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Category Archives: Life Strategies
One fingernail at a time
Ever since I was a kid, I have bitten my fingernails. A couple of times during childhood, my parents tried coating my fingernails with a foul-tasting deterrent called Bansuk – but despite its awful taste, I kept on biting. A … Continue reading
Posted in Action, Hope, Inspiration, Life Challenges, Life is Good, Life Strategies, My Story
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The year ahead and a 2010 resolution I did keep
It’s the second day of the new year, and once again I’m enjoying a Sabbath – from 20 December until yesterday, life had been enjoyable if hectic, so for the first time in almost two weeks I’m having a quiet … Continue reading
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Eat one sultana for 10 minutes and see me next week (Part Two)
Author’s note about the following post: it won’t make any sense unless you read my previous post it is not endorsed or in any other way associated with Sunbeam Foods – I merely chose the above picture as an example … Continue reading
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Eat one sultana for 10 minutes and see me next week (Part One)
Author’s note – the following post is not endorsed or in any other way associated with Sunbeam Foods. I merely chose the above picture as an example in case anyone about to read the following post is wondering what the … Continue reading
Posted in Life Challenges, Life Strategies, My Story
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Angry Day
WARNING! The following post contains profanity that may offend some readers! Tuesday, 2 November 2010. Another day of crappy weather outside. The document I was formatting for work was driving me nuts. My internet kept on dropping out. Most times … Continue reading
Posted in Anger, Life Challenges, Life Strategies, My Story
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50,000 words in 30 days – the joys of doing NaNoWriMo
It’s almost that time of year again – National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo for short, or NaNo for even shorter. If you’re unfamiliar with NaNo – starting from midnight on 1 November and finishing at 11:59pm on 30 November, … Continue reading
Posted in Hope, Inspiration, Life Challenges, Life Strategies, My Story
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Zen and the art of model-railroading
I can’t remember what started it all, but during 1999-2000 I became very interested in model-railroading. I didn’t get around to doing any modeling myself, and for various reasons I went on the other things, but for a few months … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness, Life Strategies, My Story
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Maintain course!
It’s funny indeed how life sometimes follows art, and blogposts. The day after my previous post, I was walking down my local main-street when, for the first time in ages, I saw a local nemesis coming my way. I don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Confidence, Life Strategies, My Story
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Confidence and the way I walk
During the past few years as I’ve learned (and continue to learn) about living with depression, my overall thinking has changed and I’ve come to understand many important concepts. One of those concepts is confidence, something I had completely misunderstood … Continue reading
Posted in Confidence, Happiness, Life is Good, Life Strategies, My Story
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The negatives of positive thinking – Barbara Ehrenreich’s ‘Smile Or Die’
A few weeks ago, I read Barbara Ehrenreich’s Smile Or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (published in the US as Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America). In Smile Or Die, Ehrenriech … Continue reading
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