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Am I Having a Mid-life Crisis?

September 20th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor I’ve been pretty darned restless for about six months now and I just haven’t been able to shake the feeling. I wasn’t sure what to make of this unsettled feeling because I’ve got a really good life. Then, I received an email from one of my best friends who now lives […]

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Tags: boredom, change, mid-life crisis, mortality, personal growth
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Stop “Trying” to Be Happy (Hint: Just Get Rid of Your Angst)

September 14th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor It sure has been a good few decades for happiness. Before, say, the ‘70s, happiness just wasn’t on the radar screens of most people nor had it been a part of the cultural vocabulary in America. Of course, happiness did merit a mention in our Constitution (“life, liberty and the pursuit […]

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Tags: angst, barriers, emotions, happiness, obstacles, personal growth
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The Joys of “Bromance”

September 12th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor I have a confession: I’m having a “bromance.” You may know the term from the movie I Love You, Man; it describes a close, though non-sexual relationship between two men. Yes, my wife knows about and she supports it. My bromance was certainly unexpected. In fact, he (I’ll call him Drew) […]

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Tags: bromance, emotions, friendship, men, personal growth, relationships
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De-Clutter Your Life

August 8th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor Have you seen the late George Carlin’s riff on “Stuff”? If you haven’t, it is brilliant, hilarious, and it exemplifies so much of what I believe about the over-filled, over-scheduled, over-thought, and over-wrought experiences that we now call life in 21st-century America. I don’t know about you, but I’m tired of […]

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Tags: clutter, culture, exhaustion, food, personal growth, stuff, technology, time
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Should You Take a Leap of Faith?

June 5th, 2012

By Dr. Jim Taylor I’ve been on a bit of a self-help kick in my writing lately. And given the strong response from my last post about regret, I figured I would continue my personal-growth jones and write about another topic that might be of interest to readers. Living the life you want often means […]

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Tags: career, change, consequences, personal growth, relationships, self-help
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