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Photo by: Judith P. Abrahamsen
Although I was a literature major in college, lately I find the only thing my mind is interested in consuming for my daily reading is non-fiction, and particularly books that will provide insight and tools for me to live a better life.
Using the genre of “Personal Development” as a springboard for [...]

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Image by: Kriss Szkurlatowski
Like many others with an eye on the “internet Personal Development scene” I was taken aback at the beginning of 2009 when the popular blogger Steve Pavlina announced to the world that he was ditching a traditional marriage with his partner of 15 years for the practice of Polyamory (“many loves”), meaning [...]

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Photo by: Aaron Gardner
This week I was traveling in Rhode Island on business and spent two nights in a Residence Inn in Coventry, Rhode Island, not too far south of Providence (I guess everyplace in that state isn’t too far south of Providence).
Anyway, when I awoke Thursday morning and checked out of my room, I [...]

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Kar-ma
(kär’ma)
n.
1. The total effect of a person’s actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person’s existence, regarded as determining the person’s destiny.
2. Fate; destiny.
As you may or may not have noticed, for the most part, the NFL articles on Monkeyinmymind are not about X’s and O’s.  Our observations here are only tangentally concerned about gameplans, playcalling, [...]

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Photo by: Nevit Dilmen
For the past several years I have been following Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development blog, www.stevepavlina.com. I first stumbled across his blog about three years ago after typing in the words, “what is my life’s purpose,” into Google, whereupon I landed at this blog post. I was amazed at the virtual poetry [...]

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The Green Bay Packers: Living Up to a Monkey’s Expectations
While it seemed many sports pundits and fans alike had high hopes for the 2008 Green Bay Packers and fully expected them to continue their winning ways with first-time starting QB Aaron Rodgers at the helm, the Monkey and I were among the few voices out [...]

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