3D: Daily Dose of Discernment: 2022

Book excerpt: Read Daily Dose of Discernment to Discover— • How To Develop Awareness • How To Increase Your Mental Capability • How To Exercise and Improve Your Mind • How To Exercise and Improve Your Thinking • How To Increase Insight through Discernment Up for a Challenge? • If you like to think about various ideas and issues, this book is for you. • If you like discovering new perspectives and outlooks, this book is for you. • If you like to challenge your thinking, this book is for you. • If you enjoy wit and a play on words, this book is for you. • Read and enjoy! Themes and Topics • The themes and topics of quotations include professional mental-health counseling, self-help, General Semantics, Eastern psychology, philosophy, and other topics, often in no particular order. • Various issues of interest to the author are also addressed, such as: coping, ego, identity, performance, psychological, scientific, skill, social, spiritual, talent, and various other issues related to human sensing, feeling, thinking, and behaving. • The focus varies yearly, month to month, and day to day. • Read and enjoy! Focused Issues • Occasionally, the author “gets on a kick” and sticks with a topic or issue for one or more days. • A specific focus might be on the nature of wisdom or how roles and professions get caught in ego games. • This book contains many insights regarding the nature of the ego as self-constructions. • Read and enjoy! Daily Quotations • This book consists of the daily quotations this author posted to his website and blog in 2022. • It continues a series that was started in 2003 and has continued ever since, with the current collection compiled in 2024. • This book is the latest publication in this series, bringing the total to seventeen volumes. • The series was started at the request and suggestion of some of Mr. FitzMaurice’s counseling clients. • When a year of postings becomes a book, that year is removed from the website because the postings have been edited and modified. • The quotations are typically a group of five (or sometimes six) consecutive statements on or about the same theme or topic. • This repetition is conducive to learning and finding different insights and perspectives on the same issue, theme, or topic. Read and enjoy!