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Move the goalposts
I want to swim faster. That’s what I thought. I was tired of lagging behind the others in my swim group. So I wished to go faster. When we invent goals like this, it’s…
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Dog, Tree, Mountain, Person
If you talk to the animals they will talk with you and you will know each other. If you do not talk to them you will not know them and what you do not…
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How to decode your dreams with AI
All dreams are good dreams. They’re giving you information which you need. Robert A. Johnson Until you make the unconscious conscious it will rule your life and you will call it fate. Carl Jung…
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Sticklers
Irritability, bad moods, and outbursts of affect are classic symptoms of chronic virtuousness. Carl Jung Sticklers are people who can’t help but be serious, orderly and neat. Sticklers can’t help but have clean and…
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Mortgaged energy
Without the pause of the seventh day (or sabbath), life simply becomes an indistinguishable blur and monotony rules. Robert Johnson There’s a guy in my swimming group with a loud stroke. He’s fast, but there’s…
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The dose makes the poison
Reality is always far nobler than any projection. – Robert A. Johnson The other day I saw a cyclist speed past a dog walker, almost hitting the dog. I wanted to yell out. How…
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The power of negative thinking
Tranquility is nothing less than the good ordering of the mind Marcus Aurelius Thoughts like to be believed You’re staring at a computer screen. There’s an important task you need to do, but you’ve…
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Seeing through a blind spot
Left-brained…analytical mind…The person who thinks they’re going to solve all their life’s problems by thinking.” Oliver Burkeman Think of your mind like an extremely powerful computer. It’s great at analyzing, abstracting and reasoning. Next…
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Exercise as exercise
He felt athletic, he felt strong. In the gym, he could squat 400 pounds for multiple repetitions, he said, and he could bench-press close to the same amount. Plus, he loved how he looked.…