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Lesson from 8th Grade: Jerks are Real. Knowing Yourself is How to Beat Them.

Alternate Title: The Universe Doesn’t Make Mistakes It’s been a while since I’ve written, which means that there are a lot of new

And why it’s the most important life skill we all need “Always take away a lesson from every experience you have.” That’s what they say

We all need it. We all can still do it. It seems as if people assume we have all this time on our hands

Raising a glass to a bumpy start I wrote last year about fighting the tendency to start a new year with a clean slate.

He knew something about success that no one else did We all try to not take things for granted, I get that. The

Remember what got you here I recently returned from a long weekend in Nashville, TN where I caught up with some old friends from

It had to be said Yeah. There. I said it. Someone had to. I’m a parent, a business owner, and a lot of other

Before you launch figuratively, do it literally. I’m chalking it up to yet another thing I learned about work while not working. That

No? Well, you should be. I came across my first band’s cassette the other day. Yeah. Cassette. If you don’t know what a cassette

Looks easy. Near impossible. It was my “normal” back then. I was playing in two different bands — drums for one and vocals/guitar for the