There are many ways to deal with the passing of a loved one and there are also many ways to deal with each of the “firsts” that occur after that, as well as the anniversary of their death. Last week was the one year mark since my mother passed away from pancreatic cancer. She was my best friend, a great
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Attitudes, Family, General Life, Inspiration, Love, People • Tags: coping with death, death, enjoying life, laughing at yourself, lessons, life, life lessons - Read this post
When is the last time you thought about your passions…the things that really drive you? You know, those things that make you smile no matter how much effort you have to put into it? If it’s been a while, take a quick break and think about it. After you’re done thinking about it, DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! We all get
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Careers, General Life, Inspiration, Passions • Tags: 4-Hour Work Week, community, create something, enjoying life, following your passion, life, Passions, sense of community, slowing down, smell the roses, Tim Ferriss - Read this post
Hello fellow Wax Porhetoric peeps (I really need to find a name for us, don’t I? “Wax Porhetoricers” just doesn’t cut it. Suggestions anyone?), I am now back in town and ready to reflect on life. And oh is there life to reflect on…yes yes there is. You can read about some of my trip back to Carnegie Mellon for
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Family, Friends, General Life, Passions • Tags: Carnegie Mellon, Carnival, CMU, enjoying life, Friends, life, life passions, Mac, Passions, PC, Pittsburgh, sharing passions - Read this post
Hello to all the loyal readers and newcomers to Wax Porhetoric. Today we shall wax poetically (and you will enjoy my rhetoric…oh yes you shall!) about finding what it is that makes you happy in life and how you should just do it. Many people in this world will say that is a childish view of things. Is it really
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Careers, Family, General Life, Motivation, Passions • Tags: body, enjoying life, finding happiness, improving life, life, mind, new talents, Passion, Passions, soul - Read this post
Hello to all my readers. It’s Thanksgiving Day here in the U.S. and many of us have the day off. This message goes out to all of my readers worldwide however. Let us all take a moment to give thanks to the good things we have in life. It’s easy to dwell on the not-so-swell things in life but let
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dating/relationships, Family, Friends, General Life • Tags: being grateful, Being thankful, enjoying life, Family, Friends, giving thanks, ignoring the negative, staying positive - Read this post
Whether we know it or not, we all impact the lives of those around us. Obviously we have an impact on those that are close to us but in many cases we also impact the lives of those that we simply come in contact with. I was reminded of this in two different occasions within the past week or so.
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Attitudes, Family, Friends, General Life, Inspiration, People • Tags: enjoying life, good attitude, impact on life, positive attitude, positive influence - Read this post
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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Attitudes, General Life • Tags: enjoying life, evaluating life, Positive attitudes - Read this post
