Living The Life
Be You-Nique
I went to Sundance a couple weeks ago and saw four movies. Three were good to great and one … wasn’t. Of the three good films, one (Beasts of the Southern Wild) was very unique, and two were kind of unique (Hello, I Must Be Going, which reminded me a bit of Garden State; and…
Read MoreLife and Year Planning
Last week I spent four days with virtually no TV, food, people, phone, internet. I mostly spent the four days reviewing, praying, thinking, and planning. In my post yesterday I told you I want to avoid living the same year, year-after-year. And this is part of the way I try to prevent that. I take…
Read MoreThe Same Year Again
One of my greatest desires is to not live the same year again. It’s possible. Lots of people live the same year, year after year, every year. Sure, the date on their calendars may change, but their lives are just a bunch of the same years strung together. What about you? Were you a different…
Read MorePriming – Change Your 2012
New York University psychologist John Bargh conducted experiments on unsuspecting graduates. One involved a scrambled-sentence test. One group of students received a test sprinkled with rude words like disturb, bother and intrude. Another group had polite words like respect, considerate, and yield. The subjects thought they were taking tests measuring intelligence, but the word trend…
Read MoreRedemption
The picture is of one of my favorite things in Las Vegas, and illustrates well one of my favorite things about God. It’s an Art-o-mat, and there are a bunch of them in the Cosmopolitan Hotel/Casino. It used to be a cigarette machine, dispensing something that smells like crap, is horrible for your health, and…
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