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Beware: This Apocalypse Looms Darker Than the Shadows of Halloween

The apocalypse predicted by Stephen Hawking is scarier than any Halloween haunted house.

A Scary Apocalypse
Chernobyl kindergarten/Gerhard Reus on Unsplash

He said the demand for energy from overpopulation will ultimately burn us up.

“By the year 2600, the world’s population would be standing shoulder to shoulder and the electricity consumption would make the Earth glow red-hot.”  Stephen Hawking, Tencent WE Summit, 11/4/2017

He said if the heat doesn’t get us first, aggression and artificial intelligence will.

Add the nuclear threat from Russia, and images of apocalypse creep in.

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From Stinky to Beautiful Marriage in Three Glorious Steps

How would you grade your marriage on a scale of 1 to 10?

How would your partner grade it?

Beautiful? Stinky? OK?

You and I were created for . . .

  • beautiful relationships
  • beautiful connections
  • beautiful times

What is beautiful?

To be safe, seen and soothed.

But, evil surrounds us in a suffering world.

I see a lot of folks getting in and out of stinky relationships.

And the common denominator of being stuck in stank is the loss of beauty.

Three glorious steps take us forward to a beautiful marriage.

Steps to beautiful marriage
Beautiful marriage unfolds in 3 glorious steps/Simon Berger/Unsplash
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From Stinky to Beautiful Marriage in Three Glorious Steps

Get rich on Bitcoin with your money? Heck no!

Get rich quickly with Bitcoin?

Get rich with Bitcoin
Bitcoin hits all time high/r.classen/Shutterstock

That’s what the Winklevoss Twins of Social Network fame did.

Rich quick or slow
Win big or lose big when playing high stakes/Craig Barritt

I’m amused by Bitcoin’s meteoric rise and plunge. Aren’t you?

Bitcoin started 2017 below $1,000 and hit $19,345 on December 19, 2018.

Then the price . . .

  • plunged to $6645 a year later mid December 2019
  • rocketed almost to $29,000 in December 2020
  • hit a peak of $68,789 on November 10, 2021
  • closed at $19,896 on August 30, 2022

As Stevie Nicks sang, “The sea changes color, but the sea does not change.”

Manias change but a maniac’s behavior does not.

It seems that the less investors understand about a mania’s object, the more obsessed they are to own it at any price.

Not a wise plan.

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Get rich on Bitcoin with your money? Heck no!

3 Great Habits of Wildly Successful People

The most wildly successful person I ever met said it all in his obituary.

“I really believe that people get in trouble in life not because they want too much, but because they settle for too little.”  Paul Markey

He developed one of the largest independent cities in the U.S., Stone Oak, north of San Antonio, TX.

But, Paul was especially known for epic refusals.

He refused to settle for less in . . .

  • ethics
  • family
  • business

Even after tragedies, the kind most folks never get over, Paul never settled in mediocrity.

Successful means not settling
Pinnacle of success at Snowdon mountain, Wales/Khamkor/Unsplash

Success may be as simple as doing the opposite of what settlers do. 

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3 Great Habits of Wildly Successful People

How your morning coffee-walk jails the demons every day

A daily morning coffee-walk is a three-way thoroughfare to keep your mind clear for a happier life.

Morning coffee-walk
Morning coffee-walk erases demons/Steve Blaising/University Park, TX

How else to survive the torture of daily news . . .

  • from media
  • from work
  • from life

The news is one notch above the town sewer, collecting the worst maladies of the day.

Recently, the following words were front-page on the Dallas Morning News.

  • . . . Dallas’ Painful Past
  • . . . Arming Schools Against Threats
  • . . . Shining Light on a Dark Time
  • . . . Survivors Struggle While Waiting for Aid

Daily news desecrates our soul and turns our minds into a cesspool of despair.

“If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain-brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers.” Henry David Thoreau

But, everyday walking intersects your mind with 3 refreshments.

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How your morning coffee-walk jails the demons every day