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On The Days You Really Don’t Want To

On The Days You Really Don’t Want To

I was looking forward to it all day.

Nothing.

As in doing nothing when I finally got back home.

Life can get rather busy, can’t it? Commitments, obligations, and responsibilities can collectively get quite heavy at times. But on this night, there was nothing to carry.

The start of the year marked a re-commitment to taking care of my physical self. A recent series of ailments and injuries sidetracked my exercise efforts for the better part of a year, and now I was determined to get back on track. 

I mapped out a schedule, I knew what I was going to do, and I started doing it.

But this night was a welcomed night off. 

Until I remembered it wasn’t.

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How a Baby Can Lead You Back to Your Greatness

I’m going to start acting more like a baby.

No, it’s not about strained peas. It’s about rediscovering something I have lost.

There is an absolutely magical time in a child’s life. It happens between the walking stage and talking stage, when they’re more mobile but have yet to become fully conversational. Before they learn the words “mine” and “no”. Babies at this stage possess such a joyful nature, a blissful innocence, so beautifully oblivious.

Here are five “baby-isms” that I have observed from my vantage point as a Dad:
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