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- Category: General
- The Examined Life
- Love Between A Father And Son
- My Five Illusions
- The Day A Man Pulled A Gun On Me
- Twelve Of Us In Saint George
- I Realized I Was Playing Peewee Ball
- To Be Loved And Alive
- Before The Decision There Is Only Fog
- I’m An Obituary Reader
- The Debris Inside My Head
- Adventures In The High Bed
- Missed Opportunity
- Being Cut, But I Hit Nine Home Runs
- I’ve Thought A Lot About My Dad Tripping My Mom
- Packed Them In For A ‘Chevy Chase’ Vacation
- My Two Experiences Of Living An Imperfect Life
- People And Institutions Must Be Tested
- Happy Is As Happy Does
- The Life Of A Runt And A Childhood Hero
- Before I know it
- Looking Where The Ball Will Be
- Key To The Vault: Listening – But I Do Have My Limits
- Where Are We Going? What Is The Future?
- Ah, The Joy Of Being Reminded Of How Old I Am
- What’s There To Do, When You Feel You’ve Done It All?
- Hard Things
- Eli Passed, May 6, 2021
- The Gift Of Being 76
- Which Is It? Paranoia, Feeling Sorry For Myself, Or My New Beer Belly?
- Three Architectural Masterpieces That Blew Me Away
- Confession Time Again
- You Don’t Need It, But You Have It.
- Two Types of People
- While Living Your Life’s Plan, Have Fun
- Who Are We?
- We All Have Secrets We Hide
- Solving Problems, And Learning To Listen
- Reflection In The Shower
- Fixing A Problem – Component By Component
- Two Perfectly Balanced Gems
- Can You Believe I Was Born During WW2?
- Post Holiday Observations
- Thoughts Of The Week
- Windy
- Who Knows How Things Will Work Out In The Future
- Time Table For The End Of This Stuff: A Calm Will Begin To Descend
- Meaningful Coincidences
- My Five Big Ideas
- My Children
- Five Lessons I Learned About Human Behavior As A Management Consultant
- Five Lessons I Learned About Human Behavior As A Management Consultant
- A Healthier Pick Me Up
- Five Lessons I Learned About Human Behavior As A Management Consultant
- Five Lessons I Learned About Human Behavior As A Management Consultant
- Five Lessons I Learned About Human Behavior As A Management Consultant
- Finally, Securing My Rational Mind
- 2040’s
- Phase 3: Securing My Rational Mind
- Crevices, Cracks, And Niches: I Too Fit Through One Or Two!
- Immune System Ready?
- This Is A Monumental Time
- My 12 Best Ideas, Or The Ones I Like Most For Now
- I Have Now Been Stripped Of All Varnish
- Reaching Seventy And Beyond Is Rewarding And Hard At The Same Time
- In The 22nd Century, They Will Chide Us For Not Having Taken Action Sooner, Much Sooner
- I Saw A Cow And Couldn’t Eat My Hamburger
- You Know What, I’ve Always Had Agendas Interacting With You
- And She Says . . . “Don’t You Understand? You’re An Old Man.”
- Life According To Jerry Seinfeld
- Six Amazing Habits That Keep Us Going
- Visualizing Yourself In A Different State Of Being Is Profound: Visualization 4
- WHAT IS GREEN TEA HP™?
- Visualization pt. 2 – Creating The Future, Then Experiencing It
- Ten Rules Of The Game Of Life
- I Am Calmed By The Soft Haze Along The Coast And In The Valley Below.
- Two Of My Five Children Have Walked
- Where You Going To Hide “When The Cops Come For You Bad Boy, Bad Boy?”
- Say Nothing Predictable, Or Mushy, But Outrageous Is Acceptable
- Eight New Thoughts That Will Help To Improve My Thinking
- Hard Nosed Rationalist pt. 3 Very Hard Nosed Rationalist
- For Us Humans, It’s An Ever Present Present
- My Little Secrets Revealed
- I’m Just More Comfortable Experiencing Life Firsthand
- Keep Pushing To Get The Story Straight About Yourself
- Envy, Spite, Vendetta
- Thanksgiving November, 1949 Warriors’ Day To Celebrate
- Time To Grow Up: Diary Secrets
- It’s Not By Luck That I’m Still Here
- You Play The Hand You Are Dealt
- Connecting With Yourself
- The Impossible Becomes Possible
- Turn Out The Lights; Turn On The Lights
- Ode To So Cal With Help From Eagles And Stones
- Gratitude And Courage
- Qualities in Cool Guys
- 2020-2050
- Things I Thought But I Don’t Think Anymore
- Self Destructive Instincts vs Survival Instinct
- You’re The Winner With A Little Bit Of Cash In Your Pocket
- Terri Lynn Hollis Was Her Full Name
- How Our Brains Work
- (My) Repressed Memories
- Don’t Worry – It’s Just Another Downturn
- Confessions Of A “Quirky” Husband
- Don’t Pass Full
- My Granddaughter Auditions For Charlotte’s Web
- What The Worker Of The Future Is Looking For:
- Myths And My Life
- Something I Don’t Mind Leaving Behind
- The Women In My Life
- Out of Body Experience
- Shakespeare
- 11 Misconceptions About Life Today
- I Am Who I Am
- Within Two Pyramids, A Great Teacher
- We Must Learn To First Defeat The Competitor Within
- Zio Nation*
- The Cycle Of Happiness
- Anthony Bourdain and Yours Truly
- Rock At The Center
- Lost MY Testimony?
