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The Pikes Peak EPIC Adventure Life Project

I breathe in and count to five. I exhale slowly on the same rhythm, repeating until I feel my heart rate lower. I visualize myself on the windblown summit of […]

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It’s Time For a New Truth Over Your Life

In High School, I dumped dish soap in the fish tank in biology. I denied I had anything to do with the floating fish and suds. The principal later confided […]

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Action Equals Possibility

An inch forward creates three hundred and sixty degrees of new possibility. You don’t need all of the answers; you need to move forward. Study and research are useful-even imperative, […]

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Knowing You Can’t Go Back To The Old Way

I’m learning about the difference between change and transformation. Change is iterative and revisionary. Transformation is becoming someone different. When transformed, our core beliefs and needs revolutionize which result in […]

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Hope Stays Alive When

I’ve been thinking, but I’m not entirely sure how to tell you about what I’m experiencing just yet. Here are a few nuggets. An action is required for transformation to […]

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You Are the Only YOU

You are the only you that there has ever been and will ever be. For real! You are the only YOU. And what’s wild is we don’t come with an […]

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To Find Each Other and Draw Closer

I taped this picture on the dash of my car over my speedometer to remind me of what I want. It’s taken from the crux scene in A Secret Life […]

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Annual Review: Taking an Honest Look at This Year

After interviewing Guy Kawasaki this month, I realized that my mantra is “Live on Purpose.” Everything I do here on Work Life Play is fundamentally undergirded by my passion for […]

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Leave No Good Thing Left Unsaid

I have an experiment for you. I know the holidays are stressful, over-scheduled, over-spending, over-eating and lots of time with friends and family. Here’s my idea-What if we left no […]

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Looking to the Finish Line

I yelled his name printed on his race bib, “Tim, YOU’VE GOT THIS.” I didn’t know him, but he picked his head up, stared 1,000 yards ahead and got going […]

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