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“The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.”
-–Roy T. Bennett
As humans, well all make mistakes and suffer great loss on occasion. It’s just a part of life.
It’s easy to fall into the trap of dwelling on the bad times and forgetting that tomorrow will begin with the dawning of a new day. [Read more…]
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Have you have ever dined at a Chinese restaurant?
If so, you probably received a fortune cookie with a set of lottery numbers printed on the little slip of paper that had the “fortune” on it.
Lots of folks actually purchase lottery tickets with the numbers from their fortune cookies, but only rarely does it ever pay off.
After all, those fortune cookie lottery numbers are simply made up out of thin air.
In other words, playing the numbers from a fortune cookie is essentially no better or worse than having the lottery machine pick your numbers at random on your behalf.
But one day back in 2005 (March 30, to be exact), 110 lucky folks won big by playing the same set of “fortune cookie lottery numbers”.
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Have you ever been asked a question that you didn’t know the answer to? Of course the answer to that question is yes.
After all, there isn’t a human being alive today who knows everything there is to know about every possible topic. That’s easily confirmed simply by watching an episode or two of the popular Jeopardy! quiz show.
Have you ever wished you could do something that you simply didn’t have the skills you would need in order to accomplish it?
Well here’s the thing: we don’t need to know everything about everything in order to succeed in life. Consider the following questions… [Read more…]
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If you have ever remodeled a home you’re probably familiar with the process of adding new electrical outlets in places where no outlet has existed before.
This is usually accomplished by either running the wires before new drywall is installed or feeding the wire into a finished wall either from the attic or the basement/crawl space.
But what if you need to add an outlet to a finished wall and you don’t have attic or basement/crawl space access? [Read more…]
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There’s a timeless Native American story about two wolves that live inside each and every person – a good wolf and a bad wolf.
These two wolves are constantly struggling to control our thoughts, our actions and our lives.
I won’t relay the entire story here, but the the ending is explained in the short video below. [Read more…]