"Winners Never Quit."

“It is what it is.” “Such is life.” “Good vibes only.” “Money can’t buy happiness.” “When one door closes, another door opens.” Yuck. Platitudes. And yet, we all see the image form of these — and hundreds of other yawntastic ones — plastered high and low all over our social media feeds, all...

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Treat Yo' Self

Shopping. Ordering online. Eating out. Hot, long showers. Binge drinking. Eating cookies. Life is full of treats.  Some are tasty, others are social, and then there are a few which are “guilty pleasures.” The risk with these “treats” is that they become more than a treat, but instead beco...

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New Year, New…

2023 has begun and for many of us, we are struggling much like Sisyphus with our own annual boulders. We are fresh, renewed, ready and excited.  The year starts and we explode with force, moving the boulder. Up. Up. Up. It gets harder and harder, and then eventually we let our old self — our...

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Consequences

In church today, the pastor spoke about how all things happen “on God’s time.” Whether you believe or do not, how perfectly true is this? We struggle and strain every day to make things happen on our time and yet — God, fate, karma, or whatever you may believe in — will insist on things hap...

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Resolutions

What “New Years Resolutions” have you made for 2023? To lose 25 pounds? Get a promotion? Go to Europe? Quit caffeine?  Instead of viewing the ringing in of the new year as a fresh start with which we attack with vigor and enthusiasm, why not each day? We must not let ourselves be like a fre...

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What Could You Be Like?

What would we be like at the end of today if we stopped wasting time on petty, trivial things? How about at the end of a week of it? A month? Or maybe if we reduced our wasting time by even 80% for 5 years? What would your life be like? What skills could you have? Who could you have met? W...

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Embarrassing!

It’s your birthday! You are out with loved ones for dinner, laughing, carousing, just enjoying life.  The world is absolutely glowing. All at once, a giant sombrero is on your head and the Mexican waiters are singing a very, very loud rendition of the infamous “Happy Birthday” song, however...

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Speed Demon

By doing things with haste, what are we missing? With a 20 mile drive to work, going 55mph means you arrive in ~21 minutes. Going 70 (on the 55 “suggested” road) you only save 4 minutes. This isn’t a rant about speeding in a car, either! When we hurry, hurry, scurry to get places, we end up mi...

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CNN, NBC, BBC, XYZ, ABC, ETC

Am I the only one who suffers the magnetism, the gravitational pull of the endless news? The sensational headlines. The outrage! The imagery. Murders, thefts, corruption, death, violence, political demagoguery and mudslinging… “The world is going straight to hell!” Is it, really? Maybe it is...

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A 6 Foot Coffin of Wood? Or, a 750ml Coffin of Glass?

What is worse? To lose your child to death? At 3, 5, 10, 20, 30? The years of opportunities once laid bare to them, future fruits, their own children and marriages all robbed? Or to lose your child to addiction? Heroin, fentanyl, alcohol, sex, or cocaine… The years of opportunities being robb...

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