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Relationships

Why Bother Influencing Another?

Whether we are conscious of it or not, we are influencers. Our actions, attitudes and words affect, penetrate and sway the lives of others in small, large, good, or bad ways. Though we may not have any control in how someone may interpret our actions, someone is always watching. Consequently, we might want to consider,…
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Mental Health

Why Bother Being Quiet?

Pascal was an intelligent man who lived in the 1600s. He was a physicist, religious philosopher and master at prose. He once said, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”    Alone and Quiet Though the world today is much different than it was in Pascal’s time,…
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Learning

Why Bother Unlearning?

I am zealous about learning new things, but sometimes, learning something new entails unlearning something old. Old ways of thinking are ingrained thoughts, ones that we act on automatically, without giving them too much consideration.  But when we become even just a little bit more aware of what we think, and why we think that…
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Communication

Why Bother Dislodging Assumptions?

We all have assumptions about people. But assumptions are assumptions because we have no proof to support our best guesses concerning the person. To theorize, hypothesize, and pre-suppose something about someone else is easy. On the other hand, to prove what we guess to be true, takes courage and effort. Cutting Lose Cutting ourselves lose…
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