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HIPS: What's Most Important To You? Might Be Time To Re-evaluate
By Bryan Hyde
COMMENTARY -- I have a friend who is a highly talented, successful individual.
His work hours and workload have steadily increased to the point that he is required to spend more time away from his young family.
Recently he informed his boss of his concerns that his work was taking him away from his kids.
He was
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Being 'Informed' Only Helpful If the Info You Get Is Worthwhile
By Bryan Hyde
COMMENTARY -- What does it mean to be informed? The answer to this question isn’t as cut and dried as we might think.
A person who is glued to the various news channels or online news outlets is encountering plenty of information any time, day or night.
Bu
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HIPS: Miracles? Faith? Or Coincidence? It's Up To You
By Bryan Hyde
COMMENTARY -- A few years ago, a mother, driving with her baby in the car, lost control and landed upside down in the Spanish Fork river. A fisherman spotted her car the next day and notified the authorities.
When first responders arrived, they were unable to see into the partially submerged car but 4 police officers described hearing a faint voice pleading for help
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HIPS: Sometimes Doing the Right Thing Requires Extreme Courage
By Bryan Hyde
COMMENTARY -- A university professor regularly asks his history students what they would have been doing had they lived in a period where slavery was considered the norm.
Most students predictably and confidently assert that they would have been fearless crusaders for abolition and equal rights for all
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HIPS: The Best Way to Improve Society is To Improve Yourself
By Bryan Hyde
COMMENTARY -- If you’re serious about freeing yourself from the quicksand of politics, it may be time to give some serious thought to a concept espoused by Albert J. Nock.
“There’s only one way to improve society. Present it with
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HIPS: Writing Your Story Will Help Your Descendants Connect With
By Bryan Hyde
COMMENTARY -- We’ve all heard the old adage that, “Everyone has at least one good book in them.”
In reality, there is a book that each of us is uniquely and eminently qualified to write. It’s our own story.
If you’ve never consi
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HIPS: Outsourcing Portions Of Our Lives Is Creating Extreme Depen
By Bryan Hyde
COMMENTARY -- Consider all the things that people once did for themselves that are now being outsourced to others.
Food production has been handed off to corporate farms, making a vast majority of Americans dependent upon grocery stores.
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HIPS: Act, Don't Wait, When It Comes To Doing The Right Thing
By Bryan Hyde
COMMENTARY -- We all have a tendency to wait for someone with superior knowledge, courage or morality to ride to our rescue and save the day.
But the painful truth is that’s not going to happen. And that’s not a bad thing.
It simply
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HIPS: There Are Monsters Inside of Us (Let's Keep Them In Check!)
By Bryan Hyde
COMMENTARY -- None of us wants to believe that we could ever do truly monstrous things.
At the same time, we’re often quite comfortable with acting like lesser monsters when we think we’re right. Or when we respond in kind when someone else is in monster mode.
The truth
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HIPS: Scratching The Itch That Politics Can't Touch
By Bryan Hyde
COMMENTARY -- If you’re beginning to burn out on the negativity and divisiveness that is dominating public discourse these days, there’s a simple solution.
Stop buying into the idea that politics is the prime motivator of all that is taking place around us.
Instead,
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