Archives January, 2008

Understanding the Role Humility Plays in Everyday Life

Photo by Jahdakine.
By David Bohl
“Humility, like darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.” – Henry David Thoreau
When do you consider your life “finished”? At what point can you hang up your hat and say that you truly have done everything you wanted in life, you are perfect in every way and that you have [...]

What Are You Doing That’s Different?

Photo by Victor Nuno
By Peter Clemens
“The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don’t like to do. They don’t like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength of their purpose.” — E.M. Gray
I write this having just returned from an early morning run. The local neighborhood [...]

LASIK Eye Surgery. Have You? Would You?

Photo by Pascal B.
By Peter Clemens
If you were to ask me what one thing would dramatically improve my life, my answer would very likely be “to have perfect eyesight”.
At the same time, however, I have always been uneasy with anything to do with eyes. For example, those movie scenes where a sharp instrument comes agonizingly [...]

Personal Stories of Change Blog Carnival: Edition 13

Photo by Code Poet (above) and Fort Photo (below).

Welcome to the 13 Edition of the Personal Stories of Change Blog Carnival. It has been a month since the last edition so this is going to be a big one! For those readers unfamiliar with this carnival, basically I aim to present a collection [...]

8 Important Money Reminders

By Peter Clemens
Ok, I have a confession. I went a little crazy on the spending in December.  Perhaps it was the new credit card I received early in the month. Or maybe it was the new job conveniently located opposite a mall. I don’t know. What I do know, however, is that a “finance guy” [...]

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