Why Not Eat Octopus?

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Silvia Killingsworth on the ethics of eating an animal that has been characterized as “the closest we’ll get to meeting an intelligent alien”:

“It is impossible for us to fully know the inner lives of octopuses, but the more we continue to study them and other forms of life, the…

Why Not Eat Octopus?

12 Things You Need to Remind Yourself of When You Wake Up

Each morning is a brand new opportunity.  What you do today is what matters most.  Today is another chance to get it right.

We may not always love everything about our lives, but deep down we do love and appreciate the magic of life itself.  Some part of us believes that everything and anything is possible.

Sadly, though, we don’t always believe these possibilities are within our reach, even when they are.  The problem is we choose to believe otherwise.  We choose to believe we are incapable of living our lives the way we want to live them, at our full potential.  We choose to accept our reality as others have told us it has to be.

Wake up!

We don’t have to do this to ourselves – none of us do.  We have a choice.  We don’t have to be complacent.  We don’t have to fall into line.  Why not stir things up a bit and live by better rules?

It’s time to remind yourself of a few key truths – right now and every morning hereafter:  12 Things…

Gratitude is Medicine – Here’s the Proof

By: Michael R. Mantell, Ph.D.

Grateful?

Good – what’s good about your daily life regardless of what you have or not?

Recognize – what can go right?

Appreciative – are you appreciative of what you have…and don’t have?

Thankful – who have you sincerely thanked today?

Emotional – can you express emotion in a positive manner?

Fulfilled – you are either fulfilled or on the way to being fulfilled…never unfulfilled

Understanding – do you have the lens to understand that whatever happens always happens for the good?

Liked – do you look for what you can like in every person and situation you come across in life?

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