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When The Only Thing We Need Is To Get Out of Our Own Way

Post author By ownbetterhalf
Post date April 12, 2020
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Photo by Austin Chan on Unsplash Seek the questions. There is no right answer. James Thurber once said, “It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.” I believe in this 14-word philosophy as much as I believe in the Golden Rule, gravity, and, as Ram Dass said, “We’re all just walking […]

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Digging My Way Out of Scarcity: A Writer’s Tunnel of Reads and Claps

Post author By ownbetterhalf
Post date March 13, 2019
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Photo by Pat Graziosi on Unsplash I started feeling competitive and it wasn’t helping. Feeling that edge every now and then can be good motivational fuel. But the edge was becoming the whole cloth. The fibers didn’t feel right. I knew too much about my own traits, motivations, and the science behind them. Twenty-plus years of […]

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