- Let It Catch Your Eye
- Love In Florence
- Karen Marie Nelson Pocas
- Thinking Strategically About LGBTQ
- Bragging Doth Not A Healthy Life Make
- He Threw Back His Head And Clubbed Me On My Nose
- Take It Down
- Ten Substantive Ideas
- Getting Older
- How Much Money Do You Need To Be Happy?
- Leadership: Be A Keen Observer
- When Good Fortune Visits One At A Young Age
- The I Disappears
- Struggle
- Harry’s Theory On Santa Claus vs Jesus
- Falling Trees And Singing The Blues
- The Great Person
- Creating Opportunity From Thin Air
- Extraneous Thoughts
- What’s Real? Love Is Real
- On Christmas Day
- Ring out, wild bells!
- Don’t Discount Life Changing Moments
- Inside Myself
- Have I REALLY Experienced Love And Happiness?
- When Surprise And Shock Come Our Way
- Out With Homo Sapiens, In With Homo Evolutis
- The Voice Within May Quite Literally Be A Magnificent Gyroscope
- Three Big Future Trends For The Rest Of The Twenty First Century
- All Is Disguise To Protect Us From Knowing Who We Really Are.
- The Moment Arrives: Do You Take It Or Not?
- Big Time Trends – Reeeeally Big
- It’s All Opinion.
- Standing As Sentinel On The Wall Of Your Own Existence
- You Need To Understand This:
- Creating A Vision For Your Life, Try It.
- Don’t Look Back, Lest You Turn Into A Pillar Of Salt
- Thank You Keith Richards
- …Write It Down
- What I Have Obsessed Over All My Life
- Start Asking For Contracts
- On Second Thought
- Dark Matter, Dark Energy
- I Could No Longer Eat My Hamburger
- Roll On Mississippi
- Are You A Mystery To Yourself?
- A Joke
- Happiness By Deciding To Slightly Raise Your Index Finger
- Jacques Derrida
- My Granddaughter
- Stay Unpredictable and Earn Your Riches
- Been There DONE That
- Happy and Sad
- Happy Thanksgiving!
- I Fight The Battle In Front Of Me
- Idea Economy
- Cold
- Corkscrew
- We Have These Moments To Remember
- Why Do You Say What You Don’t Want To Say?
- The Rage Of Being LGBT
- The Tension Between My Conscious Mind and My Unconscious Mind, or The Law of Opposites
- Pine Box
- 18 Truths About Living Well . . . I Suppose
- To Be Or Not To Be
- TIME IS A TRICK
- Romans 5:3-4
- Who Am I? Chameleon or Amicable Provocateur
- What Is My Brain? . . . Yours Too
- Creativity Overcomes Insecurity
- Some Lessons I’ve learned
- Kidnapped
- In Forty Five Years, I’ve Been Fired One Hundred Times
- My Friendship with Bob The Hunchback
- Life And More Life
- The Aroma And Taste Will Be Pleasant Dad
- I Lost Consciousness
- Yes, I saw Jesus
- Twenty One Cities That Are The Best At Something
- Of Course I Will . . .
- Phases Of Life
- Hamlet’s Tragic Flaw:
- The Greatest Rescue Mission In History:
- Trash Talking
- Getting It Right
- Bad Memories Covered Over By Video Memories
- “I’ve Done It My Way”
- A Random Moment
- Five Phases of a Man’s Life
- I Am As I Was When I Was Young
- The Common Man As King
- Chauvinism Ran Through Your Soul
- The Moving Center
- Dare To Say: True, Two, Too, Do And No, So, Do, To
- Causes And Possible Solutions To Stress
- Dissocia*
- I Don’t Want My Granddaughter Boxed In Or Locked Out By Words And Sentences
- Are People Safe Around You? Ask Them.
