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Arguing About Salad (I Am Never Upset for the Reason I Think

On a Saturday afternoon, Tim and I stood in front of the produce stand in the central square of the village in Sicily that is home to us this month and argued over salad.

We were finishing up a...

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The Most Satisfying Goals

Set a goal to feel good – but first know what that feels like.

Every good marketer knows that people don’t buy the products they sell. They buy how the product they sell makes them...

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Making Meaning

Our minds are meaning-making machines.

All day long, our bodies’ senses (sight, sound, smell, etc.) take in the events around us, and our brains attempt to assimilate our perceptions and make...

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When Nothing is Wrong...and Nothing is All Right

What do you do when nothing is wrong and also nothing is all right?

If you don’t know what I’m talking about, bully for you; you can skip this read.

But if you’re where I was a...

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Want Financial Security? Stop Planning for Retirement

I had heard from people older and (presumably) wiser than me that life is short. For several years after college, as I worked a variety of jobs trying to find one I liked, I often wondered,

If life...

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