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Have you ever started something and not finished it? Well, you're not alone. We all have a tendency to start out with great intentions but then not follow through. Starting things is simple in fact. It's progress that is hard. Think of all those books you couldn't wait to read, but never actually finished; the …
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On Sunday night I had a sick feeling in my stomach. For the first time since I started my blog in December 2010 I did not have a post scheduled to go out on monday morning. The last few weeks had run away with me, and I simply hadn't disciplined myself to sit down and …
Discipline is freedom. Now you may not agree with that statement, and you wouldn’t be alone. For many of us discipline has become a "dirty" word associated with the absence of freedom. Yet the exact opposite is true. As Stephen Covey writes, “the undisciplined are slaves to moods, appetites and passions”, and in the longer …
What is it with hotel shower curtains?I'll admit I haven't stayed in thousands of hotels, but it seems like almost all of the ones I have stayed in have had really crappy shower curtains. You know the ones that are a little bit porous and never quite wide enough. Even though you are super careful …
I think our society hasn't fully grasped the idea of freedom. We are told that freedom is "the absence of external constraints". The ability to do what we want and choose for ourselves. That's why we resist so strongly someone else telling us how to live. And that is part of freedom. But there is so …
Tom Basson 