Create the past you want
It’s an insightful way to consider the actions and decisions you take today. We like to think we can direct our futures, and to an extent, that’s true. But any guarantee is a myth. Thinking you can control the...
Read MoreMonth: July 2016
The reward for gaining knowledge and awareness…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 24, 2016 | Notes, Other people, Search | 3 |
…may well be isolation and solitude. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t seek them, but in the process, a couple of things may happen: You may find you need others less and less, maybe losing tolerance for the...
Read MoreI recently had occasion to think about death…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 19, 2016 | Belief, Contentment, Death, Mortality, Notes, Search | 8 |
…that is, a death you see coming. You’re going over, or going on…or just going. Time and geography and people coalesce. Whoever else is present, they are not participating. There is only you. It reminded me...
Read MoreI’ve decided that time is indeed money…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 7, 2016 | Contentment, Death, Happiness, Notes, Search, Time | 0 |
…or very like it in one respect, anyway. It has to do with how we use the time we have, not the time we want. With money, there are two ways to be rich, by having more or by wanting less. Truly happy people are the latter,...
Read MoreAre we self-limiting?
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 2, 2016 | Change, Contentment, Happiness, Notes, Search | 0 |
In the end, I think there two basic things doom the average, mentally healthy individual to unhappiness or discontent or mediocrity. For one thing, we don’t understand how much control we actually have over our lives....
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