Word: tricked
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...Franz Marc called The Bewitched Mill. A waterfall spills down the center of the canvas between a scene of machines and houses on one side and trees and animals on the other. It's a fantasy of magical reconciliation between the natural and man-made worlds - always a nice trick...
...money I really need? Number one: don't bring your credit card out to the mall. When you buy something with cash, it feels like it's much more expensive. And because of that, you actually start to say to yourself, "Hey, is this really worth it?" That's trick number one. Trick number two is related to dopamine and addiction. Take a distance to things. If you go out and you want to buy the bag, the golden rule should be to say, "Hey, I really want that bag, but I'm not going to buy it today...
...embedded expenses are hard to pare. What are you going to do, buy a smaller house tomorrow? The trick is to see through the fiction that certain costs are "fixed." The typical family spends $1,303 a year on electricity; by simply unplugging appliances when you're not using them, you can shave 5% to 10% off that bill. And when was the last time you shopped for cheaper car insurance? It's an expense that's out of sight most of the year but a significant chunk of what we spend...
...Honestly, I was so nervous and excited I threw up and pooped my shorts (quite a trick, as I was lying on my stomach at the time). But hockey'll do that to you. It takes the mild-mannered and turns them into screaming soldiers of shinny. With its speed, agility and even beauty, Lord Stanley's favorite sport has always made the heart soar and the pulse race. Nobody who's ever attended a hockey game has opted against a second viewing because they found it boring. (Read about Joel Stein's quest to write about hockey...
...were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time. I don't remember the hotel rooms or the airports but I always remember the events...