Articles by Ron Morris


The Zen Stick of Tradition or Get Peaceful or I Will Hit You

The Zen Stick of Tradition

Ah, tradition. Good or bad, you could say it's always a judgment call. Or is it? Shedding a tradition or stopping a traditional behavior is always a tough nut to crack. There are those family traditions: Christmas, Thanksgiving, birthdays... The ego loves to wreak havoc with those family "obligations" - also known as the "Everybody Else Does it" Beatdown...

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The Response - Submitted to Best Life magazine in response to "Is Your Workout Wasting Your Time?"" by Paul Scott

The Response

Well Paul, the real question should be: "Why are YOU wasting your time at the workout?" Any time you set out to do something for all the wrong reasons, you will inevitably fail. Any time the ego identity sets out to attain a certain goal or outcome (because there's a promise of great reward, or status, or attention), you will indeed fail. Every time you lead yourself away from a passion or desire...

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Life'll Kill Ya

Life'll Kill Ya

About a year ago, I was watching a special about the very last recording sessions of Warren Zevon. Zevon is a personal favorite of mine because (like all the people I respect) he was a true original. True originals follow their own path and take...

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Fat the Final Frontier

fat the final frontier

As I pulled into the parking lot at the new Wal-Mart Superstore looking for that choice spot (and of course never finding one), I started to notice that the availability of handicap parking spots was, well, somewhat disproportionate...

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Magnet For Women

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Driving down Washington Avenue in Minneapolis your curiosity is captured by what appears to be an un-detonated bomb penetrating a one-story building, resting half in and half out. The site looks like a war causality that took a hit...

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Reframing 50

Reframing 50

The simplest things, change things the most dramatically. The statement, "I want to be healthy, I want to be happy (whatever that means), I want an important and productive life" What do you want? No one can say, but you.

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The Diet

fat the final frontier

"Diet", the word confuses, frightens, confounds, and inferiorates most of the population. I blame this "misunderstanding" on the marketing whizzes that have turned a word into a weapon to sell mass diet goods of destruction...

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Tipping the Scale

fat the final frontier

The scale that sits in the corner of your bathroom and strikes fear and loathing (and most importantly has control over your emotions), is without a doubt the biggest obstacle you've got in attaining your goal to be a lean, mean, running machine...

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