April 2007 - Posts
Professional psychics are often stereotyped as something
more than we are. There are those who believe that a genuine psychic has access
to unlimited universal knowledge, past, present and future.As I've explained in other blogs, the future hasn't
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It was one of the most awesome scenes in movie history. In Lawrence
of Arabia, Lawrence is headed
toward Aqaba, and notices that his assistant Gasmin's camel is without a rider.
He turns around to go back to look for him, in the deadly Sun's Anvil,
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I'm not going to come in and slam The Secret as it's helping
hundreds of thousands of people realize their ambitions. But I am going to help
clarify some misconceptions regarding the current spiritual soup du jour.We've seen it in many incarnations:
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A Surefire Way to Lose Almost Any GuyA friend was giving someone some real estate advice. He was
in his mid-40s, held a law degree and a teaching credential, and the advice was
sound. A receptionist, all of 22, started chiming into the conversation
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Logic is a No-NoThere has been a largely untrue stereotype in our society
for the past several hundred years: that of women being illogical. If anything,
women are more logical than men in that women have a requirement absent in most
men: things
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What Baffles Men the Most
Ladies, how many of you have been in this situation? You meet
a great new guy, and you open up about your jerk ex-boyfriend expecting him to
be sympathetic. After all, it's a comparison this great new guy can't hope
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The Big Troublemaker: The Corpus Collusum
Since most of the blogs are written by women, I have been
intrigued, amused and sometimes offended by some of the things written here about men.
Some of it is intelligent observation, some of it seems
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As an exercise in a creative writing class, two partners were chosen at random. Each partner was to write one paragraph, e-mail it to the other, and the other would write the next paragraph and e-mail it back. This was to be a spontaneous, stream-of-consciousness
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Since Keen instituted blogging about a week and a half ago, advisors and clients have had a wonderful opportunity to get to interact. However, all of a sudden I'm getting e-mails to the effect of, "What's the big deal about feedback?" There has been some
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"Okay, let's see, I see two men talking, one is about 42, with brown hair, the other is about 50 with receding hair and a beard. Which one is Jim?" "What? You have to ask! I thought you were psychic!" CLICK! Okay, now let me see if I understand. You just
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