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5 Summer Reading Books I Pay My Kids to Read

Yeah, I’m one of those parents.  The kind that actually pays his kids to fill their minds with good stuff.  I pay my kids to read personal development books.  Call me weird.  I’ve seen normal out there and believe me – we consider “weird” to be a compliment around our house. I started this a few years back with the…

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Win Like West

I need to introduce you to a really cool kid I know.  Well, at sixteen years old, he’s hardly a kid anymore – much more like a young man headed into adulthood. I first got to know Westley Burrington when he was about nine or ten years old.  For those of you who have heard my story, you may remember…

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The Miracle of Time

Today we are featuring a passage from the great works of Arnold Bennett.  Bennett, a very prolific British journalist and novelist in his time, explored a variety of topics and concerns in his work.  Although much of his work is over a century old, it has stood the test of time and is still available in various formats today. In…

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So, How’s That “New Year’s Resolution” Thing Coming? (Part 3)

Today I’m closing out a three-part discussion on New Year’s Resolutions and why so many start off every year with such high expectations, only to have their best intentions fall by the wayside before the calendar page turns to February.  If you missed Part One, you can catch up here.  And if you missed Part Two – the one that…

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So, How’s That “New Year’s Resolution” Thing Coming? (Part 2)

So – as we head into the final week of January, I’ll ask again.  How’s the New Year’s Resolution thing coming? I asked this question a couple of weeks back, and offered some initial ideas and guidance as to why so many fail at the goals they set for themselves.  If you missed it, you can catch up here. As…

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So, How’s That “New Year’s Resolution” Thing Coming? (Part 1)

So – how’s that New Year’s Resolution thing coming? Don’t get me wrong.  I love it when people tell me that they are out to change something about themselves, to be better over the next 12 months than they were the year before.  I totally support that and embrace it.  I get a little giddy myself when I make plans…

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