The thoughts stories and advice of Bill Riddell

Archive for June, 2008

The Brightside of Illness

Monday, June 30th, 2008 Posted in advice, goals, personal | 4 Comments »

Today I want to share with you the worst and also most important time in my life. Rather than dwell on the negatives though I’m going to focus on the many positives that came from it. Most people think of ...

The Easy Life

Thursday, June 26th, 2008 Posted in advice | 2 Comments »

Life is meant to be easy. We have this grand illusion that modern technology and society has made life simpler, however to most of us it has merely made things more complicated and miserable. Only a decade ago most of us ...

It Is Your Life

Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in advice | 8 Comments »

Do you ever feel like the people around you and society at large have your whole life planned out for you? Study hard, get good grades, get into a good college/university, get a good job, perfect partner, nice car, 1.8 kids ...

The Fear of Change

Friday, June 20th, 2008 Posted in advice | 3 Comments »

We are all seduced by the idea of change. In theory at least - it sounds nice. We like to read stories about people who have completed radical changes/achieved great feats and see reports about them on the news. Many of us ...

The Memory Secret

Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in advice, goals | 1 Comment »

Want to know a little secret to help you remember peoples names, phone numbers and the capital of Uruguay? This idea was taught to me by two of my favorite teachers. To me their is little doubt that this secret is ...

Trains, Blogs and Good Omens

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 Posted in goals, personal | 2 Comments »

This morning I woke to this news, which I took as great omen to create the first post on my blog. Why is some guy riding a train for the better part of a day a good omen? Because Heath Tully ...