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December 2015

December 13, 2015

Two Different Ways to Grow

I'm my own worst critic. Are you? The negative voices that fill our heads may...

December 06, 2015

The Dark Side of Loyalty

Loyalty is praiseworthy. Loyalty creates trust between people and allows us to have those long-lasting,...

November 2015

November 29, 2015

Thank You for Offending Me

I am thankful for honesty and disagreement. I am thankful for opinions and debates. I...

November 08, 2015

To Quit Feeling Sorry for Yourself

You, hey you. I know how you feel. Like a load of crap has just...

November 01, 2015

The Message that Fear Brings Us

We feel fear, and we hesitate. It means something: a warning, a signal to beware,...

October 2015

October 04, 2015

Follow the Echoes Back to the Sound

Humanity is a thing both infinite and rare. Perfect and broken, fractured, lost inside our...

August 2015

August 30, 2015

Accept the Risk of Absence

Fear is not meant to be a constant state of being. It's meant to be an...

August 23, 2015

Start to Fight Your Fear

Fear comes when we perceive a threat to us. The threat may be physical: harm,...

August 16, 2015

This Is How You Must Think of Yourself

It is too easy to feel bad about yourself. We start out in life knowing nothing....

August 08, 2015

Have Faith in the Value of Life

The thing we have in common with everyone in the whole entire world (and, indeed,...

August 01, 2015

Seek to Learn, Not to Be Right

We depend on our senses to give us accurate information about the world. More and...

July 2015

July 19, 2015

To Be Kind to Others, Be Kinder to Yourself

To see the beauty in the world, and in others, you have to start by...

July 11, 2015

Open the Door for Yourself

You ever have those days when all you feel and see are your own failures?...

June 2015

June 28, 2015

What Happens When You’re Not Afraid

When you're not afraid, you don't have to be ashamed. You don't have to defend....

June 13, 2015

Quit Looking at the Clay Pots

We want safety for ourselves and for those we love. But in our world, in...

June 06, 2015

When the Present You Have Is Not the Future You Expected

You were only at the beginning. Even though you'd already been through some hard times,...

May 2015

May 30, 2015

Letting Go Is the Beginning of Everything

Accomplishment is often how we derive our value, our identity. To accomplish, we have to...