June 2011
6 posts
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Health Insurance...
Wow is it sobering getting my first “adult full-time job” and learning the costs and responsibilities associated it with it. Like health insurance. Man, the cost of my health benefits is taking up a considerable portion of my salary… and it really isn’t even covering much. Taking my worries to God. But- the good thing is that through this experience, my compassion is...
Jun 1st
May 2011
5 posts
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May 21st
“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of...”
– -Martin Luther King Jr. Man oh man this episode. First scenario. That compassionate guy. I nearly cried.
May 21st
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Self-efficacy
VF.com: A description of the Navy SEAL training program.  The whole article is arresting but this was a particularly striking quote: “In psychology this belief is called self-efficacy. Even when the mission seems impossible, it is the strength of our belief that makes success possible. The absence of this belief guarantees failure. A strong belief in the mission fuels our ability to...
May 14th
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“Giving debt relief to people that really need it, that’s what foreclosure is.”
– JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, giving CNBC his take on what losing your house to foreclosure actually means. (via officialssay) Quote reblogged from kateoplis, via officialssay, and from CNBC Why I bank at Chase. Why I am trying to leave Chase: Banking culture like this where, even when you are...
May 7th
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May 5th
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