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July 9, 2020
JumpStart – Sacred Clowns
JumpStart – Sacred Clowns Long-time followers will know that this isn’t my first time on this subject.However, given all that’s transpiring around us, it’s a good idea to remind ourselves of this enduring Native American trickster whose job is to prod, tease, and irritate us so that we grow to become less reactive and more […]
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July 8, 2020
JumpStart – Schadenfreude
JumpStart – Schadenfreude “Oh, how good it feels to feel bad… for someone else, that is.”Many think schadenfreude is proof that people are inherently evil, which makes sense — I mean, why would human beings derive pleasure from another person's misfortune?But, Schadenfreude is more related to our perceived place in society than an evil pleasure […]
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July 7, 2020
JumpStart – Salutation to the Dawn
JumpStart – Salutation to the Dawn Nearly 5000 years ago, a Hindu poet named Kalidasa wrote a poem that has touched lives ever since. It’s called “Salutation to the Dawn”….Look to this day!For it is life, the very life of life.In its brief courseLie all the verities and realities of your existence:— — The bliss […]
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July 6, 2020
JumpStart – New Beginnings
JumpStart – New Beginnings When I was a kid, my mom gave me a little unfinished statue of a boy and on the base was carved, “Be patient, God isn’t finished with me yet.”To this day, I think of that statue and the unfinished nature of our lives. Life is always evolving and because life […]
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July 3, 2020
JumpStart – The Price of Freedom
JumpStart – The Price of Freedom Bishop Desmond Tutu was said, “Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom” and truer words were never spoken.Once we have something so precious as freedom, it takes each of us keeping watch over her such that she is healthy and shelters us all.Now more than ever, we vote with […]
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July 2, 2020
JumpStart – Your New Coach
JumpStart – Your New Coach Think of some of the most exciting and inspiring movies of all time.Consider “Rocky,” the first “Star Wars,” and even comedies like “Dodgeball,” and “Tin Cup,”– all have one thing in common…A coach. Rocky had Mickie, Luke Sykwalker had Yoda, Rip Torn played coach Patrick O'Houlihan in “Dodgeball,” and Cheech […]
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July 1, 2020
JumpStart – Gunnysacking
JumpStart – Gunnysacking Ever had someone just explode their wrath upon you?I remember once having my skin verbally flayed from my body by a coworker who had, up until that point, never spoken to me above a well-modulated tone.People typically blow up when they’ve done what’s called “gunnysacking” (not addressing problems while feeling the weight […]
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June 30, 2020
JumpStart – The Courage to Be Happy
JumpStart – The Courage to Be Happy 19th century author and journalist Holbrook Jackson once wrote, “Happiness is a form of courage.”Doing a quick definition check I find that courage means “the ability to do something that frightens one.”Especially now, the “thing that frightens” us more than anything is LIFE, am I right?So, it’s harder […]
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June 29, 2020
JumpStart – The Greater Nerd Theory
JumpStart – The Greater Nerd Theory “How do I…”Those are the 3 most common words searched on the internet and today there is almost NOTHING you can’t learn to do by exploring the worldwide web.In this video, I want to invite you to learn something new — anything, from making homemade pizza to replacing the […]
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June 26, 2020
JumpStart – Suffering
JumpStart – Suffering Siddhartha Gautama, also known as the Buddha said, “Life is suffering” and this has become a basic tenet of those who follow him.“Life is suffering,” kind of a negative perspective, right?Let’s explore the liberating truth behind this quote from the Buddha and, more importantly, how we can experience the pain of life, […]
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