Category: Lifestyle
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What Marie Kondo Means by Spark Joy
“You can also define things that spark joy as things that make you happy.” – Marie Kondo, “Spark Joy,” pg. 82 “It is very important to choose what you want to keep rather than what you want to throw away in tidying. In other words, you choose from what’s in your house things that you…
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Meditation: A Guide, Resource, and Encouragement
“The highest form of human intelligence is to observe yourself without judgment. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti I think about meditation a lot, and even as I write this, I realize the irony of that statement. Still, even after a long practice, one can become “jaded” and pretty soon even your meditation sessions can come to seem…
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On Ego, What it Is, What it Does, and How to Cure It
“Because the conscious mind has to be in control, even though it doesn’t know anything.” – Dolores Cannon [Youtube Link] I’ve heard Dolores say in other interviews that the Conscious Mind is the Ego. That makes the definition pretty simple. If that is the case then the cure would seem to be spending more time…
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200lbs – 30lbs Lost in 3 Months
Hey I was so happy to have reached 200lbs! Just a few weeks ago it seemed so far away! Anyway although my rate of loss has decreased, overall I began this program on March 10th, so that’s almost exactly 30lbs in 3 months or 10lbs a month. Going forward I don’t expect to lose at…
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210lbs – 20lbs in 7 Weeks
So that’s 3lbs per week. I guess that’s good. Everything sort of reverts to the mean. It seems like I zoomed from 215 to 211, but then it took a week to get from 211 to 210. I guess that’s how it goes. No rhyme or reason sometimes. But at least if you look at…
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215lbs
Finally! Seemed like I was stuck on 216 forever, but now that I look at it, I’ve lost 15lbs in about a month. So that makes me feel good. That would get me to my goal in just over two months from now which excites me. I was talking to my sister yesterday, and we…