“In any given moment we have two options: To step forward into growth or step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow I will never forget the journey my now eighteen year old daughter Niala took me through while first learning how to swim. Initially it was fun. There was the “daddy and me” […]
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“Freedom isn’t going through life unscathed, It’s choosing to not let what has hurt you bind you.” – Leo Christopher To finally come to an understanding that I will never stop growing has brought a sense a of peace, calm and self-acceptance to my life. When I consider who I use to be, (not that
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“Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and the thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see the greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself.” – Edmunds Lee Whenever I reach a milestone I tend to reflect on my future, my past and where I am today.
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“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have to enough, and more.” – Melody Beattie Today was a very different day for me. As I am writing this post I am sitting in the window seat of airplane heading back home to California from New Orleans, where I have just
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I have found that growing up means being honest about what I want, what I need, and who I am. – Epiphany Just last week I decided to take some time off to work in my yard. You know, plant a few flowers, trim down some hedges and pull a few weeds. The kind of
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“It’s never too late to be what you might have been” – George Eliot Perhaps you are not into watching professional fights on the big screen, but I grew up watching Muhammed Ali and Sugar Ray Leonard take on big fights with much anticipation and hype. I will even admit that I had a
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“Believe that your best life is still yet to come, and you will live a different and better life” – Henry G. Nutt, III We live in a day an age where negative news bombards every media outlet known to man. There is simply no escaping it. I just witnessed a mother beating
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“Sometimes we have to stop being so giving to others, because in the process we end up destroying the part of us that needs to be giving to ourselves.” – r.g. moon Are you that busy type that seems to get uncomfortable when there is nothing to do, no one to help or situation to
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“Everyone sees who you appear to be, few experience who you really are.” – Unknown There is so much going on in the world today. Situations that will indeed test our resolve, faith and at times even our ability to believe in humanity. From what we read and hear on the media, to
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“One of the hardest things to do in life is to look at one’s self and recognize our own failures, short-comings and poor decisions we have made, but repeating them will prove to be the more difficult lesson.” – Henry G. Nutt, III So I am forty-eight years old, a father of four children
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