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Posts Tagged ‘leisure’

You Don’t Have to Be Good to Enjoy Playing

August 5th, 2011

When I wrote that blog post saying that you don’t have to play to watch a certain sport, I didn’t really expect that post to somehow spawn a series. But that’s what happened. Since then, I’ve also stated that you don’t have to play to critique a player’s performance either, whether this be related to [...]

De-Stress or Distress: You Choose

May 20th, 2011

This seems like such a simple concept to grasp, yet such a difficult one to implement. In our modern lives, we’ve come to expect a certain level of stress. We have stresses when it comes to the world of work, just as we have stress in our personal relationships, stress about our health, and stress [...]

Can Someone Teach Me How to Relax?

August 3rd, 2010

Yes, I realize this is a somewhat strange request and that it is almost a rhetorical question, but just bear with me for a few moments. It seems that both I and Colin Dean are afflicted with the same condition: we don’t know how to relax. We just can’t do it. While it may appear [...]

Everybody’s Working for the Weekend

May 18th, 2010

Yes, the title to today’s blog post was heavily inspired by a certain song from the 1980s, but I feel that the core message behind the title is even more relevant today. As I’m sure you’ve already noticed, most of us spend the lion’s share of our days working. That seems like the nature of [...]