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Why do we procrastinate? January 15, 2015. How Are You Listening? June 11, 2010. By Ana Lepri There is a humorous 1-1/2 minute video called Masi, Me Tiro which is winning awards around the world. It has inspired me to reflect on how we listen to others. The characters demonstrate that our listening is often filtered through our personal judgments and preconceptions of others. This filtering limits our ability to listen. We find ourselves reacting to. Collaboration: An Endangered Competence? May 11, 2010.
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choice Archives - Serene Ambition
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Why do we procrastinate? January 15, 2015. Do we have an economic or a spiritual problem? August 2, 2010. Do we have an economic problem or a spiritual problem? There is a maxim. July 2, 2010. Four horsemen of the apocalypse. Wisdom 101: A matter of time. April 20, 2010. All of these little ‘nuggets’ of wisdom we’ve accumulated over the years are generally, well, wise. It is befuddling why so few people take them to heart. Why do so many spend a lifetime learning these kinds of lessons. March 1, 2010.
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Send Us Your Stories. Inspirational stories can make a difference in someone’s life. That’s why we’d love to hear yours. If you have a story about growing older that you would like to share, just enter it in the POST A COMMENT. Space below and then click the Post button at the bottom of the page. We’ll post it in the “Inspiration” section of this site after we’ve reviewed it. If you’d like to submit your photo with your story, you may email. 72 dpi resolution (low resolution for the Web). A Little Red Hen.
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Where is offense? - Serene Ambition
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January 19, 2015. Like most of us I have been following the tempest succeeding the Charlie Hebdo killings in Paris, the wave of anti-terrorist rhetoric, the rendering of Mohammed as a kind of ‘we’ll-show-you’ counter-punch, the counter-counter punch of Muslims being offended by the rendering, and on it goes. Everyone seems offended by something. Radical: My Journey Out of Islamist Extremism. The question I use to test if something can be observed is, ‘where is it’? OFFENSE is always a function of the int...
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Rearview Mirrors « serene ambition™
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Transforming the culture of aging. Jimselman AT gmail DOT com. Essays By Laurence Platt. Laquo; Navigating Retirement. Posted by Jim Selman. We’ve all experienced the wisdom that comes with hindsight. It’s easy to have 20-20 vision after the fact, to achieve clarity and perspective on our lives and choices in retrospect. What is sometimes less obvious to us is how much of our day-to-day actions, behavior, moods and feelings are a function of the past. We need to distinguish between our commitments to cre...
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Generations « serene ambition™
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Transforming the culture of aging. Jimselman AT gmail DOT com. Essays By Laurence Platt. Laquo; Being a grandparent. Posted by Jim Selman. In Canada, only 64.9% voted in the 2006 federal election (a modest improvement over the 60.9% witnessed two years earlier) 2. Do we just not care? The Impact of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 on the Administration of Elections for Federal Office 2003-2004. June 30th 2005. Report to Congress from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. PDF, 1.4Mb) 2.
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Being a grandparent « serene ambition™
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Transforming the culture of aging. Jimselman AT gmail DOT com. Essays By Laurence Platt. Laquo; Age Management? Too proud to be vulnerable, he wasn’t really “accessible”. He never really knew me or dialogued with me to any extent. He didn’t serve as a confidant, guide or mentor. We never had a heart-to-heart conversation, and I never felt particularly safe or connected with him. Maybe this was just our family. Maybe it was the times. Or perhaps it was both. We are deeply connected. What do you think?
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2006 November « serene ambition™
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Transforming the culture of aging. Jimselman AT gmail DOT com. Essays By Laurence Platt. Archive for November, 2006. Laquo; Previous Entries. Posted by Jim Selman. Cultures are just people living and working inside a story about ‘the way it is’. The culture is always whatever is considered ‘reasonable’ at a certain point in time. It, in turn, affects what people can see as possible and what actions they can take. We need to create the culture we want. Resignation is not acceptance acceptance is a choice.
