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Just remember all of that, when you consider getting an item — even if it’s supposedly free. Nothing is free, when you consider all of the above. Are you ready to deal with the life of that item, and the life you’re going to give up to own it?

Leo makes some good pints for a less consumptive lifestyle. Some of the ideas listed here are a bit “overboard” in my estimation; but they do serve to get one thinking. Bottom line is: everything does have a cost….

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6 Key Lessons in Life from a 140 year Old Man

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It is now up to all of us to apply Gandhi’s teachings in our daily life – after all his message about peace and non-violence is more pertinent than ever before today.

On this 140th anniversary of his birth, here are 6 keys lessons for all of us to apply in our life from today.

Gandhi was a great example of living the teachings of Jesus Christ even though he wasn’t a Christian; kind of puts to shame many of us who are Christians….

2009-09-23

It Is What We Overcome That Makes Us Who We Are

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Welcome and embrace life’s challenges. Sometimes it’s helpful to reflect on how other people successfully handled similar challenges. In my day job, I’m a web applications developer and there are times I want to pull my hair out while trying to make a program behave a certain way but I remind myself that for every problem there is a solution. It’s not just a saying, it’s true.

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Does Having Make us Happy? | Goodlife Zen

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Spend five minutes watching TV ads and you’ll know what makes us happier. In the eyes of the advertiser, that is. A new car, diamond earrings, a new kitchen, carpets, house, overseas travel – everything that adverts offer us pretends to be a magic pill that will make us happier. But does it?

2009-09-22

5 Reason to Believe in People Again « AlittleBetter.net

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We start assuming that everyone is out to get us, and because each of us begins to harbor this mindset and treat others with suspicion. Being treated with suspicion only confirms to the neighbor that you are hiding something, and the cycle continues. We have to stop this. Here are 5 reasons to start believing in people again.

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No Fu – The Warriors Way to Say No — unwrap your mind

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As with every kung fu, you have to train this and you shouldn’t expect this to be easy in the beginning. However practice will make you become a master in this art.

2009-09-16

Not being able to think about two things at once means that we can’t truly “multitask” things that we need to think about. Instead, we cycle through tasks in quick succession. But be warned, there are costs. At each switch we risk losing our train of thought and even if we remain on track, it takes time to re-situate ourselves with where we were before the switch. The net effect is that it takes more time to multitask a set of actions than it does to do them sequentially.

— Aza’s Thoughts » You Can’t Multitask (via zenhabits)