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The Perfect Place

Perfect can be defined as being entirely without fault or defect. It is human nature to desire perfection. In a perfect world, no one would suffer or struggle. But that is precisely the opposite of what we need or even want. In the words of Viktor Frankl, “Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.” Frankl, a neurologist and psychiatrist, was incarcerated in Auschwitz, the most famous of the Nazi’s concentration camps during World War II. It was in this hell-on-earth that Frankl validated his theory of Logotherapy which he chronicled in his book, Man’s Search for Meaning. “It is one of the basic tenets of Logotherapy that man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life,” wrote Frankl. “That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has meaning.”

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A lesson in race relations

In the days of segregation, my mother, my father, and a young baseball player named Billy provided me with a lesson in race relations that I’ll never forget. Race relations is about doing the right thing. Regardless of the color of our skin.

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A Memorial Day Tribute

By Jim Whitt As this was our first trip to France we suffered from a perpetual state of directional disability. And that is how we

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The power of six magic words

It’s easy to criticize, condemn and complain. That leads to finger pointing and often escalates into a volatile situation where everyone loses. We can deescalate a volatile situation by learning the power of six magic words. People complain that things need to change. Yet, they could be the change they’d like to see. It’s amazing how many problems can be resolved when we decide to be part of the solution instead of part of the problem.

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If your life was a movie

If your life was a movie how would you write the script? This is one of the methods that Dr. Henry Cloud, author of 9 Things You Simply MUST DO to Succeed in Love and Life, has found that successful people use. They “play the movie.” They imagine the possible outcomes — both negative and positive — based on the possible actions they could take. And they use this method whether making a big decision or a small one. “Successful people evaluate almost everything they do in this way,” says Cloud. “They see every behavior as a link in a larger chain, a step in a direction that has a destination.” They never “see any individual action as a singular thing in and of itself.”

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