Monthly Archives: June 2010

How To Never Feel Rejected Again

I'm finding that when I get the same thing occurring in many areas of my life within a very short period of time it's time for me to learn a very specific lesson. Recently I found myself feeling rejected, in various ways, in 6 or 7 different situations over the span of a week or so. …

22/Jun/2010 – 09:46 | By Si Dawson | Posted in communication, life, self-improvement | Comments (37)

TV Trains You To Expect The Worst

I was watching an episode of United States of Tara the other day when I had something of a realisation. In case you don't know the show, here's the back story. Tara is a woman with dissociative identity disorder (aka multiple personalities). For the sake of TV, they are 5 (or 6) very distinct & …

16/Jun/2010 – 11:18 | By Si Dawson | Posted in life, self-improvement | Comments (13)

Stop Bashing Your Head Against The Wall, Dipshit!

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. It enables us to look back & say "Oh wow, that was a complete waste of a day.. or 10 years." Wouldn't it be useful to know in advance if something was going to be pointless? Or how about just at the time? Even cutting that wasted 6 months back to …

10/Jun/2010 – 16:01 | By Si Dawson | Posted in health, life | Comments (9)

Talking By Text Sucks (& How)

Particularly in recent years, reading & writing have taken over our lives. We communicate primarily by text an increasing amount of the time. Facebook, Twitter, email, IM, SMS, blogs, forums, the list goes on. There are some very real problems with communicating by text. Asymmetry Unless both parties are typing an equal amount, any text based conversation …

07/Jun/2010 – 13:28 | By Si Dawson | Posted in communication, life | Comments (19)