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Lately I’ve been really busy with my real job. I’ve been meaning to post stuff on Dumb Medicine, but I just haven’t gotten around to it. I’ve also been meaning to work on several projects for work, finish my taxes, make some images for a couple websites, put a muzzle on the dog that lives below us, and puncture our neighbor’s subwoofer speakers. I haven’t gotten around to those things either.

Time management

You could say that my time management is crap. Maybe I have too much on my plate also, but I’ve never been convinced that is a good excuse. In fact, the only person I’m making an excuse to is myself. No one else really cares if I finish these things on my own deadlines. So basically, I’ve been letting myself down a ton.

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One of my favorite lectures of all time points out that we have no idea what the future holds. Our education system is meant to be preparing us for this future which will be completely different than it is today.

Ken Robinson believes that creativity should be valued just as much as reading is. I must say that I agree with him wholeheartedly.

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Sleep is something that everyone holds dear. Well, people who aren’t getting enough sleep anyway. Most people find it difficult to get to sleep at some point in their life, and they will try almost anything to help them. I want to share what I’ve found on how to get a restful night’s sleep, but first we gotta talk about the basics.

What is sleep for

The fact of the matter is we don’t really know why we sleep. We recognize it’s an important part of daily life and that most mammals do it, but we have no exact idea how it works. The most common belief is that sleep gives the brain a chance to reorganize the previous day’s events. It is also thought that sleep helps repair damage done to the body and reset emotional stress experienced during the day.

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To quote one of my favorite bloggers, “I’m trying to get signal not noise.” I missed that point in my very first article. In which I challenged myself to write an article every other day. You see the thing is, I don’t particularly think what I’ve written has been great. It hasn’t been bad, but it hasn’t been great. Great is what I’m shooting for.

Following Glen’s lead, I will be posting articles a little more slowly from now on. It has been nice seeing you guys check in on my posts. Keep it up. But guess what? You don’t have to check back so often. Just click Grab our RSS feed button in the upper right hand corner, and you won’t even have to check back.

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If you’re like me, then you’re sitting in your kitchen before work and you’re writing a blog post. I know that was a poor shot at humor, but it’s early and I pretty much had to do it. Anyways, in the last 12 months or so I have fallen in love with mint.com. And they don’t even know I love it.

If you haven’t heard of mint.com, it’s a website that logs into each of your bank accounts, retirement accounts, loans, and many more accounts and keeps track of them all in one place. I know people are hesitant about allowing access to a third party for their financial information, but hear me out.

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According to wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn, a paragon is an ideal instance or a perfect embodiment of a concept.

I want to focus on paragon as an ideal instance. I tend to think people limit themselves in what they do because they think of the paragon of a situation. That is to say, they think of the ideal instance of a situation. I’ll use a friend of mine as an example. We used to go out when we were both single, and try to talk to girls. His goal for the night would be to go home with someone, and my goal for the night was to talk to girls. Today, I’m married and he’s still single.

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This is my first post involving personal development. Don’t be too harsh on me please.

So goals are pretty important aren’t they? I tend to think so at least. They help us make sense of what we’re trying to do with this life. I unfortunately have not been very good at keeping with my goals lately. I consider it a personal failure.

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Hey all,

If you’re a regular follower of DumbMedicine.com, then you may be sorely surprised to find your favorite stories have disappeared. I’m sorry for little warning, but I have recently decided to take the blog in a completely new direction. I’m becoming much more interested in the wider scope of humanity, and a bit less interested in just medicine. After all, we’re more than just bodies moving about the place.

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