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Listening is greater than speaking. I talk a lot… But I listen more….. There are many keys to communication.Keys that can unlock many locks, opening doors through the walls the world creates within us. Cultivate the art of listening to others and learn about yourself in doing so. Here are the 5 things that I do to cultivate the art of listening. Limit distractionsI make it a point to…

Through this fist art I create a long life.

I’m a kung fu guy who trains like a Marine. Why? Because both have taught me that adaptation and freedom not only give you options but give you the gift of enjoying them. The one precious common denominator that all martial arts possess is movement. Mindful movement brings life to the body. Thought moves electrical currents through the body. Those surges excite blood, bone and muscle. That…

A simple rhyme from a 5th grade frame of mind which exudes the wisdom of time

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It’s all about how you define things. Five years into my marriage I stumbled across a concept in an article while reading a magazine in a doctors office.Not only did this concept create a defining moment in our marriage but I’ve gone on with great success implementing its practice in every other part of my life.Working with others well is contingent on the team sharing a goal.And that goal needs…

By a Jaded Gen X’er Who Still Remembers When Aliens Were Cool (Before They Became Government PowerPoint Slides) Look, kids, back in the day—I’m talking floppy disks, Nirvana on MTV, and The X-Files making Friday nights bearable—we Gen X’ers grew up on a steady diet of alien paranoia. Roswell crashes, Area 51 whispers, Independence Day blowing up the White House… it was fun. Scary, but fun. We’d…

Picture a weathered tightrope stretched across a chasm of chaos—not the polished circus act with spotlights and safety nets, but a frayed cord whipping in the winds of obligation, where every step echoes the grind of generations past. For Generation X, those latchkey souls born mid-1960s to early 1980s, this isn’t the sterile myth of “work-life balance,” a phrase that dangles like a broken…

Knowledge and Growth: The Infinite Loop That Refuses to Let You Stay Small “The more you know the more you grow. The more you grow the more you know.”It’s not a cute fridge-magnet rhyme. It’s the operating system of every single person who ever went from broke to abundant, from invisible to undeniable, from stuck to unstoppable. It’s a flywheel, not a finish line. And right now most of us are…