Doc Ott’s Apologia Blog

Because of my personality, I have always been a ‘leader’. In small groups I tend to take a leadership role, and that is usually OK with people. When people want something done, they tend to come to me. Some people are just natural leaders. I was cool with that, and enjoyed the attention it garnered.
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“Money can help you to get medicines, but not health.
Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep.
Money can help you to get material comforts, but not eternal bliss.
Money can help you to get ornaments, but not beauty.
Money will help you to get an electric earphone, but not natural hearing.
Attain the supreme […]

I like the smell of fresh flowers, most people do. If I take a big sniff of one, I instantly relax a bit. It is no surprise that research confirms this. So I thought, why not have a fresh flower always handy from with which to smell, and not just in my office?
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Around us each day in every venue, there are problems. Problems at work, at home, in our government, etc. If you think to hard about them all, you will gets seriously stressed out. Effectively managing those problems must first come by deciding which problems you are going to expend life energy to help solve. I […]

Here is another great artcile from Steve Pavlina. It is a similar (but much better worded) discusssion I gave about sheep in my Awakening. A good read for those of us who are allready Eagles…
Are You a Bear or an Eagle?

On Dec 20, 2005 I went sailing. Now granted, it was 80 degrees and sunny in Jamaica, where I was, but it was still pretty neat.
If you believe in my ‘Today is Your Last” mentality, you will not be surprised if I told you that yesterday (Jan 8,2006) I went kayaking. This time, […]

So if you read my ideas about convincing someone of something, how every argument has two sides, or if you have ever been on the business end of me bashing your ideas, you can see that why I think I would have made a good student of Socrates. I found the below excerpt from this
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This is just a taste of a much longer article that I want to write, but I want to get it down roughly here…
For thousands of years (think Socrates, Plato) ‘higher education’ was a place were the wisest of people came and literally sat at the feet of the wise men who contemplated […]

It makes a lot of sense if you think about it, really.
The recipe for success: get happy and you will get ahead in life
Anyone who has ever met me knows that I am very happy person most of the time. I try very hard to not hang around people who are always depressed […]