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The Year of Living Courageously

Each year I choose a word representing what I want to accomplish to serve as my compass! This past year’s word was Community. I focused on building mine and honing in on who I wanted to be part of it and what Communities I wanted to be a part of. This wasn’t just a focus of my business but of my personal life as well. It ended up being a very successful year in terms of that. Looking back, it might have been my best year ever.

I established friendships and was part of a Jewish community in Charleston, which I cherish, even though I no longer live there.
I am in a relationship with a fantastic woman, which prompted my move across the country to California.
I have met a group of peers I feel comfortable being around and accepting of who I am.
I’ve engaged with a social group whose members are from all walks of life worldwide. The conversations that we have are both stimulating and funny as shit.
In addition, I have discovered a couple of new mentors and a...

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The Morning Mantra Game

Mantras are awesome. They are motivating and repeated consistently can significantly affect your attitude, behavior, and perspective on life. I can go on but that is not the point of the game. You can have a mantra for every part of your life. My Morning Mantra is all-encompassing. It pretty much covers every part of who I am and how I want to approach each and every day.

Mantras are unique to each and every one of us. Though for some reason people get stuck when it comes to writing one. I thought starting a My Morning Mantra game would alleviate any pressure about it being perfect and just let it be fun to write.

So here are the rules. Of course, you can make your own rules up since after all it is YOUR Morning Mantra.

  1. Pick three words, any three, and write a mantra using them. That’s it. Pretty simple!

For example, I picked harmonious, align, and determined. What came from that was…

“ I have harmonious relationships that ...

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The Right Environment

The following is a bit of stream of consciousness. So please bear with me on this one and try to follow where I am going:).

Each week, I want to focus on one thing. I write it down every day to keep it top of mind. This week’s Intention is to Design, Discover, and Develop an Environment conducive for Deep Work.

What does that look like? Focus so that I can write and do the uncomfortable things that I seem to resist. It doesn’t need to be in one place. What are the characteristics? Not really sure. Maybe I should sit here for a moment and think.

Open space?
Attractive surroundings,
The temperature needs to be comfortable. Not too cold or too hot
People around or no people?

A room with windows or not.
Open space in nature or a public space?

Do I want people to see me or to be invisible

Music or no music?
What kind of music?

My home and if so, how should the room be decorated?
A comfortable room separate from everyone.
Looking out onto nature, the woods with a river or...

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Your Ideas Matter

Your Ideas Matter, so write them down. Your life matters, so live it.
You are feeling a little insecure or like people don't give a shit about what you think or what you have to say? I would think there are a good many people who don't. And that's ok. Who needs so many people listening anyway. Especially if they are paying you lip service, those few, those precious few that care. Who cares about your ideas and your thoughts and your feelings. Those are the people that you want to speak to! Those are the people that matter.
Those are the people we are talking about when we say, "do work that matters for people who care!" Our Tribe.
I have struggled with this for quite some time. Thinking that I had nothing to say, and if I did would anyone care. But that's not true; we all matter just as our ideas do. It's our fragile ego. It does not want to get bruised. Or to expose ourselves to the non-believers, the haters who criticize everything anyone says so that they can feel better about...

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