We have all done it, myself included.  Yet there are some who do it habitually night after night.  I am not talking about anything juicy.  I'm talking about forcing yourself to stay up late at night even when you are exhausted. 

When I worked at Fidelity Investments I had long hours.  When I eventually got home I was beat.  Yet even though I was tired and even though I knew staying up would leave me more tired the next day, I forced myself to stay up.  It wasn't anything productive, usually video games and stupid TV.

Today I talk about how to figure out why you are doing the same thing and how to put an end to it once and for all.

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Holding tight to ideas is a sure way to stay stagnant, never growing, never learning.  As ZEN commuters you surely know this.  Unfortunately the line between narrow minded and open is somewhat speculative.  Some people feel that they are free thinkers yet still holding fast to dogma they were fed as children.

Others are simply set in their ways.  Today I will argue the case for open-mindedness and once on board, how to achieve a greater sense of it

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There are ways we get things done in a day.  There are things that happen to us daily.  What would you say if I told you that absolutely every one of them was your creation.  Your getting fired, your car accident, absolutely everything.

To understand this controversial topic we are going to need to talk about the three different types of thought and action.  Our soul's purpose is one of them.

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