The thing that will take us the farthest distance TOWARD our Dreams – and the thing that can potentially take us the farthest distance AWAY from our Dreams – is simply the CHOICES we make. How we use every minute of the time we are given adds to one side of the ledger or the…
It’s a dismissive / derogatory term of disparagement: “Not worth a hill of beans!” “You don’t know beans!” … as if – everybody knows – beans are not worth very much, even piled in a “hill”, and NOT to know as much as something NOT EVEN worth as much as beans takes you completely out…
For this one, you may want to look up “Free Will” on the internet and pick a couple of TED talks for background. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/theres-no-such-thing-as-free-will/480750/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UH_VG_aqwoc INTRODUCTION: A small but hard core mix of neuroscientists, philosophers and psychologists holds that hardly anything we do is an expression of “Free Will”. That is, we are, essentially, “Biological…
A fundamental conundrum in 21st Century life is finding something of intrinsic, compelling ultimate value into which we can unreservedly pour our time, energy and “unbridled spirit” for the duration. Life is changing so fast, and there are so many superficial diversions/distractions to navigate through and around, that we remain largely adrift and unanchored in…
“ … (have you ever been running, and decided you need to run a little faster … and then you WILLED it and it happened; have you ever tried to open a jar of pickles and decided you need to squeeze or turn a little harder, but not until you WILLED it did it happen; etc.) Our WILL…