I Thought Gluten-Free Was a Scam Until…

Once upon a time, I was a pizza-eating, beer-drinking kind of guy. I stopped drinking beer a while back but that’s a different story. I grew up with a bunch of Italians so eating pasta was mandatory, yum! Italian food is still my favorite category today. But one day, something happened that changed how I…

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Getting Back to “Normal”…

PHOTO CREDIT: This photo is from the Rolling Stone article “Remembering the Victims of the Lewiston, Maine Mass Shooting that can be found here: https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/lewiston-maine-shooting-victims-1234863628/ In November of 2020, right after the lock downs that redefined our economy and our lives, an internet friend of mine and I decided to take our relationship to a…

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I Can’t: Two Words Never to Say to Yourself

Why Never Say “I Can’t?” Because It Matters If you are looking for a reason that you are not achieving the results you want, listen for how many times the words “I can’t” come out of your mouth. “I can’t” is one of the most powerful phrases in the English language for doing nothing productive.…

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Is it “THE” economy or “YOUR” economy?

One of the biggest excuses for lack of success is this thing called the “economy.” Turn on the news and they talk about the financial markets and whether or not the economy is booming or not. Most people don’t even know what this thing is. They just know that it’s big, and the television tells…

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There Is No “Life Participation” Trophy

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But I got a trophy when I was younger…? When I was a kid, one year I got a trophy for playing soccer. Our team sucked. We were last in our division, and I think we won maybe two games out of 10 or 12. At the end of the season, we all got a…

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Ambition vs Greed

If there are two words that are often confused, they are ambition and greed. It is the perspective of the person using these words and sometimes their agendas that are the difference. Most people see ambition as a positive value to be cherished and greed as a negative attribute to avoid. Most people would say…

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Fitness: Body, Mind, Spirit

My Attitude Towards Fitness The word “trinity” is defined as the number three. There are many trinities in the world. The number three comes up again and again throughout the development of civilization, in nature and all over the world. Maybe it is the way our brains are wired? Did a deity or deities give…

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What If Your Critics Are Wrong?

We all have critics. The world is full of critics. Some of them are well-meaning critics like your mother helping you choose a direction in life. She wants you to avoid some of the trials and troubles that she experienced in her life. Other critics are not well-meaning, like the co-worker who shoots down everything…

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There Is No Try

Someone asked me yesterday “Are you going to try to get some work done today?” “No, I AM going to get some work done today,” I answered back. I almost took this careless question as an insult. Then, I considered the source of the question as someone who does not pay close attention to their…

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Why I Shave My Head

I feel the need to make it public about why I shave my head. A lot of uninformed people stay (un)informed by “popular” social media and the television. There is a lot of irresponsible, divisive “journalism,” and a lot of hate in both places right now. I get dirty looks occasionally (and not-so-occasionally) when I…

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