Tired but Steady

There are days that I’m simply “out of gas”. I can be physically tired and mentally tired. I’m thankful that it’s not every day, I feel this way. It has happened a couple of times in the past week. When I’ve got situations that friends or family are facing, I can’t help but feel for…

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Strong & Steady

I really like balance. I like to keep my life in balance. If I work too much, I feel a bit stressed out. If I play too much, I feel like I’m losing my drive for excellence. There are so many areas of my life that finding a good balance is very important.  One of…

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Powerful Powerless Posture

I’ve been told to stand up straight and stop slumping. I’ve also been told to sit up straight. As I get older, I wish I had listened to that advice because good posture requires a conscious choice and then it can become a habit. I’ve noticed when I sit at my desk, that I scoot…

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Vitality

This is a word that means “exuberant physical strength or mental vigor; capacity for survival or for the continuation of a meaningful or purposeful existence; power to live and grow”. My annual celebration of my birth is now just days away and these celebrations seem to come faster and faster the older I get. I…

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Strength & Power

I played golf with some dear friends from college last week. We are all getting to be a bunch of “old farts”! Some of the guys can still hit a golf ball a mile. Some are in good physical health, while some are acting like we’re old. I think old is a relative term. When…

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Quiet Strength

Some people are simply loud – they talk loudly, they laugh loudly, they whisper loudly. I can get loud, but I try to keep calm and weigh my words carefully.  I sometimes get loud when I’m in strong disagreement with another person. I think it actually harms my words when I get loud, because the volume…

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