Tag: Letting Go
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2025 Holiday Message
Here we are this holiday season, 2025, surrounded by Christmas music of days gone by, madly doing what the masses do. Every now and then we (actually) stop to reflect how grateful we are that we have healed, that we have family and friends that mean so much to us, that we are guided Spiritually…
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Standing on Your Rooted Foundation
Watching an episode of Long Lost Family, I heard Scottish footballer Dominic Mateo comment upon having brain cancer. He said, “I’ve been given another chance. That’s how I see it in life. You know, I really do.” What would it take for you to adopt this attitude? Taking the reins on life and going for…
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The Evolving You and Reimagining Here
Each of us comes equipped with a story to share of how we feel today and how we think we got here, marked by up’s and down’s and people we’ve met along the way. Those who know me know that I love telling stories—not lies, but the truths as I remember them. I often pepper…
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A Time to Realign
In a Boy Scout life guard course I took two and a half decades ago, I learned that when saving someone who is drowning, one needs to do the opposite of what seems natural. You see, when someone is drowning, they have the potential to hold on and drag the lifeguard under in an attempt…
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If You Let It
Something went on in the sky yesterday. We can explain it, predict it, model it, anticipate it. But seeing it—experiencing it? That goes, not beyond, but without measure. Time almost stands still in a total eclipse, it seems. The slow progression can just be discerned. Then that moment of total triumph blares its horn in…
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Considering Considerations: Metacognition
Thinking of the bravest things you have ever done probably brings you down many paths. Stop and think for a moment of those things or moments in your life that you would rate as brave. Just take a moment to think! I rate jumping out of a plane (although strapped to someone who knew what…
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Jump into life!
I emailed and texted two people today who are having a particularly hard time with life. (I’ll add commentary afterwords that describes some of the content of the following email I sent.) Here is some of what I wrote to one person: “My recommendation is to do the Chill Drills routinely… to think of them…