To Budini, or Not To Budini?

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Since it’s Valentine’s day, I’ll let you in on a little secret… This budini is one of my favorite desserts, and one of the simplest recipes I’ve made. I love simple cooking. If you keep baking chocolate on hand, it can be whipped up in no time flat after the arrival of an unexpected visitor or for a spur of the moment craving after dinner!

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Making Your Life a Masterpiece

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Midway through Seth Godin’s new book, Linchpin, I’m struck by his definition of art. The book is more focused on what Seth calls “The New World of Work” and becoming indispensible (i.e. a linchpin), but when his ideas about art are fully understood, it’s clear that art, as Seth defines it, really pervades all aspects of life.

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What Motivates You?

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I recently finished reading Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, by Daniel H. Pink, and I couldn’t recommend it more highly! It’s a well written, entertaining book about a new theory of motivation based largely on autonomy. It’s the kind of book that will truly changed how you think.

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Monkey Mind

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“The way the mind jumps from a pleasant memory to a nagging anxiety, and then on to a physical sensation, and back again to the memory, or the anxiety, or to planning or worrying, or wanting to be somewhere else altogether, is just like a restless monkey swinging from branch to branch.”

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Friends, Freedom, & An Analyzed Life

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After reading the Art of Travel by Alain De Botton, a popular British philosopher, I’ve become a huge fan. He seamlessly blends the old and the new into an amazingly easy, compelling story on the significance of travel. I recently stumbled across this video featuring De Botton called “Epicurus on Happiness – Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness.”

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My Favorite Non-Traditional Lawyers

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With every new non-traditional lawyer I come across, I’ve sworn to put together this list since I’ve been compiling it in my head for years now… I know so many lawyers who feel stuck – locked into their profession for any number of reasons. Lawyers get a powerful education. So I hope this list can help you see your career in a broader context.

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Resolved to Have More Fun

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This is the time of year when we ritualistically set amazingly lofty goals, which we expect to achieve through sheer force of willpower. We pick the issue that nags at us the most and resolve to finally get it right this year despite our long-time, contradictory habits.

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My Journey to Get Here

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Change came to my life a little over two years ago without any warning. A simple, unexpected movement while jogging left me flat on my back in pain awaiting surgery for a severely herniated disc. What you would naturally expect to be an incredibly difficult time in my life, actually wasn’t.

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