If someone doesn’t take us aside and teach us a few things (assuming we’d listen) before we graduate high school, we are doomed to learn life’s hardest lessons in the real world beyond the classroom.
With that in mind, here are 21 non-academic lessons every person should know before he or she graduates high school; if you graduated long […]
Last week, I listed 21 critical life lessons you didn’t learn in school. Today, let’s dig deeper into the first lesson: choosing a spouse; selecting a mate; evaluating a romantic relationship.
Bad relationships destroy happiness: just ask the man going through a divorce, the woman questioning her man’s fidelity, or the teenager dodging his girlfriend’s fists.
Why […]
Like it or not, we live in a media driven world. We spend 11 hours a day bombarded by television, radio, Internet, and other forms of media, a non-stop onslaught on the psyche, an ever-churning series of images, sound bites, opinions, and advertisements, but precious little substance.
The media provides shared experience, collective memory. Unfortunately, many […]
Internet forums are wonderful sources of information; they’re also home to flame wars, trolling, arguments, misunderstandings, and incivility. If you’re like me, you visit forums to learn, grow and connect, but mining wisdom from hostile forums sometimes feels like trying to jam a camel through the eye of a needle.
If you’re looking for a way […]
Our lives are like clay on a potter’s wheel. Each day, the wheel turns anew, and with our decisions, we shape our lives; we are sculptures formed by choices, vessels crafted by free will. Your life: your masterpiece, your unique creation.
While it’s true that we all must decide for ourselves what shape our lives should […]
If you look in the mirror, you’ll see the most influential force in your life staring back at you, but let’s talk for just a moment about all the negative influences affecting your life from the outside: billboards selling unhealthy food, friends pushing cigarettes, pessimists hawking gloom and doom, the harassment of mean people, the […]
When I was a small boy, my mother had a lot of crafty things hanging on the walls: pictures of geese, cross-stitches of farm animals; that sort of thing. She also had an inspirational quotation embroidered onto white canvas, hanging on the kitchen wall, near the pantry.
Little did I know that the tattered and frayed […]
It’s been a while since I’ve done a link post, so I figured it was about time for me to get back up on that horse, race around to my fellow bloggers, slap hands, wave, and call attention to all their wonderful posts. And at the same time, give you something relevant to browse and contemplate over the weekend.
Enjoy.
7 Ways to […]
When mainstream America thinks of the stereotypical “positive person,” they envision someone with his head buried in the sand, ignoring life’s challenges, smiling like a gomer as his life falls apart.
But devil-may-care personalities do not fit my definition of a positive person. A real positive person seeks to be a positive force in the world, to make a […]
Being a typical Generation X male, it’s no wonder I’ve always loved the movie Fight Club. Here we have Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, all lean muscle and crazy blue eyes, smiling like a shark, raging against the great dark plagues of his generation:
Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so […]
