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Mike

Mike has written 99 posts for miketheory.com

Hatred bounces

E.E. Cummings

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Scott Ginsberg

Fear should be in the trunk, not riding shotgun!

I have not seen the movie the Bucket List, I would like to, but even if I never do, I get the point.  The point is to experience things before you die.  This is such a no-brainer, but why is it that we wait until we are old or on some sort of death bed […]

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.

Mark Twain

5 Things we can all learn from Barney Stinson

For peeps out of the chickens nest, Barney is the most raddest and awesome character to ever grace a comedic sitcom. The show is HIMYM or How I Met Your Mother. If you have not seen the show, run; don’t walk to your neighborhood video rental shop, or fire up netflix and get […]

Learn the Art of True Gift Giving and Give Yourself the Greatest Gift

I remember a few years back I was complaining to my sister about a gift that I gave someone. I was complaining that the person did not appreciate the gift, they were not taking care of it, and thus was feeling disrespected by that person.
My sister casually and calmly told me that I had […]

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self

Fred Rogers

Things that make you go huh?

Photo courtesy of flickr user Squid Vicious
So I recently saw this billboard around Oregon City and it make me say huh, or more appropriately WTF? Don’t bother doing a google search for some hidden commercial meaning or weird product placement because I already did and there aint nothing! So all I can think […]

Happy Birthday To Me I just turned 883,660,332 seconds old

15 things I have “learned” so far:

I “know” nothing
Control is an illusion
The things you own (can) end up owning you
Try to remember everything others have done for you and try to forget everything you have done for others
Reading is magic
Bad Debt is the work of the Devil
Its better to be kind then to be right
Our […]

7 overdraft fees, Bank Please… The end of my relationship with the Debit Card!

A few days ago I got the bank equivalent of a slap in the face… 7 times and I was not happy. It has been a while since getting an overdraft fee, but today I made up for it in spades. Around 9 months ago I setup bill pay and it has been […]