- Oh, These Days
- Eating Carbon Dioxide: Let’s Start Having Some Fun.
- Seven Breakthroughs That Helped Me Understand How The World Works
- Funny Personal Experiences, Embarrassing Too… Even A Little Maddening
- I Think I Know Where God Is
- WAR?
- My Wife As An Archaeologist And Artist
- Have Problems With Envy? Let’s Talk
- Twenty Minus One Revelations I’ve Had About My Life
- Evil
- Solutions And Strategies To Overcome Anxiety And Depression
- Apache Warrior
- Fixation
- Honest About Sex
- Am I Happy?
- Traveling
- Six Big Decades
- Life
- My Life In Six Verses and Five Lines
- Quick Nervous Movements
- My Grandson’s Seven Year Old Legs
- Missionaries At An Alta Club Party, 9 September 2014
- Is Man Forever Broken?
- A High Octane God
- Getting Serious About Education And Diet
- Heroes And The Handicapped
- Count Me In On Soulful Branson . . . Nixa Too
- Some Make Themselves Heroes By Vilifying Parents
- How Much Are We To Forgive?
- Some Cool Stuff: First Wave of Gravity Measured After Big Bang
- What Is More Important? My Spiritual Experiences, Or My Rational Mind?
- Three Serious, Personal Illnesses: One Is A Monster That Could Visit Me Again
- I’m Like The Crazy Uncle Who Is Rolled Out On Holidays And Hidden The Rest Of The Year
- Three Things I Use To Sort Out The Puzzle Of My Life
- She Asked, “Are You Playing Clint Eastwood?”
- No Matter How Much You Know, You Can Overlook The Obvious
- My Ten Rules On the Use Of Money
- Life As A Feedback Loop
- Five Cardinal Rules of Business
- Less Fear And More Creativity Makes For Joy This Holiday Season
- Facing Death And Some Random Thoughts
- Mixed Up
- Why Be Positive?
- Two Ways To Work With People
- Living In A Purely Digital World
- The Best Sixteen Strategies To Win In Business
- A Thousand, Thousand Pods
- Graffiti Is Decadent, But Alluring
- Life with a Bunch of Grandchildren
- The Beheading of My Wife’s Relative
- Flexibility Is Built Into The Universe
- Practice, Visualize, Play
- Millennials Are Cultural Narcissists – It’s Not All Bad
- Millennials Are Different, Very Different
- Bleeding
- Different Ways To Experience Truth
- I Love That Dog
- He Grew Old And Saw The Irish
- Why Men Go Mad
- The Magic Has Been Released
- Three Myths
- I Can See Firsthand 200 Years
- Susceptible To Spiritual Experience
- Poem
- From Evolution To Self Improvement
- We Play The Hand We Are Dealt
- Take A Position, Make A Decision, Move Forward
- Electron
- Irony: Moonscape or Landscape, Part 3
- Value Add Strategy
- Boot On The Neck And Push
- New Ideas Equal New Wealth
- The Beautiful Product Strategy
- Change For The Sake Of Change
- Sixteen Strategies
- I Want To Be like Bill Simmons
- Hitting Your Head On The Lintel Overhead
- I Don’t Like Those Peeking Eyes
- Touching Edmund Fanning’s Stone Wall
- Gaming The System
- Every Possibility Plays Itself Out
- Three Common Problems In Troubled Companies
- Lip Gets Clocked
- A Missed Opportunity
- Three Things I Like To Do
- My Obsession
- Building Homes: Life In The Real World
- Proud To Be From The Middle Class
- Spanking
- The Heart And Soul Of Real Business
- Refusing To Be Harassed
- Shadows On The Sand
- Istanbul, Turkey: One Fascinating Place
- Why Do I Travel So Much?
- Random May Not Be So Random
- Rationalization: Dangerous Thinking
- Six Degrees of Separation
- Tension Between Two Executives
- Roger, Roger and Roger
- Who is Mohammad Al Shamisi?
- The Bold Adventures of Hazel Lynn
- Walking the Cities of the World
- Visualizing Your Future Doth Cause It to Happen
- And she said, “Quit Feeling Sorry for Yourself”
- If Things Aren’t Working Out For You, Change The Rules
- The Future of American Business in a Postmodern World
- The Future of Business in America
- The Biology Economy
- Happiness
- If I Had My Wish, I’d Wish Fear Away
- I Am Jake But I Suffer From Repression
- My Family in Danger
- Riches in Looking Sideways
- Positioning Yourself for Future Success Pt. 2
- Positioning Yourself for Future Success
- In Starting a Business: Part 3 Conclusion: “Lessons Learned” From Creating My Own Businesses, Lesson 3
- In Starting a Business: Part 3 “Lessons Learned” From Creating My Own Businesses, Lesson 2
- In Starting a Business: Part 3 – Lessons Learned From Creating My Own Businesses, Lesson 1
- In Starting a Business: Part 2 – The Darker Side of Creating My Own Businesses.
