Category Archives: Lifelong Learning
Unwiring Our Emotional Buttons
If you’re going to do anything that pioneering you will get those arrows in your back, and you just have to put up with it. I mean everything that could go wrong did go wrong. —Dr. Randy Pausch Life is … Continue reading
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Help Is Not a Four-Letter Word
My time-management system is easy. I mentally have a list of things I want to do, and I keep it in my head unless/until my mind starts feeling cluttered. Then I write the list down. Each item in the list … Continue reading
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Finding Inspiration
Where do you find your inspiration…new ideas…new ways of looking at things? Tony D. Clark at Success From the Nest has just asked this question. It made me more aware of how I go about writing these posts. I look … Continue reading
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Reprogramming Our Robot Minds
Jenny and Erin at a tongue-in-cheek quest for understanding have started a discussion/contest on the subject of habits. More specifically: How big of a role do habits play in your daily life? Do your habits typically form intentionally or unconsciously? … Continue reading
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A Habit Is Just a Habit
There’s a famous picture of Sigmund Freud holding a cigar, illustrating his love of smoking. When asked about the psychological significance of his attachment to cigars, he answered, “Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.” I thought of that quote … Continue reading
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Honoring Resistance
Colleen Wainright, the communicatrix, is presently participating in a 30-day hypnotherapy experiment and describing it on her blog. Her therapist, Greg Beckett, is apparently using psychosynthesis to find her subpersonalities and help her to get them to work together as … Continue reading
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Hogwarts LA
It’s been a fun week. For the third year in a row I was “assistant headmistress” at the local Hogwarts (Harry Potter) one-week vacation school. The school was 1-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, plus an overnight Friday night and Saturday … Continue reading
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A Lesson From Harry
As I mentioned in my last post, I’m listening again to the first six books of the Harry Potter series. I’ve just started the fifth book, The Order of the Phoenix, which until I read John Granger’s Unlocking Harry Potter … Continue reading
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Lifelong Learning
The picture on the left was taken when my daughter was a baby. She couldn’t read at the time, of course. She was just mimicking her parents. It’s one of my favorite pictures because I believe a commitment to lifelong … Continue reading
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