I was recently taking the short course, financial peace university and Dave Ramses was talking about the concept of Murphy Proof.  He noted how it seems like whenever you have a good backup plan Murphy’s Law seems to leave you alone more.  So far it is the concept that I have enjoyed the most from [...]

Why is it so hard to keep thinking about the bigger picture?  The Amish seem to be the only people in America who can do it.  I feel like our 2 party system cant handle it as people prefer to choose a party so they don’t have to think about line items.  I feel like [...]

I appologize for using such low hanging fruit for my data but I have found a couple interesting resources on how the our mind is working with love. Dispite our ability to understand complex systems better our solutions only seem to come with new problems. I have to keep reminding myself about this as I [...]

Tens of thousands died from the 13th century through the 16th century in both Europe and North America due to paranoia. I believe that in the US we are still not far from where we were then. Hopefully we are also similarly close to a lot of pardons, appologies, compensation and therapy. Today I went [...]

Recently I have been thinking a lot about how much much who our friends are influences our choices. One recent study shows that we are 75% more likely to divorce if we have friends who recently divorced. A recent article in Psychology Today, “Pass it On” observes a study in which mouse pups who had [...]

Okay, so today I am listening to NPR while driving between my patient’s homes as usual. A guy comes on talking about how he just won the pulitzer prize for investigative reporting. My sister just won a prize for her investigative reporting so I texted her to chat about what she accomplished for the second [...]

This weekend I went with my old roommate to the Tough Mudder run/ obstacle course which was more like a testicle course with guys half nude sporting as much testosterone and balls as they could running through electrified wires etc.   It was not as hard as the website made it sounds and seemed more like [...]

Several years ago a girlfriend wanted me to marry her and I was scared but at that point she felt insecure and desperate.   I broke down and told her I would be up for trying premarital counseling as I had read that people who did that reported being happier 20 years later.  My reasoning was [...]

So here I am watching the movie, Valentine’s Day from last year or 2010 or somewhere in there.  I think it was this year that I heard or read a report that the week of Valentine’s Day has more break ups than any week of the year.  It smacks a lot of what courtship has [...]

Every year I have to do so many continuing education credits for ethics for my profession. I think it is a good thing as I believe we become what we are surrounded by thought wise. Whats more is that people who are more ethically minded tend to do better in their business endevors. It makes [...]