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Permission You don’t need permission to change the world. I read an article by Mark Cuban last week. In it he talked about his first couple jobs and how he ended up where he is. Where he is, is the owner of the Dallas Mavericks Basketball team and one of the internet millionaires that came …
Some thoughts on how to recover mentally and physically from a training cycle. Those of you who have hung out with me over the last 20 years or so know that I’m always training for something. But there are these periods between training cycles where I get lost. I’m a terrible person to be around …
Small kindnesses. The magnitude of the gift is amplified by the situation of the recipient. I was hiking on Monday and I overheard two ladies who were hiking in the same direction. One was telling the other about an incident in a race where the spectator support had made a big difference, had made her …
Gracious Giving Have you ever been involved in the following scene? Maybe it’s an argument between partners. Maybe it’s a parent and child. Maybe it’s someone taking to a coworker or boss. Whatever the scene set up, the moment comes when one party complains “You don’t appreciate everything I do for you!” It comes out …
Getting Winter Funky This is a topic that comes up every year in January, February and March. This is when up here in the northern hemisphere it is dark and cold and joyless (if we let it be). We tend to get the blues and fall into what has come to be known as …
