Archive for the tag 'self help'

Here is your weekend reading: Site Changes I’ve recently added a popular posts plugin, which shows the 5 most popular posts along the right sidebar. Since the statistics only started being collected as of yesterday, the rankings are biased in favor of the most recent posts. I’ve also added a top commentators plugin. I’m displaying [...]

9 Comments Kevin on Jul 30th 2010

Ah, emotions… the spice of life; they are the medium by which we experience joy and happiness, motivation, fulfillment, and self-actualization. They push us along toward our goals, and serve as a check and balance on our behavior. I see emotions as a sort of yin-yang relationship: when they are in balance, we can perform optimally. [...]

17 Comments Kevin on Jun 4th 2010

According to Wiktionary, addiction is defined as “a pathological relationship to [a] mood altering experience that has life damaging consequences”. Really? This sounds pretty harsh… but it can be true of some addictions. There are certainly degrees of addiction, and things to which we are all addicted to. Some of us love to buy lottery [...]

7 Comments Kevin on May 5th 2010

Today, me and the girlfriend went for a nice bike ride to take advantage of the gradually improving weather and get some exercise! Ok, I’ll admit that the weather actually wasn’t that great; it was a little chilly, but it still felt good to get out there and move about. Some of my recent posts [...]

3 Comments Kevin on Apr 14th 2010

I was first introduced to the game of poker three to four years ago, when I played a friendly game with my girlfriend’s family. It was the first time I had ever played, so I was pretty lost. I played again with some friends a short while later, and there was one guy there who [...]

9 Comments Kevin on Mar 30th 2010

When I came up with the idea to start this blog, it struck me that there are two ways that you can treat life: The first way is like the curve of a ball: It rises up high, reaches a peak, but eventually it falls back down and hits the ground. Every one of us [...]

6 Comments Kevin on Mar 29th 2010

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