Archive for December, 2009

Bottom up actions

Posted on December 30th, 2009 by  |  No Comments »

In Plato’s The Republic, he talks about various systems for government, action justice and society. Too often these are organized inefficiently.
Focusing just on the action part illustrates this perfectly. Anyone who has ever been on a diet or tried to give up any addictive behaviors will recognize that we tend to act first and think [...]

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Wake up!

Posted on December 20th, 2009 by  |  2 Comments »

My friend Sheila Finkelstein took the above picture (she is an amazingly talented photographer and I recommend signing up for her free ezine at http://www.picturetoponder.com/ so you too can get weekly inspiration)
The naivitee of the stork to the danger of the nearby alligator sums up the attitude I had to life until recently and I [...]

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Thoughts->Words->Actions->Habits->Character->Destiny

Posted on December 3rd, 2009 by  |  No Comments »

Watch your thoughts, for they become words.

Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.
Author unknown though many different authors are accredited with it.
Are we our thoughts or are our thoughts us?

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What are you tethered to?

Posted on December 1st, 2009 by  |  No Comments »

The right hand picture shows what I am tethered to 24 hours a day – a bag which pumps penicillin through the picc line shown on the left straight to my heart. It only pumps for 1 hour in every 4 so in fact during the day I can detach and wait for it to [...]

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