Reflections The Share Button Is Not a Lever
A share and an action can look identical from a distance. Only one of them costs you anything — and that's the entire difference.
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Reflections Someday Is Doing Exactly What You Built It to Do
Someday isn't a plan you haven't gotten to yet. It's a plan built specifically so you never have to.
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Reflections Rick Steves Has Been Packing the Same Carry-On Since 1973
He was a teenage piano teacher who took a summer trip to Europe and never really came back. Fifty-plus years and thirty thousand travelers a year later, he still spends four months of it on the road, on purpose, every single year.
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Reflections Jason Redman and the Five Words That Get You Off the Floor
A Navy SEAL took two rounds and a face wound in an ambush outside Fallujah. What he built afterward wasn't a comeback story — it was a five-step tool anyone can use.
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Reflections The Seven Minutes Nobody Prepared Him For
Handed seven unplanned minutes on live television, Norm Macdonald didn't rush to fill the silence. He let it sit there — and it became legendary because of it.
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Reflections Pat Tillman and the Contract He Walked Away From
He was a starting NFL safety with a multimillion-dollar offer on the table. He turned it down to enlist as an Army Ranger. Nobody made him do it, and that's the entire point.
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Reflections Seneca on the Time You Cannot Get Back
Seneca wrote a whole essay about why you have more time than you think and less than you're spending. He wrote it to a friend. The friend apparently needed it.
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Reflections Calvin and Hobbes and the Nothing You Didn't Get To
Bill Watterson drew a six-year-old and a stuffed tiger for ten years and somehow said more true things about adulthood than most adults manage. His line about time and nothing is the one that sticks.
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Reflections Dolly Parton Never Got Bored of the Work
Sixty years into a career she didn't need anymore, she's still opening the gates to a theme park she built so kids from her hometown could keep their parents employed.
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Reflections The Lilies Do Not Spin
Jesus pointed at a field of flowers and told a crowd of anxious people to look at how hard the flowers were not working. It is still good advice, and still hard to take.
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Reflections The Splinter in Your Brother's Eye (And the Plank in Yours)
Jesus described a man performing delicate eye surgery on his neighbor while walking around with a 2x4 sticking out of his own face. He meant it as a joke. He also meant it.
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Reflections The Emperor Who Kept Reminding Himself
Marcus Aurelius had unlimited power, unlimited distractions, and a private journal full of notes to himself about not being an idiot.
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