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Name 3-5 things you have accomplished in your life. These are things you are most proud of. What are they?
Name your strengths. What are at least 5 positive qualities that you have? Any special talents or particular areas you are strong in?
What are the things that get you up every morning? What are you passions? What makes your toes tingle and your soul quicken?
What is really important to you? If you were at the end of your life, what would you need to have accomplished so that you have no regrets about anything?
With the above questions answered, action do you need to take so that the second half of your life is truly extraordinary?
Answering these questions will help you find your passions, priorities and your life’s purpose. It’s time to start living it.
In the article Dementia: Just What Is It, we have learned about a frightening term, Dementia, and just what it is or, rather, how it manifests itself in the human condition. I gave 5 examples from my personal knowledge, including myself.
Eckhart Tolle lived upto his twenty ninth year in a state of almost continual anxiety interspersed with periods of suicidal depression. Then he woke up one night with a feeling of absolute dread. The silence of the night, the vague outlines of the furniture in the dark room, the distant noise of a passing train - everything felt so alien, so hostile, and so utterly meaningless that it created in him a deep loathing of the world. "I cannot live with myself any longer." This was the thought that kept repeating itself in his mind. Suddenly he became aware that if he could not live with himself, there had to be two - he and the "self" he could not live with. He was stunned by the realization. He became enveloped by powerful feelings.
There is no data as yet that indicates how many former patients of Pfizer's anti-inflammatory and painkilling drug are filing Celebrex law suits, but given the magnitude of the company's perceived crime it is likely that there will be very many. And even a quick perusal of the alleged behaviour of the company regarding this drug seems to point to Celebrex law suits being something of a fait accompli.