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The Two-Headed Beast of Successful Habit Change
by guest
2 Feb 2012 at 9:20am
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Tyler Tervooren of Advanced Riskology. I used to have a lot of bad habits. I still do, but I used to have a lot more. Here?s just a small sampling: I woke up late and went to bed early. I procrastinated on my most important work. I [...]
Create the Habit of Meditation, & the Zen Habits Premium Membership
by Leo
31 Jan 2012 at 3:03pm
Post written by Leo Babauta. It’s something I should have created a long time ago: the Zen Habits Premium Membership, and a mini-course that’s included with it called Create the Habit of Meditation. The membership is a monthly subscription of $19.99, but really it’s a commitment to changing your life, and the tools needed to [...]
Creating Silence from Chaos
by Leo
27 Jan 2012 at 3:20pm
Post written by Leo Babauta. We are often afraid of silence, because its emptiness feels idle, boring, unproductive, and scary. And so we fill our lives with chaos, noise, clutter. But silence can be lovely, and therapeutic, and powerful. It can be the remedy for our stress and the habits that crush us. If we [...]
The Habits That Crush Us
by Leo
23 Jan 2012 at 11:26am
‘Don’t panic.’ ~Douglas Adams Post written by Leo Babauta. Why is it that we cannot break the bad habits that stand in our way, crushing our desires to live a healthy life, be fit, simplify, be happier? How is it that our best intentions are nearly always beaten? We want to be focused and productive, [...]
Learning to Sit Alone, in a Quiet Empty Room
by Leo
17 Jan 2012 at 1:49pm
‘All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.’ ~Blaise Pascal Post written by Leo Babauta. Think about some of the problems of our daily lives, and how many of them would be eased if we could learn to sit alone, in a quiet empty room, with contentment. If [...]
Life as a Conscious Practice
by Leo
13 Jan 2012 at 9:15am
‘Everything is practice.’ ~Pele Post written by Leo Babauta. When we learn a martial art, or ballet, or gymnastics, or soccer ? we consciously practice movements in a deliberate way, repeatedly. By conscious, repeated practice, we become good at those movements. Our entire lives are like this, but we’re often less conscious of the practice. [...]
Your Top 10 Clutter Questions, Answered
by Leo
11 Jan 2012 at 11:33am
Post written by Leo Babauta. Decluttering is a skill that you learn with practice, just like any skill. And just like other skills, there are many little questions and problems you need answered and solved as you get started. Those of you taking the Clutterfat Challenge this month are facing these problems, and I’m here [...]
Clearing Your Life for a New Year
by Leo
9 Jan 2012 at 12:55pm
Post written by Leo Babauta. Every January, people rush out and get a gym membership, set a list of goals or resolutions, and get ready to take on a new year of frenetic activity. Unfortunately, we don’t often clear space to make room for all this new stuff. The beginning of the year is a [...]
How to Tackle Your Clutter
by Leo
6 Jan 2012 at 12:19pm
Post written by Leo Babauta. So you’ve been putting off tackling your clutter for months, maybe even years. Papers pile up on a counter, shelves are crammed full of books and magazines and other things, closets are stuffed to the point of spillage, clothes pile up on the floor or furniture, boxes and furniture and [...]
How to Have the Best Year of Your Life (without Setting a Single Goal)
by guest
5 Jan 2012 at 9:15am
Editor’s note: This is a guest post from Jeff Goins of Goins, Writer. This new year, do something different: stop setting goals. If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, then making resolutions for another year is a sure-fire way to drive yourself crazy. I did [...]


