say

Be Realistic, Build Happiness With Proper Tools

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The main obstacle to happiness in the West has been the idea that happiness is something you find. Without knowing it, we've been working ourselves thin (sometimes literally) trying to find happiness. Guess what? Happiness is something you build. We've been so close, and yet so far. Obviously tools are key to

Can We Change Our DNA Naturally?

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The discovery of DNA and genetics was a pivotal and awe-provoking landmark of the last two centuries. From it we understand the incredibly complex physical link between ourselves, animals, plants, and all other forms of life on our planet. Everything that we see is made from atoms and molecules, but everything that lives has a [...]

Antioxidants: What Are They?

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What are antioxidants, you ask? Antioxidants are chemical compounds which, as their name implies, are against oxidants. Oxidation is the process in which a compound loses an electron to another compound (the oxidant), and antioxidants prevent this from getting out of control. Antioxidants work to slow or stop oxidants from gaining electrons. Interestingly, as in the case of ascorbic acid, antioxidants sometimes are oxidants themselves - they absorb the free electrons before other potential oxidants can. Free-radicals, on the other hand

Stop Creating Monsters

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So why do we attack depression and not simply move on? Why do we attack pain, hardship, struggle, misfortune if we can simply overcome? Why is attacking the opponent so inseparable from befriending the ally? Because we fear that we cannot escape them. This fear justifies stopping and throwing rocks. It is doubt. So what.