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Another human being navigating life's plot twists.

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

Ringing in the New Year and Bringing Back a Word: GRATITUDE

Each year, I pick a word for the year to represent what I am challenging myself to focus on. Usually, I spend lots of time contemplating it. It’s got to[…]

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Seeing is Deceiving

“What Story Are You Telling Yourself?“ Perception is a funny thing. Our brain has lots of data coming in so it uses “shortcuts” that tell us the alleged truth of[…]

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Be A Good Ancestor

I love this phrase. When we say “I want to be a good ancestor” we are saying we want to leave the world a better place than how we came[…]

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