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A Reason Our Brains Love to Procrastinate.

The reason we procrastinate is because our mind wants an immediate benefit. If you can find a way to make the benefits of good long-term choices more immediate, then it becomes easier to avoid procrastination.

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Climbing Through the Crayon Box, Searching for Saudade.

But she is never coming back, and I fear that if I look in too deep, I will find that only emptiness is left. What crayon is going to color that?

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How to Stop Procrastinating and Boost Your Willpower by Using ‘Temptation Bundling’.

There are many factors that contribute to success, but you can make a strong argument that consistently accomplishing tasks which are important but not urgent is the one ability that separates top performers from everyone else.

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The Key to Opening Humanity: Embrace the Broadcasts.

Division denies what we feel instinctively and yearn for deeply, though we resist it politically. Even so, we routinely sense our connection to something greater than ourselves. We experience it as separate only because of ignorance and circumstances.

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3 Reasons to Leave the Excuses Behind and Travel.

Traveling to new neighborhoods, communities and countries allows you to experience new cultures, new and different ways of showing up, of experiencing life.

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Hard Faith in Times of Hard Truth: A Saturn/Chiron Face-Off.

As we navigate difficult times on Mother Earth, how does one return faith to its first, churchless incarnation in the human heart? The answer is being revealed to us in the form of a challenge -- a challenge to remain steadfast at the center of all that is bleak.

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Lessons From a Vexillonaire: Creativity, Simplicity, and the Carefully Constrained Life.

The flag of Chicago received a stellar 9.03 out of 10 rating from the North American Vexillological Association, and was ranked second out of 150 city flags by flag experts known as vexillologists.

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Overcoming Spiritual Codependency.

It’s about holding ourselves with compassion, which is an antidote to codependency -- and hence, a way to get closer to the divine that always lives within you.

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Reach Through: On Grief, Love, Loss and Letting Go.

I think often how Life got the seasons all wrong. Brent and I were supposed to bury Mom and Dad. Not the other way around.

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Once upon a Time: the Fiction of ‘Me’.

Am I a complex interplay of unique energies interacting with one another like an immense orchestra that -- when playing together in the exactly right way (either by some inexplicable miracle or by some beautiful design) -- create in a single moment one pure strand of vibration that perfectly ...

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