The Other Face In Your Mirror

Believe In Yourself

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Book of Secrets

Some secrets can be seen and heard but big secrets must be read.

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The Secret of Being You

Be yourself at all times but never be completely satisfied with who or what you are.

Six Secret Rules for Followers

1. Walk beside those who are empowered to lead others and not behind them.

2. Trust their authority but not implicitly.

3. Always question the actions of those who lead others and dare to challenge their authority when their actions are not in the best interests of everyone.

4. If those who lead are allowed to be transparent, they will deceive you.

5. Hold those who lead others accountable, instead. This is the real burden of leadership.

6. Repay the accountability of those who lead with guarded loyalty and an inquisitive mind. This is the real burden of citizenship.

The Secret of Sharing Power

There is a time for leading and a time for following but there should never be a time for conquest or surrender.

The Two-Edged Sword of Truth

Always say what you mean and always mean what you say.

Secret du jour

There are no dumb questions, only dumb answers.

Funerals

"Funerals are for phony people who pay their respects to the dead instead of paying attention to the living." — science fiction author Michael Casher, May 2006

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21st Rule of Thumb

Never live your entire life for others but always live part of your life for someone else.

Blind Fool Running

Some secrets are meant to be shared.

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Author's Note: "Blind Fool Running" by Jonco Bugos does not contain any content from the Jonco Bugos blog. "Blind Fool Running" is a 104-page novella. Jonco Bugos (my alter ego) is the pen name I use for writing literary fiction and for writing the Jonco Bugos blog and the Think-A-Holic Lounge blog. Thank you.

The Three Circles Of Time

If you regret the past, you will fear the future.

If you fear the future, you will squander the present.

If you squander the present, you will regret the past.

Skeleton Key

The search for everlasting life begins with the here and now.

Recognize the beauty and the opportunities presented to you each and every day and appreciate the world around you. When you seize the day, you not only secure tomorrow, you guarantee the day after.

Only then will you find that the key to eternity is hidden inside the moment.

21st Rule of Thumb

Just because you have a mind to do something is no reason to assume that you should.

Three Definitions of Free Will

Forsaking a ready-made world and making one of your own.

Saying "no" to the thousands of false opportunities that present themselves in life while seeking the one true opportunity that doesn't.

Taking your life in your own hands.

Tip for 2012

Be the best person you can be in 2011.

Life in 25 Words

Things aren't either black or white with so many shades of gray in between. In between the black and the white lies every color imaginable.

A Reader's Revelation

"The best writers make life clearer to us. The worst writers only titillate our senses." – Science Fiction author (and avid reader) Michael Casher, 4/1/07, Science Fiction for Thinkers.com/Bytes

20th Rule of Thumb

A rule of thumb for living your life is only icing on a cake that you bake yourself.

Guilty and Not Guilty

There are many things in life that make us feel guilty about something. We are always pressed by our own consciences when our deeds conflict with our own principles. Making amends for wrongs based on our own introspection and self-examination is a healthy way for us to evolve into better human beings.

The laws of our many lands often demand justice for wrongs done unto others by forcing wrongdoers to make restitution and to endure other penalties. Making an apology to another for a hurtful act is another way to demand justice from ourselves, one which furthers our advancement as evolving creatures whose choices include self-governing attitudes and the desire to correct errors before they become faults. These are the proper prices we pay for our misconduct and our misdeeds and it is the mark of good citizenship in a civilized and growing culture.

There is, however, a type of guilt that is thrust upon us by the errors of recorded history and by those who benefit from the proliferation of untruths about our rightful place in the cosmos. This is the undeserved guilt we all feel at times for simply being alive. None of us began our lives with the stain of wrongdoing. That is a lie perpetuated by those among us who fail to assess their own shortcomings, shortsightedness and misconduct. The guilt of being human and being alive is the brand they want us to accept and to display like cattle. Their desire to continue their lives as unfettered free spirits controlled only by their own wills makes them feel alone, fearful and resentful among those of us who strive for peace, harmony and beauty in the world.

Accepting undeserved guilt for the privilege of being alive will not only defeat all your endeavors and dash all your hopes and dreams, it will empower the worst among us to continue ruling our world and preventing it from becoming the paradise it was meant to be.