Category: Thoughts
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How I Transmuted Fear Into Love

A transition from a destruction mindset to a creative mindset. My mind is the darkest place I’ve lived in, and I was stuck there for at least a couple of decades. I was suicidal and immobilized by FEAR. Most times, fear is a response to sensed dangers. But most often than not, fear is from…
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How I Multitask

How I Multitask: A 10 minute tour of my mind My mind is like the taskbar of my browser. A lot of different tabs are open because I have a lot on my mind. I think about school. I also think about work. And I think about my son all the time. And lately I…
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“What Makes Puns, Fun?”

“What Makes Puns, Fun?” Peter McGraw said that, humour is both pervasive and beneficial. Now what does this mean? It means that humans of all ages and or culture experience or use humour almost on a daily basis. It influences our choices. Humour is also used simply for the reasons that it makes people happy.…
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Why Writing is My Passion

Why Writing is My Passion I have been learning about languages my whole life. Or at least I thought I have. I was an over-achiever when I was young. I was always at the top of my class. My parents, mom in particular, enrolled me in the following scheduled activities: • Ballet (includes jazz dance…
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Would You Choose To Be An Organ Donor?

Would You Choose To Be An Organ Donor? “What we say, what we do affects others too.” That is what I remind my son every day. I remind him about the connection that we make as human beings. How our lives affect others in a way that we may never understand. And of course one…
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Rural Impact Sourcing Technical Training – 21 Day Digital Marketing Campaign

Rural Impact Sourcing Technical Training – 21 Day Digital Marketing Campaign Stressed. That’s how people are these days. I ask how they were, and they give me a one word reply. Stressed. What exactly does it entail? It seems like the lives of the people I know are being subjected to pressure or tension which…
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In Between RIS Technical Training Days (V): Do You Believe in Serendipity?

In Between RIS Technical Training Days (V): Do You Believe in Serendipity? The 10 days Technical Training is now done. The real test has begun. Scholars are now doing their 21 days Digital Marketing Campaign. This means website and product promotion to create an online presence and to generate sales for our assigned Micro, Small,…
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RIS Technical Training (Day 10) – Final Face to Face Training

RIS Technical Training (Day 10) – Final Face to Face Training Last day of the Rural Impact Sourcing Technical Training, which means it is also the last day of the Face to Face training. And then we begin our 21 day Digital Marketing Campaign. This is the day that I have been dreading –…
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In Between RIS Technical Training Days (IV)

In Between RIS Technical Training Days (IV) John Keating: O Captain, my Captain. Who knows where that comes from? Anybody? Not a clue? It’s from a poem by Walt Whitman about Mr. Abraham Lincoln. Now in this class you can either call me Mr. Keating, or if you’re slightly more daring, O Captain…
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In Between RIS Technical Training Days (III)

In Between RIS Technical Training Days (III) Rural Impact Sourcing Technical Training just finished its 3rd week of technical training. And 25 freelancers are starting to let their presence felt online. One thing to do this is by creating a social media account and publishing online our portfolio or blog site. This is basically…
