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Archive for Personal Growth

Cogito Ergo Sum

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Wednesday, May 5th, 2021

Rene Descartes walks into a bar. The bartender says “Hey Rene, I haven’t seen you for a while. Can I draw you a beer?” Descartes pauses a moment and says, “I think not.” Then he disappears.                                       

                                                                                                                              Anonymous … Read More

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Categories : Personal Growth, Spiritual Growth
Tags : obsessive thinking, quiet my thoughts, stop thinking so much, thinking, too much thinking

Nagging

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Thursday, April 15th, 2021

Nagging. This phenomenon is an all too real aspect of almost any relationship of long standing. How does it start? When does it come about? Most of us who are married recall the early innings of our marriage as typically devoid of nagging. Is it something, like an infection, that develops over time?… Read More

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Categories : Personal Growth, Relationship, Spiritual Growth
Tags : dealing with nagging, defeat nagging., end nagging, nagging, nagging spouse, nagging wife, stop negging

Heaven Scent

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Wednesday, March 24th, 2021

The Bible actually provides very little concrete idea of what heaven is like. We know there are many mansions and that once you drink the water you will not ever be thirsty again, but painfully little more than that. The biggest selling point we have is that if you get to go there, at least you are not forever roasting … Read More

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Categories : Personal Growth, Spiritual Growth
Tags : heaven, is there a heaven, what is heaven like

Dealing with Difficult People

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Friday, March 12th, 2021

 

There are always some people in our lives that we find difficult to get along with, whether we encounter them at work, in outside groups or in our community. Despite our best efforts to the contrary, they just seem to get our goat and unpleasantly distract us from focusing on the task at hand.… Read More

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Categories : Career Advancement, Community Building, Personal Growth, Relationship
Tags : difficult people, jerks, problematic people, troublesome people, unpleasant people

Here Come the Sun

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Friday, February 12th, 2021

 

We are living in a time of great social, political, and economic upheaval. A deadly pandemic, the likes of which we have not seen in 100 years, is sweeping the world. Political strife, the likes of which we have not seen since the Civil War, threatens our very form of government. These events seem to operate beyond our control. … Read More

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Categories : Community Building, Personal Growth
Tags : change things, do something positive, have an impact, individual action, make a difference

So I Married Someone Uncooperative

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Monday, February 1st, 2021

How and when did your spouse become uncooperative? They certainly were not this uncooperative when you first married them, or you would have never agreed to tie the knot. What happened, and what can be done about it?… Read More

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Categories : Personal Growth, Relationship
Tags : conflict resolution, forgiveness, grudge, uncooperative husband, uncooperative spouse, uncooperative wife

Waiting

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Monday, January 11th, 2021

Waiting. Most of us can’t stand waiting. Waiting in the check-out line, waiting in traffic, waiting on-hold when trying to connect to a customer service rep, the list is endless. In what has to be one of it’s most ironic aspects, the very technical revolution that speeds our lives along has served to make us less tolerant of waiting than … Read More

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Categories : Personal Growth, Spiritual Growth

Creation, Revisited

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Monday, January 4th, 2021

Most religious and spiritual doctrines teach that God created the universe. Have you ever stopped to consider what impact this has upon you as an individual, to your relationships and the quality of your life? If you grew up as I did, you probably never really gave the concept a second thought; it doesn’t seem to come up too frequently … Read More

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The Do A Good Deed A Day Program: An experiment in Stealth Philanthropy

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Wednesday, August 26th, 2020

Most people are interested in leading happy, peaceful and productive lives. To this end, I want to suggest an idea that will not cost you anything, does not involve much in the way of personal sacrifice and is practically guaranteed to make you a better person and help you to feel good about yourself. The basic concept is thousands of … Read More

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Categories : Personal Growth
Tags : happiness, improving self-esteem, improving self-worth

Pessimism and the Glad Game

By William R Colagrande MS · Comments (0) · Wednesday, September 21st, 2016

Why is it that we choose, out of a wide range of available options, explanations for occurrences in our lives that lean toward the pessimistic? I am sure you have noticed this tendency in yourself or others from time to time. Some project you are working on goes bad and your first reaction may be What I loser I am… Read More

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