Archive for August, 2009

Your Impatience Could Kill You

Remember how I can’t stand big box stores because I allow them to make me sleepy? Well, yesterday I went to one, but this post isn’t about that. Its about what happened on my way over to the store.
See, I parked my car and as I crossed the lanes in the parking lot to get [...]

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Love Has Nothing To Do With Feelings

One of the more common themes I’ve been dealing with in session with my couples is the concept of love, and how some people are “losing the loving feeling.” And I’ve come here to say one thing:
Love has nothing to do with feelings.
Yeah, I know, I know. This flies right in the face of all [...]

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Internet Addiction: The New Carnival

The preacher looking dude above is Howard Beale from the movie “Network,” which I actually have never seen all the way through, but its in my Blockbuster cue. Throughout the film though, he makes a lot of powerful statements about how we percieve our world and how we allow ourselves to be influenced by it.
If you click [...]

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Am I Crazy? That Depends On Your Definition!

Today’s topic is Mental Illness! And what do we think of when we hear the words Mental Illness?
Usually something like our buddy Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter from the forthcoming Disney remake of Alice In Wonderland. We think of mental illness as something scary, creepy and bad.
 So what do we always do when it [...]

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Cheating and Marriage Counseling: Explaining vs. Excusing

If you can’t control your crap, then you shouldn’t be in a relationship. In my opinion, there’s no excuse for cheating.  Plain and simple.  This isn’t the first time I’ve said this. My previous post: Life is Short, Have an Affair?, I go off on a tangent about a site that allows you to do this [...]

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If Knowing Is Half The Battle…What's the Other Half?

This past weekend I went to see G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra with my brother. We grew up playing with G.I. Joe figures, and watched the TV show religiously. If you watched the show, you would know that they did  little public service announcements at the end of the show, giving you safety tips and other [...]

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Law of Attraction and Santa Claus: How They're The Same.

 
You know, I like to Twitter. Really, I do. But one thing is getting in my craw and I’m dying to get it off my chest. So without further ado:
Jim Valeri’s Official Rant on The Law of Attraction!
OK, for those of you who don’t know, the Law of Attraction was popularized by the book, “The [...]

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Life Going By Too Fast? Take Time To Slow Down!

I recently had a surprise birthday party for my sister where I invited all her nearest and dearest friends. We were super stealthy about it, and kept it top secret! We even had a friend of hers kidnap her for the day and bring her to our home! Sure enough, we pulled off the surprise [...]

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The HR3200B and You: Is This Kind of Thing My Bag Baby?

So I’m a bit late with my posting. I usually post at around Midnight the night before, just so you can read this while you’re drinking your coffee at work or whatever it is you do in the mornings. However, I didn’t have all my information right, and I wanted to make sure that I [...]

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