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October 3, 2024October 11, 2024

A socially broken generation– My Two Cents

I saw it said online that “the younger generation doesn’t believe that they owe anyone anything, but that’s not true. You owe respect to others, you owe it to others to tell the truth. You owe it to others basically, to be an upright person.”

How I see it is nobody owes each other anything. But there are prerequisites to building something, including even a simple friendship. Heck, you don’t “owe” it to anyone to be a decent person, but there will be consequences if you’re not. You won’t have people supporting you after a while, because that’s simple risk assessment. If you’re a liar, eventually people will stop believing you.

April 5, 2023February 19, 2023

Is potential really that important?

Hello and welcome back to the Thoughts that Bind. Today, I really wanted to talk about potential. We’re all seemingly obsessed with it, and I’m not convinced it’s for our good.

January 11, 2023September 29, 2022

You’re gonna like who you become

Hello and welcome to the Thoughts that Bind! And if you’re returning, welcome back! Thanks for checking back in with me. Today’s post is going to be short and sweet. I just wanted to affirm for you how awesome you are. And yes, this is an urgent matter. Perhaps the most urgent thing you could possibly give your attention to right now. Because sometimes, we forget.

February 23, 2022December 30, 2021

You already know exactly how to live your life

I love self-improvement, reflection and personal development. I read books, write in journals, talk to others and even meditate for guidance. And all these things are great. Really. It’s good to be looking for perspective in life and to value that perspective coming from all different sorts of places. But I bet you don’t need it as much as you think you do.

November 17, 2021November 14, 2021

Learning to respect silence

In life, we have all sorts of things that we’re pursuing at any given time, and they all fight for our attention in our heads. We think we have to keep up, and so we try to keep track of our opinions, thoughts and ideas. We think this brings us great productivity, and you know what? Maybe we’re right. But it doesn’t bring us everything in life.

June 16, 2021June 1, 2021

Do the work: my two cents

Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Thoughts that Bind. Today, I want to talk about a concept that’s really simple in theory, but trips a lot of us up from time to time. Or, well, to take ownership, trips me up often. And so, without further ado, let’s get to chatting.

May 5, 2021April 15, 2021

How to build self-confidence (write a letter about yourself)

Hello, and welcome back to the Thoughts that Bind! Today, we’re revisiting a series that everyone loved, letter-writing! If you’re interested in reading the introduction to the concept of letter writing, you can find it here. But for now, we’re going to dive right into the matter at hand.

April 21, 2021April 15, 2021

What a little cozy can do: my two cents

Today I want to write a little different kind of post. I’m going to tell you a little story, about myself. Because I’ve thought this over, and I think the best way to make my point is to tell you where it comes from. So that you can relate to it. And so, here it goes.

December 23, 2020November 29, 2020

Make your life harder (in order to make it easier)

I thought I’d give credence to a funny little idea today. Not for any particular reason, but I like what it says, about habits, about life, and about our personal power to control our own destiny.

December 9, 2020November 29, 2020

What is intuition, and how useful is it?

So many people talk about intuition. You ask how to know something that would be a very important piece of information, and they answer, “You just know.” That’s an unhelpful answer. And it begs the question, “What is intuition, really?”