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What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on this show, that we can all learn to live our lives just a little more intentionally. This is Seth Roberts. Thanks for joining me on Skipping Stones - “You Have to Be Afraid.” Fear is the only real adversary we have in life. And in a way, it's the only thing you will ever have to face. But ironically, I think it's also the gateway to paradise.

If you have the luxury of being able to go on a journey of self-discovery in order to find yourself, I think you can count yourself amongst some of the more privileged of the world. For a lot of people, life doesn't really give them any choices of who to be. Finding yourself is irrelevant. When you're too busy staying alive to sit and ponder it.

The modern culture around parenting says we need to have our kids in sports programs, put them in the best schools, take them on nice vacations and dress 'em in really great clothes. But I kind of wonder if we traded in child raising for child worship instead. I can tell you as a father to three kids that I love being a parent, but it isn't always what we make it out to be in our imaginations. It comes with a lot of extra work that no one's going to pay us for. As a parent, I

You know, a surprisingly hard question for me to answer is.  What would make for the best day ever? So, the quick answer that comes to mind would have to do with some kind of acquisition. Maybe winning the lottery would be the best day ever. That really sounds pretty nice. I'd love to win the lottery or win a new car or get some incredibly expensive thing handed to me. But when I think about my best days so far, they don't really have much to do with getting new things.

I think the best way to figure out what an ideal day is to ask yourself first, what a terrible day is to start. I think not sleeping enough would make for a pretty terrible day. I'd be agitated, my senses would be dull, and I'd probably be feeling lazy. If I really wanted to have a terrible day, I'd probably put some kind of intense pressure on myself. Maybe there'd be an important deadline that I forgot to prepare for, and I'd be filled with dread.

I wonder sometimes if we're deluding ourselves by thinking that to love another person is something that we actually choose to do. Is love really something we can decide to just have? All of a sudden, I'm not even sure two people are even talking about the same thing when they talk about love. In the English language, the word love is so broad. It could probably be applied to describe at least 50 different emotions. The love you have for your children isn't the same as the

t seems like men, in particular, me included, really like to think of things in terms of conquering and mastering. As unlikely as it is that any of us will conquer the world, it seems to reflect our desire to achieve. Conquering the world, of course, is the ultimate achievement. And so, I think that's what draws us to the idea.But for normal people, I think what's truly relevant is learning how to conquer our own time in order to conquer anything, whether that be the world or

What in life deserves our time and attention and what things don't. I hope that as we consider that question along with other topics on this show, that we can all learn to live our lives just a little more intentionally. This is Seth Roberts. Thanks for joining me on Skipping Stones - “Big Improvements Are Made of Small Ones.” Sometimes the difference between those that have everything and those that don't is a lot less than we might think. The more successful people that I m

 I found myself reading an autobiography of Benjamin Franklin recently. Now, I love biographies, especially autobiographies. It makes me feel like I've had an opportunity and A small way to live another person's life. And in a metaphorical way, I aspire to be able to say someday that I've lived a thousand lives.