The modern diet of the west is completely different from that of our grandparents. We have more variety of all foods available including the ability to readily get fresh produce from almost anywhere, but we also have more processed foods, more fried foods, and more sweets incorporated into our diets. As a people our diets […]
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Life is full of suffering. Life is the struggle against oneself for the creation and transcendence of being into something greater. This is not easy and often involves doing things we don’t want to do because we want the end result. Many choose not to undertake the struggle and go nowhere. When you look around
One of the most important things to have in life, the thing that will help us stay on track are goals. Creating goals for ourselves helps give ourselves guidance and keep us on track towards the type of life we want. Those without goals in life who give themselves nothing to strive for, do nothing.
Not so long ago it was easy to get me off track and stop me from doing positive things in my life. When I would face resistance against positive goal like weight loss, I would quit. I listened to people who by their own lives proved they didn’t know what they were talking about and
The most powerful force in your life is the power of momentum. Think about your day to day lifestyle. Do you deliberately choose to do certain things every day or do you do things that align with what you are already in the process of doing in life? Look at how many people live their
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I recently took a trip with a group I am a part of to Texas. I had never been there before and didn’t know what to expect, although we always try to have a good time. I decided to do another road trip, I probably would skip that if I was going again but I
I used to always run from anything that could cause me pain and discomfort. The issue is the pain I was running from was growing pains. This is a temporary discomfortable sensation we all must go through in order to become a better version of ourselves. When you were a kid there were all types
In 2021 things seemed like they were still out of hand in the world (not that they are much better). We initially took a trip to the grand canyon of PA (they’re just big hills) and Gettysburg PA. Gettysburg was a very interesting and impressive trip but the trips felt underwhelming. We still had some
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Our culture values sloth and hedonistic pleasures above all else. Many so called achievements by most peoples standards revolve around the ability to do nothing of value. I used to be addicted to these types of distractions. A few of my distractions were video games, sports, and tv/movies. Video games were by far the worst,
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No matter what we do in life it will come at the price of not doing something else that we could have done. We all start out with a seemly infinite number of possible realities or selves. As we get older we have to make decisions that begin to narrow and restrict those possibilities. If