April 2008

Don’t We Get to Choose What Words Mean?

Clay (author of TheGrowingLife) wrote a brilliant comment on my last post dissenting (somewhat) about the importance of words, roots, and their meaning. I started to write a comment in response but it became clear that that response is its own post. First, I really appreciate Clay voicing his comment, for multiple reasons. I love [...]

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Replacing Passion With Vitality

Loren at Writing Power asked a question the other day that I’ve been thinking about a lot recently since I was thinking about metaphors and how language affects our thinking and behavior. Her question: “What term would you like to see replace “passion” in our personal development lexicon?” The reason we want to switch terms [...]

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Build a Small Fire and Sit Close to It

This Friday’s meditation is an original in the Taoist spirit: Try to be everywhere, and you will find yourself nowhere. Try to be there for everyone, and you will be there for no one. Try to always be available, and you will never be available. Try to work all the time, and you will not [...]

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Broken Theme and Something In-between

Many of you have probably noticed that my pages load really, really slowly. I’ve been doing some research on the guts of my system, and I’ve been able to determine why. Some of it is due to my ignorance, and others go way beyond that. While doing speed tests this morning, I came across something [...]

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The Metaphors We Live By

Are you feeling down today? Want to know how to save time? He’s in a dark mood today. I’m trying to get more done. All of the sentences above involve the use of metaphors. “The essence of metaphors,” Lakoff and Johnson argued in Metaphors We Live By, “is understanding one kind of thing in terms [...]

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How Friends Help You Flourish

Friends and flourishing are like cookies and milk: the addition of the one makes the other so much better. But friends and flourishing are unlike cookies and milk in that you can’t have one without the other. “Friends,” Aristotle says, “are our second selves.” They help define who we are and improve our character. They [...]

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Make $25 in 3 Minutes, Right Now

There’s a new money transfer game in town besides Paypal, and they want your membership so much so that they are giving $25 for you just to sign up. There are no strings attached, no obligations to use the service, no trial offers that you need to remember to quit, and the process is really [...]

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New Blog Domain, Same Old Blog

Okay, I’ve managed to move everything to the new domain name. Everything should now be under Productive Flourishing. It wasn’t as painful as I thought it would be. Except for the feeds. I think I have it set up so that the old feed still works and you shouldn’t have to switch anything up. This [...]

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Friday Meditation on Contentment

One of the things I love about approaching the weekend is that it is a time to relax, step back, and think about things. I read something that stood out to me and I wanted to share it and my thoughts about it with you: Fame or integrity: which is more important? Money or happiness: [...]

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