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Edit Your Life

by Stephen Mills July 17, 2009

One of the problems with editing your life and cutting things out, is that it is so easy to rationalize and justify all your current actions. They must be necessary right? We couldn’t possibly stop doing something because the world would then come to an end. Somebody is going to shriek in fear at your selfishness; the selfishness you show by refusing to cater to their selfishness any longer.

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The Lesson of Apollo 13

by Stephen Mills April 30, 2009

Biologists don’t go to college one day and then understand human biology. They can begin to understand what is happening only by starting with the most basic and tiny concepts. Then they string them together and build them up into something bigger. They might go the other direction by starting with the whole and breaking it into smaller and smaller pieces, but for our purposes that really doesn’t matter. In either case, they go step by step. You must do the same.

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To Think or Not to Think – Your Fundamental Life Decision

by Stephen Mills April 8, 2009

What is the key to a successful life? Is there a single key? Probably not, but I believe there is a primary decision you can make from which everything else flows. In that sense this decision is the primary key to a successful life. Without this key you will not succeed in creating the life you want for yourself. This decision is the decision think or to avoid thinking. You can choose to focus or to avoid focusing. You can choose to be aware or to avoid awareness. You can choose to understand or to avoid understanding. All of these are just variations of the fundament choice to think or not to think.

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Yes You Can!

by Stephen Mills April 5, 2009

Last year I made a simple decision. I decided to take my life back. This simple decision led to a few other simple decisions which I will describe below. This was not a blinding light of inspiration from above. It was nothing more than a result of simple reflection. I could either do something or continue to complain and swallow drugs. I could either do something or continue in a downward spiral of physical and mental destruction.

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How to be Successful by Taking Responsibility

by Stephen Mills March 22, 2009

If you don’t accept that you are responsible for your current (and future) life situation, then you will not accept that you are powerful enough to change your current (and future) life situation.

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Do You Feel Life is Giving You the Finger?

by Stephen Mills March 18, 2009

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.” — George Bernard Shaw

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