When you think you know everything, your mind tends to close off, you are no longer open to new ideas, and you begin to boast about everything that you do know and do less examining about what you don’t. Additionally, when you think that you know everything, you tend to lack empathy for others, and […]
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Hellen Keller once said, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Instead of creating violent scenarios, in an effort to force everybody else into submission to selfishly have their own needs met, lighting cars on fire inside the Oakland Mercedes dealership, Trump deporting illegal immigrants, protesters murdering innocent civilians, label […]
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When you think you know everything, your mind tends to close off, you are no longer open to new ideas, and you begin to boast about everything that you do know and do less examining about what you don’t. Additionally, when you think that you know everything you tend to lack empathy for others and […]
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Ryuho Okawa said, “If we do not challenge ourselves again and again, we will never be able to accomplish anything.” New challenges give you fresh ideas by bending the mind around problems, which expands your thinking, and forces the mind to think in new ways that it never has never done before. Where the challenge […]
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“Hey Nolan, would you mind if I interviewed you for a documentary about paralysis?” I went down to Los Angeles, six hours away from my house to learn how to walk at a paralysis recovery center called Next Step. Being excited about doing my first interview for the media I asked the videographer if it […]
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I was shot in the head on April 23, 2017. It was my parents 20th wedding anniversary, I was sitting in my car, parked up against a wall, wall at the end of a cul-de-sac, and I saw these five sixteen year old kids hopped this wall and came running in my direction. I did […]
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The other day I thought about recording a day in the life video that entailed my everyday routine of going through therapy, daily living routine, and start vlogging my recovery after I was robbed at gunpoint and shot in the head. I had spent a great deal of time imagining exactly how I thought my […]
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The law of attraction does not mean to sit on your ass and hope that everything you want in life will fall in your lap, it does not work like that. Nothing in life, that is worth working for, will manifest itself on the mere fact that, “You want it.” However, if there is something […]
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I had a friend who went through his girlfriends belongings, looking for evidence that she was cheating on him. My friends girlfriend was not cheating on him, however, he was digging through her belongings, wrong on his part, with the intention of finding problems. With that said, when my friend found, and read, a love […]
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Something that I became aware of today is that, if you focus on your big priorities, all of the little things will settle. Ryuho Okawa said “just let go of the smaller things. You will find that your heart feels much lighter. I believe that living with simplicity and grace is a truly wise way […]
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