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Allow Me To Re-Introduce Myself

Sunday, April 25, 2010

“Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.” Robert Anton Wilson Hello my name is Ivan Campuzano, I am nobody, just like everyone else. I feel that deep down we all go through major conflicts because of the constant [...]

Take a Good Look At My Face Because It’s Been a While

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau For many of us we are die hard creatures of habits, we love patterns, they make our lives easier. The problem is that life then becomes monotonous, we just run through the motions. We take something that is alive [...]

Stuck In The Middle: Living In The Land of Observation

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

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“A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.” William Blake Living a Life in The Middle I consider myself very fortunate in the way I was raised, which was to live in two different worlds. I spent my early years living between a land of cowboy hats and ostrich boots in [...]

The World Flows With You, Not Against You

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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photo credit: Esparta Todays guest post is by my talented young friend Brett over at daretoexpress.com enjoy The Struggle Too often in our lives, we feel as though we are alone in a river,stuggling to make it upstream. We start to see everything as a struggle, and the world we live in appears to make that [...]

Understanding Your Relationships To Find Your Path To Freedom

Friday, December 18, 2009

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“The secret of happiness is freedom. The secret of freedom is courage.” – Thucydides Understanding Your Key Relationships If you want to understand yourself, your mind, your thoughts, your life, and the world you live in you need to examine your relationships. Understanding your psychological relationships is your key in developing wisdom. You will need [...]

Stop Wishing Start Doing!

Thursday, October 15, 2009

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“Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.” Washington Irving by my buddie Diggy over at upgradereality.com We all have our habits that we have grown into or adopted from others, some of them good and some of them bad. What I want you to do today is to take note of how many times you [...]

In a Recession… Should You Hold out or Sell Out if You’re Offered a Job You Don’t Really Want?

Saturday, September 5, 2009

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In a Recession… Should You Hold out or Sell Out if You’re Offered a Job You Don’t Really Want? By my dear friend Debra Benton You need a job. You just got offered a job. The problem is, it’s not your dream job. Should you take it, or should you hold out until the perfect [...]