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Some time ago now I came to realize that how we define particular words - success, happiness, love, etc - can have a major impact on the way in which we live our life. One term that I hear thrown around often is “good life”, eg “he lived a good life” . But [...]

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You may have noticed I have been writing less as of late. Perhaps the best way to explain this is by reference to that well known advice your mother may have given you: “if you don’t have anything good or positive to say, don’t say anything.”
The past month I have felt uninspired [...]

“The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.” - Albert Einstein
One of the biggest articles last week on Digg regarded a [...]

*** Note: you may have noticed this post went into my feed or was emailed to you half-finished. I accidentally pushed “publish” when I was working on it Thursday morning. Oh well…. there was nothing I could do about this… and it just allowed me to practise some of the things mentioned in this article [...]

Last month I was one of 59,000 people who ran the 10km Vancouver Sun Run. I was actually fairly indifferent going into the race - running 10kms is not normally my idea of fun, and truth be told the main reason I was there was because my employer was a major sponsor of the race. [...]

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“All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act out their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” - T. [...]