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reducing our debt to equity ratio with our lender in the hope of eventually turning a

small but fruitful profit upon resale. What is it all for though? What purpose does it

serve when at the end of the day, “earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust”, we

return to wherever it was we came from.

I often wonder how people find their compass through all of the chaos. We live in what

is now coined ‘the Age of Distraction’. As pack mammals, we are easily swayed to

conform to the ways of our community in order to fulfil our need for belonging to

something larger than ourselves. We make choices based on a hope of fulfilling our

underlying human need for significance, certainty, variety, love, connection, and

growth. These are known as the six human needs that are universal to all people.

How often do we really take the time to step back and reflect on what it is that is truly

guiding us to make the decisions we make in our lives?

The modern era is not just coined the “Age of Distraction” but also known as the “Age

of Disruption”.

I came to a point in my life where the poor choices I had been making as an adult

brought me to such a state of inner crisis that I had no choice but to take a leap of faith

into the unknown.

Disruption. I knew that what I was presented with left me feeling empty. Was it just

me? or was it the world that I lived in? I recently became enraptured and absorbed by

the works of Jordan Peterson. Peterson is a Jungian psychologist or psychotherapist

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