Am I the only one who thinks the world is too engaged in unhealthy competition? For example, when people find out that I am an artist, the first thing they want to do is compare my look and/or sound to another artist they are familiar with. One of the first questions people ask is, “Who
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When I started writing this I was listening to a friend tell me about, yet another questionable relationship he’d gotten himself into. Once again, he was telling me that a woman he was dating turned out NOT to be who she originally claimed to be. God had given him signs; little “happenings” here and there
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“Lord, help my boss.” I was in the restroom at my job, preparing to have a difficult conversation with my boss. It’s never easy to go to someone and tell them you do not appreciate something they’ve said or done to you; however, the uneasiness is ten times bigger when it’s your boss and you
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I Google searched the word “motivation”… 59,500,000 results! Who am I to think I have anything new to share about this subject when so many others have thrown in their two cents? I guess I like the challenge!

Have you ever felt a connection with someone and you are not completely sure why? I’m talking on a deeper level here. Not just a surface, “hey, I like that person” kind of deal. Maybe we can call it a spiritual connection.

I’m a very practical kind of guy. I need technique not just theory when it comes to areas of self-help, motivation and enlightenment. The writers that I am drawn to not only explain the why of something they are discussing, but

We hear a lot about fight or flight response, and rightly so. Darren posted right here on Keeping it Real on March 19, Overcoming your Fears. Often times the heightened response dictates our behavior. We hear less about serotonin responses, except in the context of psychiatry and depression. Truth is, when we’re doing well, working
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We can talk to people! Isn’t that amazing? I think it’s a miracle. We can do it in person, with a sincere “How are you doing?” We can pick up a phone and punch in a number… and for most of us, no more dialing. No more getting mad at that guy whose number is
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Darren covered the essentials of Carpe Articulum, or Seize The Moment, in a Post on January 26, 2009. That was literally a few days after the “event” that, for me, triggered it all: a dip into the Atlantic Ocean on New Year’s Day 2009. The air temperature was minus 10 F, the ocean temperature was 40
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