Word of the Week Archive

Treasure

Someone once asked me if I would be willing to participate in a very unique challenge: throw or give away one unnecessary item each day for one whole year. It sounds outrageous, right? But when you think about all of your possessions, how many of those items could you really live without? ..

Control

Watch your wallet. Count your calories. Micro-manage your Facebook status updates and your online photo albums...

Love

What a word: love. How does one even begin to talk about the concept of love while doing it justice? In the absence of my abilities as a Renaissance poet, I am only going to focus on one aspect of love, the aspect of love with which all other love begins: self-love. ..

Beauty

In seeking out a formal definition of beauty, I stumbled across the following two proverbs. Surely these ideas would have been teased out of a post that focused on the word beauty, but considering their proximity to the actual definition I couldn’t resist including them now...

Priority

To say that I was a nerd in high school and college is a tremendous understatement. School, studies, learning - those were the things that took priority in my life. Also an understatement. School was my life. ..

Intuition

Life can pretty much be summed up as a continuous and ever-changing series of decisions we have to make. For just about every choice I make in my life, I follow my gut. It doesn’t matter if I’m picking out a new pair of jeans or deciding where I will go to college, I follow my gut. My intuition. ..

Alone

Like a lot of young adults these days, I live at home with my parents. It’s actually a pretty sweet deal - I’m saving money instead of paying rent and utilities, there are always delicious things to eat, and I have constant companionship. (My parents are really cool, truly!)..

Interpretation

So much of our perception, emotion and attitude depends on how we interpret experiences, events and interactions in our lives. Almost everything you experience in the world is relative, and our subjective interpretation is incredibly determinative. ..

Regret

I was recently asked if I had any regrets in my life, and it seriously took me a long time to come with an answer. I only came up with three things...

Joy

Joy comes from many places in our lives, and no matter what, we all deserve to feel joyous as often as possible. Ask yourself right now, “What brings me joy?” ..

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