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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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Touching Another’s Soul
A long time ago a friend of mine told me that psychologists are just overpaid bartenders who don’t serve you…
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Measuring the Value of the Human Soul
Every now and then I get involved in some interesting discussions with friends at the local cigar bar. Last evening…
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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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The Blessing of Convoluted Circumstance
Every now and then we get reminded of just how good the people in our world can be. And “our…
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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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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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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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Coaching, Mentoring & Criticizing
Just this morning (as I type this) I enjoyed a quick back-and-forth conversation on social media and then via email…
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