... Most of them have been small things that alone are trivial, but the combination of many led me to powerful awakening. Only this year can I truly say all the pieces seemed to fit, but about a year ago I came to find that all the things I thought were pertinent to a happy life, were superficial and ... a person. Today I appreciate the little things in daily life and am blessed to have many friends I never would have talked to years ago. I was born in Beverly Hills California and raised mostly in an affluent area of Dallas called Highland Park. This was a setting that gave me almost no cha...

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... to point out that thinking is "an activity that is crucial to living a meaningful life. Understanding this fact will have a great impact on my career. One of the main concepts of thinking is setting goals and working towards those goals. Goals play an important role in your life; as they can serve as motivational tools, giving your life some form of direction ... be a critical thinker, I realized I was indeed lucky. Not in the sense of having the job; but keeping it. I saw that I had the skills to do the job; however if the time came where I was ever laid off or fired the probability of...

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