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3 Steps to Using a Win or Learn Reflection to Improve Performance

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Top 4 Key Questions to Uncover Virtues from Past Experiences

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Top 4 Methods For Discovering Your Core Virtues

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Spartan: Living with Areté and Becoming Heroic

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Hope Springs Eternal (Look for Your Pony)

I showed up and I didn't throw up, but the struggle is real.

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It All Starts With the Song - It's time to thank a songwriter.

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“It all starts with the song.”

[This is] Your Song

I remember those words like it was yesterday. On the first day of my first class for learning about how the music business works, my professor (and the founder of the prestigious program at Belmont University), Robert “Bob” Mulloy, said those words with a seriousness and sincerity that felt a bit overstated to me…

No. This is not me. It’s just representative of how I felt. | Photo by Victor Freitas from Pexels

Those were the words I kept repeating in my head as I tried to keep up with my wife and the ladies in her class. That feeling took me back to ninth grade and two-a-days for football. Except that was outside in the August heat of Georgia. And I was definitely trying to prove I belonged on that field…