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When Winning is Losing

[caption id="attachment_612" align="alignright" width="231" caption="You\'re off and away... "][/caption]I like to win. I don’t like to fail. More accurately I abso-fu%$king-lutely hate to fail. It feels bad—I feel bad; ashamed, embarrassed when I fail. I feel like a failure. And I have no patience for feeling bad and/or looking bad. I much (way much) prefer to look good, or better yet, look great. Which br ...

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The Right Time to be a “Good Guy”

In a world where we’ve come to expect bad news about people and circumstances, this is an uplifting story about pro-football player and a 10 year old ball-boy that will remind you that now is always the right time to be a good guy. For you never know who that kid cleaning your cleats may be revealed to be one day... ...

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The Myth of Success

[caption id="attachment_338" align="alignleft" width="225" caption="Is Success All You Imagine?"][/caption]Success is the pinnacle, it’s what we crave. I believe success is broken—an outdated pursuit that has been the result of more dissatisfaction, confusion, disillusionment and emptiness than we may truly ever understand. We spend out lives justifying our vigilant pursuit of success while secretly hanging ...

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It’s Been a Very Strange Year (and some…)

At the moment I’m on an Airbus 320 in route to Red Bank, NJ via La Guardia… I resisted leaving this morning… as I will miss my son and my wife. I’m also missing my dad too. As I write this I’m listening to the soundtrack of a hundred plus songs I put together for my father’s (BP) memorial service last May. It’s like riding the razor’s edge… on one hand there’s comfort in the sounds of... ...

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