3D: Daily Dose of Discernment: 2020

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 challenging 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 other issues related to human sensing, feeling, thinking, and behaving. • The focus varies yearly, month to month, and daily. • 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 thinking. • Read and enjoy! Daily Quotations • This book consists of the daily quotations this author posted to his website and blog in 2020. • It continues a series that was started in 2003 and has continued since, with the current collection compiled in 2024. • This book is the latest publication in this series, bringing the total to fifteen 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!