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December 8, 2020

Regret

Regret sucks! I don’t know a better way of putting it. But I guess it is part of the human experience; to look back and say, “shoulda, woulda, coulda”. George Kinder, considered the founder of Financial Life Planning, poses three questions in an effort to…
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December 6, 2020

People change or people change

Many years ago, I signed up for a coaching program aimed at creating self-mastery in business. It focused on the creation of systems and processes and the knowledge, attitude, skills and habits necessary to build self-mastery. The leader insisted that our job as entrepreneurs was…
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December 5, 2020

Resistance training

My trainer pointed to the green band and instructed me to slip it around my ankles and step laterally. I knew what was coming and that I’d feel the ache right up to my hips. I could have made an excuse why I couldn’t do…
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December 3, 2020

The stories we tell ourselves—part 2

I promise not to get all political—everyone is entitled to vote their conscience. The issue is about the stories we tell ourselves and how applicable they are to the current state of our country. There are many who align with a political party because that’s…
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December 1, 2020

There’s a time to be a salmon…

You know the story of the intrepid salmon that swim upstream in their final journey to spawn before their life ends. You’ve seen the films of their perilous challenges over obstacles and through rapids—their beaten, bruised and exhausted bodies finally reaching their destination. Sounds like…
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November 29, 2020

From hero to zero—again

There is a learning model that describes the four stages of learning. The bottom of the model begins with Unconscious Incompetence, where the individual does not understand or know how to do something. They pretty much don’t even know that they don’t know. Whether they…
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November 28, 2020

Acceptance

Aging…maturing…growing older changes you—in some ways for the better and in some ways not. I will never be as physically resilient in my sixties as I was in my teens. I worked every day after school for the local butcher and then weekends at the…
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November 25, 2020

Podcast -Tom Anderson

The joy of pursuing an unconventional life is the freedom that comes with no limitations. On the path less traveled, there are only new opportunities, beginnings, and experiences. My guest today, Tom Anderson, is the perfect example of an unconventional life lived to the fullest.…
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