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How to Make Someone’s Life Better

2/24/2023

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Two friends walk together.
Love starts with ignorance and ends with understanding.​
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​Your Unique Power & Authority

2/21/2023

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A mannequin stands above three other mannequins.
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A Reason to Keep Looking Up

2/4/2023

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A woman stand in a city street, looking up.
Even in the darkest of times we can find inspiration to continue looking up.
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How to Move a Mountain

1/30/2023

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A mountain view.
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What Story Are You Telling Yourself?

12/31/2022

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What story are you telling yourself in your meaningful moments of transformation?
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What’s Your Muse?

11/29/2022

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A painted light bulb
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One Thing at Once: A Case for Consolidated Effort

10/1/2022

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A game of Tug of War

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A Fig Tree in Winter

9/3/2022

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A fig tree in winter.
A mere “oops” and a playful laugh is not what you might expect when damaging a brand new vehicle, but that’s just how Dave is—as long as I’ve known him, he has never wished for a fig in winter.

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What to do when mistakes happen

8/9/2022

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I composed a final letter to say goodbye, dropped it in the mail, and then deleted all traces of the old and dear friend from my life.

​Even if I wanted to connect, it had become an unlikely task. After deleting their contact information from my phone and disconnecting from their social media accounts, trying to reach out would be a challenge.


And that was just how it needed to be, for all efforts to reconcile had been rebuffed and attempts to do so only did more harm than good.

It’s said that a calm sea never made a skilled sailor, but using the metaphor for this friendship found our ship unworthy of weathering the storm and it had become time to abandon ship and go our separate ways. 

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Empowering Your Audience with Stories

8/2/2022

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What story are you telling?
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What are you sitting on the shore of?

7/25/2022

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“I've taken you as far as I can, Jeremy. There is nothing more I can teach you.”

It was a bittersweet moment.

Bitter, because I knew we had reached the end of the road. And sweet, because that had been the goal all the while.

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What are you grateful for?

7/13/2022

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“Work for a cause David, not for applause. Remember to live your life to express, not to impress; don’t strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.”

I’ve never read Sonny Bloch’s and Grace Lichtenstein’s book Inside Real Estate, so I don’t know who this David is they reference—but I suspect the advice would have also been helpful at the communist party conference in Moscow.

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The Three Drivers of Change

7/1/2022

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Being Well By Living Well

6/7/2022

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A yellow balloon with a happy face.
“Happiness is not a goal…it’s the byproduct of a life well lived.” — Eleanor Roosevelt​
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How to Change the Tide & Rise Again

5/26/2022

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The Infinite Monkey Theorem suggests that any event with a probability more than zero can happen at some point, if given enough time. But as the physicist Max Tegmark reminds us, “really freak events happen only exponentially rarely.” 

This was one of those exponentially rare moments.

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Finding Your Voice

5/8/2022

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​“See you tonight!” Mr. Fuller said with a smile as he passed by in the foyer.

“No, I won’t be there,” I replied, without a tinge of regret. After all, FOMO (fear of missing out) hadn’t been invented yet. Neither had Facebook, Instagram, nor TikTok. Heck, even MySpace wasn’t yet a thing.

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Master the Moment: Life in Transition

5/4/2022

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A stick figure struggles to move across a great divide.
“Not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.”  — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Sailing Opossum

4/29/2022

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​Did she get that name because she was so small when they found her that she could fit into a pocket? Or was it because when they found her she was in a pocket?

I forgot to ask when I had the chance.

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The Real Secret of Magic

4/20/2022

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Magicians are often asked, “How’d you do that?” Many people assume it has something to do with subtle misdirection—a little smoke here or a perfectly placed mirror there—but the real answer may surprise you, and it’s a secret I stumbled upon quite by accident.

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How to Pursue Worthy Goals

4/14/2022

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A skydiver gliding through the clouds.
Where are you going? And how are you getting there?​
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Name it to Tame it

4/9/2022

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Trash

As he walks the streets, parents often pull their children close, not wanting them to get too near the strange man picking up trash on the side of the road. Others avert their eyes, preferring to avoid the man locals have come to call “Pig Pen.”

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How does what you do reflect who you are?

4/5/2022

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Harry Chapin

Though earning over $2,000,0000 a year at the height of his career, Harry had little left to leave for his family when he suddenly and unexpectedly died in 1981.

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How to be a Visionary

3/31/2022

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The day had finally arrived and Hiroshi stepped into the factory with open eyes and mind.

He had traveled 10,000 miles to get to Cincinnati just for this one meeting and there was a lot riding on it, because back home in Kyoto, Japan, there were plenty of people doubting him.

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How Your Choices Discourage Others

3/20/2022

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The single choice with the power to open the door to a world of possibilities.
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How an artist in Kyiv is fighting for freedom

3/7/2022

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Scrabble letters spell
“My weapon is a word...I will never be afraid to speak out loud."​
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They had only just reached the woods when the bombardment began, and the sudden crescendo of cascading explosions became so loud it felt like their ears were bleeding.

With nowhere to seek shelter, the three acted quickly and ran to a nearby ravine, hoping the natural cover of trees might slow the falling debris.

Torrie collapsed to the ground under a giant pine tree and grabbed ahold of her dog, Martha, who was shaking uncontrollably. Together with her husband, Ilya, they closed their eyes, ready to die.

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