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small decisions

SPEND ENOUGH TIME WATCHING COMmercials and it’s easy to surmise life’s intended priorities: Look good. Be rich. Smell like Axe.

But outside the small screen, we quickly realize that making our goals fit within a mass of responsibilities, limitations and life’s maddening unpredictability is like assembling a black puzzle in the dark while drunk.

It doesn’t start that way though. Our existence began with simple needs, most of which were taken care of by someone else. We ate, slept and created Rorschach-esque diaper art. That’s about it. We got a little older and the list a little longer. For many of us

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