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Here is your Saturday STORY on: SOLVING PROBLEMS: We solve problems by dipping into our knowledge and experience and producing an answer. Most adults will have the chance of experience as it happens directly in front of them each day. As for knowledge few choose to gather any more; as a consequence they will always be disadvantaged. To search for knowledge need not be tiresome, in a day of MEASURE there is always room for study. A measured day equals a measure life. Measure allows abundance to flow and happiness to flourish. I recently watched a television documentary on a British entertainer, he was 75 years-old and still taking on television assignments. Moreover he was married to a former Miss World for the last twenty five years, who was 35 years his junior. What surprised me about this documentary was MEASURE. This energetic and lively entertainer scheduled very specific events each day to care for his health and well being. Not only was his body agile but his mind very active. Today's story illustrates the value of experience and how to turn it into knowledge. A GOODBYE KISS The Board Meeting had come to an end. Bob started to stand up and jostled the table, spilling his coffee over his notes. "How embarrassing, I am getting so clumsy in my old age." Everyone had a good laugh, and soon we were all telling stories of our most embarrassing moments. It came around to Frank who sat quietly listening to the others. Someone said, "Come on, Frank. Tell us your most embarrassing moment." Frank laughed and began to tell us of his childhood. "I grew up in San Pedro. My Dad was a fisherman, and he loved the sea. He had his own boat, but it was hard making a living on the sea. He worked hard and would stay out until he caught enough to feed the family. Not just enough for our family, but also for his Mom and Dad and the other kids that were still at home." He looked at us and said, "I wish you could have met my Dad. He was a big man, and he was strong from pulling the nets and fighting the seas for his catch. When you got close to him, he smelled like the ocean. He would wear his old canvas, foul-weather coat and his bibbed overalls. His rain hat would be pulled down over his brow. No matter how much my Mother washed them, they would still smell of the sea and of fish." Frank's voice dropped a bit. "When the weather was bad he would drive me to school. He had this old truck that he used in his fishing business. That truck was older than he was. It would wheeze and rattle down the road. You could hear it coming for blocks. As he would drive toward the school, I would shrink down into the seat hoping to disappear. Half the time, he would slam to a stop and the old truck would belch a cloud of smoke. He would pull right up in front, and it seemed like everybody would be standing around and watching. Then he would lean over and give me a big kiss on the cheek and tell me to be a good boy. It was so embarrassing for me. Here I was, twelve years old, and my Dad would lean over and kiss me goodbye!" He paused and then went on, "I remember the day I decided I was too old for a goodbye kiss. When we got to the school and came to a stop, he had his usual big smile. He started to lean toward me, but I put my hand up and said, 'No, Dad.' It was the first time I had ever talked to him that way, and he had this surprised look on his face. I said, 'Dad, I'm too old for a goodbye kiss. I'm too old for any kind of kiss.' My Dad looked at me for the longest time, and his eyes started to tear up. I had never seen him cry. He turned and looked out the windshield. 'You're right, ' he said. 'You are a big boy.a man. I won't kiss you anymore.'" Frank got a funny look on his face, and the tears began to well up in his eyes, as he spoke. "It wasn't long after that when my Dad went to sea and never came back. It was a day when most of the fleet stayed in, but not Dad. He had a big family to feed. They found his boat adrift with its nets half in and half out. He must have gotten into a gale and was trying to save the nets and the floats." I looked at Frank and saw that tears were running down his cheeks. Frank spoke again. "Guys, you don't know what I would give to have my Dad give me just one more kiss on the cheek, to feel his rough old face, to smell the ocean on him, to feel his arm around my neck. I wish I had been a man then. If I had been a man, I would never have told my Dad I was too old for a goodbye kiss." (Bishop Thomas Charles Clary) QUOTE: "A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.' (John Maxwell)


Do I have a case against my psychiatrist here?
If you were 14 and had a drug induced psychotic episode (via unintentional huffing) but the doc didn't know and diagnosed NOS and drugged you with antipsychotics and antidepressants that worsened the feelings of inner agitation and anxiety you experienced from the huffing could he be sued? If you told him the antipsychotics made you feel bad and restless and he didn't care. I was better very quickly and didn't have major symptoms but he wanted to force my parents to drug me for a year and 1/2 to "prevent future episodes." My parents took me off the medication after 8 mos when the open investigation by social services was closed and when they did give it to me they quartered and halved a small dose and I didn't take it whenever I could avoid it and it never did anything. I linked everything that had happened to me, every behavior to accidently inhaling this aerosal product and then later getting addicted to huffing but I didn't realize that could be the reason why I had lost my mind. I also had a bad liver test in the GP's office after I have been huffing, and then a better one when I was going through withdrawal in the hospital. They kept me in the hospital for 7 days when my level of functioning was fine and had posed no threat to myself or others. They did it because they couldn't find anything wrong with me.

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My Lover got married..Please help me what should i do?
Its been just 2 months i met my lover.He is so cute ,caring,understanding and loving..In no time we both fell in love and got so close with each other.But i came to know he was already engaged but i didnt tell him to check if he would tell it himself..at the same time i was trying to forget him. But later he told me he is going to get married but he dont love his bride.He told me she doesnt love n care him as much as i do.He said he want to continue our relation even after his wedding.i told him to choose the one with whom he can be happy with and he told me he is happy only with me but he cant do anything about his marriage bcz everything was already fixed..n only few days were left for the marriage.it is an arranged marriage.He still calss me and message me and ask me to hang out with him.I love to be with him and i dont think im gonna love someone else again.he often cries and become sad when i talk abt being friends or me leaving this place or leave him.he tells me I?m very special and important and he loves me a lot and he will be with me till his end.he even promised me that he wont even touch her...I had asked him to leave her or tell her about our love before marriage..n he told me even if he said it..the marriage wont be cancelled..bcz its too late. On the wedding day i saw him trying to be happy with her..n i felt he can be happy even without me.he had promised me he would call me everyday even aftr the wedding..but he is just not able to keep his promises..but he manages somehow to text me all the time...sometimes I feel weird abt whatever is happening I cry why this is happening with me?i feel like i juz hav to vanish..but due to some reasons i cannot leave my current job.Im really confused. what should i do!!!! i had a thought of changing my job place because we work in the same office and he is my senior :( ..i had considered of leaving him.but when i talk abt leaving him or that im trying fr job in other place, he gets upset n become sad n sometimes even cry..i want him to be live with her n make a family with her..i truely love him but he didnt even try to do sth that can get me married to him..he talks abt putting a ring on my finger..but still im nt happy!!!besdies i dont feel good to cheat his wife!! she is also a girl like me!!..please guys give me a good reason i can tell him so that we drop our love..i cannot fight with him bcz we r in same office..i dont want problems

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Anime suggestions???? Please :(?
anime similar to yuyuhashu, flames of recca, dbz. I wanted to start watching one piece before but couldn't find it on youtube and i don't want to go elsewhere because i don't need to get another virus lol. I started full metal alchemist which is good and i can see myself liking but for some reason i prefer older shows within the 80's to late 90's. Something about the music and art work sends chills up my spine. I also prefer an anime with a little bit of romance

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