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How to Skate Well on Golden Pond!

Stay Committed After fighting the flu and respiratory illness for several weeks, I made a re-commitment to continue to live fully alive.  Now that I have recovered  I am convinced that the physical, mental and spiritual strength I have worked so hard to develop was invaluable helping fight the virus that plagued me.

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What a Wheelchair Wheelie Taught me about Attitude.

Live with expectancy instead of expectation that’s the challenge I give in almost every presentation I make.  Smile and the world smiles with you!   Happy face, Happy place.  I write about it!  I challenge other people to live it!    But in a split second I can slip into the same old patterns I so badly want to shed.  

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Three Life Principles that Lead to Living Fully Alive

Many years ago, in a galaxy far far away, there was a television commercial promoting beer.  The commercial featured several young people precariously perched on a catamaran sailing through the water.  As spray hit the lens of the camera, a dramatic voice announced, “You only go around once! Reach for all the gusto you can get.”  Then the ad encouraged …

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How do You get over a Twelve Thousand Foot Ridge?

My friend Danny de armas and I had just hiked three miles in the mountains of Colorado. Now we stood staring up almost a mile at the 12,900 foot ridge we had to to cross to make it back to base camp. We had been on our feet almost all day.  It seemed that with each foot we gained in …