Signs You’re Living Your Purpose
Someone once said that there are two truly important days in our life: the day we are born and the
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Motivational Truths
Defining & Recognizing Strength
When we hear someone say, “He’s a strong person,” or “She has great inner strength,” it can mean different things
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Live in the Moment
From the book – Cigar Lounge Wisdom For much of my life I lived under a mistaken belief based on
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Preparing For and Making Opportunities
“It’s better to be prepared and not have an opportunity, rather than missing an opportunity because you weren’t prepared for
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Don’t Tame Your Inner Monster: Harness It!
Have you ever had a thought and then wondered why it was so dark? Have you ever looked in the
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Making and Breaking Habits
According to brainpickings.org, it takes 21 days, at a minimum, to build a new habit. That’s 21 days of repeating
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Motivation and…?
…Age Just recently, as many readers know, I’ve renewed my focus on my health. I am not participating in any
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Good and Bad Expiration Dates
This morning I saw a quote that said, “Even bad days have an expiration date of 24 hours.” The editor
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Miles Instead of Years
Some years back when I was responsible for fleet maintenance for my police agency, we kept track of the service
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Investing In and Valuing Your Health
This entry is being used to announce a new section and effort here on my webpage: a section dedicated to
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Solve Problems Like You’re Dancing In The Rain
My family once owned a dog that we named ThunderStorm and just called Storm. He was a chocolate Labrador from
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Six Characteristics of the Mentally Strong
Have you ever noticed that some of your friends or family never seem quite as stressed or lacking in control
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The 12 Best Life Hacks
In today’s computer age, days where you can’t look around without seeing someone on their “smart” phone, and times of
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What Qualifies Me?
So, I received a private message on Facebook from a gentleman asking, “What qualifies you to give advice on life
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2018 New Year Resolutions
Near the end of every calendar year… or in the first few days of a new year… huge numbers of
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Life’s Simplest Lessons
Recently I saw an image through the wizardry of social media and, after having read through it, thought about just
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Defining You
As happens all too often in my household, my son asked me a question that forced me to carefully think
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The Butterfly Affect in Life
Plenty has been written about “the butterfly effect.” Whole movies have been made about it from dramas about how minor
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Seven Rules of Life
If you Google “rules for life” you get 863 MILLION returns (in under 2/3 of a second). There are whole
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Brightest Lights During The Darkest Times
NOTE: This blog isn’t being written, or even approached, with journalistic structure or professionalism in mind. The topic is suicide:
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