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What’s Your Pressure Release Valve
Are you familiar with the glorified pressure cooker, the Instant Pot? My wife often uses it to cook vegetables, other side dishes, and even the main meal. On it is a valve because when your food is ready, you turn it to release the pressure before you open the lid to get your food. Because…
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4 Ways Of Dealing With Mistakes Better
Before jumping in and talking about mistakes, let’s get a clear definition of what it is. As a noun, the word mistakes means “an action or judgment that is misguided or wrong.” As a verb, it means to be wrong about something. Either way, you and I have made plenty of them, but being a…
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Having A Short Memory
My wife and family always accuse me of having a short memory, you know, in one ear and out the other. Then the bugging begins because I keep forgetting to do what they asked, and they keep reminding me. My short memory and my goldfish attention span are conspiring against me. 😊 The struggle is…
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Setting A Good Example
None of you reading will be surprised by the following statement, but here it goes anyway; I haven’t always set a good example. Shocking, right? I thought you would be, but being a coach and a parent, I needed to change my ways. But this doesn’t mean I always get it right because I’m human…
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3 Ways Therapy Has Made Me a Better Coach
You see it in cop shows after an officer-involved shooting when the cop is mandated to go to therapy. The cop is almost always reluctant to go, and when they do go, it’s usually a standoff with the therapist, and then they get a phone call and leave. IMO many people don’t like talking about…
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See Yourself In A Different Light
People often fall short because they need to see themselves in a different light, especially regarding health and fitness. We are bombarded with images of beauty, fame, fortune, sex, and muscles. This is neither good nor bad; it just is. Then some get the wrong idea of what a healthy body looks like, and some…
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Crossing The Line
Crossing the line means going beyond accepted limits or standards of behavior. Like When criticism crosses the line from being helpful to hurtful. The fine line between joking and being offensive. When someone ‘invades” your personal space. Any form of violence where innocent lives are taken away. There are some generally accepted norms where it…
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My Biggest Failures (And Success)
My oldest son is leaving home tomorrow ( a week ago since writing this), and my parenting failures have been on my mind. To say this is an emotional time is an understatement, and if you’re a parent who has gone through moving your children out, you know. If you don’t, take my word for…
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Don’t Let A Past Failure Haunt You
Failures, we all have them. Whether you quit your diet or workout program or fail to reach a goal you’ve wanted so badly, you can taste it. These are basic examples of personal failures, but there is no need to spell them out for you. Because we have all been there. Failure sucks whether it…
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Don’t Do What You Love…….
You’re almost always told to DO what you love like this will help solve your current problem or make you happy. Does it really work like this? Do what you love to make yourself happy. Let’s explore this using me as N= 1 example. What You (I) Love Take a moment to write down or…