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Category Archives: My Thoughts
Cancer Awareness Month
I am not exactly sure of this but I have seen some posts / tweets on “CancerAwarenessMonth” and have been thinking of my friends that have battled Cancer.
My thoughts are with them.
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Do as I . . . .
Say and Do.
If I seem to contradict in what I do and say it is possibly because I am saying what I think I ought to be doing but for some reason am not able to do it myself. That is my failure. Don’t use my failure as an excuse to better for yourself.
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The 3 Things We Need to be Happy
- Something to look forward to
- Something to do
- Someone to love
I don’t think they have to be in any particular order.
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http://www.elephantjournal.com/2013/10/the-3-things-you-need-to-be-happy-right-now-joe-choi/
http://mrinsidesales.com/insidesalestrainingblog/three-things-you-need-to-have-to-be-happy
Unintended Consequences
We were having a lunch time talk around the kitchen area and we got to talking about donations having Unintended Consequences.
But what I realized almost immediately that everything, every action has unintended consequences. We can’t really over think it though. Yes, of course and obviously we have to make sure that we don’t have negative consequence that out weight our well intentions. But we can only spend so much time and energy on that – avoiding the unintended negative consequence.
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How We Love
I was running some errands and as usual was listening to KUT / NPR. TED Radio Hour came up and the episode had to do with “Love”. As usual, again, I was intrigued. But this time the intrigue was just a bit more. Enough to get me to open up my computer and listen to the show.
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National Coffee Day
September 29th.
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The First Presidential Debate
It is now in the books. It’s done. Of course we will be talking about the debate for the next couple of weeks. All the way to the next debate scheduled for October 9th.
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Winning an Argument
It’s funny how you don’t really need to win an argument to win an argument. Most of the time if you are able to prove your opponent to be wrong, that might be all you need to win the argument. At other times you only need to distract from the argument itself and ever so slightly make the argument about something else.
I first noticed this in the movie “Thank you for Smoking“. There is a scene where Nick Naylor (played by Aaron Eckhart) and his son Joey Naylor (played by Cameron Bright) and the conversation goes:
Joey Naylor: …so what happens when you’re wrong?
Nick Naylor: Whoa, Joey I’m never wrong.
Joey Naylor: But you can’t always be right…
Nick Naylor: Well, if it’s your job to be right, then you’re never wrong.
Joey Naylor: But what if you are wrong?
Nick Naylor: OK, let’s say that you’re defending chocolate, and I’m defending vanilla. Now if I were to say to you: ‘Vanilla is the best flavour ice-cream’, you’d say…
Joey Naylor: No, chocolate is.
Nick Naylor: Exactly, but you can’t win that argument… so, I’ll ask you: so you think chocolate is the end all and the all of ice-cream, do you?
Joey Naylor: It’s the best ice-cream, I wouldn’t order any other.
Nick Naylor: Oh! So it’s all chocolate for you is it?
Joey Naylor: Yes, chocolate is all I need.
Nick Naylor: Well, I need more than chocolate, and for that matter I need more than vanilla. I believe that we need freedom. And choice when it comes to our ice-cream, and that Joey Naylor, that is the defintion of liberty.
Joey Naylor: But that’s not what we’re talking about
Nick Naylor: Ah! But that’s what I’m talking about.
Joey Naylor: …but you didn’t prove that vanilla was the best…
Nick Naylor: I didn’t have to. I proved that you’re wrong, and if you’re wrong I’m right.
BTW, I copied the above from IMDb.
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50 Days to
It is also 7 days to the very first Presidential debate.
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