Author Archives: Shawn Wernig

What makes you happy? What makes me happy? What is happiness? Those are tricky questions to answer as they are dif-ferent for everyone. Happiness is actually a personal decision we make in every situation. We decide if we are happy...
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I saw an interesting video clip the other day and it totally made sense. It was about depression and what is a major cause of it. They narrowed it down to a single word, ‘comparison’. As humans, we spend a...
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What is friendship? What can a person expect from their friends and what should a person give to their friends? That is a huge question in my life these days. Three years ago I felt I had a lot of...
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Are you a good person? That is a pretty open-ended question with many different aspects to it. Do you do what you know is the right thing every chance you get? Or maybe you are a fairly good person who...
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I see a lot of information about what peo-ple think the perfect partner should be and all the wonderful things they should do for you every day. I find the lists quite amus-ing as it seems that a lot of...
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One part of human nature that we all share is self-doubt. We all know our own imper-fections and prefer to not share them. It is crazy how we can be incredible at a job, sport or whatever, and have folks...
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I am on an amazing roller coaster ride with my life. One day I am sitting on a barge on the lake having a sunny barbecue and the next day I am attached to a machine that removes my blood...
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Observing things on Facebook often instills a lot of thought processes for me. Saw a great saying today, “If you want to, you can find a million reasons to hate life and be angry at the world. Or if you...
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Well, I put on pants today. And I am so disappointed in myself that I did. I had a bit of surgery around my belly last week and am not supposed to lift more than 10 pounds for a week....
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It has been said that the greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others. This is such a powerful statement as it is so full of the truth. It seems that nearly everyone is worried about what others...
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