Week #4 of 2025 has arrived. The polar vortex has sent super cold weather to the Great Plains. My hands hurt it's so cold. The polar vortex is cyclical. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square.  Done? Cycles. Everything cycles. And yet, cycles don't exist in a vacuum. We are imprisoned in the cycles of: the universe, the earth, human history, our country, our culture, our politics, our family, etc... but we aren't imprisoned by those cycles. And while as individuals we can't remove ourselves from the cycles we find ourselves in, our actions do affect the trajectory and duration of the cycles. You do have agency. However, it is often not the agency that...

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Week #2 of 2025 has arrived. And just like that the starting pistol has sounded, all of the anxiety about starting the race is over, and now we are in the middle of the beginning of the New Year. Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square.  Done? I love the holidays, but I’m not sad that they’re over. This year especially felt more fraught than usual. I heard a similar refrain from a lot of folks my age. A break in the routine is important, but you know what is more important? Loving your routine. If you don’t enjoy your day to day… if you NEED the escape of weekends, vacations and holidays… changing...

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Every person, every thing, every idea in our lives weighs on us in measure to how dear we hold it.  Some are worth carrying forever, some only for a while, and some were never worth carrying.

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Who I am is how I treat the least among us, and the same goes for you.

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 The point is in the struggle. The lessons are in the struggle. The wisdom is in the struggle.

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Be the kind of person that it is easy to be friends with. Be generous, be helpful. Invest time in your friends, especially as you get past your 20's.

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Decide what is "most important",  find a way to keep that "front of mind" and then DO IT.

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Life is Struggle, Struggle is Life, would that make even the messiest struggle more noble?

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I choose to think that what I do and what I don't do matters. I choose to believe I have agency. 

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It takes courage to have a vision, but before that it takes clarity.

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