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Coming Up For Air in Iraq
Paul MacAlindin shares his business wisdom learned from years as an Orchestra Conductor. ___ As an artist, the quality of my life is tied to how deeply I dive into the creation of a work of art, in...
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How to Discover Daily Grit and Gratitude
In this episode of The Good Dad Project Podcast, Larry reminds us that gratitude is the secret sauce to a fulfilled life and the fuel that develops our grit. ___ You can listen to the podcast here. It...
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Forging Strength in Our Darkest Hour
In this episode of The Good Dad Project Podcast, Larry picks up where he left off in ‘How to Discover Daily Grit and Gratitude.’ ___ Forging Strength in your darkest hour! You can listen to the...
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GOP Pollster Frank Luntz vs. Bill Maher: a Lesson in Logical Fallacies
It’s a battle of wits, grit, and twits when it comes to listening to expert GOP pollster Frank Luntz take on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher‘s host—and a lesson in talking head-ery and rhetoric. So...
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Do You Have Grit?
There are a ton of qualities that can help you succeed, and the more carefully a quality has been studied, the more you know it’s worth your time and energy. Angela Lee Duckworth was teaching seventh...
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5 Things I Learned Living With a Navy SEAL
View image | gettyimages.com “When you think you’re done, you’re only 40% done. If you can train yourself to get past that initial warning of ‘I’m done’ from your brain, then you probably have 60%...
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Geronimo’s Last Stand
Once Upon A Time… Remembering historical events and considering their significance for families today The American Southwest in the late 1800’s was one of many battlefields for the on-going wars...
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How Do You Get Your Motivation Back?
Embed from Getty Images Some weeks, we are motivated to take on the world and accomplish everything in our path. And other weeks, we sort of just fizzle. We come up short. We have nothing to show for...
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Babies Can Learn the Value of Persistence by Watching Grownups Stick with a...
Embed from Getty Images — Julia Leonard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology You’re at home trying to make fresh tomato sauce, but can’t seem to get the tomatoes out of their plastic container from...
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A Masterclass in Grit From Pro Golfer Tony Finau
Embed from Getty Images — I saw it happen on my cell phone. A friend sent me the video in a text. On the eve of the Masters, Tony Finau sinks a hole-in-one during the Par 3 Challenge, runs down the...
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Do You Know Why Disappointments Are so Painful? Because They Are Worth It
— Life is a school. While I can’t be certain if death is part of our graduation ceremony, or if our efforts become another point on some kind of learning curve, one thing is certain, no one can skate...
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Four Pieces of Advice for Students and Others
Embed from Getty Images — Tomorrow, like many teachers throughout the country, I start a new school year. When I was a student, I used to hate the stock aphorisms intended to inspire me. As a teacher,...
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A Final, Desperate Prayer For Football
— At the onset of “Fractured Faith,” I compared America’s obsession with football to religion. The fanaticism, the fervor, the gobs of money we dump into professional and collegiate football — what...
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Have We Lost Our Grit?
Some say that the modern man is weak, taught not to bear hardship, pain or failure. That he will turn back at the slightest impediment to progress and therefore it’s easy for the rest of us to achieve...
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True Grit – How to Fail Better
Every success is built on a string of failures. The bigger the success, the more epic the failures. Grit is what you need to stay motivated to achieve a goal through persistent failure. Grit is the...
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Hard Work Beats Talent When Talent Doesn’t Work Hard
— “The only substitute for hard work is hard life“-Bishop David Oyedepo Talent is overrated! In the next few decades the idea of talent will become a myth, as the disruption caused by technology now...
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Sticking It to Challenges
— How do you react when someone offers you a challenge? What do you do when a challenge shows up in your life? I ask these questions because I’m a serial procrastinator due to anxiety. What this means...
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You Didn’t Build That Alone
Barack Obama made a speech in 2012 in which he made a now-infamous statement: “If you’ve got a business—you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.“ Let’s get the obvious out of the way:...
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A Belief in Meritocracy Is Not Only False: It’s Bad For You
‘We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else …’ Barack Obama, inaugural address, 2013 ‘We must create a...
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‘Yeah, But It was so Simple for You’
— To the Entrepreneurs in my circle: I’d like to shed some light on my start in the coaching industry, because it was anything but “simple.” But that doesn’t mean yours can’t be… Let me know if you’re...
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