Doc Ott’s Apologia Blog

How many different ways can you explain the same concepts to happiness? Maybe if you give them the gist of it in a different format, people can better use it. Translation: Here is another site that has great ideas to help you enjoy life more.
Life Tools - Personal Development Toolit

“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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To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch […]

I think I found my new favorite blog, Steve Pavlina’s. This is just one example of good ways to be alive that he desribes: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/11/show-me-your-battle-scars/
A very motivational guy.

The past is only history, the future is only a prediction. Your opportunity is now.
Right now, at the same moment you are reading this, you can start doing things you never thought you had time to do before.
This phenomenon I call the Challenge of Nows. In the world of great expectations, time consists of infinite […]