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The Akrasia Effect: Beckoning Our Better Judgment.

While 'akrasia' refers to our tendency to fall victim to procrastination, 'enkrateia' means to be “in power over oneself.” Designing your future actions, reducing the friction of starting good behaviors, and using implementation intentions are simple steps that you can take to make it easier to ...

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It Is Through Our Struggles That We Find Purpose.

Move beyond limitations of "It's not meant to be" and focus on "If this is for my highest good, then the Universe will take me there."

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We Do Not Begin at the Beginning, But Rather Where We Are.

Without beginnings, we experience voids and vapors whose odors enfeeble. Even so, we must begin if we are to overcome the blindness that confines us to circumstances and their circuits though others are offended. Better to offend than rescind our right to choose.

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Warren Buffett’s 20-Slot Rule: How to Simplify Your Life and Maximize Your Results.

When Warren lectures at business schools, he says, “I could improve your ultimate financial welfare by giving you a ticket with only 20 slots in it so that you had 20 punches -- representing all the investments that you got to make in a lifetime. And once you’d punched through the card, you ...

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Reclaiming Our Virginity: Restoring Our Power.

Become her once more. The virgin. For she has never left you. She can never be debased -- not by any man nor by any woman. She will not ever be spoilt. She cannot ever be marred by any religion nor by any culture. She cannot be contaminated. Not even by the touch of another. She is unblemished ...

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Owning Our Choices: We Are Not Entitled to the Lives We Didn’t Choose.

By “owning” my choices, I’m better able to appreciate that I chose a different path, the one that was more authentically me. Just because my life looks different than some of my friends’ right now, doesn’t mean that it doesn’t have its own unique value.

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Society On The Precipice: Hypocrisy of Law As Morality.

Consider America’s most moral codes: the Constitution and the Declaration. Rightly read, they inspire a sense of morality that hallows liberty. When read solely for their legal value, we violate virtue and venerate vice because morality sustains liberty and strengthens democracy.

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Be More Productive: The 15-Minute Routine Anthony Trollope Used to Write 40+ Books.

The faster you complete a productive task, the more quickly your day develops an attitude of productivity and effectiveness.

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Your Religion No Longer Bothers Me.

In my fighting days, I’d accuse religious people of two things. The first was of how naïve and narrow-minded they could be. The second was of their crude agenda: pushing their beliefs on people who didn’t ask for it. I hated religion because of it. But as I sit here today, writing this, my ...

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Sap Moon: Clarity, Planning & Moving Forward.

The March Full Moon is traditionally called the Sap Moon, and its message is that no matter how blocked or frozen things may seem, the time has come for them to release and flow forward. Trust in the unfolding.

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