Reflections Ready Is Not a Feeling
Ready is not a feeling. It's a decision.
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Reflections Die With Memories, Not Dreams
The goal should be to die with memories, not dreams.
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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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Reflections George Carlin Was Right About Your Stuff
In 1986, George Carlin explained that a house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it. He meant it as a joke. He also meant it.
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Reflections Somewhere Between Enlightenment and a Good Night's Sleep
The Buddha said to live in the present moment. He did not mention that the present moment would contain a to-do list.
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Reflections Nobody Is Coming to Save You, and That's Actually Good News
Viktor Frankl found the gap between what happens and what you do about it while surviving conditions that should have closed it permanently.
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