Author: Eric
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Looking to the future
So what does my future look like? Most of the time I try to focus on being in the present. Now I want to think about my future. This is a difficult task. I think about the future in big grand terms or general terms. The focus on details is crucial and important. Just like…
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Taking in the positive
So I’m still reading ‘Just one thing’ by Rick Hanson and I’m working on integrating his practices into daily life. You know I just read the second practice and there were some extremely important take aways. For example if you’re going to try to do any personal development you need to fully invest yourself. It’s funny how…
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How can I keep focus?
So in life we have so many distractions every day it seems. If you’re someone like me I sometimes go find distractions to keep myself busy. I find that I’m sometimes my own worst enemy when it comes to this lack of focus. So now I’m asking myself more and more about why I’m doing this…
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How do you treat your friends?
It was suggested that I read the book Just One Thing, developing a Buddha brain one simple practice at a time by Rick Hanson, PHD. I read the first chapter today and wow does it hits home. The main question out of the first chapter is “Do you treat yourself like you would treat a friend?” Many of…
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Unexpected surprises and delights
Today I attended a meeting at there was a guest speaker talking about changing peoples behaviors. There was a lot of things that I saw in the presentation that I thought really applied to my daily life. It’s funny how you can start to pick up things like this when you pay attention or are…