By admin on December 10, 2011
If you read the newspapers, it’s hard to avoid the pundits of doom. We’ve become a nation of debtors, they say, and the road to the debtors prison is paved with plastic. Credit card debt is at an all time high, and we’re sinking further and further behind.
Is it really true, though? The statistics flung [...]
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By admin on December 8, 2011
What are the determining factors in naming a sport extreme? There are many sports considered to be extreme sports today but how did they become to be known as such? Some came from seemingly benign beginnings and have evolved to more dangerous sports. The addiction to these sports it seems comes from the associated adrenaline [...]
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By admin on December 7, 2011
I suppose that every hometown of every child holds certain favorite hiding places, or short cuts, or little-known doors or cubbyholes or secret passageways or whatever, and Auburn was no exception.
One of my favorite such places was the train tunnel that ran under Palm Avenue and the Auburn reservoir, and [...]
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By admin on December 7, 2011
You can have all the drive and energy, but without the right strategy, you will never get what you want. By the same token, every outcome is possible, given an effective strategy.
For example, imagine yourself as the small business owner of a fruit shop that makes $10,000 in profits a month. Let’s say that you [...]
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By admin on December 5, 2011
Ever since turning 35 years old I’ve had a nagging feeling that my life had somehow changed. Where once there was wonder and amazement at the simple things in life like a cloudless summer day, or the unspoilt scenery of the countryside, these things stir little inside of me. It takes a lot more to [...]
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