Choose Abundance

From “The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything” by Stephen M. R. Covey Abundance means that there is enough for everybody. The opposite – scarcity – says that there is only so much to go around, and if you get it, I won’t. While scarcity may be a reality in some areas […]

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Until you deny them

From “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success” by Carol S. Dweck, PhD John Wooden, the legendary basketball coach, says you aren’t a failure until you start to blame. What he means is that you can still be in the process of learning from your mistakes until you deny them. 

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Self-Care

From “Embracing Your Second Calling: Find Passion and Purpose for the Rest of Your Life” by Dale Hanson Bourke Self-care is NOT: Self-care IS: Self-caring PEOPLE:

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Beyond All Understanding

From “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechner” by Frederick Buechner FAITH, HOPE, LOVE. Those are their names of course, those three – as words so worn out, but as realities so rich. Our going-away presents from beyond time to carry with us through time to lighten our step as we go. And

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The Recipe

From “Cumulative Advantage: How to Build Momentum for Your Ideas, Business, and Life Against All Odds” by Mark W. Schaefer The formula from the Ferriss case study and my research is the recipe we’ll follow for the rest of the book. If we aren’t born into Cumulative Advantage, we can go around the system and

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Full Versus Marginal Thinking

From “How Will You Measure Your Life?” by Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon I can’t anticipate all the circumstances and moral dilemmas you will find yourself in throughout your life. Yours will be different from everyone else’s. What I offer here is a theory called “full versus marginal thinking” that will help

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Always Open

From “Sacred Compass: The Way of Spiritual Discernment” by J. Brent Bill God works within and around us, leading, guiding, and opening the way, sometimes when we least expect or feel it. The idea of being led and guided implies movement. If we’re being led or guided then we must be being led or guided

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