What’s Your Story? My friend, Bill, protected me from a Mama goose attack this afternoon. At least that’s the story that Bill, Carrie (another friend) and I settled on by the time we finished our 40 mile bike ride. We were on the final 10 mile stretch when we came upon the goose and her babies standing quietly alongside the trail. Carrie had just passed them as Bill, drafting close behind me, and I were fast approaching. That’s when the
Read more →“It is not the events in your life that determine who you are, it’s how you choose to respond to them” Victor Frankl I have no idea how or why the 35-year-old from Illinois ever came back to find me in the crowd of several thousand runners as I was approaching mile 24 of the Little Rock Marathon last weekend. “FOCUS!” he shouted, as he caught my eye. He could tell I was utterly exhausted and somehow knew my
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Do your daily or weekly habits support the goals you have for yourself? Or do they prevent you from reaching your goals? These are important questions to ask because we shape our lives by making choices again and again, moment by moment, year after year. Every day we face hundreds of small discreet tiny choice points to engage in this behavior or that, this habit or that. Take the goal of weight loss, for example. This goal just happens to
Read more →Last night I went to see Stephen Spielberg’s recently released American historical drama film, “Lincoln”. In case you haven’t seen it yet, this film starring Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln and Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln, is based in part, on Doris Goodwin’s biography of Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals, and focuses on President Lincoln’s tumultuous final 4 months in office before his assassination. In a nation divided by war, Lincoln pursues a course of action designed to end the
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