In a world as complicated as ours it is VERY easy to justify nearly anything. It is so easy that it is often hard to know if a decision that would benefit you personally is actually the decision with integrity, or just a personally convenient justification.

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By starting now, at whatever capacity you can manage, you have already tilted the stars in your favor.

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Don't mistake kindness for weakness, and don't mistake strength for integrity.

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The thing about cycles is this. While inevitable and heroically beautiful, they are simultaneously tragic and sucky.

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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 #3 of 2025 has arrived. Wow. And just like that we are 5.76923077 percent through 2025. Does it surprise you how "little" 5 percent of the year is? 2025 is a flash in the pan. Enjoy it! Time to walk over to your 4K Weeks poster and fill in another square.  Done? I got an email "thank you" from a reader this week. She was specifically thanking me for four sentences that hit her at just the right moment earlier this year. I had forgotten that I wrote them. But they bear repeating as we all try to make a fresh start this year. Don't carry anything into the new year that isn't serving your purpose. Here are the...

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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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Can we change our nature and pop our wheels out of the ruts of a familiar trail when we are hopeful for a new track? Is that what is required? Or is it enough to just become slightly better at observing the signals the universe sends to us?

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If you want to get good at something, you are going to need to first be ok being bad at it. If you can do that, then the next thing to do is figure out how you can put yourself in situation where you can safely make a whole bunch of mistakes in a short time. Get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

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Start something. SOMETHING. ANYTHING. Do something... for a while.

Work. Learn. Grow. Repeat. Happiness.

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