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A muse; me: Nine Ideas for Breaking Bad Habits
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A muse; me. Daily musings on productivity, simplicity, mindfulness, meditation, entrepeneurship, and travel. Sunday, April 26, 2009. Nine Ideas for Breaking Bad Habits. Do you have any bad habits you'd like to break? You know the ones, where you know you really shouldn't be doing it, but it feels good so you do it anyway. Or it doesn't even feel good, but you don't notice you're doing it until your fingernails are down to nubs, or you've just spent the last 5 hours watching YouTube clips. If you blame yo...
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A muse; me: Thinking about cooperative living spaces
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A muse; me. Daily musings on productivity, simplicity, mindfulness, meditation, entrepeneurship, and travel. Monday, June 1, 2009. Thinking about cooperative living spaces. While having a home of your own sounds nice and romantic, coming home to an empty or almost empty house day after day is not. To socialize, you end up having to call someone else and get back in the car and travel. Actuality: Outside looking in. The next few years. Looking for more like this? Guatemalan Families and Community. I have ...
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A muse; me: Not just for profit businesses
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A muse; me. Daily musings on productivity, simplicity, mindfulness, meditation, entrepeneurship, and travel. Thursday, June 4, 2009. Not just for profit businesses. Both of these models solve particular problems extremely well, but others not as well. If our goal is the betterment of the world (which I think most people at least think would be nice), it is valuable to think about the problems in both of these models. Enter nonprofits. Non profits can provide a great counterbalance to both for-profit ...
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A muse; me: Lots of time to think
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A muse; me. Daily musings on productivity, simplicity, mindfulness, meditation, entrepeneurship, and travel. Thursday, May 28, 2009. Lots of time to think. The benefit of living for a while without a job or full time occupation is that you have lots of time to think. The downside is that you have lots of time to think. When you aren't constantly strapped for time, its hard to hide from yourself, and all of the difficult life questions start coming up again. What do I want to do? Who do I want to be?
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A muse; me: Guatemalan Families and Community
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A muse; me. Daily musings on productivity, simplicity, mindfulness, meditation, entrepeneurship, and travel. Friday, May 29, 2009. Guatemalan Families and Community. The Value of Community. It was our community that made our wedding such a memorable one; with friends and family providing the food, the cake, the wine, the Huppah (wedding canopy), the artwork on our Ketubah (wedding vows), and of course the ambiance, turning our special day into one we will remember forever. Yet we too, leave it behind.
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A muse; me: Experiments with Lucid Dreaming
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A muse; me. Daily musings on productivity, simplicity, mindfulness, meditation, entrepeneurship, and travel. Saturday, May 30, 2009. Experiments with Lucid Dreaming. The other day, a blogger that I read posted an interview with the creator of a site called World of Lucid Dreaming. While the primary focus of the interview was on turning a hobby into an online business, yesterday I got curious and clicked through to read a little bit about what she had to say on lucid dreams. What is a lucid dream? I'm not...
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A muse; me: Kicking the caffeine habit
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A muse; me. Daily musings on productivity, simplicity, mindfulness, meditation, entrepeneurship, and travel. Sunday, May 31, 2009. Kicking the caffeine habit. I've thought several times about quitting, especially after reading that going caffeine-free can reduce the overall amount of sleep you need by improving sleep quality. But I've never quite been willing to give it up; the process always seemed like a pain, and I like coffee too much. Poor quality beans or instant coffee are your only choices. Thus ...
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A muse; me: March 2009
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A muse; me. Daily musings on productivity, simplicity, mindfulness, meditation, entrepeneurship, and travel. Sunday, March 29, 2009. Tonglen on the BART. Pregnant lady on the BART. I feel your pain. As if it were mine. As I have so often wished. That I were a little braver. Brave enough to say aloud to you. Whatever saddens you,. I hope it is better soon". But I cannot say them. So instead I sit here. Breathing in your suffering. And breathing out peace. I doubt it really helps you. But I pray it might.
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A muse; me: Reading about Religion
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A muse; me. Daily musings on productivity, simplicity, mindfulness, meditation, entrepeneurship, and travel. Monday, February 15, 2010. Being religious means asking passionately the questions of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt. . It is the state of being concerned about one's own being and being universally. Paul Tillich, The Lost Dimension in Religion. So my question now is. what else should I be reading? Let me know in the comments! CS Lewis -...
