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Never Settle For A Ripple When You Can Make A Wave
Mental Health

Why Bother Enjoying Summer’s Simple Pleasures?

Each of the four seasons are unique but I think summertime is the best of them all. It gets lighter earlier, and the sky’s luminescence lingers longer into the night than I am able to stay awake. The air temperature equals that of my body, and makes it a pleasure to spend more time outside…
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Learning

Why Bother Reframing Our Thinking?

When was the last time you felt disappointed, defeated, let down and disillusioned? Disappointment happens to us all and if we let it, it can make us feel like powerless losers, incapable dweebs, or rejected victims. But, if we can reframe our “loser” thinking, then we build resistance to prolonging our discouragement and get back…
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Learning

Why Bother Becoming Competent?

Recently, I came across an interesting learning model, Hierarchy of Competence. This model was popular in the 1960s and 1970s. It piqued my interest though because first of all, it made sense and secondly, it seems logical. Out With the Old There are four levels to this model. Level one is called unconscious incompetence. We’ve…
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Learning

Why Bother Changing our Eating Patterns?

Our choice to change a particular habit or set of habits comes with an awareness of the fundamental need to change. But, how do we know if and when we need to change?        Patterns Whatever habits we incorporate into our lives, over the course of time, become routine and comfortable patterns. We…
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