Category: Purposeful Living
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You’re My Girl
Things every father needs to communicate to his daughter… You are loved You don’t need to earn love No one will love you like your daddy does You don’t have to do anything for someone to love you! You don’t have to be anything special for someone to love you! You are treasured You worth […]
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START! What a Difference a Year Makes… Breastfeeding Baby Dracula
If you had come to me one year ago and shown me this picture, and said, “Here’s you right now on the left and here is what you will look like one year from today on the right, if you just get started…” I would have said, “No way! That is impossible! I can’t do […]
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Go Small or Go Home!
How many times have you heard the phrase, “Go Big or Go Home!” I think a lot of us may feel overwhelmed in life; in marriage, at work, in raising children, with our finances, in losing weight, with our spiritual lives, in <fill in the blank> whatever area of life you can think of, because […]
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Stuff I’m Starting To Figure Out At 40
Today I am 14,627 days old. I think that makes me something like 173 years old in dog years. I’ve been 40 for a little over two weeks now. Let me give you a little advice and tell you some of the things I am starting to figure out in all my years of life […]
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I Lost 50 Pounds in 5 Months
When I see a headline like the one above – my first inclination is to dismiss it, because it is either a fad diet that won’t last, a “professional worker-outer” that hits the gym 4 hours per day and doesn’t eat, or some super-obese person that has 200+ pounds to lose. Let me tell you, […]
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Drowning
I have always imagined that drowning would probably be one of the worst ways to die. For some strange reason, I often think of how I am going to die. The kids and I talk about how we want to have a good story to tell at “The Gate” when we get to the end […]
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Fresh Perspective
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” – Wayne W. Dyer
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From Survive to Thrive – Friendship
This is the third in a series of five articles on going From Survive to Thrive in our lives. The first article had some introductory sections in it. If you haven’t read those yet and would like to – click here – the page will open in a new window so you won’t lose this […]
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From Survive to Thrive – Family
Do you ever feel like you are just drifting through life – being tossed around by waves – just reacting – just trying not to drown – just trying to survive most of the time? I am confident that we will all go through periods of time where we are just surviving – I get […]
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Who Are Your Peeps? Your Top 5 Influencers?
Who Are Your Peeps? Who are the influencers in your life? I don’t know if “the kids” are still using the word ‘peeps’ to refer to the main people in their lives or not any more, but I am trying to stay hip and relevant in my teenage daughter’s life – so don’t fault me […]