self improvement

  • NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 30

    Part of my job is peer mentoring and a big part of that is helping to resolve interpersonal issues amongst my co-workers. I often use some of the principles of mindfulness to provide tools to aid this process. One of the main ones, is to not live in past issues or project future ones, but…

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  • NaPoWriMo 2022 Day 1

    It seems like it was only eleven short months ago that I wrapped up my last verse of the year. Now here we are again. Softly, gently, we find ourselves wrapped in the sweet warmth of the dream, knowing all the time… the nightmare of writer’s block lurks somewhere up ahead. But that is a…

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  • NaPoWriMo Day 25

    I’m posting this a little later in the day than usual. I spent my morning at the Heart Institute getting some tests done. Many of the other people there are in far worse shape than be so it served as a “Memento Mori”. It started me thinking about my eventual end, and this is what…

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  • NaPoWriMo Day 24

    In my experience, each of us carries things with us that we keep locked away from those around us. If we are truly blessed, we will find someone with whom we can share almost anything…. but there’s still that one secret corner that even we don’t want to look into. Today’s poem is about that…

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  • Still on the personal side.  I’ll change the tone soon.  Well as soon as the voices in my head move on. Learning To Be…. I tell a joke I get a laugh, I tell another joke. I tell a joke I get a punch, No more fun do I poke. I try to learn from…

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  • When I was younger, I used to think that anyone who disagreed with me was wrong. More to the point, I didn’t hesitate to tell them how wrong they were. Usually as hurtful as possible. Not a really pleasant trait. So I decided to change it. My day 20 NaPoWriMo offering is about that effort.…

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