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The Monkey Mind and You

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Let me paint a picture for you. It’s morning time and you have just woken up. You are poised to start the day brilliantly. You wake up and the first thing you do is grab your trusty phone. You begin to go through facebook, Instagram, snapchat and twitter. It’s now an hour later and you are still in bed, taking in all the social media and letting it rub off on you (whether or not you like to admit it, it happens all the time) You look at the clock and it is an hour later and you decide all this reading has made you tired, so you snooze again for another 30 minutes. You wake up thinking you are refreshed and grab your phone again to “see whats going on”. You get sucked in for another 30 minutes between the texts, emails and social media. You drag yourself out of bed. Maybe you grab some coffee or tea, jump in the shower, replaying an article in your head that you read that really has you “miffed”. You finish your shower, eat and start your day 2 hours later than you really w

A Letter From Hunter S. Thompson

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* For those of you that still read, please read this.  It is a fantastic letter on life purpose & goals.  It was written by Hunter S. Thompson in 1958 and I will be damned if it doesn't hold true today.  I found this on facebook and am sharing it on my blog. I am not the author and do not claim to be, I share it on my blog as an informative. Your goal, your reason, your purpose, is unique and may be similar to others but not the same.  Economies have changed, and the world we view and work in is entirely different than in 1958, however this message is true for all seeking their place in the world.  Don't do something you don't want to, find what makes you centered and go from there. We have to stop being sheep Mr Gonzo aka Hunter S Thompson April 22, 1958 57 Perry Street New York City Dear Hume, You ask advice: ah, what a very human and very dangerous thing to do! For to give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close

Thoughts for the day

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In our time on earth, we all struggle with what we should be bringing with us and what we should be letting go of.  As many of you know, it is very hard to throw things away, however, if we don't, it becomes a heavy weight, weighing us down.  Eventually the items become so heavy, like an immovable stone that we can't lift and it keeps us from moving on. If you have ever noticed a river, you will notice how it flows and and doesn't hold anything.  The river flows through a river bed and shapes it. This is very true of life and love.  We shouldn't hold on to stuff that are deeply ingrained within us, because they have already shaped us. When we have deep feelings within us, it is good to be like the river and let them flow through us. Often times we hold things like the love from someone past, an old card from a close family member, or a picture from a specific moment in time in our life because of the memory it gives us, but in truth, we should realize these

Movie Review: Suicide Squad

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Synopsis:  A secret government agency is tasked with putting together really bad guys, with the intent of making them do good things.  In exchange for their service the government is willing to give some leniency on their sentencing. The subtitle is pretty "on point" : Worst Heroes Ever! Review: I have read 50 reviews of this movie and of the 50, 10% showed some love, the other 90% call this movie crap.  I disagree.  I think the director did a great job. David Ayer, director of Fury and End of Watch, to name a few, are both movies that I enjoyed. I appreciate character development and descriptions and I think this movie did a decent job of delving into the characters. Sure they could have spent more time on each, but it would have run over its 2 hour and 3 minute timeline.  I have not read a comic book in my life, so movies are not a way of comparing the comic books to the screen portrayal, rather I go to movies for entertainment value. The characters seemed t