- In Starting A Business: Part 1 – You Love What You Create
- Category: Archive
- Two Things I Believe About The Future Of America
- The Universe Bends In The Direction Of Your Vision
- Ode To Bobo
- A Cup of Christmas Tea
- What’s Important To Me
- My Four Rules Of Behavior
- Does More Information Used By More Individuals Lead To The Need For Autocracy?
- What’s Remembered, Lives
- Grinding – Then Comes Sweet Victory
- In Life, You Must Ask For The Order
- My Ever Evolving Philosophy
- Ode To Wendy
- I Have A Nice Surprise For You
- Life: Is It Worth It?
- Since Our Marriage . . .
- Go With The Road You Take
- Life Is Hard, Be Hard
- Why We Don’t Agree On Anything?
- Don’t Mess With My Grandchildren’s Minds
- The Cause Behind The Cause
- Self Reflection Number 100 Re: PL
- A Harder Reality, But A Brighter Hope
- Do We All Have An Inner Voice?
- Which Of My Four Personal Disasters Scared Me The Most?
- The Emotion That Staggers Me
- Probably A Bad Idea To Criticize President Trump – Plenty Of Time To Do That Afterwards
- To All Citizens of the World!
- The Greatest Trend of The 21st Century Will Be The Fear Of Losing Our Beautiful Earth
- There Are Always Conflicting Wars Of Ideas Going On Inside Of Us, At Least Inside Of Me
- Domestic Chores
- Bad Habits We Must All Try To Overcome
- If I Had Just One Wish – pt. 1
- Would I Fight To The Death To Keep The Property My Wife And I Have Developed?
- My Granddaughter Ruby, The Button Pusher.
- Yes, I Plead Guilty To Hypocrisy On That Count
- I Had Three Lives pt. 2
- Organized Religion, Yes or No?
- “Man’s Search For Happiness”
- Why I Believe It Just Doesn’t Really Matter
- My List of the Ten Greatest Discoveries
- Half A Millennium Between Ruby And Her Granddad
- A New Age Is Born, Which Was The Old Age With Much More Technology
- Is Your City A Global City State?
- Spirits Flying Through The Trees
- The Great Basin Kingdom
- Art Lets Us See What We Ordinarily Can’t See
- Everything Alive Dies, But Cycles Back
- Last Words
- From Homo Sapiens To Homo Genius
- Lose Yourself To Find Yourself; Or, Understand Yourself To Find Yourself?
- As The Great One Says, Envy Is Good
- There Is No Perfect Truth
- I Have Two Voices In My Head – And So Do You
- Six Principles Of Capitalism
- Do You Know What An Indivisible Truth Is?
- Secular Speak
- Travel
- What Is Happiness?
- Now For Philosophy
- Do Unto Others . . .
- Pronoia
- Religion Has Given Us A Great Idea
- What’s Going To Happen To Us?
- Back To Anger Again
- Mama Dragons, Ain’t Scared No More
- Being Born With a Resilient Personality
- Confessions/This Is Where Another Story Begins
- Coming To Grips With Contadiction
- You’re Welcome At My Table
- Isn’t It? Or, Is It?
- Good Idea vs. Bad Idea
- Introvert And Extrovert
- Lucky Little “P_ _ _ k”
- Gun Fights
- Religion’s Promise Of Eternal Life
- Understanding Joseph Smith
- Implications of a Quantum World Put To Poetry
- She Came to the Breakfast Table Wearing Sunglasses
- If You’re Lucky, You Root Out Your Repressions But Stick With Your Daydreams
- My Religion Has Defined Me
- My Ten Beliefs This Quarter
- Coming To Grips With Contradiction
- The Internet Has Changed Christianity
- Some Honest Thoughts
- My Love for A Dog, And . . .
- Wait A Minute: America Is Not A Christian Nation, Or Is It?
- Ten Things To know About The Middle East
- The Teacher As The Best Product
- Things I’m Thankful For This Thanksgiving
- Private/Public Competition: A cause of American Greatness
- Throwing Myself Into The Riots Taught Me A Thing Or Two About Incivility
- 48, 58, 68
- The Trances We’re In
- Thinking Honestly About Yourself
- Five of the Most Interesting Cities I’ve Visited
- Towels Pressing Down On My Face
- Category: Lessons