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Americana: Go Camping- Five Reasons to Pitch a Tent This Spring, Summer or Fall
I love to go camping in the North Carolina mountains with my family. My old roommate from college and I used to go every summer in June for a weekend of camping, trout fishing, grilling good food and chilling out with a few cold ones in hand. Camping is not for everyone and there are…
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Relationships: Showing Empathy During Tough Conversations Builds Bridges
Today I am talking about having a tough conversation with people and how being empathetic and showing you respect and care about what they are saying goes a long ways to building a bridge that can help you gain some type of agreement. That agreement may be to agree, disagree or table the topic but…
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Politics: Standing Strong and Upholding Your Values in Troubling Times
Today I am discussing the importance of standing strong to you values, morals and belief system during times of trouble, struggle and strife. Unfortunately, we are living in a time of moral, political, faith based and other belief systems that have led to a division among friends, family and co-workers. I have friends that have…
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Education: Leading, Guiding, Mentoring, Teaching and Coaching People
I hope we all at some point had a parent, mentor, teacher, leader, boss, or coach that just stayed on us hard and held us to a high standard all the time. A leader that mentored us and kept us on a path moving forward and growing as a person. The great coach Tom Landry…
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Americana: Ten Odd Things We Took For Granted Today
Living in America on most days 99% I would guess is a dream that many people from other places and countries would love to have the same daily opportunity that the majority of us have. We do have some issues that plague society as a whole but most of them are on a smaller scale…
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Parenting: Ten Life Skills to Teach Your Teenagers
Today we are talking about basic life skills that we need to be teaching our pre-teen and teenage children that will assist them in being a productive young adult once they leave the safe confines of mom and dads house. They will no longer have mom and dad to take care of their clothes, make…
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Inspirational: My Four F’s- Faith, Family, Friends and Fitness
Today I am writing about the four main parts of my life that equal up to 100% of good spiritual, mental and physical fitness. This is my list and may vary from what you think are your top four. For me all of these are necessary for me to live my life with vigor, intent…
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Weight Loss: Five Simple Changes to Kick Start Weight Loss
Today I am writing a quick blog post about simple ideas and changes that will allow you to begin the process of losing a few pounds at a time and getting healthier in 2021. I myself began the process of working on my health and weight back in the middle months of 2020 just prior…
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Advice: 2021 Declutter Strategies
Today I am writing about ways you can declutter your life for the 2021 year moving forward. These are all simple, basic ideas that will allow you to take some of the things off your bucket list or honey do list for the guys. I have a long list of things to complete, declutter and…
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Money and Finance: Ten Ways to Change Your Financial Situation in 2021
Today I am giving some sound basic principles about small ways you can change your financial situation, save money, save on fees and avoid credit related issues as we all push into 2021 with new financial, personal and career minded goals. For me personally, I am at the point of mid 50’s and really working…