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Don’t waste time or energy by getting upset over dumb stuff.

For some odd reason, every time I cook food on the grill, I get upset over something dumb. For example:  The hamburgers cook faster than the pork, the hot dogs on one side of the grill are burning while on the other side they are not cooking fast enough, I dropped the hamburger flipper on… Continue Reading

Today is a gift!

Today is a gift!  How could someone explain this any better about living in the present moment than the quote below? “Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why we call it ‘The Present’.” attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt When I heard someone very close to me to mention this one… Continue Reading

Surround yourself with people that you want to be like.

I often apply things that I learn in Karate to my life outside Karate. One thing in particular has helped me a great deal and is surrounding myself with people that I want to be like. Near seven years ago, not too long after I started learning Shotokan Karate, one of my Sensei’s (which, in… Continue Reading

The common trait of the most successful bloggers.

I started blogging some time back in 2004 and since then, I have been searching for the key to becoming a successful blogger. I am not sure how many online blogging courses that I bought and how many thousands of articles and blogs I have read but after all this time, I might have finally… Continue Reading

Do not wait for perfect, stop waiting and publish something now.

I keep telling myself that I want to change the design here, add my email subscription box and about 20 other things before I start posting here again but I found that if I keep waiting for everything else, I will never start posting. Do any of you reading this feel the same way? That… Continue Reading