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Something Lighter for Today

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Monday, June 22nd, 2009
Author:
ccSteve

Balancing weighty thoughts When was the last time you considered your weight?  How about your thoughts? Is your excess getting in the way? I’m developing a new program that will clear your head – and it’s just what you need! Read on…

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The Freefall of Bad Decisions

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Monday, June 8th, 2009
Author:
ccSteve

Learning to stop the slide… The first decision wasn’t awful – perhaps not completely thought through – but it wasn’t the end of the world. Then circumstances conspired against me and the second decision – worse than the first – was the beginning of the end. In hindsight, the smart thing would have been to [...]

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Putting the Pieces Together

Posted on:
Monday, May 25th, 2009
Author:
ccSteve

A fascination with puzzles… It might come as no surprise to readers that I’ve put together a fair number of puzzles in my time. During a run the other week I started forming a “consolidated puzzle theory” of life – that whether we consciously think about it or not, our mind is sifting through all [...]

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Practice Makes Perfect

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Monday, April 6th, 2009
Author:
ccSteve

Actually – Perfect Practice Makes Perfect The adjusted version (above) was my daughter’s piano teacher’s way of saying – simply running through a practice without working at getting everything right will just train you to do it incorrectly… In other words … how we practice something is just as important as finding the time to [...]

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You’re Welcome

Posted on:
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Author:
ccSteve

Accepting thanks “Thank You.” It’s a common enough phrase and I’m sure you’ve had it said to you many times. So many times in fact that your response becomes routine and automatic. ((Almost like saying “Bless you” or “Gesundheit” when someone sneezes.)) And this got me thinking about the responses and their effect on the [...]

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