When reading about the habits of highly successful people, a couple of things seem universal. Most of them seem to have a rigorous routine. Most of them delegate unimportant tasks. When possible, a large part of them simplify their lives so that they are able to focus on the more important things. All these things… Read More Building Coherence: Writing to Contribute to the Betterment of Society
Let’s face it: mistakes earn a bad reputation pretty early on. When we make mistakes on a test at school, it gets marked in bold red, is sometimes mentioned by the teacher as a bad thing we should not have done, and something our parents tell us not to repeat next time. This relationship with… Read More The Fear of Making Mistakes: There is not Such a Thing as Failure
In his attempt to rid an individual of a physical ailment, a doctor will first take stock of his symptoms, i.e. his “physical reality”. Much in the same way, those trying to rid their communities of its various ailments have to take stock of its “symptoms”, i.e. its social reality. And just like the doctor… Read More Walking a Fine Line: Understanding Negative Social Forces
I recently took a friend of mine planner shopping. He really wanted to up his game and had realised that his current way of keeping track of his life just wasn’t cutting it. He didn’t know what he wanted and I am always looking for an excuse to go to any kind of paper store,… Read More Planning The Week – Planning and Planners: What is Bullet Journaling?
Dove’s mission to get us in touch with real beauty started with this video released over six years ago. The company is still at it, recently releasing another video. It documents an experiment that begins with several participants talking to the camera about their appearance. These participants then describe themselves to a forensic artist who sketches… Read More The Clean-Up Continues: Dove Concludes We Are More Beautiful than We Think
What with the new season of The X-Files, it was only natural that I would choose to feature Apt. 42 Revisited‘s review of the first episode of Season 10, an episode that has generated a lot of conversation and disagreement between hard-core fans and a lot of confusion among casual ones. I like the realistic,… Read More Apt. 42’s Review of The X-Files, Season 10, Episode 1: ‘My Struggle’
Part I is here; Part II is here. With yet another flight cancelled because of the tornado, my husband and I go back in line, thankfully a little rested and only for a little less than an hour. It’s now morning on Sunday 27 December, around 7am Central Time; we have only a couple of… Read More When The Best Laid Plans Go Completely Wrong, Tornado Style (Part III of III)
You would think that, having been asked to board so quickly after we had deplaned, that everything had been checked up on, that the tornado had abated, and we would be ready to take-off. Unfortunately, we had to face what has got to be the most hilarious obstacle of our trip yet: we were told… Read More When The Best Laid Plans Go Completely Wrong, Tornado Style (Part II of III)
Guys… This is not the kind of post you are used to reading on this blog. But something happened to me recently that I just had to share and yes, it involves a real-life tornado. Of course this situation lent itself to a lot of reflections that I will also be sharing, but I can’t… Read More When The Best Laid Plans Go Completely Wrong, Tornado Style (Part I of III)
Most people are good and yet, when it comes to the news, books, television shows, and movies, the emphasis is on the bad. Now while bad makes for great plots, what are the underlying assumptions of it being more worthy than good as the focus of media content creation? That good is boring. That bad… Read More Learning to Love and Live The Banality of Good