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Loneliness: Isolation vs. Connection
—Over the past week, I’ve seen this story, “The biggest threat facing middle-age [sic] men isn’t smoking or obesity. It’s loneliness.“ making the rounds on Facebook. The title didn’t strike me as a...
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When Fight or Flight Is Not Right
Humans have chosen the correct choice enough times in our evolution to keep the species growing and thriving. OK, that is great. So what is the problem?The problem comes in when we are triggered into...
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Men, It’s Time to Connect in a Real Way
Embed from Getty ImagesNOTE: I am grateful for The Good Men Project allowing this “preacher man” and those of none or other faiths to have a voice at the table. Everyone’s story matters!A March...
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Why You Must Indulge in a “YOU” Day and Unplug
We’ve never been more flooded with stimulus, information, stresses, and breaking news than today. Add in the pressures of entrepreneurship —the pressure, the intensity and the lonely nights wondering...
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How To Better Connect With Your Disconnected Teen
Parenting teenagers is no easy feat. There are hormones, peer pressure, bullies, school responsibilities, finances, and extra-curricular activities you must navigate through. As you try to help your...
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10 Ways to Keep the Relationship Fire Burning
Embed from Getty ImagesFour years into a relationship can be like earning a college degree. To some couples, this is still part of the honeymoon stage. For my husband and me, who’ve come to be so...
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Five Things You Can Do Today to Help You Live Your Best Life
— Are you living your best life today or are you waiting for some miracle to make that happen? Chances are you are reading this because you are traveling on a life path you never picked. This is not...
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In Service of the Heart
— If I spent some time every day connecting to my heart If I spent some time every day connecting to the stillness there If I spent some time every day connecting to the peace there If I spent some...
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Five Ways to Bring Humanity Back to Dating
If you’re attempting to date, especially online (because isn’t everyone,) you’re probably throwing your phone down, screaming into your pillow “There just HAS to be a better way!” I used to love online...
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Infrastructure History: Connecting Us to the Past
— It helps us quench our thirst, wash our dishes, and clean our bodies, but a sense of its past often emerges only when its use is disrupted. Over the past week, a recent spurt of articles in Toronto...
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Connecting the Dots – the Well Posed Question and Code as a Liability
— Just a brief thought prompted by two, partly related, things streaming past my nose. Firstly Michael Nielsen discussed the views of Aristotle and Sunstein on collective intelligence. The thing that...
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Why We Never Have Enough Time & What to Do About It
Everyone I know has this problem: there never seems to be enough time in the day for everything we need or want to do. We have a pile of tasks and projects to do, endless messages and emails to respond...
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My Experience as a Poll Chaplain on Election Day
I was contacted a few weeks ago to serve as a volunteer “poll chaplain” — a non-partisan, non-anxious presence at a polling place on Election Day. The nonprofit that made the request hoped that such...
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How To Stop Asking, ‘How Are You?’ and Create Real Conversation
Stop asking stupid questions like: How are you? How are you doing? How are you feeling? You already know how people are doing. The future feels like mushy spaghetti. Answers to, “How are you?” sound...
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5 Habits of Emotionally Wealthy Marriages
Do you want to be emotionally wealthy in your relationship? If so, let’s break this down. It turns out the number one thing couples fight about is nothing. This not-so-earth-shattering discovery was...
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If You Want More Creativity, Move the Kettle!
Alex Pentland Alex Pentland is a professor at MIT who combined staff identity badges with GPS positioning technology. This enabled him to observe the movements of workers in an office much in the...
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One Powerful Way to Make People Love You
Because of our desire to be loved, admired, and accepted, we spend a lot of time trying to “wow” others. Unfortunately, the irony of this desire is that in trying to impress, we act like the very...
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6 Hints Your Friendship Is Turning Into Love
This blog post is based on my opinions thoughts and thinking. Friendships are complicated, and sometimes they can get complicated enough to turn into love. It’s not always easy to tell when this...
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Talk to Strangers
The first time I tried reading The Power of Strangers, the Benefits of Connecting in a Suspicious World by Joe Keohane, I was at Les Schwab waiting to get a tire leak fixed. Sitting next to me was an...
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Shirtless Trans Man on a Beach Changes Stranger’s Life. “It Is Super...
By I’m From Driftwood . . Two years after his top surgery, Terrence François was still a little self-conscious about taking his shirt off in public. On a quiet beach in Cartegena, Colombia, however,...
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