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Welcome to the Blaising View blog, where I share treasures I find to enrich your life now.

How a solar eclipse increases your hope and faith

Everyone is hopeful to see the totality of a solar eclipse.

Hope in solar eclipse
The moon covers the sun/Amanda Carden/Shutterstock

Reminds us of the sun’s immense power. 

Power that is overwhelming yet uniquely toned down by our ocean.

Why is the sun’s power toned down?

Our seawater has an amazing filter that unexplainably accommodates living organisms.

How does this happen? Why does this happen?

Pause just a minute and allow three messages from the solar eclipse to rekindle your faith and hope.

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How a solar eclipse increases your hope and faith

The Atomic Habit You’re Overlooking for Bigger Impact

One atomic habit makes a difference for all of your results.

Atomic habits big results

Presence. And nothing enhances your presence like addressing others by their name.

Jesus did this. He used atomic habits.

Their impact left . . .

  • lawyers speechless
  • crowds astonished
  • soldiers kneeling

It’s not just the way he looked at you. It’s the way he said your name.

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The Atomic Habit You’re Overlooking for Bigger Impact

How the Best Keep Going and Never Give Up

A friend recently told me, “I feel like quitting. I’m tired of being told things will work out in the future, that relief is out there somewhere. Just give me the keys. Drive away. Leave everything behind.”

The best keep going

And then I told him the amazing turnaround story of Edwin Booth, the brother of Abraham Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.

If anyone could ever justify quitting, it was Edwin Booth.

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How the Best Keep Going and Never Give Up

How Do You Know You’re Living Your Best Life?

What does living your best life really mean?

Pleasure? Success? Money? Purpose? Faith?

Oscar Wilde, Aristotle, Buddha and Jesus offered radically different answers.

Living your best life
What makes a life worth living?/Unsplash

It’s a question people have wrestled with for centuries.

The most popular humanities course at Yale University explores this in a class entitled, “Life Worth Living.”  Multiple professors teach it.

They compare how the great philosophies answer these questions.

  • What makes a life worth living?
  • What is worth chasing?
  • Are the things we want really worth having?
  • How do we know if we’re headed toward a flourishing life?

How you answer may determine whether you look back on life with satisfaction or regret.

But first, there’s another question.

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How Do You Know You’re Living Your Best Life?

How vitamin D wipes out depression and other nasty diseases

Vitamin D has the potential to wipe out depression, autoimmune disorders and seasonal viruses.

Depression and vitamin D
Morning coffee-walk erases demons and disease/Steve Blaising/University Park, TX

Load up on this vitamin with your coffee daily and make your risks go away.

Vitamin D and depression

My last physical, the doctor said my vitamin D level was too low.

I was shocked because I drink milk all the time.

“You should really consider spending 3-4 hours per week in the sun.”

I replied, “Seriously?  What about skin cancer doc?”

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How vitamin D wipes out depression and other nasty diseases