Archive for the 'General Life' Category

Wax Porhetoric Added to Technorati

Yes, it’s true. Wax Porhetoric is being added to Technorati. Here’s a link to my Technorati Profile there. Enjoy!

The Contrast of Real Life and How it Appears on Paper

Often times people compare their life to those of others and go “oh he’s so lucky, he has this car, that house, this job, this going for him…” and so forth. Or perhaps they say “wow, he’s got it rough”. We do that with the general conditions of the economy (you know, the one that totally blows right now) and
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Six Unspectacular Things About Me

My cousin Ryan tagged me to continue on with his funky meme of “6 Unspectacular Things About Me”. So, in my never ending quest to entertain the readers while also giving the author (me!) of Wax Porhetoric a more human voice, I figured “what the hell”. Enjoy. 1) I must have music around me. Always. When I’m in the car,
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Set Goals To Make Today’s Craziness Bearable

I know…I know…it’s been far too long since I last wrote something deep and inspirational. Do I have a good reason? I of course like to think I do…but don’t we all think we have good reasons for doing things? The truth of it all is I’ve simply been worn out with the new gig I’m doing and it leaves
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Having High Expectations

I was talking to a friend last night and she asked “Do you think I have high expectations?” It wasn’t a tough question…I replied “yes”. However, I noticed the tone in which she asked me this. She asked as if it was a bad thing to have high expectations and almost sounded a bit disappointed when I said she did.
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More on Being Grateful for What You Have

Ya know…we can all sit here and complain about troubles at work, cranky roommates, bad traffic…whatever it may be. But again, sometimes it’s the little things that can put the biggest smile on your face if you just take a break for a minute and think “oh yeah…I DO have a lot going for me”. My mother recently asked me
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Counting Your Blessings

One must never forget to count your blessings. I was reminded of this late last week as I was talking to my mother. There have been some, oh how shall we say it…trying times with my current roommate. Trying times may be a bit of an understatement. On the bright side, I came up with a pretty cool business idea
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Self Manifestation, Negativity, and the Power Drain That Ensues

A couple weeks ago I got into a discussion with someone about self-fulfilling prophesies and the manifestation of our thoughts. We both agreed that we generally manifest what we want and believe. We did go back and forth a bit about manifesting what we truly want in life however. I argued the point that miserable people don’t want to be
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R.I.P. Randy Pausch

Randy Pausch passed away today after a bout with pancreatic cancer. Randy earned his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon (my alma mater) and later returned to become a professor at CMU. I never had the opportunity to meet this man but I wish I would have. Not only was he brilliant in the ways of computer science, it was his way
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Where is Positive Affirmation?

Is it me or is the act of positive affirmation a lost item? It seems when I look around all I hear and see is “no no no” and “you did this wrong” and “you suck at that”. At work, in relationships, all around I see a lot of that and not too much of “you’ve done well, good job”.
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